The Nikon 24mm lens is a tack sharp piece of gear! (img) Locked

I really enjoyed using this set-up. Lovely lens on my D600 gear.

This was heavily cropped too. Still great detail.

(That's my friend Linda on the right with camera)



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It's just photography, lighten up.

You really captured the moment, nicely done.

L.T.

You should ask the mods to create a Neil Jones Talk forum just for you.

Looks like you must have dropped it with all that gross fringing/CA going on there, Neil.  Too bad.  I'm sure in the right hands it could be as tack sharp as all get out.

Yours are definitely not the right hands.

Ouch, I see what you mean.  The lens must've been dropped on its head as a baby.

It seems like, with your wedding pix, especially, the color and exposure are a bit off. Have you......... ever calibrated your monitor? Since you haven't, I thought I'd make your quik-snap look a little better for you. Hope you don't mind? I don't mind.

I only made a couple subtle changes. Basically I just corrected the purple color fringing because you stupidly shot an action scene at 1.4 on a wide angle lens from ~10 meters away from your dead-centered subject for no particularly good reason in direct sunlight. I can't really fix your silly, wasteful, and all-out amateur use of a wide angle lens, though.

You also included Linda who photographs every single image from the same height/position, so all of her images are equally boring and lacking in creativity, similar to yours. I wanted to take the emphasis off her and that dumb building you decided to include in your "severe crop," (instead of the other half of the obviously irrelevant wedding party?) so I used a subtle vignette to de-emphasize those distracting elements, bringing (tack sharp) focus back to the true gem of this snapper.

Just remember, good wedding photos are all about high clarity. Brings out details. So I bumped that up even more. I also fixed their skin tones. Needed more saturation, they looked dull and lifeless. If they look off to you, it's probably because your monitor is not calibrated properly.

Don't hesitate if you need any further help. I'll try to help when it's obvious you need help. So you can get better. And yes, you can get better. Eventually, if you try hard enough, you'll suck. At that point, mediocrity is right around the corner. Keep snappin that flap and flappin your trap. It's only a game!

You guys bashing this fellow are acting like a pack of mongrel dogs. Give it a rest FFS

Too funny.  What you don't seem to understand is that Neil actually loves all of this.  He posts specifically to get these reactions.  "Linda Tavares" is his sidekick to keep the fires fueled.  Both sides in Neil's post are well entertained by the exchanges.  Dont worry about Neil in all of this.  He's loving it.  It is the forum that is the loser in all this.  Just count up the "Neil" related posts on page 1.

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thanks for the support. I'm starting to get a little fed up with all these personal attacks against me.

All because I post a photo from a camera!

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It's just photography, lighten up.

All because you post inane threads every day about yourself. A different thread for every single picture from a single wedding.

Why have you posted this picture? As usual you've included the official photographer and no doubt you were getting in the way. The quality of this image is dreadful: dark, muddy and miserable. There is no merit at all to this picture.

Very nice dynamic range.....

You mean muddy? $10 he used a lot of recovery.

Wow, Neil.  You have mastered using the "Auto" setting on the camera!  How many classes did it take you?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

If these are your "good" shots, I would hate to see the bad ones!  This one is pure rubbish!

I would hate to hear your Dj skills, if you even DJ weddings, which I do not believe.  My guess is you flip burgers at a fast food joint.  How about a pic on auto of the kitchen at McDOnalds, where you really work?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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Looks like I'm starting to get to someone!

Im not sure what your fixation is regarding this auto mode comment. It clearly shows the aperture and shutter speed on the photo exif.

Come on numbnuts, get a grip man!

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It's just photography, lighten up.

It shows that you are an idiot that spends 2k on a camera and are too inept to use it on any other mode than auto.  Why did you edit your comment and remove the "auto mode rocks baby?"  
If you spent all the time you spend looking for attention on this forum, replying with your sockpuppets and actually read up on how to use a camera, your photos would not suck so bad.  I would suggest this.  It perfectly suits you.
http://www.amazon.com/Photography-Kids-Guide-Digital-English/dp/1933952768

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It's ok, all the people who started off angry with me here have come around to my way of thinking. You will do the same, trust me. (And you're still new here)

That fact that you are spending all this time replying to my posts ( within minutes) shows you have a little crush on me.

it happens to the best of them. Don't beat yourself up about it.

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It's just photography, lighten up.

The way I read the EXIF data, the exposure was 1/4000th second af f1.4.  This is an interesting choice for a rather slow moving subject.  What were your objectives in choosing this combination?

NT

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Try getting a D600 to shoot at F/1.4 and 1/4000th in auto mode.  Please, quit posting your lack of knowledge.

I am starting to wonder if you are purposely trying to make Neil look better than you.