Went to shelburne farms and the museum over the weekend, here's (quite) a few shots:
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Nice pics... wish the folding chairs weren't in the first one.

are some of those HDR?

yeah, me too.
Or the stacks of bags of whatever on the other side.
But I wasn't about to move them...

I really want a wide angle, but alas.

I really should shoot with it less...

Looking at those there is one shot I'm sure wasn't with it and 2 that are at 24mm so it could be with either (betting the sigma though as it's not as good at 24mm as the canon, and the 2 at 24mm have that look....)

It's pretty funny the way I just shoot with that lens at 12mm though.

Honest question, am I overdoing it with the UWA or is it OK? It is a confined space, but almost every shot is at 12mm (on a FF).... This trip and the Canada trip have both been like 75% 12mm for the keepers. Not sure if it's just me liking the look, or what.

great photos! #3 is my fav. Just like the simplicity.

The UWA is very obvious in some of those shots but I happen to like the look of it also.

I guess it depends on who's looking at it but if it's your style then I'd say keep going for whatever makes you happy.

Also, how do you get such deep blue skies? Do they come out of the cam that way or are you processing to get that color? Are some of those HDR?

thanks,
another thing I noticed this weekend is auto ISO would be awesome. I shoot at 1/90th when possible and like to have an aperture around f/11... Well going inside to outside I'd need anywhere from 1600 to 100 ISO... So I'd love to be able to set 1/90th, and f/11 and then Iv (ISO Variable) with the safety shift of the aperture, then shutter.... So when I go inside the first thing it does it bump the ISO up, then if that's not enough it stops the aperture open, then if that's not even enough it then lowers the shutter speed... Right now it does the aperture and shutter speed shifts, but not ISO, and more than once I had to reshoot once I figured out that it was on ISO 800 and I was outside again...

Originally Posted by jblaze5779

Also, how do you get such deep blue skies? Do they come out of the cam that way or are you processing to get that color? Are some of those HDR?

5D set to a custom picture style (yes I shoot JPEGs). It's the landscape style with sharpening +2, saturation +2 and contrast +2. When I get them into the computer they basically just need shadows/highlights, levels, curves and whatever else to tidy up the exposures (especially with the UWA because you get a lot of different areas exposure wise that are impossible to get right in camera). There is not a single HDR in there. They few that might "look weird" that make you think they are HDRs are from the shadow highlight tool...

nice, I love your PP the fact that it brings out the sky well, exposure seems very spot on

Originally Posted by Calcvictim

nice, I love your PP the fact that it brings out the sky well, exposure seems very spot on

thanks.
The exposure comes from a lot of shoot, check histogram, adjust EV, reshoot, check again and repeat as necessary. The UWA on the 5D is bad with auto exposure that way. Check the EXIFs as you'll see lots of adjustments. That's why I keep saying canon really needs to come up with a histogram exposure mode where they check the histogram before it takes the picture, and adjusts the exposure to put the ends within reason, and also has the ability to adjust "contrast" (for those of us shooting JPEGs) so it stretches it to maximize the info... The first part (adjusting the exposure to avoid clipping) would be easy and needs to be done. The second part I can live with. I'm pretty sure the "Highlight Tone Priority" function that the mIIIs (and 40D) have is what I'm talking about, only it just does it on one end... Better than nothing as the highlights are my problem.

Ben

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...1#post19118067

posted some (for other reasons) on NASIOC.
Fun to see all the comments there from "12mm only?" to "HDR?" to "nice!"

Fake HDR huh

interesting...