larry schaefer - chicago,

I wonder how adobe's sales would be if the put that software out for about$225.00

Thanks for the help.

I have been told that PScs can be purchased for a reasonable price.

Can anyone suggest any websites they have seen. I willbe paying in

USD.

Thanks

I seriously believe, that If you could hold a milky transluscent piece of plastic in front of your flash head you would get the same result +/- a stop.

Tonight I got my mind right in a 2nd shooter spot and used my LumiQuest softbox head on and nailed many awesome shots. All the plastic will do the same thing once you find a speed and aperture to go with it.

from what I could see on LS v.I you shot straight to the bounce surface as the top was wide open. LSv.II looks like a slurppy cup with a lid. Does it work I suspect yes but so will kleenex.

Polypropylene, 200 degree ovens, expansion and contraction, Talk about chemistry leaving the darkroom! ! !

Notice how this appears to be a "guys" thread.

Mario

By far the most amusing post I have seen on here.

Remember many states have a deposit on those, contributing to the entire cost benefit ratio.

Nice work.

Mario

By far the most amusing post I have seen on

here.

Remember many states have a deposit on those, contributing to the entire cost benefit ratio.

Nice work.

I want to start working with RAW files. Everyone swears by them.

BUT I want to work with them in PhotoShopCS

What do I need to do to use the RAW images from my Dig Rebel. I

have the Canon software as well.

Dave

Please add me to the top of you protege / assitant list in anticipation of your first shoot in Tahiti.

Marc, nice rundown on the new 5D.

I am confounded as to how there was ever a good image made prior to the year 2004. I am developing a belief that we are doing things differently and not all together better.

Matt I want to try to give you an answer to measure what I have learned in here too.

With your D70 (Digital as we all know)I would

Raise the ISO, shoot in M manual, Use a fast lens if you have one- maximum f2.8 - 2.0, 1.8, 1.4 even better. If you dont have a fast lens this would be an oportune time to add one to your bag. Dont overlook an aftermarket lens either.

In combination with what I have mentioned above go to the church well ahead of the ceremony and test fire that D70 the LCD will tell you almost every thing. Good luck! Now lets see who gets whipped the hardest you or I.

Dave if this is your calling go for it. If you feel that this is a calling it most likely is. This cause seems to have struck a chord with you.

I doubt if I have the photographic experience yet but when it comes to babies and kids in such circumstances I am one big, tough, s.o.b. that can't hold up but a minute or two in their presence. It doesn't seem fair or right.

It seems as if you have been on the clinical side of things and would be well suited to be around such trying situations.

I wish you the best as you pursue this.

RE: Name Tags

In my full time job I wind up at numerous name badge wearing conventions every year. Certainly the tag is funtional while you are at your exhibit or milling around within the conference environment. The instant you step out of the meeting or exhibition area. . .FLICK off comes the obnoxious badge.

Outside of that venue sporting your name badge is akin to black socks with bermuda shorts, flood pants, and clip on ties. I firmly agree that even a casual portrait is contaminated when it shows glaring badges.

Only Dave looks cool with a bagde.

All this because some guy writes in wanting to improve himself.

Gavin-

Text time you have a question you may want to stick closer to the actual question or concern. I have noticed that a lengthy preamble to a question can get some a lot of judgment brought to bear dependng upon who is reading.

Gavin I am nearly in the same position. From reading the many posts in hear and sorting out competent from the . . .well from the others, I figure quite a few things out.

Set that camera to manual and leave it there. Follow Ben's concise and articulate advice. Once you master some of the things suggested by Ben you can start delving into other technique. The manual setting at ISO 400-800 will be as filmlike as you will ever get with that camera.

You can see how many things apply just by sitting in the room making lots of shots and tweaking things one at a time.

Just don't feel bad about someone dogging you because of your level of experienc. The majority of folks on here are reasonably expereiencd and quite helpful.

Good luck to you

If thousands of phtographers are all trying hundreds of ways to be creative or recreative or new or different and yet most anything appears similar or the same maybe it is the ceremony and culture itself that is at fault.

Remember most of these ceremonies are largely traditional with only minor variations. Unless its a deep sea diver wedding or a sky diving ceremony AND even those are simply environments in which the traditional ritual occurs.

Maybe we need to respect that ceremony for being unwavering and undaunted by time. People must want their marriage to be like that too. Maybe the art that is or the art that we want to be in our wedding photography is nothing more than how we heighten our intuitiveness. Cameras, flashes,and Lumispheres become even greater extensions of our eyes and minds not to make things look so different BUT MAYBE to make that wedding look more as it is rather than what it should be.

Remember the BASF Chemical commercials? We don't make the skis - we make the skis stronger. The art may simply be making the bride LOOK as happy as she intrinsicaly might be. Make the groom LOOK as proud and as he feels inside.

Good wedding photography might just be finding the instant when what is showing on some ones face or in their actions is directly proportional to what they are feeling inside. So does it matter that we make bouquets drip off the edge of an alter or drag a shutter for that Star Wars look? Some of that is cool.

I think if you could make each bride laugh and/or cry with every set of proofs you are then an artist.

The motto here, in this forum should be "ask a question (silly OR otherwise) you WILL get an answer".

Upon looking at the room where this party will be, my concern shifted from back drop/portrait setup to focusing on the anivesary couple's reaction to the surprise. The reflector/borrowed 420 rig would still be helpful.

I did buy a stand on close-out at Wolf camera along with a 32" white/black umbrella and a bracket. The stand is awesome but the umbrella and bracket will go back. I tried this contraption in the living room and have become enfatuated with it. Now I need to read the manual and figure out where ratios come in and how to use the two sets of power settings.

I like David's ebay link but I dont think I'll mind starting with my self contrived reflector. Having cobbled this thing together myself with you guys explaining things along the way has deepened the enrichment of learning another aspect of photography.

Thanks for the help everyone.

David I may email you about the drops I am wondering about room to set up the port-a-studio though. Thanks

Nadine thanks for the link found a similar device at Wolf Photo. 2nd question just wondering how good the light gets for more money.

I like the versatility and price on that bracket. Realized the 420 cant be the master.

Thanks again for the help

Brooks I'll take that exlanation my guess is Nadine would agree with you. What can discern 1/10 of a stop?