Messages

691

EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D2 & Strobe Light Question

« on: July 13, 2012, 01:16:45 PM »

I'd use the custom white balance setting. Grab a white balance gray card, or just a white piece of printer paper, have the someone hold it once the lighting is more or less setup, and use that to set the white balance. Simple, easy. Plus the editor can use that image to set the white balance separately or tweak it in post if they prefer. Once you have the WB set to a static value, it's simple for the editor to get white balance to the setting desired in the first image, and then paste those settings to everything else quickly and easily.

90mm TS for studio work? Interesting, I've never show with a TS, but that seems like an interesting choice.

I don't know your specific needs, but with the 24-70, I'd rent one of the 70-200L or the 135L lenses to complement if you are doing more portraiture type shots.

Thanks for the feedback. 
You would not happen to have a step by step using either a grey card or white piece paper?  I'm not familiar with setting the WB that way...
For the 90mm TS lens, I'm shooting products (high end dinner plates and silverware).  They want the image to be sharp only in certain areas (focal plane).

Ah, product photography, ok. Makes sense then.

For White Balance, you're going to want to have someone hold the paper where model you will be shooting will be, then fill it pretty much completely in the frame (but make sure you won't shadow it), and then take a shot. Then you'll need to go to the Menu, and choose Custom White Balance. You'll have to select an image, choose it, and then once it tells you the white balance has been set, you set your White Balance setting to Custom White Balance. See this YouTube video which does a pretty decent job of showing you what you need to do.

How to set you White Balance (Canon 5D)	Small | Large

692

EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D2 & Strobe Light Question

« on: July 13, 2012, 12:44:18 PM »

I'd use the custom white balance setting. Grab a white balance gray card, or just a white piece of printer paper, have the someone hold it once the lighting is more or less setup, and use that to set the white balance. Simple, easy. Plus the editor can use that image to set the white balance separately or tweak it in post if they prefer. Once you have the WB set to a static value, it's simple for the editor to get white balance to the setting desired in the first image, and then paste those settings to everything else quickly and easily.

90mm TS for studio work? Interesting, I've never show with a TS, but that seems like an interesting choice.

I don't know your specific needs, but with the 24-70, I'd rent one of the 70-200L or the 135L lenses to complement if you are doing more portraiture type shots.

693

EOS Bodies / Re: Why are you buying the 1D X?

« on: July 12, 2012, 06:49:04 PM »

The biggest issue I have with the 5D3 is in very low light, the AF seems to struggle to attain lock. Once it does, it's golden.

I've noticed that on my 5d3. I was shooting some night surfing (he was wearing/experimenting with glow stucks & stuff on his board & suit) next to the Santa Monica pier and my 5d3 (135 f/2.0) would sometimes take a bit to lock focus, but once it was it would pretty reliably track him in AI Servo mode across all of the X-type points.

Pretty freaking amazing if you ask me, and it would have been nice to be able to actually SEE the AF points that were selected in the view finder. If you wanna see the shots, they're up here.

694

Site Information / Re: Are you guys crazy?

« on: July 12, 2012, 02:20:54 PM »

Is no one ever happy?

No, us humans are never happy with what we have. You'll always find someone, somewhere in any large enough population sample that is not happy with X, or hates Y.

695

Portrait / Re: Studio portraits, Share some!

« on: July 12, 2012, 12:41:57 PM »

Nice photos, but what's with the way you're posing the woman in the 3rd one trentchau? The lighting, and surrounding scene is great, especially with the mannequin torso & arms & legs all over the place, but her arms just look uncomfortable.

That's the story of it all.  She was built wrong.

Ah, gotcha. Well, you accomplished that feel with me

696

Portrait / Re: Studio portraits, Share some!

« on: July 11, 2012, 07:20:30 PM »

Nice photos, but what's with the way you're posing the woman in the 3rd one trentchau? The lighting, and surrounding scene is great, especially with the mannequin torso & arms & legs all over the place, but her arms just look uncomfortable.

697

EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Auto focus points - The more, the better? I don't think so......

« on: July 11, 2012, 06:07:20 PM »

On a 1 series the selected AF point is also used for spot metering .... so the more options the better the composition and metering in camera

Yea, REALLY wish the 5d3 would do this even without the fancy RGB metering/detection sensor.

698

EOS Bodies / Re: Joystick issue 5d mk iii

« on: July 11, 2012, 02:59:36 PM »

Huh, mine is doing just fine. That's really crappy. That really should be covered by the warranty.

699

Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Making of a Leica M9-P

« on: July 11, 2012, 02:57:52 PM »

Awesome attention to detail, and hand craftsmanship. Too bad I can't afford one   

700

EOS Bodies / Re: 1dx a compromise?

« on: July 10, 2012, 08:12:39 PM »

taken with a sigma lens for sure...backfocused a lot

Nope, it's Canon I've focused on the eyelash and the focus is on the right place.

Didn't realize you could use a Canon lens on a Nikon body without some extra adapter getting in the way 

701

Lenses / Re: Lensbaby

« on: July 10, 2012, 07:11:35 PM »

They make bodies now? That's a new one for me.

I've tried a their lens a couple of times, really wasn't for me at the time. It was interesting though, especially with it being manual only.

702

Lenses / Re: How much for a used Canon 200mm f/2.0L IS?

« on: July 10, 2012, 01:55:05 PM »

Preferably less than you can get it new, especially new with rebates (when applicable). My random guess? Anything less than $4500 is probably a steal, around $5000-5300 is probably a normal price. I dunno though, I haven't searched for used copies much since I know it's still out of what I can afford right now as much as I'm drooling over it.

703

Software & Accessories / Re: GP-E2 gps receiver: first impressions

« on: July 10, 2012, 11:24:07 AM »

In the Library Loupe view, the right hand bar (the thingie that you can hide, whatever they call it) near the bottom as a Meta-Data view. Does it show the information in there?

Ahh..thanks indeed it does - one needs to scroll this to the bottom .. if you click the associated arrow it brings you to MAPS..  But for some strange reason it does not show at all in Develop Mode and not configurable as well.  Oddly, in DPP it shows one other slice of GPS data called "Geographic Coordinate System" this is encoded with a further mapping info.  One image shows as WGS-84..Light Room is missing this metadata

Guess Adobe needs to update LR to read the GPS reader information like it does the camera information. Crappy that it's not consistent where it's displayed. I've never noticed it because I don't really do any Geo tagging of photos.

704

EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: Canon 1D X Arrived from Crutchfield

« on: July 09, 2012, 06:10:32 PM »

Wow, that's a really interesting analysis of the sensors.

705

Software & Accessories / Re: GP-E2 gps receiver: first impressions

« on: July 09, 2012, 01:56:38 PM »

Doesn't LR4 have a Maps module? Have you tried that? I'm surprised you can't see the Lat/Long in the normal Library meta-data viewer.

Correct in clicking map mode I was able to see the data just that it is on another tab.  However in Develop mode when doing a CTRL + I that info is not available.  Furthermore, when you click View while in Loupe mode, there's an option called View Options.  From the lengthy drop down list, map coordinates (GPS) are not available.  Whereas in the two programs mentioned above CTRL + I does offer those details.  Metadata is metadata, display it all please Adobe.  Also, no visual indicator in Library mode as which photos are encoded with GPS.  When you click on Metadata at the top, the coordinates do not appear.  Lastly, I find this strange, say I wish to delete an image file from another photo app such as DPP or ACDSee.  Both programs show the updated thumbnails.  The deleted image is gone and so is the thumbnail.  Adobe hangs on to a useless thumbnail of the deleted image.  I'm not sure what good does that serve and why it doesn't auto populate the directory's thumbnail database.   I guess it is just another awkward non conventional way of doing things in the Adobe world.

In the Library Loupe view, the right hand bar (the thingie that you can hide, whatever they call it) near the bottom as a Meta-Data view. Does it show the information in there?