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Unfiltered said:
Yeah, it made me jealous of those D3 owners. ;)
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I need to get out and start playing with the AEB and do some work on the HDR skills. Not sure when I'll have time.

I played around with the AEB a little bit at the Arboretum the other day. The nice thing about the D3 is that it will shoot so fast that you can do hand-held three exposure bracketed bursts with relative ease as long as the scene is fairly bright and your slowest shutter speed is faster than about 1/100th. Nine frames-per-second has its advantages!
 
Hand held works fine for me ;)

I gotta get out and take some pics now that I'm feeling better.

I got a deal on a wide angle on ebay the other day so that might be good for HDR to make it even more "other worldly".
 
FlyBoeingJets said:
I need to get out and start playing with the AEB and do some work on the HDR skills. Not sure when I'll have time.

I played around with the AEB a little bit at the Arboretum the other day. The nice thing about the D3 is that it will shoot so fast that you can do hand-held three exposure bracketed bursts with relative ease as long as the scene is fairly bright and your slowest shutter speed is faster than about 1/100th. Nine frames-per-second has its advantages!
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That chart is great. I had no idea that Nikon went 2-9 AEB all the way down to the D200. Very cool!
 
Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 EF-S USM

So all three of my lenses are 77mm. How lucky is that?
 
Here's a couple from the Getty today. I went to play around with the 14mm f/2.8 and to work on some architectural shooting skills. Believe it or not, there is virtually no color saturation increase in the post-prod of these captures. I metered on the sky to get it to be so blue.

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The rest are here.

I've got some HDR work to do, as well.
 
Okay. As some of you may have seen, I played around for a little while at the Getty Center today. I shot a couple bracketed scenes so that I could play around with Photomatix when I got back home.

Here's what I came up with. I'm kinda happy with the way these turned out, though I still need some practice. I tried to remember the Zone System when looking at scenes, and that really did help a lot.

I've linked below the HDRs to the images that are the median exposure in the five-shot bracket.

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Median Exposure

After I got them looking the way I wanted them to look in Photomatix, I tweaked them a bit in Photoshop for brightness, contrast, dust spots, noise, and sharpness.
 
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God that 14mm f/2.8 is nice! Canon needs to get their stuff together. They have the same lens, but for about $800 more, and probably not quite as nice.

Excellent shots, the HDRs are fantastic as well. Nicely done. I promise you guys I will photograph something besides BabyFan in the near future to share :)

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ValleyFan said:
God that 14mm f/2.8 is nice! Canon needs to get their stuff together. They have the same lens, but for about $800 more, and probably not quite as nice.

Excellent shots, the HDRs are fantastic as well. Nicely done.
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Thanks. I really do like that 14mm lens. It's GREAT for architectural photography! Getting it used saved me some dough, but Adorama's rating system is debatable. The website said it was E (shows normal wear, might have minor scratches, glass clean), but there is a definite ding in the glass. It's minuscule in size, of course, but its noticeable in images. I think it should have been rated at G at best. Fortunately, its easy to take out with the spot-removal tool in Lightroom.

Still better than spending $400 more, I think.
 
1 and 2 are superb! I love them. 3 is close, but I think the varying tonality in the sky is a little distracting to me (where going left to right starting at the sun it goes sun, bright patch, dark patch, light patch, wall, lighter patch). Fantastic.
 
the 10-22 arrived. I took it on the dog walk and snapped this pic of the neighbor's flowers


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rinkrat said:
the 10-22 arrived. I took it on the dog walk and snapped this pic of the neighbor's flowers
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I'll be very currious to hear what you think of it IQ wise compared to the 17-55, as it is the first new Canon UWA in a while. Looks good so far!
 
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This lens has some smudges in the sky area up there. I guess it's fixible if I really had to but I noticed it in a few other shots too. It looks perfect to the eye but I guess there are some little flaws or my polarizer was dirty.
 
So those imperfections on the 10-22 are too much to take and I even cleaned the lens so I am gonna have to try and return the thing now. What a pain.
 
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