Recent content by MarshallG

People pay for professional haircuts, so nothing wrong with paying for professional photos. Of course you don't want it to look like a typical corporate or HS yearbook photo, but if you hire a good pro, he or she should be able to create a casual photo that still puts your best foot forward.

You got ripped off. The photographer who shot these doesn't understand anything about lighting. Your face is in shadow in most of these photos. He should have placed you in shade, use a reflector or use a fill flash to even the illumination on your face. These were shot by an amateur -- and a...

I want to see photographs, not scores. DPReview has side-by-side photos, not scores which don't account for the camera's internal noise reduction/sharpening nor do they show us the visible advantages of any product.

Here's the question I have about DxOmark: Where are the photographs? Where is the difference that my eyes can see? They never show your eyes how the 87 camera produces a visibly better result than the 85, but people buy based on their numbers anyway. Dpreview.com has an outstanding Studio...

Are you able to use flash for those events? Performers usually hate it. Off-camera can still work well in those situations if you're allowed to set up the flashes that way. When I do concert photography indoors, I use a 50mm f/1.4 and black and white. Flash bothers the performers, but I can...

Reproduction of artwork for reprints. Or photographing circuit boards in which you want to be able to zoom in and read the value on each resistor.

How about a flat object, 2x3 feet in size? And your goal is perfect sharpness, absolutely flat field and precise light control.

You need to decide what kind of flash photography you want to do. For professional quality results, you basically cannot fire the flash directly straight-on to the subject, except as fill flash in bright sunlight. If you want to do studio portrait photography, then you should look for three...

Try shooting something like artwork from a copy stand with a 100mm macro and let me know how it goes. You'd need to put the camera five to seven feet above the subject.

Are you sure you want a 105mm macro? 105mm means fairly long camera-to-subject distance. Unusable in many I door scenarios, such as with a copy stand. Not saying the lens is unusable or you shouldn't buy it, just try to make sure you want a focal range like that. Your lighting equipment is...

EXACTLY. The fact that the Wright Brothers built thousands of excellent airplanes proves that they knew how to build airplanes. These guys were in Ohio and North Carolina, of all places. There was nobody to steal a design from. They didn't hack into France's computers and steal the plans. As a...

I was in your shoes last April. Since then, I replaced my XSi with a 7D (used/Mint), and I bought a 10-22mm (also used), and a bunch of other odds and ends. The new camera pushed me to work harder - partly because the 7D is kind of a beast to tame. But I also took a one day seminar from Syl...