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Lusitano, for someone who just picked up a camera your work is amazing! Everything looks like it has been professionally taken and the post processing is better than most magazine art.
Thank you for your words. But I still have a long way to go ... it depends on the days, sometimes I look at the pictures and I think they suck, and sometimes I think they are great ... i guess it depends on my mood eheh.
I need more time on the field... although its been now a few months since I started, I can only count by two handful the number of times I actually picked the camera and went to the field... it's too little but I lack the time.
I wish I could go every weekend but I'm lucky if im able to just get out and take pictures once or twice a month. (I work 14 hours a day)
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Two Afghan Soldiers borrowed a machine gun from the Czech Soldiers to take a cool guy pic with:
We loved working with the Czech Soldiers, they were as dedicated as we were and 100% reliable and trustworthy. A lot of them spoke english and even went through some American military schools.
A very early 10D image before I learned about dust bunnies on the sensor
Hi, Mike. One thing you can do to get rid of dust bunnies without cleaning your camera sensor or lens (this also helps with gradients and vignetting) is to find some place in the sky at twilight, after sunset but before any stars appear, that is very uniform (no gradient, clouds, or changing colors) and take several images of it (usually a time exposure anywhere from 1/5sec to 3 seconds depending on lighting conditions - be sure to use the same lens set at the same f-ratio and the same focus as the original). Then stack them in photoshop, and then under the "image" menu, use the "apply image" dialogue and take the difference between this image and your image (the source image). This will usually get rid of the dust bunnies and flatten the image of any gradients and vignetting. These kinds of images are called "flats" in astronomy, where it is used the most. But I think if you experiment with it, you will find it helpful in the kinds of highlight settings you found yourself in with your photograph. It also spares your lens and sensor, since repeated cleaning can damage them over time.
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Another one of my subjects
