First session with Canon 50D

Nikolai · October 2, 2008

Last night I had a chance to put my new 50D through some real life shooting. The images below are pretty much straight conversions from RAW via DPP (gosh, I miss Bridge CS4/ACR5.0 already) , some may be minimally cropped, but that's about it, no PS.

1. Meet Whitney:

2. Who's there:

3. Are you talking to me?

4. Walking the path

5. Green dress

6. Backlit by sunset

7. Jumpy:

8. Flirty:

9. Moonlit portrait:

10. Moon and silhouette:

The rest of the selection (with exifs and such) is here: http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/6121452_kd7nP

C&C welcome!

Agnieszka · October 2, 2008

Very nice photos Nik!!

Thanks for posting the link to the gallery (exif) ... I would have never guessed your settings for the jumpy one.

The only one that doesn't look quite right to me is #5 (the green dress), I think it could use some color boost & it looks a bit too blue

My favorites are 6 & 8

Nikolai · October 2, 2008

Agnieszka wrote:

Very nice photos Nik!! Thanks for posting the link to the gallery (exif) ... I would have never guessed your settings for the jumpy one.

The only one that doesn't look quite right to me is #5 (the green dress), I think it could use some color boost & it looks a bit too blue

My favorites are 6 & 8

Angie, thanks!

I had an idea of DSS9 in the back of my mind, so I didn't do much PP. Besides, the ACR support for this camera is still weeks (if not month) away, and using DPP is a *major* PITA

. Last night I spent almost 5 hours

dealing with meager 400+ frames (not bad for one-hour shoot:-), 4 of them was due to the software inconvenience / inefficiency / sluggishness. :bash

evoryware · October 4, 2008

Nice shots! Faves are 3, 6, 8 and 9. How is the camera compared to the 40D?

Nikolai · October 5, 2008

evoryware wrote:

Nice shots! Faves are 3, 6, 8 and 9. How is the camera compared to the 40D?

Thanks!
So far - so good. Running off to sunrise shoot, more later

jeffreaux2 · October 5, 2008

I especially like the first four. The lighting looks very nice in those. What are you useing to gel the flash in those four?

...er...or are they just natural light?

Nikolai · October 7, 2008

jeffreaux2 wrote:

I especially like the first four. The lighting looks very nice in those. What are you useing to gel the flash in those four?

...er...or are they just natural light?

Thanks! First ones are natural light...