I am busy processing my images from my December holiday in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho and I thought I would see how large I can print with my new R.
Well I'm quite impressed with the A1 print of the image enclosed. There are no digital artifacts nor grain visible.
I have often dreamed of how great my images could/would look if only I had the Eos 5DS/R but perhaps I'm already living the dream with the new R?
I'm still getting used to my R and learning what all the buttons and menu settings can and cannot do... its definitely a bit more complicated than my 'old' 6D. And I also have to retrain some muscle memory.
But I took a couple of thousand images in Lesotho mainly using auto ISO and aperture priority. I don't think I've seen many wildly unfocused images nor an unusable exposure. I just picked up the camera and shot, only taking care to ensure my shutter speed was high enough to counter camera and or shutter shake and to make sure some AF point was near or on the subject matter.
Image taken on 21/12/08 at noon in the bright African sunlight high up in the mountains of Lesotho in the village of Malealea.
Tecnical specs:
Iso 100, and1/60 at f9.5 with my Tamron f1.8 IS lens. Raw converter DPP - I find that with my Lesotho images DPP looks more neutral and natural than with my usual raw converter, LR.
In DPP I usedthe Neutral setting and with no NR nor sharpening. Afterwards in PS I tweak the images a bit and used Topaz Infocus for minimal sharpening. I'm drifting more and more towards neutral and softer images with very little if any added saturation and clarity and gentle sharpening and I try and stay far away from HDR looking images.
Printed on HP Professional Satin using QImage software and the 'normal' printing setting on my HP Designjet Z2100 44inch Photo roll printer.
Well I'm quite impressed with the A1 print of the image enclosed. There are no digital artifacts nor grain visible.
I have often dreamed of how great my images could/would look if only I had the Eos 5DS/R but perhaps I'm already living the dream with the new R?
I'm still getting used to my R and learning what all the buttons and menu settings can and cannot do... its definitely a bit more complicated than my 'old' 6D. And I also have to retrain some muscle memory.
But I took a couple of thousand images in Lesotho mainly using auto ISO and aperture priority. I don't think I've seen many wildly unfocused images nor an unusable exposure. I just picked up the camera and shot, only taking care to ensure my shutter speed was high enough to counter camera and or shutter shake and to make sure some AF point was near or on the subject matter.
Image taken on 21/12/08 at noon in the bright African sunlight high up in the mountains of Lesotho in the village of Malealea.
Tecnical specs:
Iso 100, and1/60 at f9.5 with my Tamron f1.8 IS lens. Raw converter DPP - I find that with my Lesotho images DPP looks more neutral and natural than with my usual raw converter, LR.
In DPP I usedthe Neutral setting and with no NR nor sharpening. Afterwards in PS I tweak the images a bit and used Topaz Infocus for minimal sharpening. I'm drifting more and more towards neutral and softer images with very little if any added saturation and clarity and gentle sharpening and I try and stay far away from HDR looking images.
Printed on HP Professional Satin using QImage software and the 'normal' printing setting on my HP Designjet Z2100 44inch Photo roll printer.
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