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November 1, 2016 at 10:06 pm #19749kepcrewphotographyParticipant
Amber,
Think about what your desires and goals are for your photography. Where do you want to be say a year from now? Since you’re just getting started with editing, I’d suggest you start out now learning what eventually you’re going to have to know if you stick with it. In the DSLR day we’re in now, photo editing has become essential to keep pace with the great photos being produced. JPEG editing is very limited. In a nutshell, your camera processor makes the vast majority of editing decisions for you when it creates the JPEG file, that’s why JPEG files are much smaller than raw ones, lots of data is dumped. If you want to keep going, I’d recommend you start off by learning LIGHTROOM and work with some raw files which makes so much sense for the beginning photographer since to get a great shot in JPEG, you need to take a great shot whereas if you get an alright shot rather than nothing with raw, you might be able to turn it into a great shot because there’s much more editing you can do. Hope this helps.November 1, 2016 at 9:08 pm #19748kepcrewphotographyParticipantAllison,
Canon’s 70-200, 2.8 IS zoom is my “go-to” lens because it is SO versatile in the sense you can get great shots in a wide variety of situations and in my mind, the newer IS version is far superior. I shoot a lot of live ballet which mandates high speed, long distance and very low light and I almost always use this lens. However, if I’m asked to take a quick promotional portrait, I can also get a fantastic shot without switching lenses. Considering the price, if you’re ONLY interested in studio type portraits, you can accomplish that cheaper without this lens but if you’re interested in anything else as well, you can’t go wrong with it. Hope this helps. -
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