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Shelby Lewis
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Sorry Bill... missed it, lol. BTW... that second shot is great. Look at those eyes!Hey now mister! I did post pictures and I did it with YOUR camera.
Hope your liking it. What a fantastic camera.
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Sorry Bill... missed it, lol. BTW... that second shot is great. Look at those eyes!Hey now mister! I did post pictures and I did it with YOUR camera.
Don't know about the pictures, but the subject was "purdy".Yupp
Somebody post another purdy pidjure please.
HI Shelby - you go for it. The one thing that's true is that we all love your pictures (whatever they're taken on).Guess I'm to blame for "muddying the waters", lol.
Someone post something, please... or else I'll put something else up. :ROTFL:
Thanks Shelby (and everyone else: -).wow marc... these are fantastic. I'm only saying this because I'm not familiar with a broader spectrum of your work, but these are a step up from anything else I've ever seen you post. Also... is your b/w conversion new? This one is so contrasty yet still very detailed in the shadows. That's a hard thing to accomplish.
Kudos!
No problem Wayne. Here is one of them. The original was shot available light with the 85/1.4 @ f/1.4 This version posted here is straight out of Lightroom as a ProRGB 16 bit Tiff 360 ppi original file ... then converted to sRGB, 8 bit resized to 1000 pixels with no sharpening except the default I have set in LR. No Photoshop work.Marc,
Nice shots and processing!
Any chance to see the original A900 color shots out of the camera before all the processing? I am assuming that both the color shots above are from the A900?
Cool, Thanks alot Marc!No problem Wayne. Here is one of them. The original was shot available light with the 85/1.4 @ f/1.4 This version posted here is straight out of Lightroom as a ProRGB 16 bit Tiff 360 ppi original file ... then converted to sRGB, 8 bit resized to 1000 pixels with no sharpening except the default I have set in LR. No Photoshop work.
Compared to the final one that I posted above where I toned the red back a bit, as I found the flowers distracting and her skin tone more red than it really was in this version.
Wayne, workflow for weddings tends to be more speed centric, and I find LR to be the swiftest solution with the least over-all compromises. I dump all the images from all cameras used (sometimes including my assistant's Canon 5D) into one "time synced" file in Lightroom ... which allows me to use different camera's at will yet, keep the sequence of the day.Cool, Thanks a lot Marc!
Are you doing your conversions to B&W in LR or PS?
If LR, do you have your own LR presets for B&W shots for the Leica and for the Sony. Or do you start off with one of the general presets like B&W White High Contrast and modify it slightly? Have you tried Silver Efex Pro, even though it looks like you don't need it?
Hi Marc,Wayne, workflow for weddings tends to be more speed centric, and I find LR to be the swiftest solution with the least over-all compromises. I dump all the images from all cameras used (sometimes including my assistant's Canon 5D) into one "time synced" file in Lightroom ... which allows me to use different camera's at will yet, keep the sequence of the day.
My "speed objective" is to say out of other post programs as much as possible.
Because Lightroom V2.4 has some very useful tools (like the grad tool with effects), I often use it for B&W ... either the straight desaturate slider & strong contrast selector (which often works for Leica and Nikon files), or the Greyscale and use the color sliders to help separate the tones ... which is often helpful with the A900 files. Sometimes the presets work, but require tweaking anyway, so I just do it myself as described above.
Does Nik Silver Effects have a preset plug-in for LR? I'd consider it if it did.
I already have Nik Define 2 in PS, and will open a noisy shot in PS to work on it ... which I can do directly out of LR, but it's a step I'd rather not do very often ... and I do a lot of B&W conversions.
Albert,Hi Marc,
You can choose from the installation menu whether to install Silver Efex Pro into PS, Lightroom or Aperture.
Here's a link to the Nik page where you can peruse the various manuals.
http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php?view=intro/styles.shtml
I also found while I was there that Nik has created a bunch more presets for the program that can be downloaded and imported also Very cool!
Albert
But the neat thing is you pay only once and get to use it in all three programs if you desire.Hi Marc,
You can choose from the installation menu whether to install Silver Efex Pro into PS, Lightroom or Aperture.
Here's a link to the Nik page where you can peruse the various manuals.
http://www.niksoftware.com/silverefexpro/usa/entry.php?view=intro/styles.shtml
I also found while I was there that Nik has created a bunch more presets for the program that can be downloaded and imported also Very cool!
Albert