Posts for: TheDman
May 15, 2018 08:26:15 #
fourg1b2006 wrote:
100-400 II. That's the lens.
May 14, 2018 18:24:19 #
speters wrote:
Its still ACR and not LR, two different programs, and does not have much to do with levels or curves adjustments!
Not two different programs when it comes to editing images. And it has just as much to do with editing photos as levels and curves do in that both are tools to do so.
May 14, 2018 06:51:11 #
If you're shooting landscape on a tripod you can just block the sun with your hand if you're getting flare. Up to you.
May 13, 2018 15:32:36 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
Sounds like you need a set of fixed length tripod legs.
Or take the legs apart every evening and clean them.
While I don't do beaches I have used my Gitz, Manfroto carbon fiber and Bogen aluminum tripods in streams, muddy ponds and other dirty places and they have all served me well I did have a leg lock paddle (Poly-carbonate) break on one of the Bogens and never had a properly installed head spin loose.
Or take the legs apart every evening and clean them.
While I don't do beaches I have used my Gitz, Manfroto carbon fiber and Bogen aluminum tripods in streams, muddy ponds and other dirty places and they have all served me well I did have a leg lock paddle (Poly-carbonate) break on one of the Bogens and never had a properly installed head spin loose.
Those fixed length legs won't fit too easily in my backpack. And it doesn't help me to clean them every night if they don't make it past 10 am.
I wish I had your experience. I verified with RRS that the head was being installed correctly; it just would never tighten. It would hit the tripod base before the screw would tighten up.
May 13, 2018 13:24:01 #
Manglesphoto wrote:
Could you/or would you give more info on the failures of these two tripods?
1: Camera & lens combo weight
2: tripod models that failed
3: how did they fail?
1: Camera & lens combo weight
2: tripod models that failed
3: how did they fail?
Took the Gitzo mountaineer (1542 maybe?) to the Virgin Islands, sand quickly invaded all twist locks and ground several to the point where the threads were ruined and the leg sections fell apart. Plus, the RRS BH-30 ball head didn't seat well to the thing anyway and kept spinning off whenever I carried it with a camera attached, so I ditched the Gitzo/RRS idea and bought a Manfrotto MT190CXPRO4.
That lasted me a couple of years, but two years of intermittent use were too much for the flip locks, and one of them broke internally and the leg section fell out. Thinking that was just a fluke, I bought another one last year and took it on its first trip to the Pacific Northwest.
Third day out there I'm at Proxy Falls, I set up the tripod in the stream below the fall, take a few shots, and pick up the tripod to move to a new location. When I looked down, one of the leg sections did not come with me. Took almost an hour to find that leg piece, which to this day will fall completely out of the tripod if you unlock the lever.
Meanwhile, my 20 year-old Velbon El Carmagne 540 still works like the day I bought it. It's just too small.
May 13, 2018 10:23:38 #
tenny52 wrote:
So if I have PS-Camera Raw then I can bypass LR only which I find synchronizing the settings for batch job a lot more conveniently. Agree?
However, I can save the setting on PS:Camera Raw as .xmp file which works like the preset in LR.
However, I can save the setting on PS:Camera Raw as .xmp file which works like the preset in LR.
Yes, as far as image processing goes, if you use one you don't have to use the other, since they perform the same processing functions.
An xmp file is a sidecar file that stores your changes to a raw file. It's not a preset, but I guess could be saved as a preset... I don't use them so I'm not sure.
May 13, 2018 02:12:56 #
Fotoserj wrote:
I’d rather think of investment, a tripod will outlast many body and lens, and with good care pretty much retain is value, the one thing to remenber is, you get what you pay for, nothing more, nothing less
I wish that were my experience. I'm just trying to find a tripod that can survive a single trip. So far a Gitzo and two Manfrottos have not been up to the task.
May 13, 2018 01:57:00 #
tenny52 wrote:
If I just want to do one NEF raw file, I might not want to use LR but to go straight to PS.
Isn't it PS:Camera Raw doing the same job as LR:ACR?
Isn't it PS:Camera Raw doing the same job as LR:ACR?
ACR stands for Adobe Camera Raw.
May 13, 2018 01:56:16 #
speters wrote:
????????
Lightroom uses Abobe Camera Raw as its develop module.
May 13, 2018 01:29:00 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
Assuming you are referring to Photoshop, once you use Camera Raw to open the file and make changes and hit save, you will be creating a PSD or TIFF file (depending on your settings in Preferences). You only use Adobe Camera RAW to open a RAW file and convert it to a format that Photoshop can read. There is no reason to use ACR on a JPEG file. If you want to make similar adjustments to a JPEG, use Lightroom.
Using ACR is using Lightroom.
There's just as much reason to use the Camera Raw filter on your jpgs as there is curves or levels. It's just another tool in the bag.
May 11, 2018 15:35:41 #
imagemeister wrote:
IMO, this is an anomaly of the viewing medium .....and viewer expectation ...
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A computer?
May 11, 2018 15:35:32 #
Einreb92 wrote:
Interesting observation. I find that curious, as the overall smaller representation give the certain impression of sharpness. Hmmm.
All images look sharper at smaller sizes. Scaling images down hides flaws.
May 11, 2018 09:42:20 #
Einreb92 wrote:
Larry, can you demystify the shot and tell me what he did to capture this? Is this a case of focus stacking or something else?
I wouldn't think any focus stacking was going on here, as nothing much is in focus when you click to see a full res preview.
May 9, 2018 16:59:44 #
I don't see it, because it's only 600 pixels wide. 
May 7, 2018 19:06:40 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Using Raw files is a method, not a result.
Mike
Mike
What is shown are the results you get from using one method vs the other.