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Street & City / Re: Your best street shots of any kind.

« on: April 24, 2013, 12:47:00 AM »

Santa Monica, CA

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Lenses / Re: HELP - Which lens is best for blown-out white background

« on: October 30, 2012, 03:01:28 PM »

Mt Spokane, I modified my original post with more details about my lenses and setup.

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Lenses / HELP - Which lens is best for blown-out white background

« on: October 30, 2012, 01:48:38 PM »

I have plans to shoot individual portraits against a blown-out white paper background. My strobes will be flagged and lens will have the hood on to reduce flare, but I will still have good amount of light reflected from the background coming into my lens.  My Question: which of my lenses will produce the least amount of flare/haze.  My Canon Lenses are 24-70 f/2.8 I, 70-200 f/2.8 IS II or 85L f/1.2 II.  I am aware that haze can be reduced/fixed in post.  I'll light the white background paper with two reflective umbrellas and one big softbox for keylight. I am hoping someone has been there and done that so I don't have to test and compare them myself.  Thank you.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: People with a 5D3 from first batch, did you get the light leak issue fixed?

« on: August 14, 2012, 06:47:25 PM »

I didn't.  I did't want to give up my camera for a week unless I have to.

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EOS Bodies / Re: Cool Stuff - PimpYourCam.com

« on: August 10, 2012, 01:39:41 PM »

gosh, I get way too much attention as is with out any modification - no thanks!

since we're all smoking skinny cigarettes here, I'll wait for the invisiable treatment to become available 

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Site Information / Re: In Sympathy for CR Guy

« on: July 17, 2012, 02:20:05 AM »

Craig, I know that no words can possibly ease your pain - please accept my most heartfelt sympathy for your loss - my thoughts are with you and your family during this difficult time.

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Portrait / Re: Candid portraits

« on: July 11, 2012, 01:20:28 AM »

Santa Monica Beach, California.  Canon 5D3, 24-70 f/2.8,  ISO250, 1/640, Aperture-priority AE.  I did not think she noticed me, until I saw the picture.

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Lenses / Re: Are you going to "upgrade" your 24-70 2.8 I

« on: May 29, 2012, 11:26:55 PM »

I am pretty happy with V1, but if MKII had IS, it would have made it irresistible specially for video.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: What's the deal with B&H being closed on weekends?

« on: May 06, 2012, 11:31:57 PM »

Since this thread has gone WAY offline, so here it goes..  I am a customer of B&H, but I must point out that the store's management and sales staff are predomintely orthodox jews, while lower positions are predomiently non-jews.  Does anyone else see anything wrong with that? What happend to equal apportunity employment?

If this happens at chick-fil-A, then I would have a problem with them as well!

Things are not always what they seem.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D3 Rate button

« on: May 06, 2012, 03:30:14 PM »

+1 for making it programmable to access any menu item

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: The 5D Mark III Fix

« on: May 03, 2012, 02:19:53 AM »

They fixed the light leak, but metering is still wrong for times when you want to shoot with lens cap on.  It's pitch black for heaven's sake, so how is the light sensor coming up with any exposure setting?  What is the right exposure setting for pitch black?   

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EOS Bodies / Re: Canon fixed 5DIII light leak with tape

« on: May 02, 2012, 02:49:48 PM »

A quote from LOST, the ABC TV series:  "I don't believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape"

I do believe in duct tape! - Miles - Lost Season 6 - Episode 18	Small | Large

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EOS Bodies / Re: 5D3 HDR photos handheld in NYC

« on: April 28, 2012, 08:00:38 PM »

Thanks for the feedback.  The first image has sharpening, contrast, clarity and vibrance applied to it.  The other two are pure out of the camera with no post processing.  i believe the HDR mode was natural for the first one and Art for 2 and 3.

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EOS Bodies / 5D3 HDR photos handheld in NYC

« on: April 27, 2012, 12:48:12 PM »

Playing with the built in HDR feature.  All shots were handheld, but I was anchored to something solid.  Used the in-camera jpeg HDR +-3EV processing and mild touch ups in LR4.1

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Lenses / Re: Going to Disneyland and San Diego and need lens help

« on: April 27, 2012, 11:06:32 AM »

Another vote for "less is more".  On Disney visits, I ONLY take 5d/24-70 with a black rapid type sling strap.  I would love to use a telephoto and wide angle lens for some shots, but not enough to justify the added load (lens changing, storage, weight, etc..) to my already full plate of managing the kids.  Do you want a perfect photo shoot or a happy Disney experience with the family?