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I think a crop could help, but also think DOF should be narrower. Here is one I did in CS3, which at the moment is playing up so I couldn't crop, but have meddled with other stuff. It is hard for us to really help without knowing what you really had in mind for this image.<div></div>

It does look quite funky as a single image, I admit. But when you are going through a days shooting and you find that the best shot of the day looks like this then you start to get a bit p***ed off!

Further to the other forum postings on file corruption, I am going to add this.

I have been having problems since last summer (northern hemisphere) when I

upgraded my whole system. I used to run a Mac Powerbook G4 with iPhoto and a

point and shoot Sony DSC T1. Then I went mad, I bought a MacBook Pro with huge

Ram, Aperture, and a silly little EOS 5d with all the lenses....yes I went

mad....I blame it all on Philip Greenspun and his reviews. Anyway, since then I

have been blasting my way through every day, happily producing loads of

deleterious material that should really be consigned to the trash, but hey I've

spent a lot of money and now I"m looking at it.

 

Anyway, imagine, the best laptop, the best camera I could afford, the best

lenses money can buy, and Aperture....the "best photo editing/storage facility

you can get this side of heaven" etc,etc. Well, nearly every download of files

to Aperture has this BLIGHT in it. Don't worry, the original file data is all

safe somewhere on another disc, but in my beloved Mac, with my beloved Aperture

I get this in about 5% of my files.......and I spent all that money. It ain't

right, Apple have got a lot of stuff they need to sort out, and my photos should

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I have to say that I'm not one for the technicalities of photography, when I take a shot I take it because that moment in time coupled with what I see grabs me by the b***s and makes me point my camera and shoot. Having said that I have a decent working knowledge of how the camera works, right from the basic in camera settings, out to the shit I need to know to take the shot at that particular instant in time, light etc,etc.

 

Having said that what I'm about to show you are two shots taken with the two cameras and their suited lenses on an evening just after I bought the 5d, but not long after I sold the 400d. They are both attrocious images, but at the time all I wanted was a comparison,.....here and now..months later, I realise it was actually a good exercise. Let me know what you think.....not about the image, but about the comparisons between two very differently priced cameras, and their respectively priced lenses. Just to say that these happen to be the MOST comparative shots in my library for this discussion. If I could open out the boundaries I could show you a load of stuff that would show the crux of what I'm trying to understand, better saturation, contrast, sharpness,etc,etc.

 

As a final note, both cameras were set to neutral in the settings. The 400d had the bog standard 18-55 f5.6 kit lens ( after a while I upgraded the lens to a 17- 55, the 5d had the 24-105 L kit lens. Since then I have added a 50 -f1.4 prime and a 70- 200 f2.8 L IS USM, with these lenses I have had a whole load of more interesting stuff. But the main point of this argument is....should we really expect so much more for our money. Maybe in the hands of a top pro the 5d would really sing, but in those same hands the 400d may be a songbird too!

Yes, as always Aperture Priority, full RAW setting. Weird thing is I see sharper images, with better hue and saturation from the 400d and the KIT lens than with 5d and L lenses.

I have been going back over thousands of photos in my library recently and I

realized that taking a shot with a 400d was a LOT simpler than a 5d. I don't

know why, maybe I got a duff 5d, or maybe it was an exceptional 400d but it

seems to me that a 400d takes simply great shots straight out of the bag,

whereas a 5d you need to work them. I got the 5d because I wanted to invest in a

lenses system that could carry me through the next few tumultuous years in

digital photography, and at a pinch could be used on old film bodies if the

world goes tits up, i.e. for full frame stuff. I am saying this in hindsight

because I have stupidly sold the 400 to pay for the 5d, and some.

 

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my 5d, but, and it's a BIG but, can I take

better pictures with it. I'll endeavor to show you shots from both, as candid as

I can, if so required. But I'm hoping someone will just say "You idiot,

it doesn't matter....just work it!

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