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I’m not sure if the company has any contracts on the west coast. I know I’ve heard them say it’s a market they want to get into more, though.

Tomorrow morning I’m flying to Huntsville, AL.

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Actually you’re the one who made me start looking at that 10-22mm.

Figures. I’ve started an epidemic.

I haven’t used it for people yet but that looks amazing. It is frustrating trying to frame a shot, I’m literally right on top of what I’m shooting.

I think it feels that way because you’re used to having to back up to get everything you want in the frame. It seems to me like what the wide angle does is not force you to stand closer, but rather *not* force you to stand further away. It lets you be “in” the scene, be involved with your subjects. Basically it lets you stand in the same proximity to your subject that you’d be in if you were having a conversation with them. It can be a little unsettling to subjects that don’t know you, but if you do know them and have good camaraderie with them, it gets you really good shots.

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Welcome to the wide-angle fold! My 10-22 is definitely my favorite lens, the only times I don’t use it are when I’m physically unable to get close enough to get the framing I want. I love the look when you use a wide angle lens to get a closeup, like in this shot.

P.S. I’ll be in Colorado on a business trip on Thurs-Fri, not sure if I’ll have any time to relax but if I do I’d love to meet a fellow Farktographer.

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Chicago had one too, if you’re in Iowa.
Chicago didn’t write SD sucks either.

Minnesota here. Chicago’s doable I guess. How often do you have them?

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Why was I not informed about this? I live the next state over, I totally coulda done it.

EDIT: Oh wait, San Diego, not South Dakota. Curses!

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DxO Optics does everything I will ever need in the RAW conversion/general color correction department.

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What’s your asking price? I’m interested in getting some more lighting.

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I can OBO post for you tonight Analogy. Do you want the descriptions in there as well or were those just for the benefit of the forum readers? Have fun on your shoot!

Thank you! Keep the descriptions in please.

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Can somebody post my entires for me? I’ll be out on a shoot tonight. No I did not screw up my HTML tags, I gave pure code for ease of whoever copy-pastes.

Outdoors but with supplementary lighting from studio flashes:

Pure flash lighting:

Literally light painted with a flashlight:

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For point and shoot I’ve heard great things about Canon’s Powershot cameras. That’s the A7xx cameras millera9 mentioned.

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I take damn few pictures of blank walls.

True, but large blank areas do tend to crop up in real world shooting as well. A cloudless or overcast sky, for instance.

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Stop down to f/16 and shoot a blank white wall. That’s where you’ll really see it.

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If you tend to run your aperture wide open you will have very few problems with dust because the dust will be out of focus. At smaller apertures, especially toward f/16, the depth of field is smaller and dust comes into focus. You might be surprised at how much dust shows up if you stop down to f/16 and shoot a blank wall.

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The 24-70 f2.8L is worth putting up with the assistant.

This. I just got one myself. Fantastic friggin lens. Ditto for the 70-200 f/2.8. In fact any lens f/2.8 or faster.

If you’re stuck with a body without sensor cleaning, I’ve been using these swabs that are the exact width of the sensor. Put some rubbing alcohol on the swab and run it back and forth a couple times. Blowers don’t always work because the dust is stuck to the low pass filter via static charge. That’s why in-camera anti-dust solutions involve discharging the static electricity as step one of the process.

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Lawl. I’m not saying get rid of all the cameras currently in the field, I’m just saying if you’re gonna be buying a brand new one, don’t get stuck with last generation gear when you could just wait a little bit and get something that’ll be top of the line. At least until they announce the 50D. =D

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