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Through a real unfamiliarity with my camera I managed a set of these little beauties yesterday.





But a couple minutes of PS gave me something I don't consider to be all that bad. (click each photo to see)

So - if you mess up a shot do you try to do anything with it in post or simply eBin it?
 
Nice thread title!

Anyway, what can I say except, what would we do without PS?
 
At the photo shoot I was at on Saturday, I saw the power of Photoshop and how almost every single shot can be changed, And this was also only during the development phase.

So I'll admit. I have been converted. I just now need to learn how to use the stupid program
 
Kalvaer said:
At the photo shoot I was at on Saturday, I saw the power of Photoshop and how almost every single shot can be changed, And this was also only during the development phase.

So I'll admit. I have been converted. I just now need to learn how to use the stupid program
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Post has always been an important part of the photographic process.

If you havent got PS yet you might want to demo Elements - there's a good chance that will do what you need from a photographic stand point.
 
I have PS3 and just got LS so that I could actually open up my RAW files. The latest DNG converts them BTW into a readable format in PS3 as well.

My Dad reminded me on sunday how many times I would spend hours with him in the dark room with our film to make sure every shoot looked not only good, but great. I guess PS is now the same. At least I have seen that now that I have been using LS and PS to develop the raw instead of turning them into straight JPGS.

On the shoot this weekend, I saw how a photo that would look REALLY bad from the straight JPG, could be modified to look AWESOME when "developing" and even changed completely to give an effect you wanted to have, but didn't have the money to spend on all the correct studio lighting. Of course this is still not photoshoping to touch up things as I haven't even got there yet.

But the point is I do finally agree with the Post work. Also it depends on what you are looking for. A photo that is meant to be "art" could look like complete BS to most of us, except the certain group of people its designed to impress. If it does that, then the photographer has done their job
 
I found Elements to be harder for me to use than Photoshop.

I use Lightroom 2, that's awesome!
 
Nice restore, is it safe to assume you shot in RAW, then converted to 16bit for PS?
This way, it's possible to retain a suprising amount of tonal information. Much more than a JPEG or 8 bit file.

picture.php

I did similar in this shot a few years ago. Instead, it was severely underexposed and the color balance was way off. Before discarding it, I had go at punching out the contrast by playing with Levels and Curves...
 
bwana, do you notice any difference in the amount of dynamic range captured by the 1Dmk3 compared to the 400D? It may be my imagination (or my skill having improved over the last year) but I could swear I'm able to recover more detail, especially on the bright side, from the 50D's raw files than I used to be able with the 40D.
 
Moklet Kcuf said:
Nice restore, is it safe to assume you shot in RAW, then converted to 16bit for PS?
This way, it's possible to retain a suprising amount of tonal information. Much more than a JPEG or 8 bit file.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/picture.php?albumid=547&pictureid=3905
I did similar in this shot a few years ago. Instead, it was severely underexposed and the color balance was way off. Before discarding it, I had go at punching out the contrast by playing with Levels and Curves...
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I did most of the recovery work in Aperture. When it roundtripped to PS for the monotone conversion it was 8bit (a throwback from when I had limited hdd space available).

Nice save btw.

koffiejunkie said:
bwana, do you notice any difference in the amount of dynamic range captured by the 1Dmk3 compared to the 400D? It may be my imagination (or my skill having improved over the last year) but I could swear I'm able to recover more detail, especially on the bright side, from the 50D's raw files than I used to be able with the 40D.
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I havent noticed much of a difference in dynamic range but then I haven't really been looking for it.
Kalvaer said:
But the point is I do finally agree with the Post work. Also it depends on what you are looking for. A photo that is meant to be "art" could look like complete BS to most of us, except the certain group of people its designed to impress. If it does that, then the photographer has done their job
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Most of the post I do is far more subtle but the fact of the matter is all RAW images require some post because you're not leaving it up to the camera.
 
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Kalvaer said:
Well it still remembers the "as shot" settings doesn't it for development?
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Depends - what do you mean by "as shot". Everything needs to be processed - when you import some of that is done for you by whatever RAW conversion your software uses but it still needs some tweaking - much of which you can usually do en masse.
 
1Dmk3 ???

koffiejunkie said:
the 50D's raw files than I used to be able with the 40D.
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O/T:
My third party grip arrived for my 50D today - sitting at the post office - I'll post some pictures of it later, and how it fits, etc.

Think it cost less than 1/4 of the Canon.
 
xrapidx said:
1Dmk3 ???



O/T:
My third party grip arrived for my 50D today - sitting at the post office - I'll post some pictures of it later, and how it fits, etc.

Think it cost less than 1/4 of the Canon.
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Don't all the reports of third party grips frying the circuits concern you? Especially as it wouldn't be covered by the warranty.
 
bwana said:
Don't all the reports of third party grips frying the circuits concern you? Especially as it wouldn't be covered by the warranty.
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Phottix BP-40D grip

Haven't read anything about that on this grip.... did about three weeks of searching:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihw6K-UWCPw[/ame]
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/733582
http://search.dpreview.com/?q=Phottix

Now that I think about it - I haven't come across any articles on 3rd party grips frying camera's - where'd you read it?
 
Hey cool - didn't know MyBB does that with youtube links :p (remove if you want)
 
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