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devwild · Jun 29, 2012 at 12:24 AM

one more from these:

Redcarmoose · Jun 29, 2012 at 1:10 AM

Mini yellow watermelons and green oranges.

Exediron · Jun 29, 2012 at 3:54 PM

More from my recent trip up north:

More pictures can be found at my website than I'm going to post here, but I'll probably do a few more of my favorites.

I've also entered in the One Life photography contest, so if anyone else is part of that you can put in a vote for (or 'collect', as it's called) my portfolio after following the link in my signature. If you don't want to, that's fine as well.

Planar_head · Jun 29, 2012 at 6:23 PM

Sears 28mm f2.8 @ f11

Jon L · Jun 30, 2012 at 1:07 AM

Omen

Austin Morrow · Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM

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jon l said:
Omen

Do you care If I crop this and use it as a desktop background? That's a really awesome shot!

Jon L · Jun 30, 2012 at 6:10 PM

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austin morrow said:
Do you care If I crop this and use it as a desktop background? That's a really awesome shot!

Sure go ahead.

Redcarmoose · Jul 1, 2012 at 6:32 AM

I love my 480mm

My process is really simple for doing these type of portraits. I relax and just look for people in good lighting areas as I feel the light is 90% of the shot. The next thing I do shoot a bunch of shots as people are always moving and changing their facial expressions and angles. I will set the white balance for shade, plus a level of red to add warmth. I shoot with a 480mm lens so I keep my iso at 800 to keep the shutter speed at 1/400 at about F5.6 to F4.0. I don't use photo shop now but just use the jpegs out of the camera as I think they look better.

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I read about this guy doing wedding portraits. He stated not using the raw files but only the jpegs out of the camera, un tweaked. He then explained how he always edged the white balance to get him some natural warmth. I though he was crazy and could not believe how I could live with-out my raw data and photo shop. I was not sure how to consistently warm up the white balance in every light? In the end though he was right.

Now I know why he is one of the most in-demand wedding photographers in America.

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Exediron · Jul 1, 2012 at 2:46 PM

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redcarmoose said:
My process is really simple for doing these type of portraits. I relax and just look for people in good lighting areas as I feel the light is 90% of the shot. The next thing I do shoot a bunch of shots as people are always moving and changing their facial expressions and angles. I will set the white balance for shade, plus a level of red to add warmth. I shoot with a 480mm lens so I keep my iso at 800 to keep the shutter speed at 1/400 at about F5.6 to F4.0. I don't use photo shop now but just use the jpegs out of the camera as I think they look better.

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I read about this guy doing wedding portraits. He stated not using the raw files but only the jpegs out of the camera, un tweaked. He then explained how he always edged the white balance to get him some natural warmth. I though he was crazy and could not believe how I could live with-out my raw data and photo shop. I was not sure how to consistently warm up the white balance in every light? In the end though he was right.

Now I know why he is one of the most in-demand wedding photographers in America.

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An interesting view, although I disagree with it. It probably works better for portrait work than the kind of photography I typically engage in, however - modern cameras are already optimized quite well for human subjects. I view taking a straight out-of-the-camera JPEG much the same as using an automated development process instead of artistically developing the film yourself. You lose a lot of potential to bring out your vision of the final print.