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Landscape / Re: How Would You Edit This Landscape Photo?

« on: March 08, 2013, 06:16:07 AM »

Here's my take; tried to keep it as natural as possible with slight tint of my interpretation of sunrise colours and not an overdone sky, keeping the interest on the amazing rock formations.

Haha! Love this one!!!!

Why thank you,

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Landscape / Re: How Would You Edit This Landscape Photo?

« on: March 07, 2013, 06:21:17 PM »

Here's my take; tried to keep it as natural as possible with slight tint of my interpretation of sunrise colours and not an overdone sky, keeping the interest on the amazing rock formations.

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Lenses / Re: Full Frame Lens Choice to Match 7D and 17-55 2.8 IS.

« on: March 06, 2013, 05:25:00 PM »

But are your BIF non keepers due to motion blur or just completely out of focus?
The 5d mkiii + 24-105 f4l will be better than your 7d + 17-55 f2.8 in almost every way for your nightclub work, you could jack up the ISO by 2 stops and still have cleaner images.
You could have the same shutter speed, and lets say on your 7d you'd have to use iso6400 at f2.8, with the 5d mkiii, and same shutter speed, you'd use iso12800 and f4, but the image will still be cleaner than your 7d.
If not just get the tamron 24-70 vc f2.8 and get the best of both worlds in regards to aperture and IS, doesn't cost that much more..

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Software & Accessories / Re: Good GND filter to go with new Lee system

« on: February 28, 2013, 10:11:00 AM »

If it was me, I'd get the resin set. I think you'd be hard pressed to find any difference in real world shooting, especially since LEE produce great quality filters, unless maybe you stack a whole heap of them together in a controlled test environment. But if you went with the glass one and you're out shooting and you find you need a darker gnd, what are you going to do?
I have two sets of the LEE resin gnds (hard & soft), never had a problem with them.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Good GND filter to go with new Lee system

« on: February 27, 2013, 09:27:41 PM »

Wow for that price you can get a whole set of LEE grads.
Have you checked how much the LEE ones are? Their big stopper is expensive but the grads aren't too bad, for the quality you get.

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Canon General / Re: What am I doing wrong???

« on: February 26, 2013, 04:48:57 PM »

- I never let camera choose focus points. I mostly use one point, central point most of the time. I use servo when kids are on the move, or if I don't need to recompose at all. MY DOF button is configured to switch mode while being pressed, so I liberally move btw. one shot and servo.

And try get out of the habit of focus & recompose, just move the selected AF point via the joysticky thing, takes same amount of time as focus & recompose and you'll be able to keep it on Servo mode.
Also set it on continuous shooting and fire off multiple shots to increase your hit rate.

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Canon General / Re: What am I doing wrong???

« on: February 25, 2013, 02:43:59 AM »

You using AI Servo?

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Lenses / Re: Best lens for baby portraits?

« on: February 23, 2013, 05:49:21 PM »

I'd rent the Zeiss 50 f2 Makro; don't need AF for baby portraits, large aperture, super sharp, super punchy colours and contrast, 80mm focal length equivalent on your camera, and it's a macro (sort've) lens so it can focus much closer if you were planning to do like those feet shots or hands holding onto a finger.. Plus it's loads of fun to play with a Zeiss

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PowerShot / Re: Comparable Camera to the Sony RX100

« on: February 20, 2013, 05:23:27 PM »

I picked up the RX100 yesterday and finally had a chance to play with it. Here are my impressions:

IQ is great. Handles low light quite well. My gripe, not necessary Sony's fault, is my difficulty of holding the camera. It's a bit heavy for its size, since it is very well constructed. I have to remind myself from time to time to hold on to the camera tighter and not to drop it. It is a bit slippery since there is only metal facing in the front.  Since I have difficulty holding on to the camera, it was even more difficult trying to push the little buttons in the back in trying to change the settings and take the pictures manually. So it was best for me to just keep the settings on full auto.

It's a good little camera. But I think I'll either return it or give it to my daughter.

You can buy a little grippy thing that makes it less slippery and more comfortable to hold, if you wanted to try that.

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

« on: February 17, 2013, 02:33:46 AM »

I got a Canon 135mm F2 for $535 on a auction site. It's an amazing lens!! I ended up having to sell it as I needed the money and I made another $300 on it.

Woah $535 that's cheap!
I just bought one for $800, a month old, one year warranty and came with a hoya hd uv filter.

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5D MK III Sample Images / Re: Big Sur and San Fran 5D3 Long Exposure

« on: February 16, 2013, 03:45:36 AM »

I like the original more, nice try.

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Lenses / Re: New Member / Lens Recs

« on: February 12, 2013, 06:02:29 AM »

Think twice about the 50mm 1.2L. At one point you WILL be bored of the "bokeh look" cuz all ur photos tend to look the same. But the 50mm 1.2L isnt awesome anymore when u stop it down.

I just laughed out loud.

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Site Information / Re: Moderators: You are Too Sensitive

« on: February 03, 2013, 12:21:33 AM »

I'm surprised it didn't get removed earlier.

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PowerShot / Re: Best Low Light Pocket Size Camera

« on: February 01, 2013, 07:22:21 PM »

The Sony rx100 is awesome! I've had mine for a week or so now and love it, truly pocketable, and the IQ is excellent! Low ISO IQ is so good it rivals my partners eos m.. And low light performance is great for a camera this size, 6400 is usable with NR and if you're posting low res images for the web, 3200 is usable with a bit of NR, and 1600 is good.
The only bad thing is the variable aperture lens, f4.9 @ 100mm :/

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Lenses / Re: Advice..what lens

« on: January 25, 2013, 06:35:07 AM »

Out of the three I'd get the 50mm 1.4 since you've already covered a large range of focal length with f4+ and something for lowlight would be useful, but why not get a 5d mkiii with 24-105 kit? Probably cost just a little tad more than buying it with a 17-40, and it's a great all rounder lens, and then save for a 50mm 1.4 after!