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macdaman wrote in post #12683125
Nice Pic

Thanks mate, haha alot of money and hard work into that one pic, practising for the cake smash the missus wants, I told her I need all the gear to achieve it :P

my first work with studio lighting in the form of my new octabox...I intentionally wanted the shape of the box in her eyes, still new to studio type lighting, I already want more of it...

where is your focus point on that one?

bemerick wrote in post #12690085
where is your focus point on that one?

on the eyes, but it looks bad when i post it here

very nice! how did you light it?

bemerick wrote in post #12690727
very nice! how did you light it?

BD, fill, BG

BD-beauty dish, Fill light, BG-background light

New to me Brit slang, Togs... I can judge by context, but more specifically, what does it mean?

OK, on track ont the 50D, CF cards, I have a 4, just ordered an 8, 45 mb/sec, but what is the consensus here? Do you try for the 60/sec? Is faster really better? I can see where it will come in, take a load of shots a ducks flying off the water, have say 30 crowding the buffer, faster works, but how much faster? Short of buying one of each, thought I'd ask for some exerience.

fazm wrote in post #12690401

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Made a new friend.

Beautiful model!

anyone use generic batteries? I got a really cheap one on Amazon but since I got it I'm afraid to use it. Plastic seems cheaper, I'm afraid it will burn up my camera. I've used a generic Sterlingtek for my xti for two years and no problem, but it was virtually identical to the Canon one. This one does seem a little different.

PhilF wrote in post #12690914
BD, fill, BG

BD-beauty dish, Fill light, BG-background light

Very nice, what lens did you use?

BillwYellowstone wrote in post #12691087
New to me Brit slang, Togs... I can judge by context, but more specifically, what does it mean?

It is short for Photographers

BillwYellowstone wrote in post #12691087
OK, on track ont the 50D, CF cards, I have a 4, just ordered an 8, 45 mb/sec, but what is the consensus here? Do you try for the 60/sec? Is faster really better? I can see where it will come in, take a load of shots a ducks flying off the water, have say 30 crowding the buffer, faster works, but how much faster? Short of buying one of each, thought I'd ask for some exerience.

It usualy shows in the speed when viewing photos, also known as chimping, I haven't seen that drastic change when doing high speed shooting, not that I do that very often tho...
Also when downloading the images through USB connection from the camera a fast CF card will help.