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New lens coming today. I picked up the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8. 90% of my shooting is people shots and I needed something with good sharpness. I have the nifty fifty and it's great, but sometimes it's restrictive esp. on a crop camera.

 
'Brony said:
Put new lens through the paces at an overnight event at our local aquarium

Shark week

Caribbean Reef

I like the new lens, but initial impressions doesn't give the wow factor that I got when I first picked up the 50mm 1.8.
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I think you are being a little too tough on your images. They both pop nicely to me. I think with a little work in the digital darkroom they could be even better. In the first photo you've already removed the distraction in the lower left hand corner but I might consider making the silhouette of the shark even stronger and better defined. I might also play with cropping as the second light source at the top center of the frame is a little distracting but I really like the image overall.

In the second photo you might consider some perspective correction. That photo is also impressive and imo that's the type of image where a quality lens and bigger sensor blows a P&S away. Did you use a mono/tripod for that or handhold the shot? I know that in many settings like that supports are frowned upon by the venue. The colors in that shot are really great.

I agree however that when I first used a dSLR with the 50mm/F1.8 I was amazed at how much sharper my images were than my previous P&S's especially in lower light. Maybe one day I'll have the opportunity to use a FF sensor with an 85mm/F1.2 lens and get that same feeling again. One day. Maybe.

 
'BoltBacker said:
'Brony said:
Put new lens through the paces at an overnight event at our local aquarium

Shark week

Caribbean Reef

I like the new lens, but initial impressions doesn't give the wow factor that I got when I first picked up the 50mm 1.8.
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I think you are being a little too tough on your images. They both pop nicely to me. I think with a little work in the digital darkroom they could be even better. In the first photo you've already removed the distraction in the lower left hand corner but I might consider making the silhouette of the shark even stronger and better defined. I might also play with cropping as the second light source at the top center of the frame is a little distracting but I really like the image overall.

In the second photo you might consider some perspective correction. That photo is also impressive and imo that's the type of image where a quality lens and bigger sensor blows a P&S away. Did you use a mono/tripod for that or handhold the shot? I know that in many settings like that supports are frowned upon by the venue. The colors in that shot are really great.

I agree however that when I first used a dSLR with the 50mm/F1.8 I was amazed at how much sharper my images were than my previous P&S's especially in lower light. Maybe one day I'll have the opportunity to use a FF sensor with an 85mm/F1.2 lens and get that same feeling again. One day. Maybe.
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Thanks for the feedback backer. I did some processing on that shark picture and I know how to remove the artifacts you're referring to, but I just got lazy in the end. On that 2nd picture, I actually did fix the perspective on that, but thanks to non-destructive editing I uploaded the distorted picture to Flickr. Whatever. At least, I saw the same fixes that you did.

After reviewing more shots outside of the aquarium with that lens, it is taking nice pictures and I'm happy with it.

 
Returned from my Montana trip.. I'm telling you.. If you have never been to Glacier National Park.. GET THERE!!!! One of the best vacation spots I have ever been too . :thumbup:

I had over 600 photos to go through :eek: and after getting rid of duplicates and crap I still have close to 250 to convert from RAW to jpg so going to take a while..

I'll try to add only 5 at a time so as to not overwhelm you all ;)

FYI.. All of these were taken with my new Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM IF Lens and the first few groups I'll add were taken either from Amtrak or from a Helicopter. I think they came out pretty good for "through glass" shots.

Storm over Montana

Waterfall in Glacier National Park ( Bird Woman Falls )

Quite the view from above

Over the Waterfalls

What my view was like from the helicopter ;)

 
snogger said:
Returned from my Montana trip.. I'm telling you.. If you have never been to Glacier National Park.. GET THERE!!!! One of the best vacation spots I have ever been too . :thumbup:

I had over 600 photos to go through :eek: and after getting rid of duplicates and crap I still have close to 250 to convert from RAW to jpg so going to take a while..

I'll try to add only 5 at a time so as to not overwhelm you all ;)

FYI.. All of these were taken with my new Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM IF Lens and the first few groups I'll add were taken either from Amtrak or from a Helicopter. I think they came out pretty good for "through glass" shots.

Storm over Montana

Waterfall in Glacier National Park ( Bird Woman Falls )

Quite the view from above

Over the Waterfalls

What my view was like from the helicopter ;)
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Stunning.

 
jdoggydogg said:
snogger said:
Returned from my Montana trip.. I'm telling you.. If you have never been to Glacier National Park.. GET THERE!!!! One of the best vacation spots I have ever been too . :thumbup:

I had over 600 photos to go through :eek: and after getting rid of duplicates and crap I still have close to 250 to convert from RAW to jpg so going to take a while..

I'll try to add only 5 at a time so as to not overwhelm you all ;)

FYI.. All of these were taken with my new Sigma 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM IF Lens and the first few groups I'll add were taken either from Amtrak or from a Helicopter. I think they came out pretty good for "through glass" shots.

Storm over Montana

Waterfall in Glacier National Park ( Bird Woman Falls )

Quite the view from above

Over the Waterfalls

What my view was like from the helicopter ;)
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Stunning.
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KCitons said:
Nice Pics. Looks awesome.
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:thanks:

I consider these my "b" photos... I can't wait to find time to start going over the ones I took the final 3 days I was inside the part as the weather was stunning on a couple of the days providing great photo ops.

How's that for a teaser?? ;) :P

 
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Since I have close to 140 Photos from my trip, I figured I'd just link to the set and let you all decide which ones you like best ;)

I still have about 30 more photos to go through.. I'll bump this post when the rest have been added.

Montana trip 6/22 - 6/27

 
Brony said:
snogger said:
OK, so the set post was met with a thud :kicksrock:

so back to some of my favorites..

Glacier Sunset 1

Glacier Sunset 2

Sun lit forest 1

Boats at rest
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I'm enjoying your pictures. Seems like a great trip! :jealous; That Sun lit forest one you posted above is exceptional.
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:thanks:

Up until the last night in the park it was cloudy.. Even most of that day was mostly cloudy so was afraid I wouldn't get a Montana Sunset.. and then about 30 minutes before the sun would set the clouds started to part..

It was almost like Glacier said "One last show before you go!" :)

 
AcerFC said:
pantagrapher said:
Nighttown
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I was looking for the exif data but couldnt find it. Mind sharing how you were able to keep everything so clear, yet allow so much light in. Im thinking this had to be a really slow shutter speed yet, the moving car does not look blurry at all
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50 mm, f/5.6, ISO 2000

The ISO is what did it. 2000 on a full-frame sensor is pretty sweet, and the D600 doesn't have a lot of noise, even at that setting.

 
What do you guys generally do with your pics?

Say you come back from a vacation and have 200+ pics. Do you pull out the best 10-20 and go to work on them? Do you crop and work on even the mediocre ones? Do you have a preset process setting that you do to most of your pics.

I come home with all these pics and some of them are really nice, and I just dump them on the computer and I don't know what to do with them. Maybe a general idea of what you guys go through would help.

 
jamny said:
What do you guys generally do with your pics?

Say you come back from a vacation and have 200+ pics. Do you pull out the best 10-20 and go to work on them? Do you crop and work on even the mediocre ones? Do you have a preset process setting that you do to most of your pics.

I come home with all these pics and some of them are really nice, and I just dump them on the computer and I don't know what to do with them. Maybe a general idea of what you guys go through would help.
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Great question.

And this is where I find Lightroom very useful (I do most of my post in Photoshop). When I get home from a 200+ photo vacation, I'll upload everything and do a quick run through, giving a star rating to anything that stands out immediately (usually about 10-20 photos). These are the ones I know are either good or have potential to be good, if I can edit them right. They all get detailed editing, as long as they're "working." Of that first batch, I'll end up finishing roughly 2 out of 3 and opting to leave the rest. Meanwhile, I'll revisit the original 200 over time. It's amazing how many shots need a second and third look before you see what you have, or see how a simple crop can save the composition. Whenever I have a couple weeks without any new stuff, I'll go back and browse old shoots, making sure I didn't miss anything. I can almost always find something I either lost patience with earlier or just missed altogether.

I don't bother with the throwaways. If I have some marginal shots I want to share with friends, I'll do some basic batch edit and put them on Facebook or something.

 
pantagrapher said:
jamny said:
What do you guys generally do with your pics?

Say you come back from a vacation and have 200+ pics. Do you pull out the best 10-20 and go to work on them? Do you crop and work on even the mediocre ones? Do you have a preset process setting that you do to most of your pics.

I come home with all these pics and some of them are really nice, and I just dump them on the computer and I don't know what to do with them. Maybe a general idea of what you guys go through would help.
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Great question.

And this is where I find Lightroom very useful (I do most of my post in Photoshop). When I get home from a 200+ photo vacation, I'll upload everything and do a quick run through, giving a star rating to anything that stands out immediately (usually about 10-20 photos). These are the ones I know are either good or have potential to be good, if I can edit them right. They all get detailed editing, as long as they're "working." Of that first batch, I'll end up finishing roughly 2 out of 3 and opting to leave the rest. Meanwhile, I'll revisit the original 200 over time. It's amazing how many shots need a second and third look before you see what you have, or see how a simple crop can save the composition. Whenever I have a couple weeks without any new stuff, I'll go back and browse old shoots, making sure I didn't miss anything. I can almost always find something I either lost patience with earlier or just missed altogether.

I don't bother with the throwaways. If I have some marginal shots I want to share with friends, I'll do some basic batch edit and put them on Facebook or something.
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Thanks! Good info.

What is your basic batch edit?

 
jamny said:
pantagrapher said:
jamny said:
What do you guys generally do with your pics?

Say you come back from a vacation and have 200+ pics. Do you pull out the best 10-20 and go to work on them? Do you crop and work on even the mediocre ones? Do you have a preset process setting that you do to most of your pics.

I come home with all these pics and some of them are really nice, and I just dump them on the computer and I don't know what to do with them. Maybe a general idea of what you guys go through would help.
Click to expand...
Great question.

And this is where I find Lightroom very useful (I do most of my post in Photoshop). When I get home from a 200+ photo vacation, I'll upload everything and do a quick run through, giving a star rating to anything that stands out immediately (usually about 10-20 photos). These are the ones I know are either good or have potential to be good, if I can edit them right. They all get detailed editing, as long as they're "working." Of that first batch, I'll end up finishing roughly 2 out of 3 and opting to leave the rest. Meanwhile, I'll revisit the original 200 over time. It's amazing how many shots need a second and third look before you see what you have, or see how a simple crop can save the composition. Whenever I have a couple weeks without any new stuff, I'll go back and browse old shoots, making sure I didn't miss anything. I can almost always find something I either lost patience with earlier or just missed altogether.

I don't bother with the throwaways. If I have some marginal shots I want to share with friends, I'll do some basic batch edit and put them on Facebook or something.
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Thanks! Good info.

What is your basic batch edit?
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Usually autotone and resize. Sometimes I'll add a saturation adjustment (bringing it down a bit, to avoid things like cartoonishly blue sky or something).

 
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jamny said:
What do you guys generally do with your pics?

Say you come back from a vacation and have 200+ pics. Do you pull out the best 10-20 and go to work on them? Do you crop and work on even the mediocre ones? Do you have a preset process setting that you do to most of your pics.

I come home with all these pics and some of them are really nice, and I just dump them on the computer and I don't know what to do with them. Maybe a general idea of what you guys go through would help.
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I have Photoshop elements.. I have my default settings to download my photos into separate folders based on dates and then use the Organizer in Elements to work one day at a time.

As I've mentioned before I'll take multiple shots of the same scene at different settings/ different angles.

With Elements Organizer I can then compare those different shots and pick out the ones I like.. once I've removed the Files I don't want for that day I'll make my adjustments(Contrast, Cropping, etc..) for that days photos. Then I upload that days photos to Flickr and move onto the next day.

When I returned from Montana I had over 600 shots.. Once I worked through them using this process I ended up with around 150.

 
On the sorting question, I use Picasa to view the initial pictures and Ill first delete any garbage. Usually quickly get rid of half pictures. After that, I use canon photo professional (I forget the exact name, but it was free with camera). I use this to batch edit RAW to JPG and to reduce file size. I'll then delete the RAW version of any so-so picture, so I'm left with RAW versions of the best pictures and JPG of any snapshot kind of shot that wouldn't benefit from extensive editing..

I feel like I'm finally at the point where I'm no longer paranoid about hard drive space, so when in doubt, i now keep.

 
I still have along way to go on both taking and editing, but I'm having fun learning. I definitely am starting to get to the point where I'm craving a 35mm prime and a 55-200mm zoom. The 55-200mm refurbished Nikon lens on Adorama at just $124 is seriously calling my name.

Here's a shot I played around with a bunch in Photoshop Elements.

B&W Flowers

 
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