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<p>Mike,</p>
<p>To be honest I didn't realise the D7100 had such a high dynamic range. In that case there isn't that much difference. Sorry I misinformed everyone in my previous post.</p>
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<p>You will never see the difference in photos between the D600 and D7100. My wedding customers certainly don't see the difference between a D7100 and even a D800</p>
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<p>Kent, </p>
<p>there is a difference between the photos being taking with FX and DX format camera's.</p>
<p>The images from a full frame camera will have much better low light performance therefore the images taking in low light ie at the reception will have a lot more detail and a lot less noise in them. The dynamic range on a full frame camera is also much wider than a DX camera. Then you also have the depth of field difference between the two formats, Full frame camera's will have much shallower depth of field than DX camera's giving Wedding photos and portraits that lovely separation from the background.<br>
<br />Wither these differences are enough to sway you to go full frame or not Dieter is your decision and will be based on what sort of shots you want to take. Their are benefits and disadvantages for both formats. Some of the advantages are listed above for FX format, The big advantage for DX format is the crop factor for your lenses which if your shooting wildlife or sport can be a big advantage. <br>
<br />I would recommend FX for portrait, Wedding or landscape photography and DX for sport or wildlife. </p>
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<p>From a recent wedding. Nikon D600 f/2.8 1/160sec ISO-360 Tamron 28 - 75mm @75mm</p><div>
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<p>Couple of points here. Nikon DX are 1.5 cropped so your kit lens is equivalent to a 27 - 82mm lens on a 35mm camera. The Nikon 70 - 300mm lens that you are looking at buying is equivalent to a 105 - 450mm lens.</p>
<p>So you will be missing 55 - 70mm on your DX camera or the equivalent of 82mm - 105mm on a 35mm camera. Only you can decide if this is going to be an issue or not. </p>
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<p>What part of New Zealand are you moving to Bob. </p>
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<p>Bob, Maybe were a bit laid back here in New Zealand. It is the norm here to allow 1/2 hour for family & guests followed by 2 hours for formal photos. The couple normally have a basket of drinks and nibbles and we have a relaxing time taking the formal photos and giving them some time out before the reception. </p>
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<p>I agree with William above.</p>
<p>You can't stop people taking photos during the ceremony or the reception. But during other times of the day I handle it by telling the couples that I don't mind others taking photos during the Family shots but they have to remember that at the end of the day they hired me to take their professional photos and at times I will need their full attention. </p>
<p>I will set up the family shot and then step aside and give everyone else a few moments to capture their shots. I will then step in and say okay now can everybody please look at me and capture a shot off all eyes on me. <br /><br />The formal photos are a definet no go I need everyone's full attention and the bridal party don't want or need a gallery. <br /><br />If you want to get started then try and shoot candid moments at the ceremony and reception only anything else unfortunately you will only be getting in the professional photographers way and making his job harder.<br /><br /><br /></p>
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<p>I think the first thing that needs to be established is this photographers professionalism. The fact that he agreed to hand over all images unedited puts that into question. Do you get a feel for how many weddings he has photographed from his website. Is he a full-time photographer or just someone wanting to make a few extra dollars from his hobby on the weekend.<br /><br />If he is a full-time photographer who has shot many weddings then chances are that he has just got himself snowed under and is working as hard as he can to get your images to you. </p>
<p>If he just in it to make a few extra dollars on the weekend and he's already been paid, then he is holding all the cards. He still can't morally or legally blackmail you for more money. You are however at his mery as to when you will get your images as bad publicity the only card your holding doesn't carry much weight with a non-professional. </p>
<p>Does he have a Facebook page that you can post a friendly reminder that your still waiting on your photos and ask him if there is a reason for the delay. Otherwise ring him and ask him these same questions. No need to walk on egg shells but also no need to charge like a wounded bull.<br /><br /><br /><br>
Good luck.</p>
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<p>There are two ways to look at this.<br>
<br />1) You supply your own lunch and be prepared to purchase a meal as well. This is an expense that needs to be added in to your pricing. Now if the couple supply you with lunch or Dinner or both then you are on the winning side.</p>
<p>2) You stipulate in your contract that you need to be feed and watered, therefore you shouldn't include anything in your pricing for this.<br /><br />I personally opt for option 1) as 99% of the time I am feed and watered by the couple or the venue anyway so therefore I am on the winning side 99% of the time and my contract doesn't dictate to the couple what they must do.</p>
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<p>I don't see what all the fuss is over the D600 oil issue, Yes there is a problem but is an easy fix well was for my D600 cleaned the sensor myself a few times during the first 10,000 shots and now no problems. Love my D600 and think I would be hard pushed to swap it for a D800 if I was offered a straight swap. The D600 oil issue is a genuine problem but has been totally blown out of all proportions. Just saying :)</p>
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<p>I have an interesting twist to this story. Here in New Zealand I have found that 99% of venue's will feed me for free. After all I can put work their way as well as them putting work my way. So it is in both our interest to build up a friendly relationship with each other. In fact most venues will bend over backwards to make sure I have been feed and supply me with drinks, non alcoholic off course. </p>
<p>I always tell my couples not to bother putting me on their guest list as the venue will feed me anyway. With just one exception. This one venue that I have done a couple of weddings at has a problem with this arrangement. Now this is fine as I don't expect them to have to feed me, however the first time this happened was when the staff got me a plate and cutlery I waited until all the guests have been up and got their meal I then helped myself to a small meal and sat down to eat it. <br /><br /><br />The manageress came marching up and informed me that she would need to talk to the couple about the extra charge. I insisted that she didn't bother the couple but instead just let me know how much and I would happily pay. She ignored my request and marched straight up to the couple at the top table and made such a big deal over it that I was embarrassed. I offered the couple to pay but they said it was covered as some guests hadn't shown up and they weren't impressed with the manageress either and apologised to me.<br /><br /><br>
The second wedding at this venue, I sat down on an empty table by the bar in view of the manageress and brought out my pack lunch and proceeded to eat it. Okay I wasn't being very diplomatic but had asked her at the previous wedding if this was acceptable and she told me it was fine. <br /><br />She was also very anti social and talked down to everyone and treated her staff like dirt. I am glad to say that she has since been giving the sack and I am looking forward to my next wedding at this venue.<br /><br />I agree with you that we should not be expected to be fed.<br>
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<p>I agree with Patrick & William. This bride's response is not acceptable under the circumstances. Ask her what she expected you to do under the circumstances, will be very interesting to hear if she can come up with anything. You have been more than reasonable to the couple under the circumstances and hopefully once she has calmed down she will come to her senses and realise how badly she is behaving. </p>
<p>I wouldn't stress to much about the bride, concentrate on making a full recovery.</p>
<p>Hope you make a speedy recovery and as William pointed out have insurance to help you get back on your feet and replace everything that you have lost. </p>
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<p>Your stats are still their Brian.</p>
<p>You need to be logged in first, then under your site name in the menu bar you will find account settings, you will then find stats to the left - bottom icon. Feel free to ask other questions that your having problems with were all here to help.</p>
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<p>Brian, What is your gripe with Smugmug's improvements. I can't praise them enough for their new upgrade to their site. Maybe we can sort out your problem with Smugmug as no doubt you already have a number of images here that you would need to upload to a new site.</p>
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<p>Steve,</p>
<p>You can just use Lightroom to edit your images and set it up to use your current folder system of cataloguing your files. No problem.</p>
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<p>Lightroom does have a workaround solution to not having layers to add your border and that is the print module. You can set up templates with the page size and colour border to what you want (Including your logo or text if you want) and then just drag and drop your file into the template and save as file.</p>
<p>Lightroom will give you greater ability to catalogue all your images as well as all the camera raw editing capabilities.</p>
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<p>The poor photographer who sounds like he has limited experience and has probably never shot or looked at Raw files before. He was asked to shoot the wedding in Raw and I wonder if he got home looked at the files and thought that they were all flat and lifeless and is having trouble bringing some life into these files. Depending on what software he has he could be having a real problem and he might just think he has done something wrong. Just a thought.... </p>
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<p>Well said Michael Chang. Totally agree with you</p>
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<p>All that matters here are that you get your pictures. If you threaten to sue or upset him to much he might delete all the images and then you will never be able to get your images. <br /><br />Treat this guy with the utmost respect and even have your wife contact him in all future conversations. In the first instance have her contact him asking for a time and place where she can pick up the photos as her family are waiting to see them. <br /><br />Do what ever it takes to get your images, then and only then once you have all the images then you can tell him what you think of him.</p>
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<p>Hi Simon, When the AE-L / AF-L button is set up to focus then as you mentioned the main shutter no longer controls focus. If you have the centre focus point selected and then locked so you don't accidentally move it away from the centre point. Then pointing this focus point to the subject you want to focus on you press the AE-L / AF-L button and the camera will very quickly focus on the subject even in poor light.</p>
<p>If your subject is stationary You can then release the button and your camera will remain focused on this point if both the camera and this point remain at the same distance, allowing you to take multiple shots of your subject without out having to refocus.</p>
<p>Alternatively if you subject is moving, press the AE-L / AF-L button and hold it, your camera will continuously focus based on the centre point.</p>
<p>There has been a previous thread on here discussing this set-up <a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00JBd6">http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00JBd6</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
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<p>The D600 has an amazing AF system, I Shoot weddings and have my D600 set up to use only the centre spot using the AE-L / AF-L button on the back of the camera to focus on whatever subject that I decide to focus on. I can then shoot multiple images of the same subject without having to refocus as long as the distance between the subject or the camera dosn't change.</p>
<p>Why do we look down our noses at people who shoot with their DSLR set to Auto or one of the other program modes yet were happy for the camera to decide for us what is important to focus on.</p>
<p>Set your D600 up to use only the single centre point using the AE-L / AF-L button to focus and recompose you will find this is much quicker and easier than trying to move your focus point around to line up with your subject. Off course this all depends on what your shooting.</p>
<p>The D600 is an amazing camera.</p>
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<p>Not to sure that I follow your question Manuel. Your original file is an unedited Raw file as copied from your memory card from this you then normally apply editing from a number of different editing programs. This file should be saved as a separate file either as a PSD, Tiff or JPG.</p>
<p>I like to keep a copy of both the original RAW file plus a copy of my edited file as a JPG as I edit all my images in Lightroom any image that is edited as a smart object in Photoshop is saved as a Tiff as this will right back to Lightroom and allow me to do further adjustments to it in Lightroom.</p>
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<p>Owen,</p>
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<p>this is another example of why I no longer shoot weddings</p>
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<p>No this is not a reason not to shoot weddings. It is a reason to make sure you backup your images to another drive or at least leave the images on the original memory card and put this away for safe keeping until you have finished editing the images and delivered them to the client, I do both. Any professional photographer will go to great lengths to protect and backup their images. This photographer didn't and was unprofessional. </p>
<p>It's a very sad story, and there is no way the photographer can put it right if indeed the images are gone from both the hard drive and memory cards. Paying for another photo shoot including all extra's, hair, flowers & Tux included is the very least she could offer you Jeni. I appreciate your family will not be in them and without photo shopping them into a few photos this isn't going to happen. I feel your pain and can't believe that their are people out their that shoot weddings and don't backup their images.</p>
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