Basketball, no flash

Great pictures superdriver!

I just have one question about your battery setup.

Can someone enlighten me, I thought it was bad practice to put two batteries in that were unequally charged.

So, if my batteries are not both fully charged I run with one battery in the grip and charge the other.

Keep shooting and sharing your photos and experiences.
Thanks.

do you use the custom wb set with grey card are auto

ronmayhew wrote in post #2410970
Great pictures superdriver!

I just have one question about your battery setup.

Can someone enlighten me, I thought it was bad practice to put two batteries in that were unequally charged.

So, if my batteries are not both fully charged I run with one battery in the grip and charge the other.

Keep shooting and sharing your photos and experiences.
Thanks.

I have never heard about this being the case. Not saying it isnt, but have not heard this, nor have I had any bad experience from doing this...

kilowat wrote in post #2411454
do you use the custom wb set with grey card are auto

No, I keep meaning to start doing that, but I just WB correction in RAW during PPing...

the wb looked good that was why i was asking thanks

kilowat wrote in post #2413989
the wb looked good that was why i was asking thanks

raw+ correcting after the fact is always good. lets you warm or cool photos quite easily (my favorite thing is to boost saturation to max, adjust wb, then lower saturation to normal levels, which results in easier wb corrections, much less fiddling since it's much more sensitive at +100 )

i was quite curious to know your approach to PP though superdiver, care to share some trade secrets?

I have no secrets and will gladly tell you what I do...I am posting, honestly, out of selfish motive in the hopes that someone will tell me what I m doing wrong with my PPing and tell THEIR secrets....LOL

this is the my basic working order...

1)download all pictures to my computer and open them in DPP

2)go through and delete the obvious ones (usually 60-80% of them).

3)max out the saturation and add some sharpening to all of them (the all at once tool works well for these large steps)

4)set me viewer on 100% crop view, go through them all again and delete the ones I dont want (understand, I take pictures for me and I really dont care if parents buy them or not, to a point. I am less critical of my kids pictures and hang onto many marginal ones (at best)of theirs.) I usually get rid of another 50% of the remaining pictures in this step...

5)I go back through and look at composition and delete the shots I dont like (again, leaving most of the shots of my kids) Again, I usually get rid of another 50% of them.

6)then I go back one last time and do the WB and and just the exposure as I like.

7)I use the trimming tool to crop my pictures, then I end up with about 10-25% of what I started with.

8) Then I batch process and convert so I can upload them to Smugmug in Jpeg at DPP's highest setting of 10.

9)Then I usually run them all through Neat Image at its preset setting since I am too chicken to screw with the settings. I just learned to batch process and now I dont have to do them ONE AT A FREAKING TIME....LOL

10)Then I upload them to Smugmug and thats it...

The reason I do it in so many step is that as I get older I find it easy to forget to do things if I try to do each picture all at once. Plus it seems like it takes forever that way to me...

I think that is everything....LOL

damn... it'de probably be a lot faster to use photoshop then, since you can make an action for half the process (outside choosing)

i really need to start deleting photos, i have all photos i've taken including the very crappy ones... 10k since sept 1 (that makes it about 90gb of raws, and 10gb jpg conversions)... i think that's what i'll start doing