Hi Stefan

Nice to see you back in full steam heheheh. Let's see some pictures then when you can upload them.

Eye piece is great, I really like it, helps me a lot when focusing. Specially for my macro work.

Welcome back

Amin

Thanks Stefan

I tried both but it seems to suit me leaving autofocus on the release button and use AF button pressed along with the release if I have to use manual. I think I will have to experiment both until I am sure which suits me best, but I kind of like to use the AF.C settings and use the shutter release to snap.

Thanks for your advice, I will keep that in mind though, and alternate and give it a try

Amin

Oops, I guess there is another name to it, which you use it here. Its the name that appears here, sorry for the confusion . Need to use something different than Aminstar. Its my little one's name anyway, and the "star" in there is bugging me anyway

Tel

Thanks for the link. Seems pretty interesting. I will give it a good read. I find myself limited when it comes to editing tools, so got to dive further into this area. Thanks for the link.

Amin (By the way, can someone tell me how to change my nick?

RR,

Long day today at work , just got in and catching up with the forum.
Thank you very much for that RR. I can certainly repeat the whole process step by step as you explained it . That was simple and straight to the point. I was reading your steps and just visualising it as I am now getting more and more familiarised with the photoshop tools and menus. Its got to be persistence paying up as a few weeks ago I would have no clue of the terms you were mentioning .

I will give it a go now and also look for some photoshop tutorials around the web. And thanks for your offer, I will hold you on to that , soon I get stuck with something in photoshop as you so kindly offered to help.

thanks again

Amin

That is extremely helpful John, many thanks. Something that I need to take on board now regarding focusing, very helpful

Amin

Just came on this thread while researching some more info on quickshift focus on my 100mm macro.

I tend to use more manual focus while taking macro snaps so was wondering if there is any other way or settings in the camera that can be tweaked so that I dont need to use the lever (AF.S, AF.C, MF) constantly to keep switching from manual to AF. This is what I found so please correct me if I am wrong or there is any other easier or better way of doing it.

Firstly as I am using IR remote while taking macros with my 100mm I found that by selecting option (2) in number 13 in the C menu [AF in Remote Control] it fires the shutter without focusing. So I can leave the camera lever on AF and use manual focusing and release the shutter remotely.

Secondly, while using the camera shutter button if I want to use manual focusing I select (1) on the number 16 in the C menu [Cancel AF] and I can use manual focusing and then put my thumb on the AF button and press the shutter, the half shutter focusing is bypassed and the shutter is relased. But I personally would have prefered to leave the function to autofocus when the remote button is pressed, if there is a way of getting around this and still use manual focusing while doing macro, because when using the 300mm I like the ability to autofocus by remote before triggering the shutter. But may be I am asking too much am I?

Having said this all, I am still confused with regard to quickshift focus on my lens . What exactly is it? I thought this functions can be achieved with any lens. So please excuse my ignorance and help me out understand a bit better . I might be missing something here or not taking full advantage of my lens.

Thanks

RR

I really like what you did to it. The eyes look more vivid in my opinion and the lips have that more vibrant colour that I like to see.

I am still struggling with PS. But catching up in leaps and bounces. I will try to have a go at it with the same picture and see if I can bring it to close how it looks after you worked on it. Would it be too much to ask if you could give a brief and short run down of how you did it? I know you mention you used global unsharpening tool, then localised unsharpening of the eyes and boosting the contrast. My problem is everytimme I try the sharpening tool the image just either starts showing shiny spots (probably overdoing it) or just looks totally bad.
Any tips please?

Many thanks

Amin

Congratulation ken. Well done

Thanks RR,

Definitely want to try to improve that image of the little one, I like it a lot so will work on it with the ideas you suggest.

Oh regarding bouncing flash, never thought of that to compensate the lack of light. The things I learn here from you all as time progresses , thank you very much