Just got my new Canon 40D this week and took it along for a walk in the NJ woods with my dogs.

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This is the above picture after I used auto-level in CS3.

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You comments and suggestions are welcome. If you'd to see an exif, plz ask.

Thank you in advance.

Love the action in #2. But the lighting is tricky so the result is a little darker than what I normally would like to see.

Not sure what the subject is in #3. Where do you want me to look?

#4 & #5 - my advice is not use Auto Levels / Auto Contrast / Auto Colors. Photoshop needs a scene that has blacks and whites to perform the auto functions accurately. In nature, there is seldom blacks and whites in the same scene at the same time.


Thanks for sharing. Hope that helps.

I like the second picture but I think it would have looked better if the dog was more to the left side of the frame. Congrats on your new camera!

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Love the action in #2. But the lighting is tricky so the result is a little darker than what I normally would like to see. There are more like at www.ElleandMax.com, thanks.

Not sure what the subject is in #3. Where do you want me to look?. I guess I just liked the green grass with the frost. But there is a ALOT going on in th epic. I was disapointed that the MACRO lens did not give me a sharper, more magnified image.

]#4 & #5 - my advice is not use Auto Levels / Auto Contrast / Auto Colors. Photoshop needs a scene that has blacks and whites to perform the auto functions accurately. In nature, there is seldom blacks and whites in the same scene at the same time.

Thank you for this, this is what I need to hear. I need to lear no use Photoshop and Photo Machanic in a proper manner. That explaination makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

Hey we have leash laws in NJ pal .... Joking.

Glad to see another NJ guy hear and these are some nice images dispite the lighting conditions in the second one.

Hacklebarney maybe?

Hi Paul. Nope, not Hacklebarney. I cannot post where because I would hate to get a ticket from the park commish! nad I was holding the leash in my had ... doesn't that count? :)

But thanks and nice to meet you.

I see dogs off leash everywhere I do. They don't bother me until they jump on my camera or binoculars. Besides, pitbulls aren't as scary as people make them out to be :wink: