Photography Thread

[pektel]

more:

[pektel]

2 more. Tried to get some nice crowd shots to capture the mood:

[neoflex]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

CS5 fixed the heal tool and has an awesome predictive content filter.

Could be the retoucher in me but I think the heal tool leaves little to be desired even in CS5. I have played with it and it never seems to produce acceptable results. I played with an image one day and I was able to retouch powerlines out of a pretty busy image much faster and cleaner doing it the good old fashioned way with much better results. I found the heal tool made the corrections obvious where me using the clone tool was mostly undetectable. Like I said it could be the retoucher in me is too critical. I worked in a large commercial Photo Studio right out of college and had the pickiest of people approving my work so when I started I needed my work to be 100%. That was also long before the CS days before they created the heal tool.

[Wolfgang]

Your mileage may vary. My comment was directed at comparing CS4 to CS5. In CS4 when you were healing and crossed an area of high contrast it diddnt know what to do. Now in CS5 you can cross those high contrast areas and have a decent outcome.

Using a tool that takes seconds to complete what would otherwise take hours or days its a start nut as you have said leaves much to be desired.

[spectrrr]

Originally Posted by neoflex

Could be the retoucher in me but I think the heal tool leaves little to be desired even in CS5. I have played with it and it never seems to produce acceptable results. I played with an image one day and I was able to retouch powerlines out of a pretty busy image much faster and cleaner doing it the good old fashioned way with much better results. I found the heal tool made the corrections obvious where me using the clone tool was mostly undetectable. Like I said it could be the retoucher in me is too critical. I worked in a large commercial Photo Studio right out of college and had the pickiest of people approving my work so when I started I needed my work to be 100%. That was also long before the CS days before they created the heal tool.

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

Your mileage may vary. My comment was directed at comparing CS4 to CS5. In CS4 when you were healing and crossed an area of high contrast it diddnt know what to do. Now in CS5 you can cross those high contrast areas and have a decent outcome.

Using a tool that takes seconds to complete what would otherwise take hours or days its a start nut as you have said leaves much to be desired.

Prettymuch what BOTH of you said IMO

There's no way the new tool has half the magic fairy dust that folks were claiming, and I still usually go for the tried and true methods that I cut my teeth on.

HOWEVER, there are certain small fixes that I can do now without it automatically grabbing a terrible sample of a high contrast area nearby, which makes it a semi-usable tool for once. . So it sped up just a little some of my small retouching, saving me from having to go back and correct as much.

ALSO one of my steps for doing certain kinds of larger areas includes creating a second layer with a large area of cloned "fix", making no attempt to have the edges blend, and then blending it later with a layer mask. The new tool has proved to be very effective for this.

[ashtonlady]

As of Christmas Day I will have my very own Canon 60D. What software do you guys recomend for a Beginner? I have shot with film. But never played with Digital pictures and software.

[LostAbbott]

Originally Posted by ashtonlady

As of Christmas Day I will have my very own Canon 60D. What software do you guys recomend for a Beginner? I have shot with film. But never played with Digital pictures and software.

Got get gimp for any edition. It is free and nearly as good as photo shop. For viewing there are a lot of programs out there so I would suggest you start with infraviewer.

[E.J.]

Starting to itch for a new body....

Here are a few from the inter-squad game last night...

I am really digging this pic, disappointed that I clipped his skate...



Few others from the evening...

[MarkinAZ]

Its been snowing out here in Valencia, CA today. Started about 2:00PM. Took this shot this evening with the Canon PowerShot SD1200IS digital ELPH, set in BW mode w/ISO 1600...

[ashtonlady]

New camera for Christmas, Canon 60D. So much to learn.

[Wolfgang]

Originally Posted by ashtonlady

New camera for Christmas, Canon 60D. So much to learn.

pics or ban!

[ashtonlady]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

pics or ban!

you are not nice Mark.

[coffeemonkey]

Originally Posted by ashtonlady

New camera for Christmas, Canon 60D. So much to learn.

nice camera. I shot one of these for over the weekend. It was a rental for a sports portrait shoot. I really like the focusing and overall feel of the camera. I love the flip out LCD. The quality of the picture on the LCD is really, really nice. For the price that is a sweet camera.

[ashtonlady]

I am having a great time with it. I start my class next Wednesday. Then I may feel better about posting pictures.

[s15driftking]

camera phone during a quasi-blizzard

[Wolfgang]

Picked up a floor model Canon 50D from work for 499 It surely needed help. The sensor looked like a dalmatian but after an hour of rocket blower and ending in a dry swab Here is what Im left with. By the May I will be taking the 5dmkii jump and have the 50D as a backup.

[Wolfgang]

Got two weddings booked for late summer. Anyone have any tips? These will be my first two. Both family members so thats a little bit less pressure but any help is greatly appreciated.

[MarkinAZ]

Originally Posted by s15driftking

camera phone during a quasi-blizzard

Nice looking Winter shot Bobby

[ambientboy]

I really need to be on here more often. How did I JUST find this thread?!

[Sauer Grapes]

Originally Posted by Wolfgang

Picked up a floor model Canon 50D from work for 499 It surely needed help. The sensor looked like a dalmatian but after an hour of rocket blower and ending in a dry swab Here is what Im left with. By the May I will be taking the 5dmkii jump and have the 50D as a backup.

Wow... nice job. Mind if I ask what your exposure and aperture were on both of those? I would guess the first one had to be a very long exposure at a very small aperture to show that much crud, unless it was really horrible.