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Great pic! Only thing I notice is the sky being kinda noisy and pixelated. What's with that?
HeShootsNScores
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Blurker
I am ignoring you.
Nice one!
That's the closet in the upstairs bathroom of my butler's guest house. There never is enough space, is there?
LOVING the D300! But now I have a gear wishlist that's about 1000 items long, and every item is ex-pen-sive. I might have to switch my butler to part-time for a while.
Question: Are you shooting your HDR stuff in 12-bit or 14-bit? I've just started experimenting with all the new parameters I have available, and the 12 vs 14-bit HDR tests are creating some results that I wasn't expecting (I'm calling them "saturation pockets" for now). Just wondering what your (and everyone else here, for that matter) experience was.
BleedingPurple
Prospect
I'm Baaaaack! I Know, you probably didn't even notice I was gone. You guys have put up some amazing stuff while I've been away. The HDR stuff is fascinating. Anyway, It's been crazy busy at work and I've been putting in some long hours but it allowed me to buy....
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Ta-Da
I've got a ton to learn and to read about but I have to give a lot of credit to you guys in getting my excitement up there. This has always been something I've wanted to pursue and all the art that you guys produce day in and day out has really inspired me. Anyway, I'm sure I'll have tons of questions with this beast, so I'm warning you now...
Bring on Photo Challenge #5!
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Ta-Da
I've got a ton to learn and to read about but I have to give a lot of credit to you guys in getting my excitement up there. This has always been something I've wanted to pursue and all the art that you guys produce day in and day out has really inspired me. Anyway, I'm sure I'll have tons of questions with this beast, so I'm warning you now...
Bring on Photo Challenge #5!
BleedingPurple
Prospect
So I've got a question with this HDR thing. Are you always using the Bracketing feature? And when/if you do so, is it simultaneously taking 3 shots or is there a lag between the 3 or 5 shots that you take? In my manual, it makes it seem like it's taking 3 instantaneous shots but I may be mistaken.
Most of the images in this thread are done using bracketing of some sort. As for the speed, with the 40D it depends on which drive mode you are in. If I am not mistaken, the 40D has 3 modes, single shot (no matter how long you hold down the shutter button, the camera only takes one image), continuous, and high speed. If you are in single shot, you will have to press the shutter button 3 times, in the continuous and high speed mode you just mash the shutter button down, it will take its 3 shots and then stop. Continuous mode you will get about 3 frames a second, and in high speed you will get about 6 frames a second.
In general 14 bit will give you smoother gradients with less posterization, but photomatrix may not play nicely with 14 bits (I can't test it out with my 12 bit dinosaur
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HeShootsNScores
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March Airforce Reserve Base AIRFEST 2008
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F-22 Demo at the March Airforce Reserve Base Airfest 2008
In general 14 bit will give you smoother gradients with less posterization, but photomatrix may not play nicely with 14 bits (I can't test it out with my 12 bit dinosaur
Photomatix plays with my bits.
All 14 of them.
March Airforce Reserve Base AIRFEST 2008
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Those are freakin' NICE. I like the F-22 one the best! Way to go!
HeShootsNScores
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Thanks FBJ! Its much easier to shoot at a stationary F-22 than a moving one... hahaha... you really should see that thing fly. It is unreal.
