Poo d'état

Not a wedding photographer either but i've assisted on enough of them to know that i didn't want to do it. :D Yep, batteries and memory cards, lots of spares. Try to fight the temptation to even review your pictures on the LCD screen on the back of your camera - that'll mean taking your eyes off the action, and temptation to edit in-camera. Have a quick look to check your exposure/clippings at the start, but leave it at that. (When i was assisting majority of wedding photographers were still shooting film, albeit with fussy magazines to reload - a blessing, really, there are enough distractions as it is.) Get the full schedule (in as much detail as possible) written down and familiarise yourself with it. On the day, try to think 5 mins, 15 mins and 30 mins ahead of time, know where your subject(s) will be, where your light is coming from, and where you need to be in relation to that. Depending on how prepared you want to be, check out the venue in advance and see what the light is like at the proposed time of the wedding. Don't forget your speedlight (if you have one; if not, beg/borrow/steal). Get as close to the action as you possibly could. To quote the old Robert Capa saying, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." (Applies to most documentary photography). Don't forget the details - decorations, place cards, the happy couple's hands clasped together, family and friends and their emotions, etc. Some photographers insist on the boy-girl-boy-girl arrangement in posed shots, you can give it a try. Don't lose the memory cards! Lastly, try to enjoy the experience as much as nerves will allow. Good luck. Eta: Apols if any of these are stating the obvious...

Absolutely precious Mandy, love the 'chubby' belly :D , i'm insanely jealous! My gosh i've forgotten how little they are when they're babies!

Awesome pics Rooof, great stuff!

Lovely set Clicking Mad, especially love the shot of him resting, with his shaved belly. Hugs to both you and Texas.

That first shot is awesome. What an adorable little man!

Lol you and me both! I got paid out big time at work that i kept on sleeping. My whole team went out to take snaps and a few of them made it to world wide news sites. D'oh! Rocco1, i envy the space/empty room you have for studio space!

You won't believe it but i don't have any of me and my two Poos. I'm going to get a remote shutter release and hopefully solve that problem. (Nor am i game enough to resurrect the 'post a photo of yourself' thread so you might just have to wait till i manage a self portrait :p )

Yup yup, get it looked at anyway, it could be a CPU glitch or something.

Oh crap. How long have you had the camera for? Is it still under warranty?

That is SUCH an adorable shot. And you're both very purdy, Bov. (Suddenly your name makes so much sense! )

A card reader is a little thingo that you plug your memory card into instead of plugging your camera to your computer, not entirely necessary but does come in handy. Technically speaking you shouldn't need any program to import photos, you should be able to drag your picture files from your camera (i'm not sure if there's an icon on your desktop for the camera when it's plugged in?) directly across to wherever you want to save them on your computer. Do the file names read JPG at the end or something else (not the two that have slipped through)?

Hmm. Dis, i haven't used iPhoto in a long while so i won't be of much help. Do all the listed file names end with JPG? Also i'm guessing you haven't changed computer settings nor iPhoto settings since your last import? Do you or your brother have a card reader you can try instead? I don't think you've lost the photos, sounds like the equipment's just not talking to each other, i think.

I do all of the above in bold, i don't have any issue with what people choose to do with their work. As far as i can tell, no one's throwing hissy fits about other people's choice not to edit - the issue (well, mine anyway), i'll repeat again, is with the assumption that non-editors have that editors do so because they can't 'get it right in camera'. I must've missed something - who's deleted posts and left the forum?

Dunno, still reads like a comparison of two distinct methods to me, which, like Kja has already said, 'getting it right in camera' has nothing to do with post prod. And i'm still shooting negs with my recent discovery of the joys of rangefinders. Raz i'm not sure which 'both' you are/he is referring to - film and digital, RAW and Jpeg or editing and no editing?

Raz, the medium is the same - photography. Some people stop at the camera, some choose to make great SOOC photos frickin' awesome in post production. As for 'defensiveness', i thought it was pretty well explained, it's all there if you can be bothered to go back and read it. It pretty much came about when Rubiton took it upon herself to assume that people who choose to edit are doing so because they're not 'getting it right' in the camera and the insinuation that editing = a less competent photographer (my reading).

Just reiterating for emphasis. That's why i don't understand why there has ever been a RAW vs JPG debate - if the technology is there for you to save your pictures in a non-lossy format, why would you choose to shoot in a lossy one, even if you don't end up doing any editing? (besides data storage concerns) I also don't understand the perception that it takes hours upon hours to tweak or add effects to photos. It simply doesn't. If you're editing (culling) in computer (as opposed to in camera, which you should never do anyway) and have your images on screen anyway, even if you don't have presets or actions customised, adjusting levels/curves takes about an extra 10-15 seconds, effects (vignetting etc) maybe another half to one minute if you know what you're doing. I'll wager that Luke would've spent a maximum of a few minutes on that sepia shot of Barkley (or i could be completely off ).

There are so many assumptions made in the above statement: "I prefer to get what I want when I take it - thats the challenge of photography to me for the photos I take." - You're assuming that everyone else isn't and doesn't? It's photography 101 (whether you're shooting film or digital) that you get the best shot you can in the exposure stage. If you can get every single shot bang on from the get go, then good for you, but, alas, not everyone is perfect, and editing programs, like most technology these days (including that DSLR you're shooting with and the little screen on the back of the camera ) are here to make life easier a let you make alterations if and when needed. Shunning editing makes about as much sense as shunning digital cameras. And for the record, i'm not trying to sway anyone to do anything differently, broke or not, just sayin' there are a lot of assumptions made about people who do do things differently.

As for my own editing style, i definitely tweak curves and exposure as needed, straightening up, cropping to tidy up, etc, pretty much the same amount that i do at work. We have a World Press Photo award winning Aussie photographer contributing to us at the moment and my goodness, the level to which he does not edit (cull), tweak or straighten his photos is rather astounding, it certainly does not do his reputation any favours (especially since we have to do all of it for him!). For happy snappy shots of friends though, i do occasionaly touch up the odd pimple or shiny forehead, oh and skin rashes on my OH's baby nephew when they were in town to visit.

Well, that would depend on the other editing (as in culling - i try to be tight with mine, especially if it was 400-600 a day!) and how fluent you are with your editing program . Like Kja said, there are presets you can apply on import, and also actions you can customise to do multiple functions with the click of one button (with PS anyway). I guess i was commenting on the misconception that minilab machine-printed photos are printed 'as-if', meaning 'had nothing done to them'. Even pro labs have their own printer outputs that you need to match your colour profile to, so, really, the purists can't escape it! I think people who jump straight into digital often forget/don't realise that. With film (and i mean self processing and printing, not done at the shops), there wasn't a 'no edit' option, from the way you process your film to all the work done at the enlarger. Every single step is manually done, with considerations made. I came from film. I have printed black and white in a dark room and been responsible for my own processing and I have printed colour in a lab. I know exactly what you're talking about. Hope you weren't assuming that I jumped straight into digital. I know you came from film Ash, when i said "people don't realise that", the 'that' i was referring to was the bits i quoted you.

I think people who jump straight into digital often forget/don't realise that. With film (and i mean self processing and printing, not done at the shops), there wasn't a 'no edit' option, from the way you process your film to all the work done at the enlarger. Every single step is manually done, with considerations made. Someone had to program the machines to work in a specific way; no matter which way you look at it, someone somewhere down the line made a call and said, "i'm going to make the machine print this way when it reads this part of the film to be that". So it's still editing, just done by someone else.

Well isn't it just such a tough life. :rolleyes: :D :p

I'd buy that book! Me too. And posters. And action figure doll (complete with outfits i hope).

Very sorry to hear Big hugs to you and Elliot

That's really interesting, and kind of makes sense. I gave both my dogs iced water after a romp at the park (water was still really cold - basically took a frozen bottle out of the freezer and let it melt while they played, so still a good portion was ice by the time they drank it), and the both threw up foamy stuff a few moments later. I'm guessing with ice cubes, it's a much slower process lick by lick compared to full, quick gulps?

Great job there Freckles. Tlc those are some nice clouds in the shot, worth saving the detail rather than blowing out, imo. Luke i too haven't gotten into Lightroom, though it's mostly because we don't have it at work; Bridge i think is great though. Lightroom users - how good are the keywording/organising/cataloguing functions?