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sorry for not replying! I sent my lens in to have it reviewed and it was no longer serviceable so I purchased a new lens and it's been better so far! But I do think the light and the contrast made this a very difficult scenario for handholding a 70-200! Thank you!

Thank Brian! Sorry for my slow reply! I've had really good luck shooting with these settings up until recently so I guess that's why I am concerned. But I'll work on closing down my aperture and raising my SS to see if that helps. Especially because it doesn't happen all the time; I'll chalk it up to user error. Thanks for the technical info on my MARK IV. I feel like with my Mark II, I almost NEVER used or needed to use 6400 and with the Mark IV, I feel like I'm having to bump up higher than that all the time in the same situations. I'll just keep working with it and getting used to it. Thank you!!

It's been awhile since I've asked for help, but I'm worried about my lens. Or maybe my camera, I don't know! I shot this on my 5D Mark IV, which I bought in October because the sensor went out in my Mark II. I have felt that my Mark IV is noisier than my Mark II and am not sure why. Anyway, I've had my 70-200 calibrated, but not in over a year. Is this acceptable for the distance I'm at? Or do I need a new Lens? re-calibrate? 5D Mark IV 70-200 f/2.8L IS Focal Length: 100 mm 1/200, f 2.8, ISO 1000

Hi Damien! I have my first client asking me for this. I searched to see how you usually tell people to respond, but came up blank. Here's the request: "I did want to ask, do you have higher res versions of the photos? anything in the 300px/inch range? is it possible to buy individual pictures in higher resolution?" I give them high resolution images cropped to an 11:15 ration and I leave the resolution blank. I open one of the images randomly and it shows it is 2478px x3379px with a resolution of 225.267px/inch. I know I would use this file to print but I think he is hung up on the 300. Do I need to educated him (if so, how) or do I need to adjust the files so they save at 300? and if so, how do I do that without messing up my files? Thanks!

Yes, locally, they are well known and used by most of us.

I'm in St. Louis, Mo., and it's called Diversified Lab.

My screen matches my prints a good majority of the time. If there is not a lot of green to begin with, I come out pretty well or at least I don't notice a huge discrepancy. In the image above though, mom is more green in the prints and dad is dull. When I switched from WHCC a few years ago, I had a bit of a shock because they print very red and suddenly my prints were coming back green. I realized that either my local lab prints more green or I'd been editing green and WHCC's red was compensating. However, I use all your tricks for correcting white balance and in these shady conditions, the green rears it's ugly head. I have a Spyde2Express and am working on a (don't kill me) HP Envy 17.3" Laptop.

Hi all! I'm struggling with the color and brightness of my images on this particular session. It was a cloudy day near sunset. Their skin tones are all completely different so that made editing hard for me. Here's my problem with sessions like this; they look great on my calibrated screen. I can tell, per Damien's clipping warning action, that I am just under the highlight warning so I am not blowing my highlights. When I go to print, they come back dark. If I brighten and reprint, the highlights look blown. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to just brighten the shadows? Whats the best way to do that while keeping rich tones? I'm okay with warm images or accurate white balances, but I don't want my people to be dark, or green or orange. These images kind of printed all three. :( Here is SOOR: Edited:

Great! I was actually do that, but was going at it too aggressively and going the wrong way with my saturation. I've lost a little too much detail, but here is my first attempt. Am I on the right track? Thank you so much!

hmmm... let me check! I don't think so. I can't find it.

I am super embarrassed by this, but I had a shoot this weekend and it was supposed to be outside until sleet and snow moved it into my basement. I am a natural light photographer and am not prepared to light more than one or two individuals indoors, but this is a cousin and his family. Anyway, I have harsh shadows in the few group shots I did (I only have one light and my reflector for fill was not adequate). I've managed to work around a lot of the shadows in my other shots, but this one is getting to me. I can lighten the area on his shirt but it messes up the color. I've only worked on the background on this one so far and not any of the shadows. Oh how I wish I'd been more forceful and rescheduled. Can you teach me how to deal with a shadow like this? Thank you!