Customizing the Buttons the Canon 5D Mark IV

Fall is a Great Time for Foliage & Fog

The brilliant fall colors are an obvious attraction any photographer at this time of year, but it's also a great time to put some atmosphere in your images by including some fog.  Plan your shoots for early mornings when the temperatures are a little cool and head out to your favorite lake or pond.  The warm water combined with the cool air temperature should make some great fog.  Here are some images from my last outing.

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Canon 5D Mark IV Still Images from Video

In this post, I want to show some still images I've taken from 4K video shot on the Canon 5D Mark IV.  These images are 8.8 megapixel captures and I think they look just as good as still images from the same camera.  I've done this sort of thing with the GH4 and the images look good but I think they are even better from the 5D Mark IV.  These images were captured with Adobe Premiere Pro and no image processing was applied.  Check them out and let me know what you think.

Canon's DPP 4 Vs. Lightroom CC 2015 for Color

I've heard that Canon's DPP 4, while not a great image editing program, may produce better colors than Lightroom for photographers that shoot and process raw images, so I decided to test this out for myself.  In these test images I tried to do as little in each program as possible, mostly picking the color profile, cropping, noise reduction and sharpening.

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Lightroom CC

DPP 4

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Lightroom CC

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DPP 4

I think in most cases the colors are very similar.  Sometimes the colors look the same as in the deer image and sometimes there was a slight difference as in the blue color of the hawk image.  DPP did seem to have stronger sharpening and the auto lighting optimizer tool seems to work well.  Overall, I'm sure its worth the extra effort to use both DPP and Lightroom.  Let me know what you think in the comments below.

In the images below I did more post processing to bring them closer to finished images.

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Lightroom

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DPP 4

At first I liked the green background from DPP better but it may just be brighter.

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DPP 4 - To be fair I did more work on this image.

October Photo Contest Theme / September Winner

MONTHLY PHOTO CONTEST

Every Month you may post 2 of your best images for our photo contest. To enter, please upload the images in the comment section below by clicking on the Landscape icon or you can use an image host like Flickr by pasting the embed link in the comment bar.  Please post each image in a separate comment for voting purposes.  A prize will be awarded to the first place image.  Please enter jpgs that are at least 1200 pixels on the longest edge.

I will post a new subject on last Thursday of the month.  The previous month's contest will end on the last Thursday of the month at 5 pm EST.  I or a guest judge will select the winners.

OCTOBER CONTEST THEME:  The Decisive Moment

PRIZES:  

YOU CHOICE OF A FREE COUPON FOR MY:

• ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS

• PRINTING CLASS

• Silver Efex Pro 2 for B&W post processing

• LIGHTROOM CLASS

The winner needs to email gary@morethanasnapshot.com with your choice of the four courses listed above. Then I will respond with your coupon code.

CONGRATULATIONS TO lauspics1 FOR WINNING SEPTEMBER'S CONTEST.  YOU CAN SEE THE JUDGING HERE.

Photo Contest for www.morethanasnapshot.com

Announcements from Photokina 2016

The Olympus OMD EM-1 Mark II seems like the most impressive camera I've seen in awhile.  Check out the video below.

Canon 5D Mark IV Video Quality

This is a look at the video quality produced by the Canon 5D Mark IV. This vieo was shot at 4k and 30 FPS. The overlay video of me talking was shot at 720p.

Canon 5D Mark IV Unboxing

How to Change Lenses on the Fly

Changing Lenses on the Fly

This video demonstrates different ways of switching lenses on a DSLR camera.

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