Here's another one from the same day, should be at f/3.4.
Yesterday, two days later, almost all the red petals were gone and that kind of light was an exception anyway (sun shining between the clouds and horizon shortly before setting, lasted about ten minutes and is already very different in this shot). Most of the time there are no second chances to take a particular picture, so you better have good equipment that doesn't ruin the shot.
Thanks Philber. After much deliberation I have to agree. I don't think Raw shooting is right for me.
I might be just too OCD to ever be satisfied with anything I could come up with. I best leave it up to the experts or until I attend a lightroom workshop. Yep, I'm throwing in the towel after just one short day of shooting.
swolfcg wrote:
Thanks Philber. After much deliberation I have to agree. I don't think Raw shooting is right for me.
I might be just too OCD to ever be satisfied with anything I could come up with. I best leave it up to the experts or until I attend a lightroom workshop. Yep, I'm throwing in the towel after just one short day of shooting.
looks like you used about a 3 stop grad.....any filters on the lens?
swolfcg wrote:
Thanks Philber. After much deliberation I have to agree. I don't think Raw shooting is right for me.
I might be just too OCD to ever be satisfied with anything I could come up with. I best leave it up to the experts or until I attend a lightroom workshop. Yep, I'm throwing in the towel after just one short day of shooting.
swolfcg,
Pick the towel up! - On that image you probably metered on the white of the ship - you're underexposed as it shows darkening in the sky - the 35-70 tends to do that - EV + - it's the same with shooting snow scenes or exposing for overly dark objects in scenes and blow out the highlights.
Stay with the RAW - there is no substitute for the time you just have to put in. Classes are fine - online tutorials are available. Or - just go in and start "hacking" - try each controller - each tool to see what it does - it's no different than editing a jpeg - you just have more control and latitude to work with.
Below is the untouched image, other than converting it to jpg/sRGB. I think there is just too many options to choose from in LR. I don't know where to start or when a enough is truly enough. I should also add that no filter was used. This was shot around 7am. 35mm/5.6
surf monkey wrote:
Love the "Zeiss" look of these photos.
I have a Zeiss ZE 35 and have caught the Zeiss bug.
I would love to get a 35-70 for it's versatility.
A couple questions:
Has anyone had a problem with infinite focus?
If so, on which camera and with what adapter?
Thanks in advance.
I haven't had any problem w/ this lens on the 5D, but sometimes I do hear a brief nasty sounding scrap when I enter the Macro mode. But other that no problem. I am using the Kindai adapter from Japan, which is also sold by Cameraquest. I also have the fotodiox adapter but haven't tried that out w/ my 5D, only 40D.
Steph....I say sharpen it up and you are good to go. Maybe reduce the highlights slightly. Too bad you have that shadow in the front half. Colors look great!
The less experienced one is, the more they should use RAW, not the other way around. RAW lets you rescue mistakes a hundred times more easily than jpegs. Just look at that ship. In one photo is looks very mildly underexposed, and the other not so much. You wouldn't have that flexibility in jpegs, or you might have to work at it. One of RAW's primary benefits is rescuing seemingly blown highlights (which doesn't apply to that photo but is a huge problem for many people).
mMontag wrote:
swolfcg,
Pick the towel up! - On that image you probably metered on the white of the ship - you're underexposed as it shows darkening in the sky - the 35-70 tends to do that - EV + - it's the same with shooting snow scenes or exposing for overly dark objects in scenes and blow out the highlights.
Stay with the RAW - there is no substitute for the time you just have to put in. Classes are fine - online tutorials are available. Or - just go in and start "hacking" - try each controller - each tool to see what it does - it's no different than editing a jpeg - you just have more control and latitude to work with....Show more →
Steph, let me make a suggestion. As you shoot Canon, you have a free copy of DPP. Its RAW converter is very good indeed, and it is much, much simpler to use than LR. Why don't you play around with DPP. It lets you alter your white balance, your highlights, your shadows, crop etc...
I usually shoot RAW and rarely spend more than 2mn per shot, unless it happens to be an unusually good one. That would let you get most of the benefits of RAW without most of the pain of LR/PS
Hope this helps
Thanks for all the great feedback. I never used DPP, but does seem a little too simple for any mild to serious corrections, and the converted image doesn't seem to match what was in the preview.
I will give Raw another go, and pick up a LR book. The zoom does seem a bit distracting to deal w/ for a beginner like myself. It would probably be best for me to just focus on exposure & composition at the moment.
I'm such a dunce. It seems I took both Raw & jpg yesterday. They looked about the same, which I find surprising. I also reset my camera & monitor back to sRGB (from adobe 1998), and that seemed to fix my color conversion issues.
Anden: Wow! I do envy you! Did you get the certificate as well? We got these baloons landing outside our house in Sweden frequently...
The shots are great btw!!
