Guy Mancuso wrote:
To me photography is all about light.
Everything I've seen you post here has wonderful lighting. I marvel at the composition of your photos. I showed the cockpit photo to a pilot friend, and he just about fell over in admiration (he immediately recognized the aircraft).
Some of your shots look like they might be taken in Phoenix...can that be?
Guy Mancuso wrote:
plus I had the 580 in my hand and during the 8 seconds was painting the foreground and truck with light.
I wondered if you could do that for long exposures! Very interesting and useful. I'll have to play around with that technique. Thanks for the quick explanation!
Guy Mancuso wrote:
I love technigue discussions because really this is what it is all about , learning HOW to shoot not so much the gear stuff arguements we get into
Have to agree with you here, Guy. It's refreshing when you see pros in any profession that don't mind sharing their techniques (err...secrets?), and you have certainly set the standard on that score here at FM. It is much appreciated. (I also enjoy these kind of posts much better than one's that jump into someone else's thread to "suggest" what subjects should and should not be discussed. )
I enjoy seeing all these shots with the Zeiss 21mm. Keep 'em coming!
I'm the same way. Every camera can make great images,...just not every camera/lens/setup/photographer can make EVERY type of great image.
Along these lines, I'm debating "1Ds2 vs. 1D2" and a friend of mine (and Hasselblad Award Winner) is saying "get the 3 lenses you're planning, forget the 1-series cameras, get a 20D, the 10-22, skip the 16-35L, get a XPAN2 with all three lenses, it'll be the same as the 1Ds2 plus your original 3 lenses."
He's right, within 4$ actually...and now he's got me thinking...hmm...
Film's not dead...its just that digital has brought a new habit of "fast easy" to photography...I have felt the siren's song of "hold the button down, you'll get the shot"...but what about the amazing shot?
The thing we're all basically saying here...is that there are not a lot of GOOD wide options for SLR...DSLR, Canon...whomever...hence the CZ disease.
OK, you convinced me. I'm selling my 1DsII and buying back my RTS III - not! Forgive me, but the 1DsII is giving me images that my RTS III was never capable of providing me, and comes close and in some ways surpasses what my Bronica GS-1 and Fuji GX-680 were capable of.
Hence the CZ disease . Which BTW, is away from the fast and easy, in case you haven't understood its implications.
The amazing shot comes out of you knowing your gear and recognizing the magic moment, regardless of gear ... Be The Image ...
For some reason, people take the affirmation of a certain thing as the negation of everything else. At least for me, that is not what this is about.
Edited by djgarcia on May 29, 2005 at 05:10 PM GMT
Guy Mancuso wrote:
DPP is very usefull with shooting tethered like this because you can control the camera remotely
Thanks for all this additional info. (You sound like George Lukas explaining some of the movie magic). I guess a laptop is becoming a necessary "camera accessory" for pro shoots nowadays. Still, I'll have to play around with some of these techniques (for fun).
Love the term "painting with light." I'd need to either upgrade from my 420ex or at least get a flash cord.
djgarcia...I hear you about negation, to me, its a matter of what I can make work on some kind of budget. RE: all my polls in the PRO corner, I am looking at what is reasonable...and my friend gave me an alternative theory of how I can get flexibility, and, the excellence in the wides we apparently all seek
What a lot of you landscape shooters should be looking at for fun , is stitching. A great way to get high resolution files from lower resolution camera's
Yep.
7-image stitch taken with the lowly 10D / 28-135 IS --c
Guy Mancuso wrote:
I love technigue discussions because really this is what it is all about , learning HOW to shoot not so much the gear stuff arguements we get into
Yes and I treasure the nuggets of pure gold information (for me), like your description of your lighting in that office shot. It got me thinking very, very seriously ..... thx again for sharing Guy.
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Never saw a 3000 dollar 30mm lens before!
