New 5D3 in Ai servo: Straight out of camera, bit of sharpening, RAW. The Autofocus on this thing is fantastic mate.
That's not the cameras fault Barn', that's the thrombosis of the viewfinder at work.....you know, the clot behind the camera. How you feeling tonight bud? Oh, and Si....top glass dude.
No really verygood si, the 5d3 is a cracking bit of kit , and nice lense too , I'm going to ask you to take a bit of time and look at this on YouTube (greatphotographytips) Karl Taylor , this fella is very very good have a look mate , I look forward to seeing many many more pictures si , Well done dude .
Hi mate I'm ok 2nd lot today and I'm alright , it don't kick in for about 24/36 hrs then I feel shit, But tonight so far so good , thanks for askin , How's you and the photo trade ?
Same shit, different day mate. Just printed a Martin Parr exhibition which is relatively high profile, despite the fact that I'm not a lover of the guy, but more interestingly I'm scanning the images for a series of books by a guy called Keith Cardwell. Ex Observer phot and a brilliant black and white reportage portraitist. The stuff I'm doing ranges from Cuban, Chinese and Irish street life from the early 90's to the 'Sidcup Cowboys', an hilarious treatise on Wild West reenactors from Kent. Other than that I'm just wasting my days explaining aspect ratio to dickheads from camera clubs and telling arseholes which button to push on their kit. It's towards the end of college terms that my job kicks off. At the moment all the technicians are sat swilling coffee wondering if any students are likely to turn up.
Martin parr ? Sorry don't ring any bells for me . Here ken when you watch a photographer on say tv Takin pictures of models or close up stuff what lense do you reckon they use , cause the lense is nearly as wide has the camera , if you get what I mean ?
Yes si defo worth it mate and if you can find one in Chester which is half way for me and you I'll join ya , you can never ever learn too much well well worth it dude
There's no such thing as bad training Si, well unless its me teaching it of course, it all depends on what you want to get out of it mate. From what I've seen of it, your stuff is pretty good, technically and creatively. I could have done without the nudist beach stuff but that's a personal thing. The area I don't believe enough people give credit to when they want to learn more about photography is file preparation. The sympathetic treatment of their image files from even before they take the photograph through shooting, saving, archiving, manipulation and preparing for output. That's where the majority of people have gaps in their knowledge and where I tend to concentrate most of the training we do.
Magnum photographer Barn' originally from the south west, slumming back in his roots so the plebs can worship him. I should care, I still get the money. Wide lenses are fast mate. Simple as that. Throw in an image stabiliser (istill think they make the shot soft, myself) and you can use a 300 mm at 1/60 and f2.8 handheld indoors without back up lighting. I used such a lens at a wedding a couple of years ago, an 'L' series, like Si's, and was doing head and shoulder shots across a ballroom handheld on a 5D and I swear, the room was lighter through the viewfinder than it was when I put the camera down.
I've only ever used a canon 70/200 or a 300mm all 2.8 , oh and my sigma 50/500 blood heavy that was . I've still got my studio to finish off , if you remember I asked you about lighting a couple of months ago , Soon I'm sorted and got me bike I'll need your advice on what too get , thanks mate .
The best lens I got, and beats the 24-105L and my 70-200L and my 24-70L, is a £90 50mm 1.8 prime. Plastic fantastic, but the images are superb, even at f2.8. There's just something about the images it captures that I love. It's not the fastest focusing lens, and the motors noisy as hell, but it's brilliant! Maybe I got a good copy.......but it really is ace!
It's because 50mm corresponds closest to the focal length of your eye. Everything it shoots appears more real because it looks the same as the real world. It's more noticeable with shooting video and you zoom while recording. It shows off the Carlos Fandango focal range but its not natural because your eye can't do it. Always zoom then shoot. That's the profeshnial way.
