Andrew (Vivid Adventures) Post 51935
Submitted: Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 22:08
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Member - Kim M (VIC)
Andrew
Purchased the Canon 400D this morning and finished up brain dead trying to get around the features and software prior to a business shoot mid afternoon.
On arriving home, I had a bit of time to read the mass of instructions and get use to the software, which is now starting to look good. One of the things I noticed, was much of what you said was true.
Very impressed with the second and third shot you posted (taking nothing away from the first). The monochrome is something I may play around with.
I have an almost identical shot of a fella in other circumstances (twin brother) sitting around a fire with a buggared leg looking totally miserable. I'll make a copy, and post it on the members rig
Once again, thanks for your advice.
Regards
Kim
Reply By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 22:20
Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 22:20
Once you've worked out what you know and what you don't know, or need to know, let me know, and I'll find a way to put you in the know ;-) - just email andrew at vividadventures.com.au
I hope the business shoot went
well - you're lucky that the camera came with charged up batteries... you were leaving it pretty tight!
I might comment that I hardly ever - I mean like almost never use the Canon software - I always use Adobe Lightroom, which can catalog all your images for your too, and work painlessly with RAW files and save you a lot of space on your disk too... you can download a trial for nothing from www.adobe.com
Thanks for your kind words... I like black and white sometimes - it is just another way of simplifying an image. I never use the in-camera settings - only the lightroom conversion these days.
Cheers
Andrew.
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Follow Up By: Member - extfilm (NSW) - Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 22:31
Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 22:31
Hey Andrew,
Have you used microsoft expressions? If so how does it compare? I have played with lightroom breifly when it was beta but not played with it for a while now. I have almost 300 pics I got to get data onto by tomorrow arve?
Peter
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Follow Up By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 22:36
Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 22:36
Lightroom 1.3 will leave them for dead, I guarantee it...
Well - I guess I can't guarantee it, because I've not used expressions but if I'm to guess...
I did 2000 images on Sunday and 400 today with detailed captions as
well as cropping and basic controls (exposure,
black point, fill light, highlight recovery, curves).
Then export and forget... and post a web gallery like this one:
Oak Valley Inma Visit Gallery
Enjoy,
Andrew.
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Follow Up By: Member - extfilm (NSW) - Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 23:33
Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 23:33
Nice female painted dragon
That shoot looks like lots of fun
I am hanging to get back out in there country again........ 3 weeks and counting :)
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Follow Up By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 23:40
Monday, Nov 26, 2007 at 23:40
Yes, she was
well behaved too... saw heaps of them, but it was 46++ those few days and this gave the little V8's lotsa go...
Hanging out to go back again too...
Cheers
Andrew.
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