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Here are a few recent shots I took...

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I'm kinda in a B&W mood.... tips? tricks? suggestions?
 
HeShootsNScores said:
I'm kinda in a B&W mood.... tips? tricks? suggestions?
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Dude, those are SICK. I love the first one. Composition is very dramatic...happy, yet lonely. The high contrast is nice, and this is an example where sharpness throughout the entire frame is really something useful. One vertical line (the lamp post), but nothing perpendicular to it adds another characteristic of interestingness. The vignette is also a nice touch (post-prod?). I really really like that one.

The full-color sign is just a tad too green to me. If that was the effect you were after, alrighty then.

Nice work, bro! I thought you were looking for a D200? Looks to me like you've got one already!
 
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FBJ said:
Dude, those are SICK. I love the first one. Composition is very dramatic...happy, yet lonely. The high contrast is nice, and this is an example where sharpness throughout the entire frame is really something useful. One vertical line (the lamp post), but nothing perpendicular to it adds another characteristic of interestingness. The vignette is also a nice touch (post-prod?). I really really like that one.

The full-color sign is just a tad too green to me. If that was the effect you were after, alrighty then.

Nice work, bro! I thought you were looking for a D200? Looks to me like you've got one already!
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Thanks! Yeah, the sign was too green, I'm going to go back and play with the vibrance slider a little bit and see what I can do.

Another D200 is for the wife. She wants one now. :)
 
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From today's Civil War reenactment at Tierra Rejada Ranch. That's full-frame with the 500mm mirror lens.

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Another from the 500mm mirror. This one was converter to single file HDR and tonemapped prior to processing in Lightroom.
 
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Man, oh, man...

I've been looking through a set of about 500 images I took of one of my best buddy's wedding five years back. When he found out he was getting deployed to Germany, they put the wedding together in a span of about two weeks and had to do it on-the-cheap. Since I'd just bought my D100, they asked me to photograph it for them. I did the absolute best I could back then, but all I could think of while sifting through all the technically horrific images was, "Man, I wish I'd been a better photographer for them."

So I selected about a dozen of the best images and ran them through Lightroom (fortunately, I had them in .tiff format rather than plain old jpeg). I really turned some icky pictures into some rather keepsake-quality photographs!
 
I've been itchy for a PRO camera as you guys know but when I looked around there really wasn't one that meets my needs. Some like the 5D aren't fast enough FPS and some like the 1D have only 10mpx. Technology hasn't reached the point where a (Canon) camera has what I need. Well not till December when the EOS 1D Marl IV comes out. 16mpx with 10fps and incredible ISO ratings that are off the charts. It's still not FF but I consider that a bonus for sports because the 1.3 magnification actually would be perfect for a 70-200 at a hockey game (1.6x is a little too close).

I NEED A 1DMKIV!!!!

Now to find $5000 to buy it. hmm..
 
I still say you should take a serious look at a D3. I'm sure you can still get good money via eBay for your Canon gear. That would offset the additional cost greatly.

I'm biased, I know, but looking at it objectively, that's what I'd do were I you. And if you look on the sidelines of major sporting events these days, you'll find that's what a lot of pro sports photogs have done as well.
 
I just can't buy a D3 or any camera named after a Mighty Ducks movie.

I'm thinking a lot of people will be dumping their 1dmk3's to get the mk4.

It's only 10mpx but I'm hearing that is plenty when you have the IQ these have.
 
Giving up the awesomeness why? I really like the shots you've taken in the corners with that lens...
 
FBJ said:
Giving up the awesomeness why? I really like the shots you've taken in the corners with that lens...
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My guess is that he has or is on the verge of pulling the trigger on a 1D, which can't mount EF-S lenses (the lenses protrude to far into the mirror box and only work on 1.6x crop cameras).

Congrats on the 1D! EF 16-35 f/2.8 to replace?
 
I was thinking of the 24-70 2.8 first as a walk around lens then the 16-35 added later if I really miss the wide since I am keeping the 11-22 for the 50D for now.

I'm gonna miss the 17-55 for the IS. This lens has created some amazing images and does magical things with stage light.

First I was going to get a 1D Mark IV (coming out in a few weeks) but after looking at all of the trouble people have had with Canon high end cameras for a year after they are first released, the fact I would have to upgrade to Adobe CS4 and the fact that I really don't need a lot of the new features like video mode, ultra high ISO etc., plus the fact that I could get a 1d Mark III for half the price, I decided to go with the Mark III. I was kind of worried about it having only 10 mpx but the photos I have seen are incredible and show that high megapixels are not as important as I suspected. I also talked to a photog at the Kings game that has 2 of them and he confirmed that the quality is fine on the Mark III.

I'm keeping the 50D as my second camera and have an extra 30D now if anyone is interested in getting a quality pro-sumer camera cheap.
 
rinkrat said:
I was thinking of the 24-70 2.8 first as a walk around lens
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I love the 24-70, definitely one of my favorite zooms. Really good flare control, nice and sharp with good contrast, there is a little barreling on the wide end, but it isn't bad. I think you will find it a worthy brethren to the 17-55.
 
Sold! Wow, lenses are a good investment. I had that one for two years and got thousands of awesome pics from it and then sold it for just a few hundred less than I paid. Way better return than a two year old camera body. ;) 24-70 arrives tomorrow! I'll miss that 17-55 IS, best lens evar. (sniff)
 
The 24-70 f/2.8 with the Big Gold N on the barrel that I bought when I bought my D3 has been the everyday walkaround lens that is more often on that body than not since the day I bought it. Fabulous lens.

20mm prime coming soon!! Also, perhaps, a 105mm f/2.0DC for portraits. Gotta love retroactive pay raises!
 
I was thinking that the next would be some ultra wide prime because even when I have a wide zoom I always make it as wide as possible so might as well have a fixed width. For now I'll stick with the 11-22 on the 50D as the wide option, the 24-70 on either camera from there and then the 70-200 after that. All bases covered.
 
I'm getting the 20mm for event candids and as a light-weight lens for a backpacking trip I hope to take next Summer (I want to hike Mt. Whitney again). It's nice and wide with little distortion compared to my 14mm, and it weighs like half of what the 14 does.
 
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