I had a wonderful time taking graduation photos of my friend Corrie this past weekend. Here are a couple of photos from the session!
So I had brought my Graflex Crown Graphic to campus to shoot some photos. It's not really a "pocket camera", but I hauled it around all day on an oversized series 5 Gitzo tripod (not the new carbon fiber ones, but the overweight metal ones). The original intent was just for the Master of Sacred Music photo in Perkins Chapel. The image turned out quite nice. Just a little bit of fogging on the one side, but hey, for a 70 year-old camera, it's pretty great. What I really love is the level of detail from large format. Scanning the negatives at 3200 dpi results in a 15266 × 11808 pixel image (approx. 180 megapixels!). File sizes are massive though. A 16-bit black and white tiff is about 3GB per image.
The camera that I thought wouldn't die bit the dust. Again. This time it's staying dead. Farewell to the mighty EOS 1D Mark IIn.
With all of the fun of Easter, I realized it had been quite a while since my last blog post. I took a week towards the beginning of March to head back east to South Carolina to visit family and friends. The first couple of photos are from a session with Stacey and her son in Hopeland Gardens, Aiken, SC. Photos from this set were shot with the 5DIII & 85L II. It's definitely my go-to lightweight portrait setup.
Today's blog post is dual purpose. The first is to show off the Perkins School of Theology intramural sports basketball team who won their game last night. The second is to compare the 2004 Canon 1D IIn to the 2012 Canon 5D III, and discuss my thoughts on shooting indoor basketball with both of these cameras. Both cameras were shot using the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS. I decided to push both cameras pretty hard pushing the 5D III to ISO 12800 and ISO 25600, and pushing the 1D IIn to ISO 4000, which may not seem like a lot, but it's 1.3 stops above the camera's native range.
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