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By: Keith Monzen

Keith Monzen — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:33:10 +0000

Thanks for the info Rich! 6400 ISO? Wow, that’s insane! You gotta love those Canons for not having any shutter blackout when motoring too! Shutter blackout never bothered me until I tried shooting w/ motor with my Nikon F5 print camera. I was like, “What’s going on???!! I can’t see!!!!” Time for you to request to put the Mark III in next fiscal year’s budget! hahaha

Keep up the good work Rich.

By: Richard Walker

Richard Walker — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:42:11 +0000

Keith — The cameras we use are pretty good with the noise at 3200 (the new Mark III goes to 6400, and the files look sweet, BTW). We don’t do any kind of noise reduction at all. The Canon files are great. The key is to not underexpose. The exposures need to be right on. Kind of like shooting slide film. You can get away with it a little under 1000 ISO, but after that, if you underexpose and then try to lighten the image later, the noise starts to become more noticeable.

By: Keith Monzen

Keith Monzen — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:30:30 +0000

Rich,

When shooting at ISO 3200, how bad is the noise? Do you have to shrink the image size and do other sorts of noise reduction/edition in PS, or do you get quality shots out-of-the-box at such a high ISO setting? Just wondering if you have to take a “get-the-shot-at-all-costs” mentality, or if the Canon SLR tech is so good you get winners straight out-of-the box…

Keith

By: Doda

Doda — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:05:07 +0000

Dean S.’ comments about Terry and Take bring back a lot of good memories. Terry Luke made great pictures, but more importantly, he was a great guy and a mentor that I’ll never forget….he taught me a lot, not only in photojournalism, but in life itself. Terry Luke was Terry Luke….nuff said.
I saw Take work almost every fight from 1980 until he retired and I never knew how he could consistantly out shoot me when he never looked in his view finder. He just put the camera on the canvas under the robes and pointed it toward the action and focused it by “feeling.” And if you ever had to shoot boxing (no hocuspocus autofocus in those days), you know you have to be right on…there’s no depth of field. I don’t know how he did it, but his pictures were tack sharp. It still amazes me what great pictures were taken then. I miss those guys. They were a class act not only doing their job, but in every day life.

By: Blaine

Blaine — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:25:11 +0000

Awwww, the Vitale shot was big fun! I wouldn’t be surprised to see that show up in Time Magazine one day. Good going, Rich!

By: darrell miho

darrell miho — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:21:29 +0000

back to our regularly scheduled programming.

By: Barry Markowitz

Barry Markowitz — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:52:00 +0000

Forgotten

By: Jamm Aquino

Jamm Aquino — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:14:48 +0000

I want to extend a public apology for a previous post by me concerning Mr. Markowitz. Things were said that shouldn’t have been, and I reacted, not responded. Barry is one of the most respected visual journalists in the state, and really hustles to get the shot. My public lambasting of his comment was uncalled for, and misinterpreted by me without thinking first. Please accept my apology.

By: Monica M

Monica M — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:23:52 +0000

How exciting! Good to see these blogs here.