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p.1 #1 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Testing the 7D and Tokina 12-24 F4 combo

The rock house is in Albuquerque NM
The storm over the mesa is west of Los Lunas NM

The Tokina 12-24 F4 is a nice lens on the 7D for the $$$

Canon EOS 7D 12 mm f/8.0 1/160 sec 100 ISO 0.0 EV

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Canon EOS 7D 12 mm f/10.0 1/250 sec 100 ISO 0.0 EV

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Nov 16, 2009 at 03:05 AM

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p.1 #2 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Nice work. Is the rock house on the road to the La Luz trail?

Nov 16, 2009 at 03:28 AM

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p.1 #3 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Yes, the rock house is on the road to La Luz trail.

Nov 16, 2009 at 03:33 AM

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p.1 #4 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Nice captures.

Jude

Nov 18, 2009 at 08:52 AM

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p.1 #5 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Very nice. The cloud unloading on the mesa is very cool. Good exposure control in these.

Barry

Nov 18, 2009 at 02:16 PM

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p.1 #6 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

I am finding the 7D is a capable landscape camera. These high megapixel cameras just take more processing.

The storm over the mesa is west of Los Lunas NM was shot in mRAW mode (10 MP) as a test. Overall I do not find mRAW that useful. It is better to shoot RAW full resolution (18 MP) to maximize detail.

I am getting good clean sky and low noise with this process:

Take photo at lowest possible ISO to maximize quality
-- useful step for any camera

Process RAW file in DPP
-- no image sharpening in DPP
-- no noise reduction in DPP
-- Output as 16-bit TIF

Process 16-bit TIF in Photoshop CS4 (64bit)
-- open 16-bit TIF from DPP
-- fine tune image if required
-- reduce noise with Neat Image v6.1 (64bit)
-- sharpen using CS4 "smart sharpen" filter
-- check results of "auto contrast", "auto color"
-- output edited image at max quality JPG file

I will share more New Mexico photos in the Landscape forum.

Nov 18, 2009 at 04:34 PM

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p.1 #7 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Why are you opening the raw in DPP instead of CS4? I'm just curious, is it for color rendition?

Nice work, I enjoyed these.

Sharon

Nov 18, 2009 at 04:46 PM

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p.1 #8 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Love the cloud formation on the last one!
Ken

Nov 18, 2009 at 10:39 PM

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p.1 #9 · 2 New Mexico landscapes with 7D

Sharon,

CS4 currently only has beta 7D support.

RAW conversions cannot match DPP

Nov 19, 2009 at 01:59 AM


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