Yesterday Canon announced two new tilt and shift lenses that look absolutely amazing. The TS-E 17mm f/4L which has the widest view of any tilt/shift lens and the TS-E 24mm f/3.5L II which is just an upgrade to another lens. Great lenses for keeping that “curve” out of your shot. (check out Canon’s sample image) [...]
And about an hour later…
Woke up this morning to an amazing sky. Fired up the new Canon 5d and shot this one handheld off the balcony.
So dave has 10+ years in photoshop…me, I use it for stitching panos and nothing else. I use aperture and new tools like viveza. Super simple and great results…I think…Both of these were taken along the beach in Nicaragua with my D300 and my 18-200 lens…
Michael’s version above using Viveza Silver efx
dp’s version using Adobe [...]
Michael’s version using Nik Silver Efex Pro software for Aperture.
dp’s version using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CS4
So I’m on a mission now to figure out that style you showed me last week Michael. Started playing around with a few images to see if I’m on the right track. Thoughts on these? Did about 5mins of adjusting in camera raw and then I duplicated the b&w photo in photoshop, converted one to [...]