Canon Eos 20D
Well, it arrived yesterday. Got two problems- the seller forgot to put the battery in with the camera and the manuals are in Spanish....Aargh! Seller is a cool dude however and I should have the battery tomorrow. I went on-line and just bought the manual in English and Canon is shipping me the Software manual for $7.42. (you can get all this in .
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1. don't shoot black and white in camera, do it in post processing on the computer. you get more control.
Yep, I learned this after my first stab at using the black and white and filters setting adjustments. The shots looked like mush.
2. since you figured out how to shoot black and white then that means you went under parameters. always shoot with all the tabs in the middle, never up your contrast or anything in camera. wait until you get into photoshop for that.
Yep, figured this one out the hard way too.
3. if you aren't already, shoot raw and not jpeg.
This one as well. I found the jpg stuff looked a bit pixelated and there was way less latitude for recovering info. in the darks and white areas for over and under-exposing.
4. there's alot more you can do with the camera when the on switch is all the way up instead of half way up.
great work you have going here, i love your eye for perspective and using your locations to emphasize your models. mind if i add you back?
Thanks I appreciate that. I am trying to improve as quickly as I can. And if I may your handling of shots both at the taking stage and post production stage is really inspiring. (I have gross difficulties in post production right now)
Definitely add me back, I'd love to hear your take on things and if I may at some point ask you questions on photoshop I would really appreciate it?
I am having a helluva time figuring out just how to take part of an image and put it in another one and control the opacity of it or how to take the different black and white channels and layer them one on top of the other while controlling the opacity, etc. Basically, I am stuck on the basics.
-KevintheVerbose
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