Recent content by Discreet

From what I am reading, you dont seem to know what you expect out of your equipment. Personally, that should be the main reason why you choose a lens over another. It seems to me that you do not have extensive experience with using these lenses especially the L primes like th 14L, 35L and 85L...

Av MODE: Most of the time i shoot with Av. Very simple, you choose an aperture... and you see what kind of shutter speed the camera spits out to you. Too slow to handhold? either pump up ISO, open the aperture or grab a tripod. For most general shooting, this is the standard way i shoot. Another...

To the OP: I think a lot of newbies get too excited when they start shooting portraits... esp if the newbies are guys and the models are girls. It takes a lot of discipline to shoot beautiful members of the opposite sex and my experience is that not be overwhelmed by the beautiful girl in...

Landscape? 2 things: Wide Angle + Big DOF 1) Wide angle = your kit lens Your kit lens can go to 18mm which translate to a nice 28mm FOV which is good enuff. Dont worry too much about the performance because.... 2) Big DOF = Small aperture ... you are shooting at small aperture. You should be...

It is not obvious to the OP... otherwise he will not have taken the photos the way he did. I dont think DP is putting anyone down.... I always tell people this: "I tell you what you need to hear... not what you want to hear..." The truth is that advice that is contradicated with a...

Personally, i dont think you should spend too much money on high end flash cards. When my 1DmkII died and I had to borrow a 20D, I bought an extra CF card. I went cheap and got a kingston 50X 2gb. It worked fine... even when i brought it back to use on my 1DmkII, the speed was even noticeable...

If i am not mistaken, this was shot with a flash held off camera to the right. since the sunset would act as a backlight and without flash, this picture will be impossible as there is not enought DR to capture everything. I think your flash is held to close and the light is not soft. If you look...

A quick comment.. In both pictures, the eyes look a bit dull. Try to just brighten up the eyes and i think it will give it the sparkle that it is lacking. This is more exaggerated in the sepia as you can see the teeth is more white than the eyes. Usually it is the other way round (maybe...

i owned canon lens all my life and a couple of Ls in there. Recently I got a 18-125 sigma to mount on my rebel after selling off 17-40L (not comfortable focal length on my 1DmkII) and guess what? I really like this lens. The point is that if given a choice and unlimited budget, I will go for...

A few comments... i think you did really well as a first timer and the pictures are pretty good. Personally, I think your PS-ed Vignette is a bit too much for the second photo while the rest are okay. One sub-effect of using such heavy vignettting is that your background becomes subdued and as...

Quick Comment: I shot a couple of photos where there was a red light in the picture and really pushed the reds on my sensors and made a couple of the photos unuseable. If I am not mistaken, you are using one of the lights as either a hairlight or maybe it is just a background light that is...

I do not think the make up is ugly, rather the golden reflector and very wierd adobe RGB to windows viewer conversion somehow make it look uglier than it appears. Anyway to the OP, you should learn 3 things from this photoshoot. 1) Post Processing There is something really wrong with your...

This is just my 2 cts. Just because you use asterick marks to substitute letters does not make profanity any less offensive. I think anyone on this forum can easily deduce what the offensive word is, so you might as well type out it full if you feel a real need to say it. To me personally, if...

Why are any of the answer shocking? Anyway, I agree with you that a wedding is indeed a very important occasion and it is totally not cool to ruin someone's else wedding with bad behavior or bad photos. When my sister got married, I refused to take photos for her and told her to get a 3rd...

Equipment used to shoot: For 90% of the Shoots (esp for wedding dinner) 1DmkII +24-70L 580EX + Lightsphere + External Power Pack (CP-E3) For the last 10%, I would use either a 85L or 70-200/2.8L IS If I was using my old equipment, it would just be my 300D + 18-125 Sigma. I would still use the...