How do you narrow your final picks from a shoot?

[Brooks]

Originally Posted by jfrancho

Beautiful - tricky exposure, mixed light sources, and challenging composition. Must have pleased the AD to be able to accommodate all this.

Thanks. You know we used to try to balance all these elements: lighting, exposure, composition, mixed light sources, color balance etc. using Polaroid film. If I was using film on this shot today I'd be shooting medium format just so I could have a Polaroid of reasonable size.

When everything looked OK we'd shoot film, transparency ISO 100 film. And we'd hope that we captured the right expression and the correct exposure which was sometimes tricky with this sort of hi-key tonal range.

This digital stuff where we're shooting tethered makes all of that so easy. And when we see the right shot on the computer screen we KNOW we have it. We can zoom in for focus, expression, look at a real histogram even convert to BW if that's what we want. All before striking the set and moving on to the next setup.

It's foolish not to take advantage of such a wonderful tool that shooting tethered can be. Especially if you're shooting professionally.

[waple]

Speaking of shooting teathered, is there a trick to getting the EOS Utility to work right when using a Canon 40D or 30D? Whenever I hook mine up the display on my camera either constantly blinks "BUSY" or the LCD on the back shows the menu to transfer data (and never allows me to complete that transfer).

I was considering getting Breeze's DSLR Remote Pro which worked really well, but I'd rather use the free one if I can get it to work.

[jfrancho]

I plug my camera in, turn it on, and start EOS Remote Capture. Works fine for me. I even open DPP and browse to the folder where the new images are saved, and can convert them on the spot. Sounds like you need to spend some time with the software manual. Make sure all the updates are installed.