Last week I finally got a chance to go out and do a test run with my new camera, a Canon 5D mark2. I have been longing to get full frame camera for a while now, and now that I have one I wanted to see what kind of images I could get. I decided to so something I hadn't done in a while, nature and landscape photography. I think that last time I did it was about two years ago for a school project. I decided I go to White Clay Creek on the north side of Newark, DE. I only spent about an hour there, but here's a few from my time there. As always critics and comment welcome.
White Clay Creek - Images by Dominic Hanna
One thing I was really impressed with on the 5D, was low light shooting. On my 30D, I would cringe every time I had to shoot at 1600 ISO. The images would have an insane amount of noise, and editing it out in post production was a pain. There were a few times I pushed the ISO up to 6400 to see how much noise I would get. There was some noise at 6400 but not as much as I had expected. I haven't really tried the video mode on it yet. I don't have big enough cards to handle the files. I'll probably end up doing something hokey on my facebook account.
You'll also notice I put these in Black and White. I try not to do a lot of post production on images I shoot, if any. But after looking at the original files, it was was just constant green and looked flat, so I decided to put them in Black and white. Mainly all I did was run them into Adobe lightroom and played with them a bit.
I'm not a fan of using the presets in lightroom, but I'll use them as a base. The high contrast preset tends to blow out highlights, and low contrast just leaves images flat. Given the choice, I usually use low contrast as a starting point. After the preset gets applied, I'll move the blacks and the fill light sliders around until I find something I like. That's it, not much to it.
cheers!
-D
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