gman1339,
Would you mind sharing how you removed the color from the background in the rodeo shot. It is simply stunning. It would take me a while to do that in PS.
Malcolm Stitt wrote:
gman1339,
Would you mind sharing how you removed the color from the background in the rodeo shot. It is simply stunning. It would take me a while to do that in PS.
thanks
Malcolm,
It's just a 2 layers of the same image on top of each other in photoshop. A black and white layer on top of a color layer in photoshop with a layer mask filled with white on the black and white layer. Then just paint with black on the layer mask the parts you want to show the colored layer below.
It's just a 2 layers of the same image on top of each other in photoshop. A black and white layer on top of a color layer in photoshop with a layer mask filled with white on the black and white layer. Then just paint with black on the layer mask the parts you want to show the colored layer below.
Gary
Gary,
I need to dust off my photoship skills, cause that effect in combination with a wide open lens is just stunning. Thanks for sharin!
I was wondering why the heck the noise was so *awful* at ISO 3200-6400 trying out some test shots of myself in a darkly lit room yesterday.... exposure indicator was showing correct exposure. Turns out that matrix metering got fooled by the white blinds in the background, although my face was still occupying a huge part of the frame. I guess the white from the blinds even from 40 percent of the frame can really fool the camera. Anyways, I switched to spot metering and voila... at ISO 6400 there was very little noise in the pictures..
In case it hasn't been made abundantly clear already, the D700 doesn't suffer from any appreciable banding like some of the Canon's do. I bought mine specifically to shoot at ISO 6400 most of the time, and they perform extremely well - even when the exposure is pushed a bit. The D700 also does an excellent job of maintaining color fidelity and contrast at higher ISOs. The files look quite similar to those produced by the Canon 1D Mark III - which is to say, very good.
This isn't noise-pattern banding, as the OP was presumably referring to. It is another issue that the D700 definitely does have. People have been referring to it as "blooming" since it's related to extremely bright lightsources in otherwise dark scenes. You'll typically only see it in very high ISO situations. I've only seen it in a handful of shots.
Works like a charm!
