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So I tried out both of the new F/2.8 lenses Nikon is making on the new body. I decided to go with the 24-70 instead of the 14-24. At 14mm, it's SUPER freakin' wide for an aspherical lens. There's some distortion, though it's minimal. I just can't see using that wide a lens on a full frame camera a whole lot, so instead of buying the 14-24 at $1699, I bought a used (E+) Nikkor 14mm f/2.8 aspherical from Adorama to throw into the bag.

I also beefed up my flash abilities with an SB-400 (which is a small, light, carry-around kinda flash since the D3 doesn't have one built in and you never know when you might need fill), two additional SB-800s, and the SU-800 Flash Commander.

I need to get off my ass and get some pics into the current Challenge. I'm lacking in inspiration for the current theme, though.
 
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Dude.... big and sexy!! Look at that body! DAYAAM. But for the price of my first three cars combined it'd better be substantial--and have a shutter button on the side for vertical shooting. Wait.... you are renting this, right? And I'm guessing you've heard Kevin James once or twice?? :winky2:
 
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Seriously, congrats on the purchase! Looking forward to seeing what you can do with it. You must be 10 miles high right now....


And the pic above..... any post-processing noise reduction on that? If not, for ISO2000 that is UNREAL.
 
HDR Photography.

I'm sure that this might have been touched on in the DSLR thread, but I've been interested in this new fangled HDR thing. (New to me, at least)

I've googled and gotten a couple of tutorial type things and attempted a couple of images which didn't turn out much differently than the original.

I'm using Photoshop CS2 and the merge to HDR function and then tweaking after the downconvert from 32bit to 16bit. I don't have Photomatix, although a lot of the tutorials tie that in for tone mapping purposes.

I guess my question beyond the technical aspects of building the HDR image, what TYPE of image do those of you who shoot for HDR look for.

Most of the stuff I've seen online involve clouds. I've got to believe that you can do a pretty good HDR without clouds. Should I be shooting a wide range of color? Tone? What?

And yes, I know you should bracket shots, at least 3. I've got that part down, it's just subject matter that I'm having trouble with. (And time to shoot good HDR shots.)

When I get more time, I'll try to post the couple of first attempts for any advice.
 
Since HDR stahds for high dynamic range you are looking for things that you could never capture on film because they have a lot of detail in the highs (whites) and lows (blacks) that you can bring out with the HDR. Clouds are good because they run the gamut of tones from black to white with lot of detail in all of the areas. Also you can hov little or no movement of anything in the picture or it will be blurred.

Here is an HDR that worked because it picked up the details in the dark bricks and also the whites of the clouds.

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Yep. That's the one I'd suggest.

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I'd also suggest a merge with the DSLR/Photography thread.
 
ok this is kind of a dumb question but ive never used auto bracketing on my Canon EOS 350D and i actually have no clue how to set it up & cant find any help from googling.... so any help?
 
Go to the Canon site and search the Support section for a downloadable copy of your camera's manual.
 
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