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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"]To go into more detail I shoot my
images with the 5D2 because of it full frame capability plus its low
light noise control ability. The shots that I usually take still
produce quit a bit of noise so if it weren't for the 5D2 it might be
a real nightmare.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"]I do shoot in RAW mainly to take
advantage of color balance adjustments and get the image captured in
14 Bit instead of 8 Bit.I am not a big fan of HDR photography
as it has been taken to extremes where I cringe when I look at most
of it. I come form the Newspaper Industry where its forbidden to
modify/manipulate any part of an image because your changing the
truth. Since leaving that industry and performing commercial
photography clients expect perfect pictures because everyone is fully
aware of what can be done with the aid of the computer and software.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"]I don't use any HDR type software where
I use good old Photoshop. I'm a photographer that tries to use as
basic as tools possible to get the job done right. I've always used
the simple and free DPP to open up all my images and do slight
tweaking and conversions where I then take them into CS4. CS4 has a
lot of unique tools and improvements that make it the best tool for
photo editing. I was watching the Matrix movies the other day where
I again caught the part where they need to fly a helicopter off the
roof of a building but no one knows how to fly one. Well the simple
move in the movies is to call back to the mother ship Nebuchadnezzar
and say download it to me. That would be really cool if we could do
that with Photoshop as it is such a vast tool which just takes years
of playing around with it. Wouldn't it just be cool to know
everything that it can do and how to do it in the most practical way?
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"]When it comes to my list of things that
I do there is no specific list. I just learned through trial and
error what works and what doesn't where I continue to learn new things everyday. I
look at a picture from square one and figure out a starting point and
then go on from there. Each picture has its own specific needs so I
setting up helpful script never works for me. I can say that an image like
I've done here has close to 400 or 500 individual little actions
done to it. There is a lot of cloning, layers, selecting, and copying
done so these tasks can add up quickly. The history pallet is very
helpful so that you can compare the improvements to the previous look
and then undo it if something gets messed up or does not look right.