Travis Rhoads wrote:
I have not shot open wheel cars much, Indy Car a couple years ago...this weekend there was a Super7 in the field, and that car was hard to shoot, what do you pick as your target? Pick the helmet and the wheels are all OOF or blurred from motion...pick the wheels and the helmet is OOF or blurred...
Helmet is the only thing that needs to be in focus on any open car shot to work. I never shoot cars on track with AF, so I can't really comment on you how that would work with modern cameras, although I can imagine you can tweak things with the lens focus correction values at long range.
AF didn't work when I did this professionally, so what we did is pre-focus and nail the shot, single frame, no bursts (too slow even at 10fps).
Here's a only helmet in focus shot - all in camera (on velvia), no zoom pull tricks here, and AF isn't gonna help you to do this:
And a long lens shot (600mm handheld, rain, maybe 1/30s?) - tires and wing are soft but people don't look there - they look at the guy in the car (Memo Gidley):
without the motion blur, it still works - 600mm
full car, at longer range, you do get more detail in the tires (unless your shutter speed is parking lot fast)
sometimes it's just enough dof to get most of the car
I gotta stop looking at this thread, as it makes me miss those days.
jj_glos wrote:
Nope, Adobe drive sales through new versions and the non-backwards compatibility of ACR.
download the DNG converter from Adbobe, then load the DNG file in ACR. Works, just takes one extra step. I got CS6 only because ACR can do more than in CS5, before that I ran my D600 files through the DNG converter. Not a highly advertised feature, but you don't have to buy the latest CS version if you have a newer camera.
pburke wrote:
download the DNG converter from Adbobe, then load the DNG file in ACR. Works, just takes one extra step. I got CS6 only because ACR can do more than in CS5, before that I ran my D600 files through the DNG converter. Not a highly advertised feature, but you don't have to buy the latest CS version if you have a newer camera.
I have tried to do this at work, where I only have CS3, and it does not recognize my 5DII or 7D files...I have yet to get it to work. I will need to give it another try. It is frustrating to need to bring a laptop in form home to work on images I shoot for work.
Travis Rhoads wrote:
I have tried to do this at work, where I only have CS3, and it does not recognize my 5DII or 7D files...I have yet to get it to work. I will need to give it another try. It is frustrating to need to bring a laptop in form home to work on images I shoot for work.
the release notes state that since converter version 5.4 there are features in it only CS4 and above can read. But CS4 should open everything.
that would explain the CS3 problems! I have not tried it at home, since CS4 works with both camera bodies I have....great...that was my excuse for not wanting to bother with a 5D3 right now...you shot a hole in that!
Ernie Aubert wrote:
I really like the 5D III quite a bit more than the 5D II.
I am sure I would too...I have not been super thrilled with the 5DII...it was in impulse buy that fulfilled a wish...the newness has worn off and the flaws are showing up.
You can do what I do, I still use CS5, but I also bought LR. LR has the latest and greatest ACR. I convert to TIFF in LR, then use CS5 to finish them off. The ACR in LR and CS6 are the exact same thing, just different sliders.
Tim Adams wrote:
You can do what I do, I still use CS5, but I also bought LR. LR has the latest and greatest ACR. I convert to TIFF in LR, then use CS5 to finish them off. The ACR in LR and CS6 are the exact same thing, just different sliders.
Not a bad idea...I have not messed with LR since 3 was in beta...and I am sure it has gotten better since then...I did not like it then.
Travis Rhoads wrote:
Not a bad idea...I have not messed with LR since 3 was in beta...and I am sure it has gotten better since then...I did not like it then.
I have never got the hang of really manipulating a RAW file in LR. I do real basic stuff and just export it as a 16-bit TIFF to work on it in CS5.
