Canon EOS-400D and EF-S 17-85 IS. Well, not mine… I’ll be eying at least the 40D/5D or the 1D mk III.
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For Sale: Crumpler 6-Million Home
Well, it’s in good condition, used of course but clean and no tears or abuse. Will all straps and padding blocks included. Please leave a comment to make offer or to post questions.
Sale! Sale!
A Sunday Surprise!
Yay! I won! I won! I won!
Darn, it’s third prize and not second prize!
Crumpler 6-Mil doesn’t Work!
After three weddings, two portraiture shoots, two events and one pre-weddings, I’m come to realize that my Crumpler 6-million dollar home just doesn’t work out for me. It’s bulky, noisy, the shoulder straps keep slipping plus after a few hours, your neck and shoulders hurt. With three Canon ‘L’ zooms from wide angle to telephoto, two DSLR bodies and two flash units, the fact that I occasionally need two hands to access the bag makes it a big problem.
I’ve come to realize that the problem lies with the two definitions: transport and usage. Bags that work well in airplane overhead bins, and lugging your equipment around probably would be a failure when you really need to use your equipment and access it quickly. So, anyone want to buy my 6-million dollar home?
FHM Disaster
Was back at KL Convention Center with its horrible, really limited parking space. First photo-journalist experience since I wasn’t saddled with booth duty today. It was just to get photos of His Excellency, the Ambassador from Netherlands who will be visiting our booth with the Dutch Business council and a bunch of VIPs. First disaster was the batteries in my flash weren’t charged. Yes, I forgot but I was also rushing out a proposal due next Tuesday. Backup batteries also failed (more later). So resorted to my IS lens, ISO 800 and occasionally, on-camera flash! Terrible! Finish shooting at 3:45pm, rush over to Bon Cafe’s booth, get a triple shot latte with hazelnut syrup, download 1.2Gb of photos, select 10 best ones, post-process in Photoshop CS, download to a thumbdrive and off I go to get them printed. This is 2007! Why is the official media booth requiring prints! Are they stuck in 1997?! Anyways, got that all done by 4:31pm, get the heck out of the convention center, smack into a rain induced jam at Jalan Sultan Ismail but managed to get home by 5:15pm. Whew! What a day!
Smile for the camera!
Once home, I decided to condition the dead Sanyo batteries on my Maha C-204W charger but after an hour, something decided to blow up. Charger’s now dead plus I probably won’t kill my other Maha charger so the batteries went into the trash. Hmm, maybe I’d stick with PowerEX 2700s instead of Sanyo’s from now on.
Before and after
Perfecting the shot in Photoshop. Start with a RAW capture, Canon EOS-20D, EF16-35mm lens. The shot on the left is the unaltered RAW capture straight from the camera. Processing steps:
– RAW Conversion in Photoshop CS (slight curve adjust and WB), ProPhoto, 16bit
– Tonal Curve shifted and tweaked for shadow and highlight
– Levels and saturation boost to all channels from 125%-133%
– Adjustment layers with soft-light, screen, multiply
– Mask out areas of adjustment layers
– Flatten, smart sharpen
– Convert to sRGB, 8-bit
I Love RAW & Photoshop!