A great camera, no questions about it. A great combo also.
You can use a soft gaussian blur in Photoshop and it will make those portraits better.
It is refreshing to hear that more megapixels and sharper lenses are not necessarily a great combo for portraits.
William Rodriguez
Miami, Florida.
One way to minimize the wrinkles is with your light source. Young models with near perfect skin can handle harder, more focused light (e.g., beauty dish). Older models don't fare as well and softer, wrap-around light is better (e.g., big softbox near the subject).
You can use blur tools in post as William suggested, and while they do smooth out those lines and wrinkles, it also hammers the skin texture, which you may not want to alter.
I keep seeing all of these posts about problems with Nikon equipment and then I read the post about how happy they are. I hope this doesn't give forum browsers that just read the post titles the wrong impression about Nikon quality.
On second thought, keep it up, that may be the only way people move away from Nikon so I can see some lenses back in stock at the stores.
Taff Reardon wrote:
Please help. Does anybody know how to de sharpen this setup?
I can't get my head round having sharp pictures right out of the camera.
My wife hates the new setup as she didn't like the way it gave her wrinkles
Might have to go back to my old canon setup that made everyone look young....and fuzzy!!
That the first time that a camera has out resolved the subject!!!!!
On a serious note, why did i not jump ship earlier.
right off to ebay for a 70-200
Taff
omg... can't believe your post.
i was taking shots of my wife today with new setup and checking out the "portrait" picture control and my wife disliked the way you can see the pores on here skin
funny stuff but a great setup for sure. i can't knock my canon kit but very happy with the nikon. the 50d just pushed me over here. i had rebelxt-20d-30d-40d-50d for 3 days before i sent it back and ordered this kit. primarily used 15-55is f2.8 and 70-200is f4 and can't say i was unhappy with that setup but it had it's limitations (as do i).
d700- 24-70-f2.8 and 70-200vr f2.8 for this recent nikon convert who didn't even go to bed last nite playing around learning a new system, camera, lens, software too.
i had never even picked up a nikon except for one back in like 1975
turnert wrote:
Kudos for selecting a great body/lens combo.
One way to minimize the wrinkles is with your light source. Young models with near perfect skin can handle harder, more focused light (e.g., beauty dish). Older models don't fare as well and softer, wrap-around light is better (e.g., big softbox near the subject).
You can use blur tools in post as William suggested, and while they do smooth out those lines and wrinkles, it also hammers the skin texture, which you may not want to alter.
