-=5D2 owners unite! Discuss and Post Photos! (Round 2)

bsp wrote in post #12684499
Your processing style seems so unique compared to a lot of other landscape guys, do you do anything special in post or are the images from the camera pretty close to what we get to see here?

I like to think it's close to what I saw there, it's not far off, but there IS some processing going on. In LR I have a preset, clarity to 50, fill and recover at 15 and saturation and vibrance to 10 I think? As well as the camera raw set to "landscape" and the lens profile enabled...

then in PS I bump contrast a bit and tweak levels.

So it's definitely NOT straight out of the camera, but it's nothing too crazy either if that helps.

NaKiD EyE wrote in post #12684550
i have absolutely no experience really shooting long exposures... so is there some sort of 'golden rule' or is it just trial and error to get the correct exposure. Just curious as to how you decide to do 8 minutes. thanks!

well, before I ever to a 10 stop shot, I do the same exact shot w/o the 10 stop to get the GND lined up and get a baseline exposure to go from. Then you double that shutter speed 10 times either in your head or with an iPhone app and go from there. This was the second shot from that set, 4 was too dark. And admittedly I should have gone for either 16 (this is dark w/o processing and noisy with) or opened up a stop and done another 8, but I was out of time.

jacobsen1 wrote in post #12684657
I like to think it's close to what I saw there, it's not far off, but there IS some processing going on. In LR I have a preset, clarity to 50, fill and recover at 15 and saturation and vibrance to 10 I think? As well as the camera raw set to "landscape" and the lens profile enabled...

then in PS I bump contrast a bit and tweak levels.

So it's definitely NOT straight out of the camera, but it's nothing too crazy either if that helps.

well, before I ever to a 10 stop shot, I do the same exact shot w/o the 10 stop to get the GND lined up and get a baseline exposure to go from. Then you double that shutter speed 10 times either in your head or with an iPhone app and go from there. This was the second shot from that set, 4 was too dark. And admittedly I should have gone for either 16 (this is dark w/o processing and noisy with) or opened up a stop and done another 8, but I was out of time.

ahh that makes sense and thanks for the explanation. you must bring a book or something for all those long exposures lol

I'm with Nakid Eye on this one. Those shots are awesome but any time I attempt a long exposure all I end up with is an over exposed image.

Holy cow.. Ben, those are spectacular!!! Are they from that day you posted pics of your camera/tripod on IG?

NaKiD EyE wrote in post #12684683
ahh that makes sense and thanks for the explanation. you must bring a book or something for all those long exposures lol

I either mess around with the iPhone and or NEX or have someone there to talk to. 4 minutes is OK, 8 seems like forever...

ieatstars wrote in post #12684820
Holy cow.. Ben, those are spectacular!!! Are they from that day you posted pics of your camera/tripod on IG?

yeah:

jacobsen1 wrote in post #12684657
I like to think it's close to what I saw there, it's not far off, but there IS some processing going on. In LR I have a preset, clarity to 50, fill and recover at 15 and saturation and vibrance to 10 I think? As well as the camera raw set to "landscape" and the lens profile enabled...

then in PS I bump contrast a bit and tweak levels.

So it's definitely NOT straight out of the camera, but it's nothing too crazy either if that helps.

Thanks for the info, helps a lot. A few LR presets and some contrast changes is not a lot as far as I am concerned!

Thanks!

So... been dying to go out and shoot with the 5DII after work, but mother nature hasnt been cooperating... Made due with what i could... Love this thing though...

http://www.flickr.com …5888768826/in/p​hotostream

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Foot Bridge on Guntersville lake Alabama
Shot @ 2.2 with a 5DM2

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Shot these awhile back but just got around to really processing them. I processed them pretty hard(much harder than normal and in much different style), but I like the results:

so..... I ordered a refurb today, around 12:50 Central time. I paid for overnight, so I can have it tomorrow before the weekend since I'm going to a wedding.

Still pending.

I emailed them, and got this:

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by the delay of your
order. According to the information I have available, the order is
under review by our Administration Department. Unfortunately, I am
unable to view any further details regarding the status of this order.
For further assistance, it would be necessary to call the Administration
Department at 1-866-510-1342 between 8AM and 5PM (Eastern Time), Monday
through Friday.


what does that even mean? I paid for the camera, and overnight shipping. Why would it be "under review"?

Chicken DInner

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tiler65 wrote in post #12684149
I have just acquire said device but cannot get eos utility to run.

I run win xp sp3, DPP works fine and I have just updated the eos utility to the latest version via the canon site but still no joy.

I want to put my name in said camera....boo hooo.

Can anybody help.

And a picture to show how grumpy my daughter is because I am sad too.

I found the solution..........

I had Microsoft .Net Framework issues so I needed to install .Net Frame 2.0 and the software did it for me when trying to load eos utility again.

I had to uninstall ALL versions of .Net Framework first.

5D2 + 24LII + ND 0.9

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