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LargeHadron posted:I...think I'm just going to suck it up and read Understanding Exposure. It's in the mail and will be here tomorrow. I'll put any post-processing questions on hold for awhile. Thanks for the info, though.
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Auditore posted:Anyone got a quick link to an article for setting the white balance (white point?) correctly? In camera? In software? What camera? What software? Either way the answer is probably going to involve a photo of a reference white balance card taken near your subject. For basic WB you could just carry a piece of sturdy paper around with you.
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Haggins posted:The old saying is if there aren't 3 copies of it, it doesn't exist. I think a solid solution would be to have 2 different back ups on external drives, keep one at home and one in an offsite location (whether that be your office or a friends house). Switch them out periodically, maybe every week or month. In addition to that, I'd recommend an online backup service such as Backblaze or Mozy or Carbonite. This protects on the road and if something major happens like a big earthquake, hurricane, or nuclear bomb. What about just using something like Smugmug ONLY? Or would you use that in addition to an external drive, etc?
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What's this guy doing in his sweet car photos? http://www.jon-olsson.com/ (Scroll down) I absolutely love it. Particularly these: http://www.jon-olsson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/9-2.jpg http://www.jon-olsson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/7-10.jpg http://www.jon-olsson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/7-11.jpg http://www.jon-olsson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/7-5.jpg Also what aperture is he shooting? I've never seen anything like it.
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Jun 8, 2011 18:39
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Is there any way to remove that smokey look from the, uh, smoke machine? Club shooting in this place is REALLY hard since all of the walls and ceiling are mirrored. I usually shoot at 1.4, but sometimes I just gotta use the flash, and when I do (with my Fong), it hits up the smoke more than anything else. Any quick and easy ways to lessen the look?
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Jun 8, 2011 18:56
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A5H posted:What's this guy doing in his sweet car photos? exif data on the last one says it's a Nikon D3S, Fstop 9, 1/60 sec, ISO 200, 35mm focal length, subject distance 4,294,967,295 meters. Wait what?
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Jun 8, 2011 19:18
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Ak Gara posted:exif data on the last one says it's a Nikon D3S, Fstop 9, 1/60 sec, ISO 200, 35mm focal length, subject distance 4,294,967,295 meters. I think that just means infinity focus...
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Jun 8, 2011 19:20
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dunkman posted:I think that just means infinity focus... Oooh, that would make sense, though why isn't everything blury? dunkman posted:Is there any way to remove that smokey look from the, uh, smoke machine? Quick and easy? Increase contrast in the midrange. Increasing contrast over the whole image would clip both the blacks and whites. 
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Jun 8, 2011 19:45
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I meant mostly colours and stuff though. Nothing looks natural. Unless he is just a god of light.
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Jun 8, 2011 19:46
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A5H posted:I meant mostly colours and stuff though. Nothing looks natural. Unless he is just a god of light. Looks like a bit of split toning to me.
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AzCoug posted:What about just using something like Smugmug ONLY? I personally don't use SM, but from my understanding they'll let you back up unlimited JPGs (and other compressed formats) included with the cost of service. It also looks like for an additional fee based on how much space you need, they'll let you upload RAWs or any other type of file format for back up. The main problems that I see is that the backups are neither complete nor automatic. It seems to me that you have to choose exactly what you want backed up and to back it up, you have to upload it yourself. There is way too much room for error in this method. You need something that is automatic and backups up everything without you having to do anything. I'm not saying SM is a bad thing, I just wouldn't consider it a primary backup. I think if you had a local external drive backup and used a cloud service like Blackblaze, Carbonite, etc..., you'd be in pretty good shape. If you switched out that local drive periodically, you wouldn't have much to worry about.
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Jun 8, 2011 20:25
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Ak Gara posted:exif data on the last one says it's a Nikon D3S, Fstop 9, 1/60 sec, ISO 200, 35mm focal length, subject distance 4,294,967,295 meters.
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dunkman posted:It looks like there is a mid-grey blob that covers the top half of the picture. I added a color layer with that sampled mid-grey set the blend mode to Subtract and then used a layer mask to ignore the lower half of the image where we don't need to make any changes. Curves layer on top to boost contrast. 
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Jun 8, 2011 21:38
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GWBBQ posted:That means subject distance is stored as a 32 bit unsigned integer and he focused to infinity. When you focus to infinity does that mean you get sharpness throughout the whole picture, front to back?
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Jun 8, 2011 22:23
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Sort of- you definitely got the back part covered, but subjects close to the camera will be out of focus. How close ? Try out some numbers here: http://dofmaster.com/dofjs.html
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Jun 8, 2011 22:56
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Cross_ posted:It looks like there is a mid-grey blob that covers the top half of the picture. I added a color layer with that sampled mid-grey set the blend mode to Subtract and then used a layer mask to ignore the lower half of the image where we don't need to make any changes. Curves layer on top to boost contrast. I did what I could, http://www.tfatf.com/album/e3983n
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Jun 9, 2011 00:06
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AzCoug posted:When you focus to infinity does that mean you get sharpness throughout the whole picture, front to back?
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I need help - I took a stab at this picture but I really suck at armpits I guess. It looks kind of unnatural to me, can't quite pinpoint it. I tried adding texture and some burning but it looks off.
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Jun 13, 2011 06:43
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I don't really see anything unnartual about her armpit, but maybe I'm just not examining it closely enough. In fact I'm more thrown off by how that particular posing of her arm makes her look elbow look kind of like a stump 
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Jun 13, 2011 06:48
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I guess maybe I've been working on/looking at that part of the image too long. I didn't even "see" the stump issue, I was so fixated on that pit. How would you do that pose to eliminate that? I can't really think of anything without changing the angle of the shot.
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Jun 13, 2011 07:10
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Oprah Haza posted:I guess maybe I've been working on/looking at that part of the image too long. You can't, really. Probably just don't shoot it directly on next time. I mean I wouldn't ditch the photo because of me or anything, maybe I'm one out of 1000 people who will see it. It's a good photo, just the first thing that popped into my head for some reason was that elbow.
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Martytoof posted:You can't, really. Probably just don't shoot it directly on next time. I mean I wouldn't ditch the photo because of me or anything, maybe I'm one out of 1000 people who will see it. It's a good photo, just the first thing that popped into my head for some reason was that elbow. For what it's worth, it's the first thing I saw too. I tend to miss really obvious poo poo sometimes, so I don't know, but there isn't anything to do in order to fix that.
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Jun 13, 2011 12:52
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It's the brightest point of the image, which is why we're drawn to it. Try burning it back and dodging her face?
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Jun 13, 2011 16:00
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XTimmy posted:It's the brightest point of the image, which is why we're drawn to it. Try burning it back and dodging her face? Yeah, I realized that this morning as I was looking at the image. I'll try evening out the exposure when I get home.
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I'm cheap, and I want to pick up Lightroom. There's this saveintheusa.com site that pops up on PriceWatch that has it for 177-188 for digital and boxed versions, respectively, and they ship overseas too(important for me). Has anybody used this site before? They look half skeezy, but their whopping 3 resellerratings reviews seem okaaaaaay. (I should add that it goes for about $400ish retail here, which is retarded) Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this.
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Shmoogy posted:Is this a common thing? You're like the third goon I've seen say they store a backup he'd at a friends house. spf3million posted:I think people do it in case of a fire/tornado/etc. I personally don't have an apartment (100% travel job) so I crash with friends when I'm in the US and leave stuff there.
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Jun 14, 2011 12:25
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DxO is currently 30% off if anyone is interested. https://shop.dxo.com/login.php?CountryShow=International
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dissss posted:DxO is currently 30% off if anyone is interested. Nice. I've been meaning to pick this up for a while. Purchased.
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evil_bunnY posted:Anyone who doesn't plan on weeping cold dark tears the day they lose a couple thousand images to something as simple as burglary. Speaking of which, what do people do when they are on vacation? My wife and I are going to take our honeymoon to the Dominican Republic in November and I obviously want to take my camera/camera bag, but I've heard some stories of things going missing from rooms. All your poo poo wont fit in the room safe and you may not want to lug everything around with you all day every day. So then what? Get creative and stash it somewhere in the room? There obviously aren't a lot of options or ways around it, I suppose you run that risk whenever and where ever you take your grear, but I'd hate to have it jacked on my first trip!
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AzCoug posted:Speaking of which, what do people do when they are on vacation?
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In Lightroom, is there an easy way to reset all adjustment settings except one (e.g., crop)? Or have it ignore something like the crop when doing 'Paste Settings From Previous'?
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For the latter you can use the "Synchronize..." button instead and just uncheck crop.
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I hate to even ask, but what do you guys use to make easy watermarks. I need to get my name onto a bunch of poo poo in the coming weeks. edit: I can't get LR Mogrify 2 to work for the life of me. AIIAZNSK8ER fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jun 15, 2011 |
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I think most of us in here use Lightroom or some other major post-processing suite. I think Irfanview can do it automatically by batch if you need something quick and really dirty.
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AzCoug posted:Speaking of which, what do people do when they are on vacation? My wife and I are going to take our honeymoon to the Dominican Republic in November and I obviously want to take my camera/camera bag, but I've heard some stories of things going missing from rooms. All your poo poo wont fit in the room safe and you may not want to lug everything around with you all day every day. So then what? Get creative and stash it somewhere in the room?
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Just a heads up guys, onOne software Standard Edition Phototools 2.5 is free right now if you are an Mpix member. http://www.ononesoftware.com/landing/pt25sefree/?partner=mpix&utm_campaign=PT25SEFree_prtnr&utm_medium=banner&utm_source=mpix
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Bottom Liner posted:Just a heads up guys, onOne software Standard Edition Phototools 2.5 is free right now if you are an Mpix member. I don't think I'm a member of Mpix but it worked for me. All I did was fill out of the form and I got an email with the serial number and download link. Thanks! Edit: made a thread in coupons Haggins fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jun 15, 2011 |
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After I install, all I have are the batch operations in Photoshop, not the program proper. Am I doing something wrong?
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What is the Standard Edition lacking? Actually I can't find any mention of two separate editions on their site but maybe I'm just not looking carefully. I sure as gently caress signed up for it though, even if I never end up using it.
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Kunzelman posted:After I install, all I have are the batch operations in Photoshop, not the program proper. Am I doing something wrong? I made it work. I don't understand what the program is other than a series of usage-intensive presets. Still cool, though!
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