General Photography

ICE is only a 3mb d/load ...... Gimp was only 16mb so these 2 cool proggy's cost me less than 20mb bandwidth :D
 
Huh!? Panning your camera might work for two or three frames stuck together.
If you want to take true panorama ie 360 you will either need to buy expensive mount, or build one with some DIY.
Criticism?
 
i've shot 180 degree pano +- 8 images hand held. Its do-able. 360 panos never tried it.

The pano heads just offsets the mount from the swivel point so that your rotation is around the nodal point of the lens. A general tripod would also do with a simple plate is fine to offset the axis of rotation. Also the pano heads locks in so you don't have to look at markings. It just makes things easier and more automatic.
 
There are a lot of online resources for those interested in panoramas. should be able to construct a mount capable of 360 for under R50, made mine for R20 (a few years ago 12345.... ok maybe a bit more than a few:)

Do not forget that a high quality slide can be converted into a very pleasing pseudo panorama by cropping top and bottom.
 
Or you can just hand hold it :)

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mICE claims it is 360° on the nose.
 
Found myself a new project, create my own Panorama head and decent home made tripod
 
Okay, so Saturday I had an amazing wedding shoot. The pictures are amazing. I have about 303 pictures that I shot for this wedding. I'm glad I won't have to do any editing because the shots were really good, so there's no real need for post, though there are 2 or 3 that were a bit overexposed. Anyway, there is no way I'm going to open up each RAW file and convert them to JPG. Is there any way in Photoshop that I can do a batch convert to JPG for all my RAW files?
 
mercurial said:
Okay, so Saturday I had an amazing wedding shoot. The pictures are amazing. I have about 303 pictures that I shot for this wedding. I'm glad I won't have to do any editing because the shots were really good, so there's no real need for post, though there are 2 or 3 that were a bit overexposed. Anyway, there is no way I'm going to open up each RAW file and convert them to JPG. Is there any way in Photoshop that I can do a batch convert to JPG for all my RAW files?
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Congrats on the good shoot.

The thing is with RAW you (or the computer) will need to do the same basic stuff the camera would have done converting it to JPG. Aperture, and I assume Lightroom, do a lot of it for you when you import them - I havent got a clue how PS would handle the task though.

Some good news is much of it, including white balancing, can often be carried across from one photo in the series to another. Posting 300 photos is often a matter of minutes if you're using the right software. My 2¢ is download a trial of lightroom.
 
bwana said:
Congrats on the good shoot.

The thing is with RAW you (or the computer) will need to do the same basic stuff the camera would have done converting it to JPG. Aperture, and I assume Lightroom, do a lot of it for you when you import them - I havent got a clue how PS would handle the task though.

Some good news is much of it, including white balancing, can often be carried across from one photo in the series to another. Posting 300 photos is often a matter of minutes if you're using the right software. My 2¢ is download a trial of lightroom.
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Thanks bwana. I think I have a copy lying around. Will give it a try. Thanks.
 
A package like Lightroom is worth its weight in gold. Most of the image work can be handled right there without ever having to be touched by photoshop (which has its own set of drawbacks). Anything you do it it will also be non-destructive.
 
mercurial said:
Okay, so Saturday I had an amazing wedding shoot. The pictures are amazing. I have about 303 pictures that I shot for this wedding. I'm glad I won't have to do any editing because the shots were really good, so there's no real need for post, though there are 2 or 3 that were a bit overexposed. Anyway, there is no way I'm going to open up each RAW file and convert them to JPG. Is there any way in Photoshop that I can do a batch convert to JPG for all my RAW files?
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This is why I shoot RAW+JPEG. As for your question, DPP, which came with your camera, can do the batch conversion, and it does a pretty good job.

bwana said:
A package like Lightroom is worth its weight in gold. Most of the image work can be handled right there without ever having to be touched by photoshop (which has its own set of drawbacks). Anything you do it it will also be non-destructive.
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I'd be curious to know what you consider to be the drawbacks of not having to go to Photoshop?
 
IIRC there is a way that you can do batch conversions with Bridge. I personally use lightroom as I've never gotten to grips with bridge. I only pull the image into photoshop if the editing required needs more than the adjustment brushes lightroom provides.
 
mercurial said:
I always shoot RAW, for obvious reasons ;), but thanks, I will have a look.
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You don't lose anything (except a little bit of space) by shooting RAW+JPEG. If the shots come out as well as you describe, and you don't want to do any PP on them, you don't need the RAW, and you can work right off the JPEGs. The 40D/50D outputs some great quality JPEGs
 
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