Quote (onepagememory @ Nov 11 2010 07:06pm)

Canon normally announces new gear on Late Jan early Feb

Quote (RecoveryChannel @ Nov 11 2010 10:09am)

well yeah anouncing it is one thing, when it will be released is the other thing.............

I dont think I wanna wait another half a year for my new camera.

Quote (onepagememory @ Nov 11 2010 07:37pm)

Nevertheless, wait for the announcement. The prices of 5d MK II's will drop ~500 USD as soon as a MK III is announced.

Quote (RecoveryChannel @ Nov 11 2010 10:44am)

hmmmm. I thought about waiting until christmas was over.................... hrhr

I hate waiting for something ^^

Quote (onepagememory @ Nov 11 2010 07:59pm)

Btw are you planning to start an official business? Or just freelance w/e work you get and claim self-employment?

Quote (RecoveryChannel @ Nov 11 2010 11:01am)

I´ll start off as a freelancer since I´ll propably be studying.

Quote (onepagememory @ Nov 11 2010 08:02pm)

Are you planning to setup a studio?

Quote (RecoveryChannel @ Nov 11 2010 11:05am)

uhmmm not anytime soon, since I dont have the space at the moment. this is going to take a year or three.

Quote (onepagememory @ Nov 11 2010 08:30pm)

Do as I did:

if your subject comes from a modeling gig, rent a 4-5 star (even 3 if nice looking) hotel room and use that as a workplace. Make sure the room is at the expense of the model agency.

if it's a family and their living room is nice, use their own home as a studio. Setting up strobes and umbrellas in both locations is easy since they're already equipped with electricity. Having a picture of the family hanging in the living room with the living room as a background is jaw-dropping.

Consider befriending venues such as hotels, wedding halls, indoor decoration shops, some nice-looking schools (if the gig originates from a student), etc. to get some free working space. The key is that these places are already well lit, have electricity, and reduce your need for strobes. They'll likely not charge you as long as you refer them and include them in any sort of shot description.

You can setup a backdrop anywhere (even just white or black paper). These venues will give off a sense of local originality, however.

Get yourself well known with online printing businesses. After 1-2 year's worth of loyalty, many of these will reduce printing prices by 25-40%. The quality is better, and the shipping charges aren't much (or even better if they're situated somewhat locally, depending where you live).

Good luck!

Quote (Antichrist- @ Nov 11 2010 07:26am)

what comes to resolving power of 7d etc, it doesent make a big difference and you simply cant get the shots with a crop sensor that you can get with full frame

here is a sample pic of what crop sensor cant do

http://www.have-camera-will-travel.com/field%5Freports/full%5Fframe%5Fvs%5Fcrop%5Fsensor%5F-.html

what this brings to portrait photography is that you can use wider field of view and still remain background blur. you cant get bokeh with wide lens when you want the whole person in the shot, because if you want the same fov you need to use wider lens on crop sensor and wider lens reduces the background blur, when you go full frame vs 1.6 crop, it has really big effect and 1.6 crop pretty much ruins it totally. when shooting some head + shoulder portraits, you can get the background blurred and still get the person in focus better because of the dof seem to change to bokeh faster(due to having to focus closer) because you need to use longer lens. if you just use lower f-number and move further away on a crop sensor to get the background equally blurred, the person starts to have bokeh on him because dof changes to bokeh on wider area(it takes longer distance for the sharp parts to go to total bokeh)

here are few examples:

if you want this wide with crop, the background wouldnt be as blurred
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin32832/5154076706/in/pool-canon5d


if you would want the same background blur than this shot with crop sensor, you couldnt get the models face and that hairy thing around her in focus like that, instead the bokeh would start building on her face, slowly graduating to the same background blur making sharp parts on the edge of focused areas blurred. or if you want the same amount of sharp are on her face, whats still blurred on this shot, would be only half blurred with crop and the background wouldnt be as blurred
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bure/5164099581/in/pool-canon5d

this is shot with 50mm and f-1.4, you simply cant get background as blurred with crop sensor when the frame shows this much of the subject, if you move further away, the background wont get as blurred
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorirask/5165186720/in/pool-canon5d

this is shot with 20mm 3.5(about same fov than with 12mm on crop), you simply cant get background blur with a 12mm lens on crop sensor(exif says 50mm f/2 because its a manual lens)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/santapolero/5164317821/in/pool-canon5d

i bet you get the idea. these things are something where a crop sensor simply cant match the full frame and if you want good portraits, you need a full frame(or at least 1.3 crop). 5d has pretty good iso handling even compared to new crop sensor cameras, not to mention that the viewfinder is much larger. anything that new crop cameras can offer doesent compare to what a full frame can do if you want to take good portraits