Yippee! It's heeerrreeee (Bragging rights within)

hehe I've not shown her, she's at work until tonight :)
 
Well if you were near me I'd have lent you mine :(
 
theMusicMan said:
Hey Marcel - that's great news for you with your new lens - and I can totally relate to what you state.

Hope you don't mind but I had a play with your wife and I gave the the tMM treatment...:):):) hehehehe

Hope you both like the result;

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That's good, but a little jaggy around the left side of the face. ;)
 
I don't think Mrs Bod needs the plastic woman treatment fellers. ;)

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Congrats Marcel

As has been said above...slippery slope but What FUN TO GET THE NEW TOYS!!!:D

May she bring you LOTS of happiness for the rest of your life!

And I'm hoping you will enjoy the new lens too:naughty:
 
Congrats on a fine lens, and welcome to the dark side of 'L'

Alan
 
Marcel said:
Thanks chaps :D
I'm still buzzing from a warm feeling.

When I first got bitten by the digital photography bug in about 2001/2002, it wasnt until I took photography more seriously beyond snapshots in 2003.
Then when I got my first SLR in 2005, I used to say "I don't really see what all the fuss is about", and "800 quid on a lens? Jeez, not for me matey, there's no point...I can't really tell the difference".
While this is still true to an extent (I find it hard to spot things like falling off of sharpenss at edges, and those minor inescrepencies etc, or a bit of CA), I can now say I do see what all the fuss is about.
I know it's still early days for me, but I can tell the difference now, and I understand.....I can see why there is such a price difference, and why they say "Invest in glass".

I've never been a lens, or even a kit snob. I still think great pictures can be had no matter what the equipment, but it does give me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing I'm handling a nice body, and tried, tested and trusted, official professional kit in my hands.
Sounds silly, but kind of legitimises my photography, it takes it to the next level, so to speak. I know the photographer takes the pictures and that, but if I'm out doing some street photography, or at an event, having good kit like this helps me have the confidence to say "I'm a photographer"
Does that make sense? I suppose its largely to do with me having a lack of confidence in my own photographic ability.

Anyway, I'm rambling on now. I've just put the lens to bed, and the wife is sleeping on the couch :D
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And I thought it was just me !!! I've got a 70-200 L lens on my Christmas list, I just hope he gets the letter;);)
I'm very new to this photo stuff too, but the bug has bitten hard. Expensively hard :eek::eek:
It's nice to know that there are others like me out there...
Enjoy;);)

Ian..
 
Congratulations indeed:thumbs:
May well head the same way at some point in the future once I have gained a bit more knowledge and confidence;)
 
Marcel said:
Thanks chaps :D
I'm still buzzing from a warm feeling.

When I first got bitten by the digital photography bug in about 2001/2002, it wasnt until I took photography more seriously beyond snapshots in 2003.
Then when I got my first SLR in 2005, I used to say "I don't really see what all the fuss is about", and "800 quid on a lens? Jeez, not for me matey, there's no point...I can't really tell the difference".
While this is still true to an extent (I find it hard to spot things like falling off of sharpenss at edges, and those minor inescrepencies etc, or a bit of CA), I can now say I do see what all the fuss is about.
I know it's still early days for me, but I can tell the difference now, and I understand.....I can see why there is such a price difference, and why they say "Invest in glass".

I've never been a lens, or even a kit snob. I still think great pictures can be had no matter what the equipment, but it does give me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing I'm handling a nice body, and tried, tested and trusted, official professional kit in my hands.
Sounds silly, but kind of legitimises my photography, it takes it to the next level, so to speak. I know the photographer takes the pictures and that, but if I'm out doing some street photography, or at an event, having good kit like this helps me have the confidence to say "I'm a photographer"
Does that make sense? I suppose its largely to do with me having a lack of confidence in my own photographic ability.

Anyway, I'm rambling on now. I've just put the lens to bed, and the wife is sleeping on the couch :D
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And I thought it was just me !!! I've got a 70-200 L lens on my Christmas list, I just hope he gets the letter;);)
I'm very new to this photo stuff too, but the bug has bitten hard. Expensively hard :eek::eek:
It's nice to know that there are others like me out there...
Enjoy;);)

Ian..
 
Sorry, My broadband is playing up...
 
Marceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel
I got it :) wow what a bit of kit :)
 
Marcel now you've had a bit of time to play with it, any other thoughts/pics?
 
You know I've hardly had chance to play with it. Not been out with my camera properly since I got it, and don't have the tripod collar to attempt anything at night, so I'm kinda stumped....lol
 
I have 4 x L lenses (and 3 x 1d*) worth ever penny as i found out when i dropped my 70-200 f2.8 4 feet onto concrete from the back of my car.

picked it right up and carried on shooting though(plastic bit on shoe of 550ex flash broke though - £20)
 
congrats mate :thumbs:
i have that lens too,great piece of kit :thumbs:
 
Glad it arrived safe and well bod,, You WILL see the difference with your pictures, That lens is tack sharp..:thumbs:
 
Come on Marcel you've had the lens a week now we want more photos.


Also I don't want to turn this into who can touch up your wife, but I too have had a play. I got a photoshop cookbook from the libary and as I don't have a wife to play with I used yours :lol:

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LOL Thats fine mate.

Thats actually a really good touchup. Care to share your process?
(I've just had my monitor calibrated too which does help :D)
 
Not a lot really, I was learning how to use the healing brush correctly

Face and under the eyes

Healing Brush
Spot Healing Brush

Whites of the Eyes

Magic Wand
Layer Via Copy
Blending Change
Set current layer
To: layer
Mode: screen
Master Opacity Change

Set current layer
To: layer
Opacity: 24%
Select layer “Background”
Lips

Magic Wand
Feather Radius: 3 pixels
Selective Color
Method: absolute
Color Correction: color correction list
color correction
Colors: reds
Cyan: -23%
Magenta: 21%
Yellow: -6%

Flatten Image
 
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