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markle wrote:
after all it also takes a photographer to make it happen, not just the camera ..... the last time I did interiors we had some 15 lights in place. do you really shoot professionally at 1600 ISO with a 5D with no lighting at all?
"It takes a photographer to make it happen, not just the camera." You say that so egocentrically, as if you were lending the world a new point of view.
More to the point: sarcasm and disrespect will usually get you nowhere. Read my post again. I was specifically talking about those times when I shoot detail shots handheld. Perhaps my lighting was already taken down or, as is usually the case, the detail is in another part of the home .... often in an area that was not lit to begin with. So, as I said, rather than reset any lighting ... and if ambient light will suffice (obviously) ... I have no hesitation shooting at ISO 1600 with the 5D.
As far as your "15 lights in place" goes, you're apparently of the school that some magazines don't cater to. I recently had a face-to-face conversation with the photo editor of one of our most enduring and respected home magazines. We were discussing the level of quality of the pics that appear in a competitor mag. The one thing he tended to criticize about their images was their tendency towards brightness, or "overbrightness," as he called it. "They like to suck the contrast, color and depth out of a room," he said.
This is obviously a different subject entirely than the 1Ds vs. 5D. But since you brought it up, many photographers have commented on my rooms "not being lit enough." One sent me an email that said, "Interior photography is about light, light and more light. Your images have dark areas and shadows. This is the wrong approach." Oh yeah? I'm working all the time .... and I mean ALL the time .... on 20,000 to 30,000 square foot estates, 15,000 square foot apartments, small but substantial designer homes, massive shopping malls and high end stores, etc., etc., etc.
Yeah, my style of mixing ambient light with minimal support lighting is all wrong, especially (according to you) when I use no lighting except the lighting that's there. I prefer actor James Cagney's philosophical approach to work: "Never, ever listen to anybody," he said in the last interview he gave before passing away.
- Steve
Edited on Jul 26, 2008 at 04:45 PM
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can we have mutual discussion here - we may find some good info between old vs new canon sensor 
, so much so that I actually had a dream about it last night. (i know that seems a little weird, just thought I would be honest.) Now my problem is do I stay with a 5D or get a 1Ds that gives me my 1 series camera "feel" back to me or to I just get used to the feel and all of the new locations of the buttons when going to the 5D? What is a person to do? I dont have 3-4k to spend on a 1ds II or I wouldn't be stuck in this delimena in my mind at least