Portrait Photography

[NorbertBissinger]

Ron,

The attention span whats so important in little kids.

How did you get her attention? How many shots similar to this one?

Picture Pefect! Congradulations.

Norbert

[Noel_Carboni]

TomC,

Sorry about the delay in responding.

Yes, I've been printing 20 x 30s from ISO 100 D30 images, and yes, I've been using Genuine Fractals. EZPrints.com does a very good job for $20 on a 20 x 30, though you might want to oversaturate the colors just a little before submitting the image to them.

Here's a 6MP GF upsample of an image I recently printed large that will be about 20 x 30 on your screen:
http://members2.clubphoto.com/noel19...es/photo18.jpg

I've found GF is particularly good at preserving the "recognizability" of distant people. Consider the relative size of the boy's face in the above image.

-Noel

[Ron]

Roy-Her Grandma made the outfit/and hat as well as her bothers.



Tom - Biggest photo print I've had so far is 16x20 (couple with dog and cat). I was hoping to get something decent to test and make to 20x24. I might do that of this, though it's not really good enough to be a sample in the studio, plus all my samples at the studio are 30x40. I'd like to take the size tests one step at a time. I bet I can go 20x24 judging by the last 16x20 I saw.

I might try it for the heck of it. (never printed Joy (my wife) past Fuji 10x15 test print. Lens was 28-70 2.8L used pretty much for everything now. Unless I'm shooting sports or critters in my backyard.

auto focus seems to work well in camera room dispite low light (other than modeling lamp of main light) I did get the ST-E2 to work, I put duct tape over the IR slave tigger window and use just the IR focus lamp. (though it worked in testing, I didn't dare use it for the session.)

Norbert - I got lots of great shots, I feel the customer should get at least 10 buyable images per session. Kids get bored and tired easily... I have to work REALLY FAST which makes the D30 much more desireable over the usual RZ6x7.

Here's another...



Noel, how did the motion blur in the dog look when printed to 20x30 paper?

[Noel_Carboni]

Ron,

The motion blur wasn't a big problem because the center of visual focus is my son's face. Actually the dog's blurred very little in an absolute sense - he's about as sharp as the best detail in any of my 20x30 35mm negative film enlargements. I repeat: I couldn't be more impressed with how far the wonderfully accurate D30 data can be stretched.

-Noel

[Tom_Coles]

Rob G.,

Thanks a million for setting up this forum it is a appreciated.

Tom Coles

[NorbertBissinger]

Rob,

Thanks for setting this 2 forums up.

Now you will hopefuly have the others for what they are for.

Norbert

[barneyF]

just a note on CF cards and their durability.
Long story short, i had put one in my shirt pocket and headed to the computer and was distracted. I forgot it and it ended up in the wash the next morning. I found it in the bottom of the tub. Took it out and took the hair dryer to it, called Lexar and waited for their return call, but got impatient, figured what have i got to loose.
It worked and the images loaded and it is still working....

no mini Hd's for me....I'm stickin to the Lexar....told them i would make a commercial for them....

barneyF

[This message has been edited by barneyF (edited March 28, 2001).]