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Cleaning up the OP's file was very easy.
If you shoot RAW you have to take the time to learn to process it, if you don't, can't or won't you are better off shooting a custom Picture Style jpeg.
I don't use protection. More fun without....
--> No scrathes on my 5D3 screens.
Exposé to the right...
I'm not familiar with ETTR...what is that?
sorry my psychic powers are malfunctioning at the moment you are going to have to fill in a fair bit mor info here if you want a serious answer from anyone since without my psychic powers I have no way of know WTF you already have, how much money you have to spend or what it is you want to do with your gear
failing that buy 4 1Dx bosies and 2 of each every Canon L series lens 12 Ex600RT flashes
oh better get a couple of 5Dmk3 for backups and so you can do continuous RAW video with Magic lantern
that should about cover it
Other than this being exceptionally good advise, it's also what I miss after living overseas for 30 years, the Aussie sense of what most of us call, Humour, it doesn't quire translate in the rest of the world, but I still love it, I'm still laughing as I write this.
The glass used by Canon for the screen is so astonishingly tough, the only people who would say you need protection are the manufacturers of the protection.
I shoot every day with two-three bodies and have done so with digital for all of this century. I smashed a screen on a 1Ds when it flopped back on a tripod that wasn't locked. Canon CPS fixed it for free in 10 minutes. I very slightly damaged a screen on a D30 (not to be confused with the 2006 30D) after it bashed continuously against a belt buckle while attempting to ride a horse. I'm not especially careful with my gear, and other than those two careless mishaps every screen I've had has been pristine at the end of 2-3 years of hard labour when the bodies are upgraded.
Save your protection for other fun pursuits.
-PW
1Dx 300f/2.8, Shot @ f/6.3 1/320th ISO1600
The choice on the day was Leopards, or, A pack of Wild Dog had come into the area, no choice, these Animals are not only Beautiful but severely endangered, so we looked for these Guys all day, finally found them hunting just on Sunset. The tall Grass made them, for me, exceptionally hard to shoot in the fading light, so every shot I tried with the Pack Running I blew, but everything stands still sometime.
Eml...I envy you...you cover such an incredible range of photography....and you do it very, very well...again, nice shot!
+1
So many great photographers and mentors on this site. I used to visit other websites...now, pretty much only this one.
It's when you start adding elements not in the original capture, It's no longer photography.
I could not agree more, adding to the image changes it to photographic art; however, subtracting (the corner of a building, a flying bird, contrails, et cetera) is perfectly acceptable. Obviously anything you can do it a wet darkroom, you can 'legally' do the same in photoshop.
This is an interesting article from Bryan Peterson on this issue. Thought I'd share
http://bryanfpeterson.blogspot.in/2010/06/every-photograph-is-lie-yet-within-that.html
So many opinions on this subject and all of them are equally valid. 11 Pages worth...
A nice remote control kite rig for aerial photography....
I would love a body with option of full frame and crop with the flick of a switch.
This fantasy stems from something I read in this forum earlier. Was it a Nikon camera?
I do not know Nikon gear at all so not sure.
But something like this would be great for me. Advantages of FF and crop in the same body! While we are at it, let the crop have even faster frame rate.
I believe the Nikon D800 has this. It effectively becomes a built in TC. I would love that too.
It's not quite as good as a TC because with a TC you have more pixels on your subject whereas with the Nikon crop modes you are simply cropping the image in camera.
So yes it looks closer on the back of the camera but it's the same as taking an uncropped photo and cropping it in PP. Less work I suppose but less control over the crop and same number of pixels on the subject.
I would love a body with option of full frame and crop with the flick of a switch.
This fantasy stems from something I read in this forum earlier. Was it a Nikon camera?
I do not know Nikon gear at all so not sure.
But something like this would be great for me. Advantages of FF and crop in the same body! While we are at it, let the crop have even faster frame rate.
I believe the Nikon D800 has this. It effectively becomes a built in TC. I would love that too.
You could create an action in photoshop to autocrop your photos from the centre of the frame by 1.5 times and there you go. Problem solved.
However the "higher framerate"-function when less pixels are used is interesting (but not for me). I would like to go in another direction though - less noise! Use 25% of the pixels and reduse the noise by 50% or something by grouping the pixels together 2 by 2 or something, letting those 4 pixels simulate 1 larger pixel. THAT would be an interesting "crop" mode for me (although it would not be a crop mode since it would not crop, it would be high sensitivity, low resulution mode). I have no need for faster framerates (however I understand that other photographers may need all the FPS they can get.)
22 mpix to use at low ISOs
11 mpix to use at high ISOs
6 mpix to use at superhigh ISO.
