Thursday, July 2, 2009

New Lens! 24-70mm yay!

My new lens arrived tonight! Canon 24-70mm 2.8L USM lens! I had to sell 2 lenses to afford it but it was worth it. This should be a better all around lens for weddings. I'm excited! I did a little testing tonight to check it out...plus to check out my 5d which seems to have a backfocusing problem...that or I am crazy and all of a sudden don't know how to use autofocus (which is doubtful). So I'm sending it in to be checked out. I'm going to miss it for the next couple of weeks.

Anyway, here are a couple of my test shots with my new lens! Also, I'm feeling teachery and decided that I'd post my straight out of the camera (SOOC) files as well as the finished. I get emails sometimes about what I do to the pictures...so thought I'd share. None are really super touched up or anything...just basic.

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Skin softened and sharpened

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Slight skin smoothing (for guys i do less than girls), sharpened, curves, a little contrast and saturation boost.

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Cleaned up face, skin smoothing, sharpened, slight contrast boost

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Skin smooth, sharpened, ran an action called Pool Party at 20%, burned bushes a little to darken and make more focus on berlin's pale skin.

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This picture isn't perfectly in focus, but i like it...so i'm keeping it. :) I just skin smoothed, ran an action called Winter Fade at 30%, then increased the contrast.

Okay, well just felt like sharing my excitement! Now I'm off to enjoy my ice cream bar and watch a movie while James is hanging out with Joel. :)

3 comments:

Cody Jean said...

Hmm. I think I'd need an inbetween teacher to teach me what you're trying to be teachy about. :)

Melanie Van Wynsberg said...

YAY new lens! Glad you got it.
Love the pics & editing. Thanks for sharing your skills. ;0)

Good stuff. :)

amanda said...

Yeah, some photoshop knowledge would be needed to understand me. i'd probably be shooting myself in the foot, but I'd love to teach people photoshop!

yes, i'm so excited for the upgrade!