-=5D2 owners unite! Discuss and Post Photos! (Round 3)

The weather finally broke here. Happy New Year. Peace.

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I'm loving the shots of the Stella Artois glasses

Here are a few testing out my 5d2's tendencies to soft focus. It seems to be doing better.....but these of my niece still seem soft to me. All focus aimed at the eyes. These are taken w/the 135L at f3.2, 1/125 shutter, 250 ISO, and ambient light....maybe my eyesight is going hahaha

Dankata wrote in post #13608116
Hey guys I have a Photoshop question The photo below is perfectly fine when I open it in CS5, as soon as I save it as JPEG and I open it with Windows, the blacks look terrible, just as you can see it here (I assume you see what I see). Why do I see it perfectly black in CS5 and am I doing something wrong when I save it? Actually I just opened the JPEG with CS5 again and it looks perfect, but elsewhere it looks bad...


Colors by Dankae, on Flickr

I'm not entirely sure I'm seeing what you're describing -- the blacks don't look "terrible" to me -- but it sounds to me like you could have a color management problem. Is it just this one photo, or all?

Dankata wrote in post #13608116
Hey guys I have a Photoshop question The photo below is perfectly fine when I open it in CS5, as soon as I save it as JPEG and I open it with Windows, the blacks look terrible, just as you can see it here (I assume you see what I see). Why do I see it perfectly black in CS5 and am I doing something wrong when I save it? Actually I just opened the JPEG with CS5 again and it looks perfect, but elsewhere it looks bad...

Dan, I've had trouble with that in windows. It will look great in CS5, but not in windows. If you're saving at full rez, windows uses a weak downsizer to display it at a resolution the screen can handle. I may be way off base, but If you were to save that foto full rez, and then right click it an choose it to be your wallpaper without sizing it to your desktop, it will look terrible, but the actual file will be just fine. I don't know if I'm way off base to what you're describing or not, but that was what popped into my head.

was a bit tight w/ the 24/105L, will def need a diff lens for next time XD

Dankata wrote in post #13608116
Hey guys I have a Photoshop question The photo below is perfectly fine when I open it in CS5, as soon as I save it as JPEG and I open it with Windows, the blacks look terrible, just as you can see it here (I assume you see what I see). Why do I see it perfectly black in CS5 and am I doing something wrong when I save it? Actually I just opened the JPEG with CS5 again and it looks perfect, but elsewhere it looks bad...

Something I've noticed is different jpeg viewers show the images differently in windows. The windows photo viewer just SUCKS. How does it look if you view the image directly in a browser? IE/firefox/chrome?

85L II @ f/1.2:

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Dankata wrote in post #13608116
Hey guys I have a Photoshop question The photo below is perfectly fine when I open it in CS5, as soon as I save it as JPEG and I open it with Windows, the blacks look terrible, just as you can see it here (I assume you see what I see). Why do I see it perfectly black in CS5 and am I doing something wrong when I save it? Actually I just opened the JPEG with CS5 again and it looks perfect, but elsewhere it looks bad...

I had a similar problem until I sorted my colour management. I used the info in the 2 threads below and now my shots look the same in cs5, windows and web

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=707058
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=296149

Eddie

X-Tan stop it please with these shots, I can't take it anymore

Here are some of mine from a 3 day trip for X-Mas..

Thanks juscuz, hieu1004, orbitechgr

85L II from this morning:

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Its still early days for me with this lovely piece of kit but so far I'm delighted.
I got it to replace my 7D and having read variable comments about the focus speed & accuracy took it for a walk along my local beach to shoot a few "Gulls in Flight" with my 70-300 LIS on the front.
All I can say is that I must have got a good one
Ok, maybe my keeper rate was down from about 70% to 65% compared to my 7D (but it was my first excursion with the set-up) whether using all points or centre point AF it grabbed the bird quickly and held focus fine.
(It also managed to grab and hold a flight of Turnstones passing by over the sea at some distance and they are tiny.)

Here's a 100% crop from a grab-shot of a gull passing overhead, with ISO400.
Two things I noticed were, it's got the eye and beak nice and sharp and the blue sky is low noise compared to a similar shot with my 7D (no noise reduction applied in LR3, converted from RAW).

So far - so good, I'm aiming for some birds of prey work as soon as the weather improves

Took a trip to the museum today. Pictures are taken with a mix of the 50 1.4 and Tokina 100mm 2.8 macro. I'm playing more and more with manual settings, often taking one using Av/Tv then assessing and recomposing using full manual. Also playing more with manual focus, but often cheating with the half shutter press as I'm doing it... Comments/critiques are welcome, as always.

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orbitechgr - Great shots, especially the first two.