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<p>Republic of Quebec? As far as I know, we are still a province of Canada.</p>

<p>Actually, moving through Afghanistan and the region, it is a wise thing to carry an inexpensive camera. This just proves again that gear means nothing. I am actually sick of seeing this portrait everywhere, but this is all to the credit of McCurry to have shot such a powerful image.</p>

<p>phlearn.com is the best in my opinion. Just registering on their website gives you a free one hour high quality tutorial. Aaron Nace has a quiet non-threatening charisma and infinite enthusiasm that makes the material easy to follow and remember. My 2 cents.</p>

<p>720px too, it seems, thanks Lex for the link. I find that even in 2048px, with HQ clicked, it's not that much. Facebook is not really the best place to showcase images, but I have a page anyway, because the social interaction is key.</p>

<p>Resize your images to 960px or 2048px when you post to Facebook. Any other size will get modified by their engine and crunch your quality. Google for <em>facebook 960px</em> to get their support page explaining this.</p>

<p>I agree with you Tom that moon light is as harsh as the sun, for the reasons you mention. But the perception of the viewer is that moon light is softer. Looking objectively at your photo, it looks like an underexposed image under sunlight conditions (which it is not). Softening the light, and seeing the stars, will be perceived more clearly like a night time image.<br>

For the same reason we use a skylight filter to remove the blue cast on images because of the sky, but the blue cast is there for real, if you look for it, it is just that our brains compensate and (kind of) remove it from the processed image in our mind. My 2 cents.</p>

<p>Sarah, if the test frame without flash is black, then ambient light cannot affect your final image. For color balancing, I have my subject hold this:<br>

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/651253-REG/X_Rite_MSCCPP_ColorChecker_Passport.html<br>

With Lightroom, it is a great combination. </p>

<p>Oops, the max flash sync speed I am talking about are those of my Nikons. I was not making a blanket statement.</p>

<p>When I use my own lighting, I will usually try to kill the ambient light by shooting at the max flash sync speed, which is 1/250 of a seconds, and a high f/stop. You can shoot a test shot without your flash(es) to make sure that the frame is black. At that point you are in control of the light, whatever is overhead.<br>

Of course if your flash was to fill only, and you were using ambient light from a window, or the room itself, for example, then the only way out is to gel your flash like Sarah Fox said. </p>

<p>Hello, there are quite strict laws regarding photographing people in the province of Quebec that you should be aware of. Please refer to this article:<br>

<a href="/street-documentary-photography-forum/009s0V">http://www.photo.net/street-documentary-photography-forum/009s0V</a></p>

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<p>Nikon D7000, Tamron 17-50mm, two flashes with umbrellas in a clam-shell config.</p><div></div>

<p>I actually rented her studio twice in the past, in 2006 and 2008. I was flabbergasted when I started hearing about these events, as I never had any hint about the possibility of these actions. Her studio was well equipped, with all kinds of beautiful furniture, that I used in my own photographs, and that I could see in her own pictures. She was courteous and helping, but not trying to control my shoot. I was awed to be in the studio of a world-class photographer.<br>

At first I thought, this is b**s**t, but I saw the evidence. As I said, I met her just a few hours. You can't know a person in such a short time.<br>

I don't understand what happened.</p>

<p>I have been using the pop-up flash on my D200 to control a SB-800 and a SB-600 for years. I set it to full manual, but no power for the pop-up flash. It does not contribute to the light of the image, but as someone wrote, it can be seen on reflective surfaces. I do like to have this point of light in the eyes of my subject, as it gives them more life, as you can see in this image of mine.<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/13214271-lg.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="536" /></p>

<p>oops, scratch that, just saw Dave's last post.</p>

<p>@Kyle: impressive machine. Is this a Mac-only issue? Is there other Windows users having the same problems, or am I just really lucky?</p>

<p>I've been using LR for a few years, and I bought LR4 when it became available. It is running pretty much at the same speed for me as the other versions, which is fast enough that I do not notice it, ever.<br>

I use the Windows version, and in the Help/System Info menu, you can get an hardware list that you can copy. Maybe the problem is not the computer, but it would maybe help to share what hardware you have.<br>

I bough my machine from Dell in July 2010, to use it for video editing and photo work. Here's the specs from Lightroom's view:</p>

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Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4<br />Library Path: C:\Users\bgallant\Pictures\LT4\Main_Catalog\Main_Catalog.lrcat<br />Settings Folder: C:\Users\bgallant\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom<br>

Adapter #1: Vendor : 1002<br /> Device : 6898<br /> Subsystem : b001002<br /> Revision : 0<br /> Video Memory : 1010<br />AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 1024<br />AudioDeviceName: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)<br />AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2<br />AudioDeviceSampleRate: 44100<br />Build: Uninitialized<br />Direct2DEnabled: false<br />GL_ALPHA_BITS: 8<br />GL_BLUE_BITS: 8<br />GL_GREEN_BITS: 8<br />GL_MAX_3D_TEXTURE_SIZE: 8192<br />GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE: 16384<br />GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS: 8<br />GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS: 16384,16384<br />GL_RED_BITS: 8<br />GL_RENDERER: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series<br />GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 4.10<br />GL_VENDOR: ATI Technologies Inc.<br />GL_VERSION: 4.1.10750 Compatibility Profile Context<br />OGLEnabled: true<br />OGLPresent: true<br />GL_EXTENSIONS: GL_AMDX_debug_output GL_AMDX_vertex_shader_tessellator GL_AMD_conservative_depth GL_AMD_debug_output GL_AMD_depth_clamp_separate GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect 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<p>You should start an equipment renting company... ;)</p>

<p>Costa Rica. Go out and shoot. You'll have thousands of images, instead of a piece of metal and glass.</p>

<p>@Kent Staubus: You meant Angenieux, right?</p>

<p>I would not call this anonymous or even semi-anonymous when you post to a well indexed forum as photo.net is, with your real name. I was able to find Robert's physical address and phone number (home or business I don't know, and I won't push that far) with a few clicks of a mouse in public search engines.<br>

As a policy, I am always writing on the internet as I would speak to the person.<br>

Another thing to point out is that sometimes the person is not a native to the english language, as I am, and may misunderstand or write something that is midly offensive without knowing it. (my first language is French)<br>

To return to this thread subject, I think you need to start on the goals you are trying to achieve, and in what context you will be shooting. For example, you need to capture the kiss, to be in the proper place to catch it. It will probably be in a church. What kind of light is possible in that church? Can I find out before hand? Can I use flashes in that church?<br>

I think to capture a wedding you need to understand the beats of it, kiss, rings, dance, eyes of the father of the bride, in accordance with the B&G's wishes, and be at the right place at the right time with the right equipment to capture it.<br>

In other words, knowing the workflow (getting information from B&G as much as possible) and context (scouting the locations), and thinking of the things that can go wrong (backups for everything if you can, even a second car...), you will be able to choose the equipment you need. For most people getting married, what is in the shot is what counts, not which lens or camera you are using.<br>

my 2¢.</p>

<p>Jim, I'm looking at trying this out too, on my D200. Did you do other tests?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

<p>If you are in a situation where you don't need VR, turn it off. I've been burned too many times.</p>

<p>Hello, I am not sure if it was addressed yet, but there is an option where you can embed the original raw image in the DNG, and using the Adobe DNG converter, you can extract it again later if you need it. Provided of course that it is exactly the original file, bit for bit, or else it is quite useless.<br /> Since I am a systems administrator by trade, UNIX and UNIX-like, I've had to learn of ways to verify the integrity of files, and one of them is to make an MD5 hash of the file before conversion, and then you make another one after it was extracted from the DNG.<br /> Both hashes were the same, which is enough to convince me that the file that is extracted is <em>exactly</em> the same as the original file.<br /> If you go to Wikipedia and search for MD5, you will find that it is broken as an encryption mechanism, but it will work well locally to verify integrity of files.<br /> So there you have it, the best of all worlds, one file that contains everything. HD space is so cheap now I am also embedding a full JPG preview in the file. As other mentionned, the transfer can be done during one's sleep. Actually with the machine I've got now, I can do about 600 files per hour with lightroom 3. (quad i7-920 / 8gb ram)</p>

<p>This is a picture I took over the weekend. This picture is unretouched, straight out of my D200, with a Tamron 17-50mm at 50mm, F11, 1/125s, ISO100. Speedotron flash with a Chimera 3'x4' softbox.</p><div></div>

<p>St-Benoit-du-Lac Abbey, Quebec, last Saturday</p><div></div>