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Portraits with the Canon 7D

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It’s been a busy week this past seven days: a shoot of a mortgage broker on Tuesday night; photographing the Schweigen Trio of Wilfrid Laurier University musicians on Saturday; and then shooting a subset of the sales and marketing teams at Sybase iAnywhere this past Monday. Here’s an example of the portraits from the shoot at iAnywhere, one I was particularly pleased with. The glass blocks at the entrance to the firm’s cafeteria formed an interesting background, with the glass exhibiting an olive-green hue from ambient light in the late […]

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Fun and games with colour calibration

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Increasingly I find myself shooting more digital images, mostly because of web publishing – though there are a few occasions, certainly, where shooting digital makes a lot more sense. One example is my son’s hockey games. Arena lighting – at least those where my son’s team plays – is too dim for a decent (1/300) shutter speed with a fast (f2.8) lens, even at ISO 800. With film, the shots are so grainy that it’s hardly worthwhile. My new Canon 7D, however, with its highly improved noise reduction, means that

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Post-processing Canon 7D images

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Recently I acquired a new Canon 7D camera from BJ Photo in Waterloo and I’ve used it in two projects just in the last two weeks. Fantastic images, superb auto-focus, substantially improved image quality compared to my (now supposedly ancient) Rebel XT. Here is one example: Canon 7D camera, Canon 24-105mm IS L lens at 73mm, f/8.0 at 1/250 sec. One problem: the Canon 7D is so new that my recently-purchased copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 doesn’t recognize the new Canon 7D raw format. Thankfully, on 19 November Adobe

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