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      09-15-2009, 12:15 PM   #111
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I like the photo, but the colors bother me a bit...I see a lot of brown?
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I like the photo, but the colors bother me a bit...I see a lot of brown?
take a crack at it. I tried to bring the blue out of it more cuz it was really pink and red right out of the camera
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take a crack at it. I tried to bring the blue out of it more cuz it was really pink and red right out of the camera
WTF

17-40 f4L raised its price to $749??

I remember it was $699!!
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WTF

17-40 f4L raised its price to $749??

I remember it was $699!!
you should see the 70-200 f2.8 IS L...I bought it earlier this year for 1428...(could be off a couple dollars, but within the 1400 marker)
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so you mean like this?
That looks a bit better IMO. However, if the boats weren't there in the first place it would have been a great pix. Then again you were too far away and it's one of those moments where you don't have a lot of time to adjust for a better shot.
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That looks a bit better IMO. However, if the boats weren't there in the first place it would have been a great pix. Then again you were too far away and it's one of those moments where you don't have a lot of time to adjust for a better shot.


dude, there were boats all over the fuckin place. Couldn't get a picture of anything without them in it. Oh well
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take a crack at it. I tried to bring the blue out of it more cuz it was really pink and red right out of the camera
will do when I get home, curious if the coloring could be toyed with a smidge in lightroom to move away from brown...ill post the results in the early AM
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      09-15-2009, 08:24 PM   #118
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will do when I get home, curious if the coloring could be toyed with a smidge in lightroom to move away from brown...ill post the results in the early AM
thanks dude
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you should see the 70-200 f2.8 IS L...I bought it earlier this year for 1428...(could be off a couple dollars, but within the 1400 marker)
i know

I almost pulled the trigger on the 2.8 IS.. but I got f4 IS instead, for only $1150 shipped! I figured I wont be using this for interior shots~ so I went for f4, which has excellent image quality too, if not better.

Oh well~ I'm still waiting on the 35mm f1.4L MK2, which could come out any time now!!

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i know

I almost pulled the trigger on the 2.8 IS.. but I got f4 IS instead, for only $1150 shipped! I figured I wont be using this for interior shots~ so I went for f4, which has excellent image quality too, if not better.

Oh well~ I'm still waiting on the 35mm f1.4L MK2, which could come out any time now!!

thatll be a fantastic lens

I'm saving for the 14mm F2.8 L II...gonna be a while haha

I find myself much better @ landscape/cityscape, then people, and I cant wait to have the super wide angle in full frame glory...aghh...stupid cost
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Udub, lose the crop - you're filling your frame with a bunch of busyness and leaves the eye to wander aimless around a bunch of clutter.
with the boats and static people in the frame of your original, you create some nice tension for the imagination between calm static elements versus the frantic movement of the swimmers.

/end two cents.
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Udub, lose the crop - you're filling your frame with a bunch of busyness and leaves the eye to wander aimless around a bunch of clutter.
with the boats and static people in the frame of your original, you create some nice tension for the imagination between calm static elements versus the frantic movement of the swimmers.

/end two cents.
well the crop was just for show to see if thats what he was talking about.

I still have the original and I sent a few copies of it out along with a few other pics.
I liked that it had a foreground of some untouched water, then a subject (the swimmers) and then a background, the boats and foggy hills.
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well, it's not so much that it's a background/foreground thing - a lot of times, you really don't need these - it's the tension created between the opposing subject groups (what you're calling the 'swimmers' and the 'background').

hope that makes sense.
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well, it's not so much that it's a background/foreground thing - a lot of times, you really don't need these - it's the tension created between the opposing subject groups (what you're calling the 'swimmers' and the 'background').

hope that makes sense.
yeah it does. I wish the boats weren't there but there was no shot w/o them so oh well. I like it. Its not gonna end up on a postcard or anything but its decent.
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seth, how about this...I can toy with the coloration to be different, but I cloned out the boats in the very back so you could see if you prefer the composition this way

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thanks dood. I know thats kinda your style but it looks a little washed out to me personally. I am TERRIBLE with cloning out things so thats cool but now the background looks so empty without them there.
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thanks dood. I know thats kinda your style but it looks a little washed out to me personally. I am TERRIBLE with cloning out things so thats cool but now the background looks so empty without them there.
agreed, the boats gave a feel to it, it was nice

figured it was worth a shot to compare

as for the colors, they can be altered in any which way
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agreed, the boats gave a feel to it, it was nice

figured it was worth a shot to compare

as for the colors, they can be altered in any which way
cool thanks for the help
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a friend at work is letting me use this for a bit. about as mechanical as it gets.

Any tips? I just snapped off half a roll and kept instinctively looking at the back of the camera.



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anyone have any experience with this? http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=616394&is=REG

I'm thinking about getting it for photography and maybe some videos when i upgrade to 5d mk2.
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