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In the studio with Amanda

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Amanda and her MUA friend Liv joined me for a nice shoot back in February at the studio.  We had a good time doing a number of things but this was one of my favorites.  I tried to get a good balance of color and key off the red detail in the makeup by hitting the background with a blue gel to complement it.  Hopefully the subtle difference in brightness is enough that you can see her hair separate from the background behind her head, but not every monitor will play nice with shadow details like that. [...]

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The full frame battle returns

It was a few years ago but Canon and Nikon have been here before.  The two top dogs in the 35mmish world have brought out their new “mid-range” full frame DSRs within a month of each other.  Both look pretty good to me although I’m not 100% convinced about either.  I’m ready at this point to replace or at least supplant my aging 1D Mark II and the 5D Mark III looks promising, I just hope that it has the better noise control and dynamic range that its larger photosites should grant it versus the D800.  It certainly appears it will outperform the 5D Mark II but it’s too soon to say what will really become of both new cameras.  I’m not too big of a fan of pixel peeping but I do hope to see that the sensors in both cameras give each other a good fight. [...]

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