StevenPalowsky wrote:
this could be a really dumb question, kittyk, but if it is, let's pretend it's because i am working at 5 in the morning
what is this skin editor your are referring to? i really never batch process much stuff, since i do not shoot a ton of weddings and since i am mainly a portrait photographer, i really only work on individual shots in photoshop, but i am always curious of things that have the potential to save me time
to the OP, thank you for posting a portrait...and one under "less than optimal conditions"
this is how i do it
select all photos from similar scene i want to PP. they usually have fairly similar light and content. For example bride, running down the isle. I then mark most important one from the set (it opens on second monitor while set remains selected), pick the skin of the most important person (bride or the main of who is on the portrait), adjust it to my liking, reduce contrast, color, softness, clarity, etc. then adjust rest of the photo (contrast, sharpness, color balance, crop, ...) - this wont affect your skin anymore, fix the disturbances (blemishes), on G15 keyboard macro copy the adjustment (or Ctrl+Shift+C), and apply on rest of the selected photos (Ctrl+Shift+V), then press process (Ctrl+D) and it exports TIFF for archive, jpeg thumbnail, and watermarked 1200px jpeg for customer's gallery of all selected photos.
Then i press another key on the keyboard, it moves TIFF to network drive and uploads thumbnail and jpeg to internet gallery for the customer.
Pretty simple.
The skin editor also works if you have mixed (varying light) and can be used as main source of color balance for whole image (so not only color picker based on grayish surfaces).
no, it is all done in Capture One Pro, straight (without destroying them) over NEF files.
i use photoshop only on single photos for more extensive editing, this is not needed on most photos unless bride have some big problem (not fitting dress,...).
back to the main topic...i agree with several here about the extra benefits of the resolution. yes, it can sometimes mean extra time spent editing out insane amounts of detail that's NOT wanted, but you can't really ADD detail...
yes, there is a scary amount of detail captured, but IMHO, it's a good problem to have ;-)
i am quite excited about the possibilities of adding this nikon camera to my canon stuff!
Really? Easy solution. Use vaseline on your lens. Maybe write Nikon, they could possibly include trial size vaseline in each new D800 box.
SpecFoto wrote:
Andy, thank you for this lovely photo, I have been waiting for a large file size portrait to view. It confirms what I feared about the D800, there is almost too much detail for general portrait photos. Not for the special glamour shots, where a lot of post processing will be involved anyway, but for general portrait use I think I will keep my dream team of the D700, 85/1.4D, 70-200VR f/2.8 and the smaller file size. For everything else, I anxiously await my D800.
Chris Ventura wrote:
Really? Easy solution. Use vaseline on your lens. Maybe write Nikon, they could possibly include trial size vaseline in each new D800 box.
ahhh...the dreaded peach fuzz...everyone's got it, but few (if any) women want to see it
canon pants wrote:
Looking good. REally tempting to jump ship from Canon.
once i get caught up on all my seniors, hopefully before the next years batch come in, i'll most likely be adding the D800 and some primes to my canon gear...i'm quite looking forward to it!
I think I'm going to eat crow and get the D800 for portraiture, despite the potential hassle of dealing with 36 MP file size. Since I have a Mac Pro with 16 GB RAM memory, it may make the purchase a little easier for me but I'm not entirely sure about requiring two different memory card for D800's dual slot, since all I have are CF's.
I wonder if there are any owners who have both the D3s and D800 and finding they can co-exist? I love using my D3s mainly for photojournalism but having a D800 would be nice to have. The details in the D800 samples are just hard to ignore.
i can imagine to have both D3s and D800, but better solution would be D800 and D800 :-)
SD cards are not that expensive and you can use just smaller/slower ones for JPEG backup.
my plan is to either go with my existing 8gb sandisk CF cards i already have (changing them will help me keep an eye on how much i am shooting, during a session) or get a new 32gb CF card, to keep it roughly how im working now, but to use an eye-fi card in the SD slot for wirelessly tethering to my imac in the studio or ipad in the field, so i was probably one of the few who was really excited by the 2 different card slots
i plan on shooting RAW to the CF and probably small or medium jpeg to the eye-fi card, for quicker transfer to imac/ipad for preview, in case i didnt make that clear...
