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2004-04-10 Thread John Coyle
Hi Tan: just got back to read about your problem. If you haven't resolved it by the time you need to go to the coast, and it helps, my AF330FTZ is yours for as long as you want it. Regards John Coyle Brisbane, Australia - Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL

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2004-04-10 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
? tan. -Original Message- From: John Coyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 10 April 2004 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)... Hi Tan: just got back to read about your problem. If you haven't resolved it by the time

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2004-03-23 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Sure ... nothing wrong with that, either. mapson wrote: just my half thimble-full ... shel I feel what Tanya is going through. I would hate to leave the *istD at home knowing I have it. BUT maybe it is possible to have 2 bodies. One for digital and a film one. Digital for those

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2004-03-23 Thread mapson
Just my $0.02 (whats that in Aus?, about $0.03?) todays exchange US -- OZ USD United States Dollars 1.32776 0.753147 so US 2c = OZ 2.65c ;-) (*)o(*) Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2004-03-23 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)... -Original Message- From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] One question though - I am going to have to work with my lens

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2004-03-23 Thread Mike Ignatiev
From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] One question though - I am going to have to work with my lens stopped down due to the excess light. Probably in the realm of f16. This totally sucks for portraiture as it increases depth

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2004-03-23 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello Tanya, #7 - I'm not sure if you are totally understanding the high speed synch issue. P-TTL or TTL for that matter don't rely on camera modes (AV, TV, P, M), they rely on the amount of light coming into the camera. So you can set the camera manually if you choose and let the flash fire

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2004-03-23 Thread Bruce Dayton
Tanya, forgot to mention that along with the flash itself, the camera's flash setting needs to be set to W HS - wireless and high speed. This is done by repeatedly pressing the flash button until the two symbols show up. -- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 7:39:21 AM, you wrote:

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2004-03-23 Thread John Francis
From: Rob Brigham [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tanya Mayer Photography [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] One question though - I am going to have to work with my lens stopped down due to the excess light. Probably in the realm of f16. This totally sucks for portraiture as it increases

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2004-03-23 Thread Butch Black
Hi Tan Sounds like picking up a ND2 and/or an ND4 filter would be a good idea. If necessary just get the filter in the largest filter size you use and get step up rings for the other filter sizes. Also, if you already have it a polarizer filter is good for 2-3 stops, so your F-16 turns into F-5.6

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2004-03-23 Thread Herb Chong
for something this important, i think best to have a friend as a temporary assistant to take care of this chore. Herb - Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 7:36 AM Subject: RE: omg - i have my foot

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2004-03-22 Thread Trevor Bailey
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)... Ok, guys, now this is serious stuff. I have just been booked for my very first fashion shoot for the weekend of 16/17 April. This is not just any old fashion label though, it is actually for an agency

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2004-03-22 Thread John Mustarde
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:43:17 +1000, you wrote: Post this question, perhaps shortened to just the basics, to rec.photo.technique.people, or join z-prophoto group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/z-ProPhoto . Both places have experts in people photography who seem very good at providing usable

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2004-03-22 Thread mapson
I can't present my client with images of 40 children with underexposed faces and nicely exposed backgrounds, and likewise, I can't present them with images of blown out background but perfectly exposed faces... If anything I would go for underexposed and correctly exposed (background and

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2004-03-22 Thread b_rubenstein
Well, you've got your hands full. Here's a few thoughts to kick around. You have to do something to control the light to keep the tonal range within the dynamic range of your recoring media (digital or film). If you don't there will be no such thing as proper exposure. Two things to use to do

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2004-03-22 Thread Anthony Farr
Tan, After 6 pages of the thumbnails being unusually large (in file size) they settled down to around 2kb, so I've been able to breeze through the whole collection of thumbs looking for the rotten exposures. But nothing was as bad as you suggested, instead I simply found some of the images showed

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2004-03-22 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
Hi everyone, Thanks so much for advice and suggestions... Firstly to Anthony - I am so sorry to have put you through that! lol. I was about to post and say to you that the thumbnails are only 2k in size and I went to my server to realise that I had uploaded the large images into the thumbnail

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2004-03-22 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Tanya ... I wasn't going to offer any suggestions as what I know about the istd and flash wouldn't fill a thimble, but you made a comment that I can comment upon. You said: A few of you have suggsted that for this shoot at least, I should go back to shooting the film as I know it and the

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2004-03-22 Thread Rob Brigham
: 22 March 2004 13:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)... Hi everyone, Thanks so much for advice and suggestions... Firstly to Anthony - I am so sorry to have put you through that! lol. I was about to post and say to you

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2004-03-22 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello John, Why do you say that? She is using an AF360FGZ which does have flash compensation on it. Instead of dialing it into the body, you dial it into the flash (like Nikon and others). I used to do as you described with my PZ-1p's and AF500FTZ and now do the same with the *istD and

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2004-03-22 Thread Rob Brigham
16:11 To: John Francis Subject: Re: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)... Hello John, Why do you say that? She is using an AF360FGZ which does have flash compensation on it. Instead of dialing it into the body, you dial it into the flash (like Nikon and others

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2004-03-22 Thread Bruce Dayton
Hello Tanya, Well, that certainly changes things. The AF360FGZ is about the only flash right now that will allow high speed flash synch and adjustable compensation for the flash output. Your other flashes are going to make it slower to work with - you really need a more versatile backup -

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2004-03-22 Thread Bruce Dayton
RB on the body? This was what people suggested for the MZ-S? -Original Message- From: Bruce Dayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 March 2004 16:11 To: John Francis Subject: Re: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)... Hello John, Why do you say that? She

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2004-03-22 Thread John Forbes
Actually, I believe the 360 is on the operating table at the moment. Different John. On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:11:04 -0800, Bruce Dayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello John, Why do you say that? She is using an AF360FGZ which does have flash compensation on it. Instead of dialing it into the

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2004-03-22 Thread graywolf
I do not have a digital camera, so I can only speak in generalities. But digital to my understanding is much like slide film. Blown highlights are unrecoverable. You might try setting exposure compensation to underexpose 1/2 to 2 stops depending on the brightness of those highlights. I might

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2004-03-22 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
If there is an issue with sensors and meters picking up ambient light and affecting a shot (too dark or washed out) then using a flash in manual mode may be the easiest option. For candids where you're working with a consistent distance from the subject this can work. If you have a high-output

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2004-03-22 Thread Herb Chong
). as for the flash problem, i think yours was underpowered for the lighting conditions, but that is a guess. Herb... - Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:43 AM Subject: omg - i have my foot

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2004-03-22 Thread Butch Black
Hi Tan repeat this mantra histograms, histograms Seriously use your histograms often to make sure you're not clipping = highlights try to stay away or modify very contrasty lighting and = bracket -1 and -2 ev. Shoot raw for the 16 bit color as it will help = with smoother tonal transitions.

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2004-03-22 Thread mapson
just my half thimble-full ... shel I feel what Tanya is going through. I would hate to leave the *istD at home knowing I have it. BUT maybe it is possible to have 2 bodies. One for digital and a film one. Digital for those that want it. And Film to back you up and have this security blanket

omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)...

2004-03-21 Thread Tanya Mayer Photography
Ok, guys, now this is serious stuff. I have just been booked for my very first fashion shoot for the weekend of 16/17 April. This is not just any old fashion label though, it is actually for an agency. It is a kids agency, and they want me to shoot 40 kids over two days for their z-cards,

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2004-03-21 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Tanya Mayer Photography Subject: omg - i have my foot in the door (but now I am scared)... Ok, guys, now this is serious stuff. lots of serious stuff here Come guys, dig into your deepest, darkest pits of knowledge and someone please offer me an answer