srika, I would've thought you'd shoot 100% raw for PP WB/exposure adjustments given the environments you shoot in.

25mb per RAW on the 7D is higher than I would've expected!

 

I get up to 17mb on the NEF files with the D700

 

yeah I tried RAW in the past but for the volume of club work I do I decided it just was not worth it the extra time involved, in the end. It's also very related to computing power, I have a new computer now so that's why I'm doing it again. And, this is not fine art, a little grit is OK in this club stuff. 99% of the people looking at this stuff don't even care about that kinda stuff. And furthermore, I've got better at doing it, I don't have to do as much PP anymore. I was doing a LOT early on. But now it's just import into LR with NR and fill light, and then some quick curves, color balance, and sharpening, that's pretty much all I do these days. Oh and I usually remove distracting stuff such as oddly placed lights, dirt particles, blemishes, that kind of thing. If there's a shot I really like I'll spend more time on it.

I think the shutter may finally be on its way out, it's lasted way longer than I thought it would. At the Armin show it "Err"ed on me once and wouldn't fire. Thankfully turn off/turn on and it was good to go again. And shot more on Saturday nite as well, without any codes.

But I definitely have a 7D in my sights, I would rather invest in that than fix the shutter, at this point. I can always do that later.

 

I think that is the same i do Lightroom does simplify my workload in most areas so I shoot raw. Then export to jpg then resize in photoshop form 12 quality to 10. Just really shrinks the size for stuff I won't edit over again. So I scrap the raw. Stuff worth keeping I will leave the raws.

I shoot so much sport stock for my school that when i eat a whole 400gb in one year its kind of like holding me back from ever shooting like a nut man.

 

oh yeah regarding 1DIIn vs. 7D write/buffer speeds... its 8.2 vs 18MP... just another (big) factor.

 

I just happened to snap this Chicago traffic shot walking across a bridge, after taking other pictures of the skyline - sometimes the most usable shots are the ones you just take in jest. I didn't get anything for this other than credit and a link but that's fine by me -

http://www.fox8live.com/news/environ...1V03L7jhQ.cspx

 

You've got it set as "copyright" on the flickr page - did they ask for permission first?
The copyright stuff I've had used by other sites has been the same - ask for permission, I give it, they use a thumbnail, my name and a link to flickr. CC stuff is different of course, but that's the point.

 

no.. should I sue em? ;p

 

This is a video taking with the new D3s, but that's not what I want you to see. Start watching at six minutes in and watch the two shot set up at that point. Pretty cool and worth giving it a try.

The first part of the video has srika all over it for the music.

<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7045303&amp;server=vimeo.com &amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portr ait=0&amp;color=c9ff23&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7045303&amp;server=vimeo.com &amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portr ait=0&amp;color=c9ff23&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/7045303">Video, made with new Nikon D3s</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/ecetera">Franc Fritz Murgelj</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

 

ive always wondered this, but what is the proper way to say these ridiculously high ISO numbers?

ex. im used to saying 3200 ISO as "thirty two hundred ISO" or 6400 ISO as "sixty four hundred ISO"

whats the proper way to say 12800, 25600, 51200 or 102400?

obviously you wouldnt say "one hundred twenty eight hundred ISO" and probably wouldnt say "one hundred two thousand four hundred ISO" just seems like so much to say.

 

Painting with light...

 

I say twelve-eight hundred

 

Yes, I never seen it done that way. Running through the scene.

 

After some thought I was thinking of:

"one-twenty eight hundred"
"two-fifty six hundred"
"five-twelve hundred"
"ten-twenty four hundred"
etc etc

 

imagine if you put all that thought-power into taking pictures....

 

Wtf !!!

 

 

btw what I meant was, taking pictures as opposed to thinking about how to say ISO's. ;p

 

forget I even asked a darn question then...

 

ok ;p

 

 

I just tend to favor normal numbers. I know sports cars are not ISO's... but I don't see the difference in numbers.

"Hey.. I bought this sweet ass lambo for $102,400 (One Hundred two thousand, four hundred dollars)"

Not "Hey - I just bought this sweet ass car for ten-twenty four hundred"

But that's just me

 

Talking dollars yes, talking numbers I try to make it as little as possible. When I say my house number I don't say ten thousand, one hundred and twenty-three. I say 10-123 Main St.

ten-twenty four hundred would be 1,020,400.00

 

for 12,800 I normally say it like..

"One hundred two thousand, four hundred minus eighty nine thousand, six hundred"

Honestly, I would probably say like "twelve eight", "twenty five six", etc.. Because it's not too long and makes sense to me, probably not anyone else though.

 

I say, "it's a really high ISO"... if they ask me for the specifics, I just walk away.

problem solved.

 

I recently did some reading on bokeh. And found out the Canon 50 1.4 has horrible bokeh. The Sigma 50 1.4 has much smoother and quality bokeh.

 

for anyone wondering about bokeh...

http://photonotes.org/cgi-bin/entry.pl?id=Bokeh

 

I attempted a hand-held HDR pano the other day in 70km/h winds:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/acurazinedan/4012489375/" title="St. John's from Signal Hill by AcuraZine Dan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2562/4012489375_9453f16806_o.jpg" width="1400" height="545" alt="St. John's from Signal Hill" /></a>

Autopano Pro is a great application.

 

oooh naice

 

Very nice, did you try to stitch with PS?

 

I think you got an extra 0 there.

I was thinking of saying it like this "ten" "twenty four hundred"
which gives you "10" "2,400" or 102,400

I think I put the dash in the wrong spot earlier.

 

I see that number would be "ten twenty-four hundred", "not ten twenty four hundred".

My son has been doing this type of homework for the first three weeks of school. Taking numbers and having to spell them out and such.

 

Thanks, and thanks to srika too!

I started off really liking the CS4 merge to pano app when it came out, but after figuring out the nuances of Autopano Pro, I vastly prefer it now. Even just being able to save your progress as you tweak the pano in Autopano is worth the price of admission.

 

thanks for making me feel stupid

 

dang you've had a rough week...

 

$50 gift card to BHPHOTOVIDEO. What should I get?

 

what do you have?

$50 bux wont get you much except for some small supplies.

 

extra battery?

 

I think I might opt for an extra battery. Or I'll save it to use it on a lens later, but then again I pick up everything off FM.

 

THE big white is still available, you could put your $50 towards it: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...mm_f_5_6L.html