The Olympus E-system thread
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Rick Meyer
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Hot Damn. Love that.
Mino...how many of these do you HDR or do you HDR? And by HDR I mean either way....take 3 or more photos and blend them or take 1 photo and use photoshop to change their exposure to blend?
Very clear photo. My next cam/lens...gotta have some image stabilization features. This shot is beautiful...
EDIT: PS I forgot to mention...I LOVE that cow shot. And, you know what, I cannot explain why....
Mino...how many of these do you HDR or do you HDR? And by HDR I mean either way....take 3 or more photos and blend them or take 1 photo and use photoshop to change their exposure to blend?
Very clear photo. My next cam/lens...gotta have some image stabilization features. This shot is beautiful...
EDIT: PS I forgot to mention...I LOVE that cow shot. And, you know what, I cannot explain why....
The cows and the old truck had a slight HDR treatment, the boat is straight from the camera with only levels adjustment and a tad of push on the blue. All of these were taken with my Olympus e-500 which has no OIS and I have buckets of fuzzy shots to prove it
I got lucky with the boat as there was a sort of eye of the hurricane hole in the clouds that really set up some nice light.
I got lucky with the boat as there was a sort of eye of the hurricane hole in the clouds that really set up some nice light.
Here's one I actually got paid to shoot...Edit: although I was told I could use any image I shot with this company anywhere I liked, I just received an e-mail that states I have to inform them of when and where which I have now to do. I have posted an older image in its place for now.
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Another paid shot. Edit: although I was told I could use any image I shot with this company anywhere I liked, I just received an e-mail that states I have to inform them of when and where which I have now to do. I have posted an older image in its place for now.
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Ooops...There is one more. Edit: although I was told I could use any image I shot with this company anywhere I liked, I just received an e-mail that states I have to inform them of when and where which I have now to do. I have posted an older image in its place for now.
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poopnoodle
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that is an awesome boat picture (the second one especially). and is that you projecting the clock design on the wall or was that painted there (looks cool either way), quality work.
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Kevin Dorsey
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Mino, what was your lighting setup for those corporate shots? Nice work.
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Rick Meyer
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I know I say this all the time...and I know you respond with "yeah, but there were 200 terribly blurry pictures to get this one"...but I don't care....I'll say it again. These shots are so frigging crisp. I love them. In fact, ALL the shots you post have a level of detail and crispness I can't seem to duplicate. Do you have a sharpening setup in cam that you tweak? or, luck?
And, I've never been anything but a canon or nikon guy. But I am really impressed with your Olympus shots....it really is the Indian...
And, I've never been anything but a canon or nikon guy. But I am really impressed with your Olympus shots....it really is the Indian...
Thanks...The corporate shots were all shot really quickly as I ha only about two weeks to shoot 35 corporations. I didn't have time to get into lit shots so I just took a camera mounted flash gun and bounced the light off the ceiling. The "time machine" shot at the top had lots of mercury vapor banks so the gun added some fill. The boardroom shot, I told them to pretend they were having a meeting, then I took three shots bouncing the flash on thee different angles till it looked more or less even. The artist shot had a nice big window for ambient so I just bounced off the ceiling to fill the shadows a bit. The "clock" on the wall was actually a wallpaper of some sort. The final shot was ambient with bounce flash off the roof for fill.
Actually I couldn't afford "200 terribly blurry pictures" on this project as I was the only person shooting and I had zero time for re-shoots. The e-510 really delivers some amazingly crisp shots especially it would seem where flash is involved, I've found the same to be true in good levels of natural light. I do add one shot of "sharpen" to most of my shots in PS as I find they get a bit lost when they are downsized. I really thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew when I took this gig and had a few nights of sheer terror realizing I had only one week left and three weeks work to do. Somehow I got it done and was able to flush the bus ticket to South America down the toilet
There are ways to adjust the sharpness in cam I think but I've left most of the image settings at their default state.
Rick Meyer
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Thanks for the info/insight. I'm a fan of your shots. So, I appreciate your stories of the journey.
Wayne Dupuis
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Wayne Dupuis
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The IQ is really quite high, and ... I don't think I will buy another body for quite some time. Years really, as the E3 is close to perfection in build quality too; not to mention I'm too far into the glass to look backI am looking carefully at the e-3 system myself but am having trouble justifying it to the "committee" to coin a Hudson phrase
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Rick Meyer
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I am looking carefully at the e-3 system myself but am having trouble justifying it to the "committee" to coin a Hudson phrase
lol.
Actually, I have a rebel xti and am pretty dedicated to their lenses. However, the e-3 as well as the 40D and D300 are all a pretty big leap so its good to know that should that day ever come I will have another option. So far, I am really liking what I am seeing. I saw these interviews and it makes a pretty convincing argument for the E-3 system from professional photographers (you have to scroll down quite a bit). http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/E3/E3A.HTM
Right now, I have no official "committee" to consult but who knows, by the time I upgrade, I might have a committee with several constituents. :thumbsup:
Thanks for the link, reading it does give one a warm and fuzzy feeling especially if you're using a 510 when reading it. This new camera is making me itch!! Still...realistically I've purchased more than my fair share of toys this year so I'll have to hide in the bushes for a while before I leap out with the "I need an E-3 rapidly" surprise ambush :evil:
To be honest, there is so much more I need to get comfortable with in an image control sense that buying the e3 right now would be a techy grab (It's new...I gottta have it!!) than something I really need....But hey!....If there's ever a couple of grand floating around that the committee hasn't allocated to some meaningful cause then.....Bam!!!...That cameras in the bag!
To be honest, there is so much more I need to get comfortable with in an image control sense that buying the e3 right now would be a techy grab (It's new...I gottta have it!!) than something I really need....But hey!....If there's ever a couple of grand floating around that the committee hasn't allocated to some meaningful cause then.....Bam!!!...That cameras in the bag!
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