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These photo's are tack sharp, I'm not sure what you are talking about but whatever. I took 190 shots and only had to cull 40 of them so I think we did a great job. You jump to conclusions since I only showed 4 of them. I also made it clear that I have done no post processing yet, but I never said I have no plans to. I'm really beginning to see why you may have chosen your username.
If you still feel the need to continue our debate about canon lenses vs pentax then I suggest you take it to PM's because it's getting a bit silly, it's ruining the board too.
And by the way, all my lenses are the quality lenses, Pentax doesn't make you pay extra for pro grade stuff. And your zoo shots with the L lens looked just as overexposed and blown out as the others. I didn't see anything special about them, but chose not to trash your thread since I figured that would be rude.
Thanks for nothing Villageidiot!
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Now it looks all pixelated, I'm not taking your advice since I figured that you wouldn't have anything but empty criticism for me. The originals look incredible and don't need any sharpening. And what's so special about the pic you posted? It looks soft to me!
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...lol ... You must not realize that as a previous MotM I am able to see who leaves me rep. What do you have to say now?I didn't neg rep you, but I would if I weren't the author of this thread, and so heavily involved. I don't do that.
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I'll take it from anyone else, unless you know the history between us two then you wouldn't understand what's going on.
I've posted the shots at popphoto.com and all have received nothing but compliments and possible alternate cropping strategies I'd take their advice over Villageidiot's any day.
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Now it looks all pixelated, I'm not taking your advice since I figured that you wouldn't have anything but empty criticism for me. The originals look incredible and don't need any sharpening. And what's so special about the pic you posted? It looks as soft to me as anything I posted!
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The pixelation comes from using a crappy program and photobucket. If you uploaded to a site like flickr and downsized your photos to a viewable size like 800x533, then when you uploaded them, you would lose no real IQ. If you just changed them to .jpg and uploaded them to photobucket, photobucket shrinks the photos and you end up with a crappy result when you don't do it yourself. Also, view the photo at it's full res if you're not. Look at their teeth. Even with the original you posted, you can see artifacts from a resize that I can pretty much gaurantee aren't in the original.
Plus, if you take a RAW straight from a camera, it has nothing done to it. If you take a .JPG out, it will probably look better 9 out of 10 times because the cameras so sharpening and level adjustments in camera. That's why it's more tedious to work with RAW to get a good picture. There's some things that -need- to be adjusted with every single RAW image for the most part.
And if you want to be a wedding photographer, just jumping in with no experience is not the best way to do it. Trust me, if you end up with some bad shots of some important events, people will be angry.
I understand that RAW files don't apply any sharpening to the image, I also understand that they do no other editing to the image at all. But these images don't need any of that. They are tack sharp, and the exposures look good straight from the RAW exposure. It's a fairly common occurrence when shooting outside. I wish you could see the original files without photobucket crapping them over. I'm still not convinced you would have anything constructive to say though. Unless I could convince you that I shot them with my brother in law's Canon 5D, and a "Holy L".
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You again make an assumption about my experience level. I said this is my 2nd paid gig this month, not my second paid gig ever. I don't need your advising me on when it will be appropriate to shoot weddings, I've had nothing but thrilled clients, and all my jobs have come off referrals. I think I'm doing just fine thank you!
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