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MTB rider shoot with with Mire Herbst CANON 70D, sigma 50mm art, 5 speedlights with Highspeed Sync to achieve wide apertures in daylight.

DPP is digital photo professional, for canon DSLR's. its not as powerful as lightroom, but I do believe it processes raw's cleaner. but its veryyyyyy subtle, most people wont notice.

I only noticed when doing touchups on really high detailed studio shots, There should not be any noise. when working in the darker shadow areas, I saw noise. i thought it was my sensor just sucking, until my friend with a 5D MK3 said the same thing. I reprocessed the same image in DPP, and it was smooth. Note though, i still use Lightroom for many shoots, but whenever I do a landscape or an image where I need ultimate IQ, I use DPP. the 14-42 (which equals my 18-50mm on Canon crop), is great, but until you really play with a proper wide, you dont know what you missing

Flowta, Olympus optics are great. Im sure they have superwides And yes! please use your Olympus Raw software, and export as a 16bit adobeRGB TIFF, then use in photoshop or equivalent.

So the 3 pics are my first 3 landscape shoots I did Its really easy 1) Take a tripod 2) If you have live view and a level, use it 3) I always take 2 exposures 4) Set to ISO 100, I set my aperteur to one thats considered sharp, around F11-F18 5) I use a variable Neutral density filter, this changes a 1/20sec exposure up to 10-15 seconds! great to make those blurry water shots. 6) I take a shot with the sky rich in detail and in focus, this will make the foreground dark 7) I take a shot with the foreground with the correct exposure, with blown out skies. Post bits 8) Shoot in RAW, AdobeRGB 9) DONT USE LIGHTROOM if you own canon. It sucks regarding noise. trust me. Use DPP. Lightroom is great for batch, but not when creating high quality smooth images. 10) I dont like HDR algorithms and apps, they tend to look fake. I manually layer the "sky" shot and the "foreground" shot with layer masks. usually a simple graduated one. I dont really do much post. And i try to keep the image looking real, so be careful not to overdo the "HDRI" effect. When compositing your image, try to avoid centered horisons, use rule of thirds, or keep it interesting. Always make sure to have foreground interest, or leading lines, especially shooting wide. Out of interest. My settings typically at sunset is: 1x shot at ISO 100, F16, 1/10 seconds, 11mm zoom (for sky) 1x shot at ISO 100, F16, 10-15 seconds, Foreground (note I use a neutral density filter to achieve these shutters. Live view is great as it uses mirror lockup by default, and you can press focus point. Also, use a 2 second timer so no camera shake.

Canon STM 10-18mm. Canon STM lenses, though not L by any means, are proving very sharp! All taken with mine

Woohoo! My landscape was selected in the Cameraworld competition. Scorring a free print and being on their display wall http://www.cameraland.co.za/landscape-competition-winners http://www.cameraland.co.za/media/wysiwyg/blog/landscape-comp/fb-facia-winners-nazeem-r.jpg

Hi yep, ignore the 24-105mm. even if you had full frame, I would say rather get a 24-70mm 2.8. The longer the focal range, the worse the IQ and the aperteur. I have a 18-50mm Tamron F2.8. It was a bargain and super sharp. Its equivalent to 24-70 on Full frame. With the money you save, get a 10-18mm STM. it is amazing at landscapes at a bargain price as well. I shoot with a canon 70D. 18-50mm F2.8 tamron (good all rounder) 50mm F1.4 85mm F1.8 (my favourite lens) 10-18mm STM (second favourite) 50-250 STM (almost never use it)

I enter as many guru shots as I can. I made "premier" on golden hour. http://gurushots.com/challenge/landing/the-golden-hour Its a great platform to see how good your pics are.

Canon 70D using a 10-18mm STM, tripod, variable ND filter and 2 exposures

This morning ride

Oh yes, I also shoot at iso 100 always, f16 for maximum depth of field and the shutter will relate to that, usually ends up being quite slow, hence tripod

I use a canon 70D. It's a cropped camera with a canon 10-18mm ultrawide zoom. I took that image at 11mm on a tripod. I do 2 exposures, one for the sky, one for every thing else, manually comp in photoshop as I don't like the fake look you often get with hdr scripts or apps. I shoot with live view uusing the lcd, dial my shutter and see results instantly, shoot with a 2 second timer to avoid shake. In those shots I used no filter. Sometimes I use a polariser or an nd

Ok Ok JXV! you got me. i did straighten it slightly. but it wasnt far off and i did some colour grading. but not much.

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There was a stunning Sun Circle today in CPT!

Thanks DJR

taken with my phone, but i love the result! Took it one handed doing 30km/h

Just a A5000. wanted to keep it simple and small for the wife. Also, can fit in my back pocket with a pancake wide for when i cycle! can finally take decent non cellphone pics of those amazing sunrises over fish hoek

I just bought a Sony mirrorless for a walkabout and the mrs. I dont think it will replace my DSLR but its definately very cool with great IQ

That lens tho! 500mm F4, probably price of a small car, the bokeh is incredible. But kudos to you for nailing the focus, exposure and shutter like that. I wouldnt know where to start

very nice bird shots! different to most. grabbed my attention

Die wind was dood still! toe ek terug kaap to ry, was dit veels erg. Jammer as my afrikaans nie te goed is nie

Took these 2 today in Betty's Bay. Canon 70D and 10-18mm STM