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Portrait / Colour help...please!

« on: March 18, 2013, 06:32:41 PM »

So, this might be me being stupid, and may be in the wrong part of the site (didn't know where to put it)
I've recently gone up to the 5dMkIII but had the same issues with the 7D and the 450D.
I can't get the colour the way that is pleasing to me. I love shooting black and white, and the more contrast, the better. I also like punchy colours, but can never get skin tones to look just right to me. I know the trick about lifting red, orange and yellow luminance to stop it crunching the skin tones while bumping contrast.

Attached are two versions of the same image, this is the most to my liking I can get the colour. I almost like the black and white, apart from some composition things.

Can anyone help me here please? I can see other people's work where the skin tones appear perfect. Do I need a better diffuser? Or is the image fine?
Many thanks for any replies
Elliot

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Lenses / Re: Canon 24-70mmL II v Canon 50mmL 1.2

« on: March 17, 2013, 05:48:58 PM »

We'd need to know more about what kind of things you like to shoot, really

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Lenses / Re: Tried Canon 200-400f/4L IS today & asked the price, told it didn't exist :-)

« on: March 12, 2013, 03:14:02 AM »

As a cps member at that show I was allowed to play with it to my hearts content. It's a thing of beauty but they wouldn't say a price

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: The last roll of Kodachrome – what would you shoot with the last 36 frames?

« on: March 03, 2013, 05:30:14 PM »

A portrait, in different locations, of 36 different people from Kodak. From the chairman to the Janitor.
Get them misty about their jobs, record their thoughts on what they loved about what they did. Get them emotionally built up and then catch images so punchy and full of emotion that anyone who looks through them can't help but think what a shame it is and think about what we've lost

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Lenses / Re: Lens purchase strategy

« on: March 01, 2013, 04:00:43 PM »

Pokémon style- Gotta catch 'em all

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Portrait / Re: Post your best portraits(street, studio, candid etc...).

« on: February 27, 2013, 04:06:18 PM »

JB of Swedish riff lords Grand Magus top
and Guy Miller of UK metal band Primitai

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Lenses / Re: Will Canon step up to Zeiss with a 55mm 1.4L?

« on: February 26, 2013, 04:31:08 PM »

I'd like to know what conventional lens they used in the video.

probably the Nikon 50 1.4. I hear it's not so good.

I'm looking forward to Sigma's next salvo in the Art series. If they remake their 50 and 85 like they did the 35, I think Zeiss, Sony, Nikon and Canon should be worried about their prime sales

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Lenses / Re: first trip to England any recommendations ?

« on: February 24, 2013, 04:58:44 AM »

A coat, good hat, an umbrella. Suntan lotion and sunglasses. In this country you never know

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Portrait / Re: Post your best portraits(street, studio, candid etc...).

« on: February 08, 2013, 06:25:05 PM »

A couple of my faves. I've got tonnes more but they don't stand up to some of the other work in this thread, so yeah...

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Lenses / Re: What's the best deal you've ever gotten on a lens?

« on: February 02, 2013, 10:47:35 PM »

Just got a mint  24-70 2.8l mk1 for an even 500, with 6 month seller warranty

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PowerShot / Re: Best Low Light Pocket Size Camera

« on: February 01, 2013, 02:07:09 PM »

+1 on the sony's having very good low light. Though the rx100 doesn't handle flare or chroma particularly well

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Speedlites, Printers, Accessories / Re: post your best photographic gear for under 100 euro (100$)

« on: February 01, 2013, 07:28:26 AM »

+1 to yn622c

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Canon General / Re: a 3 in 1 post, if I may

« on: January 30, 2013, 08:35:28 PM »

Welcome!
I love this place. I'm a working professional, but I've not been doing this so long. I learn so much here, it's always refreshing.

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Canon General / Re: Why did you choose Canon?

« on: January 30, 2013, 08:29:56 PM »

Im not using these cameras, in d800 D3 etc there are no  meny digging

I know.
I quite like Nikon's manual controls on the body.
something that you only really get on canon at the 1d level.
However, the Nikon menus beyond that kill me dead.
I think it's the way they keep mixing them up between generations.
For example :  the empty card slot release on the d3100 is in the settings menu. On the d7000 it's in the custom functions. I don't know why that is, but it doesn't make sense to me.
On a more on topic note,
I like that the pro standard zoom on canon has enough resolving power to keep up with their pro bodies, and then some.

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Canon General / Re: Why did you choose Canon?

« on: January 30, 2013, 08:22:50 PM »

I was after a DSLR, and picked the 450D because of price and features. I started a 2 year course in photography.

I stick with canon, 5 years on, as a working professional. I stay because of the ergonomics, glass and professional support that canon offer.
My canon gear has always grown with me, it's an extension of myself, and I can pick up any canon body from an EOS 300 through to the 1DS and through the 5/6/7ds all the way to the 1DX and be friends with it in minutes.
I can spend half an hour with a nikon entry level before I figure out how to take it out of auto iso.
Also...the images ain't so pleasing on the other side

it is very easy , you hold in the iso and  turn the ring under the trigger button, I have use the both system during years, and have no problems with either Canon or Nikon

I can change the ISO fine, but they seem to have made the auto ISO setting buried in the menu with another, manual ISO option on the body/ quick menu on the d3100 and 3200. It distresses me greatly