pat_wibbeler

<p>Your question sent me searching because I just ordered a 5dii and I already have a 580ex. This post indicates that it should work:<br>

http://www.photo.net/canon-eos-digital-camera-forum/00TBZc</p>

<p>If you like the 50mm focal length but not the focus on the 1.8, the 50/1.4 is a good option. I took a lot of photos that I love with this lens. It's a little tight indoors, but you should have a pretty good feel for that with the 50/1.8. I've never shot with, but seen very nice results from the sigma 30/1.4. I rented the 35/1.4 and liked that a lot in the limited time I had with it. I know this doesn't help you decide much but you'll need to choose the focal length yourself. If you're unsure of focal length or handling, you could try renting too. Good luck.</p>

I don't know of one off the top of my head. Luminous-Landscape has a lot of good information, but it's not a single intro or FAQ:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/

 

Perhaps check the Digital Darkroom Forum?

http://www.photo.net/bboard/forum?topic_id=1701

Can anyone share experience with the 135 f2L for this purpose? I don't have it, but I've heard it's beautiful and I consider it a future "want" for exactly this situation. If/when I decide to buy it, I'm going to rent it first to make sure it does what I expect. Perhaps you should consider the same?

If you get the Sigma, remember that if you have any problems with the flash, Canon won't support the flash and Sigma won't support the camera. I bought a dg super and liked it until the camera (original dig-rebel) and the flash stopped communicating. Sigma says the flash works fine (I believe them), but Canon won't help me troubleshoot the camera with a 3rd party flash. I'm going to have to track down a known-good camera and a known-good flash to settle the issue.

I passed on an upgrade from the original digital rebel. I almost bought a 5D, but felt like I was spending too much for my level of photography. I value the high ISO cleanliness of the 5D and in the past few days have felt slightly remorseful about not purchasing one! I never got a good enough feel for the ISO capabilities of the 30D, so I passed on it too.

 

I have a workable camera now. It writes slowly, focuses less reliably than I'd like, and has mediocre ISO performance. However, every time I look at all the terrific 4X6 prints (even some at ISO 800/1600), I convince myself to wait until I find something that I must have to replace it.

 

I did buy a 50/1.4 and a 24-105L as a very nice every day lens. I think these will both work quite nicely on a crop or ff camera.

One poster mentioned the "shimmering iridescent feel" of the first photo. I looked at this a while too and I decided that the bridge and the water are coated with ice.

Sorry, my post doesn't read that well. I edited before I submitted, but messed up my edit. The list of bullets is supposed to be a list of things I dislike about sharing on snapfish!

<p>The displayed size may not match the size from which they print. It's likely that they are downsizing for web for display. They may also be downsizing your file to some size they see as big enough to preserve quality.</p>

 

<p>I too am looking for a new sharing/print site, but may end up choosing one of each. I haven't found a site that does a good job of both sharing AND printing. They seem to be in one camp or the other.</p>

 

<pI currently use snapfish and I am pretty happy with the prints, but the sharing experience lacks because</p>

<ol>

<li> Visitors are forced through a login process</li>

<li> Snapfish downsamples the size from which they print if you don't explicitly tell them not to during their upload (or at least the did this at one point)</li>

<li> You can't download or view a full-res image unless you pay them for it</li>

</ol>

 

<p>I'm sure that much of this is to preserve disk/bandwidth cost for them and it gives me cheap prints, but I'd really like to find one place from which I can share photos without the problems above AND print them. I'd even be willing to pay a subscription fee like many of the sharing sites require.<p>

Sorry - I missed the image upload.<div></div>

One option is to just go with the blur and do something slightly abstract like desaturation or black and white. I've used these methods to salvage more than one good expression on my kids' faces that I missed with a slow shutter or poor focus. I took the edit posted by Richard Runyan (I liked the motion blurred catch-light) desaturated a little and added film grain using the photoshop film grain filter.