The Bike Path

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Comments welcome.

[purplehaze]

Nice colour, and I like your leading line, AOA. I see a dust spot in the area of the upper left third.

[Shadowman]

Nicely exposed, good composition.

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Thank you both.
I thought it worked better than this one.



I need to pay more attention to my lenses I guess. With getting them and my bike down to the beach it must have picked up some dirt along the way.
These are SOOC shots except for the resizing.

[purplehaze]

You're right; the first is much better.

The dust is likely on your sensor, AOA, and floated up in there when you were changing lenses. Check your camera settings for sensor-cleaning options. (My Nikon is set to clean itself every time I turn it on or off.) If you have just the one spot, it can be easily handled in PP. You can zap it once and copy the adjustment to all affected images. If you have many spots, as I currently do, you may want to take your camera in to a repair shop for a cleaning.

[Donald]

The dust is likely on your sensor,

Yep, that's definitely a dust bunny.

[AlwaysOnAuto]

hmmm, never had one of those before...cleaned the lens and filter, changed the lens to a different one, tried the sensor cleaning mode on the camera a couple of times....and now it appears there's more than one of 'em! They're multiplying like RABBITS!
Yikes!



This shot shows them better.
I hope charging the battery cures this as the camera didn't seem to do anything when I tried the cleaning mode.

[purplehaze]

They're multiplying like RABBITS!
Yikes!

That'll happen. Perhaps you need a lesson in safe (ahem) coupling practices?
I think this about covers the subject.

I hope charging the battery cures this as the camera didn't seem to do anything when I tried the cleaning mode.

I've never noticed that the camera's cleaning mode did much for me. The best thing you can do is try to prevent dust getting in in the first place. I use a Giotto Rocket Blaster to blast any dust off the camera and lens before I change lenses and try to change the lenses as quickly as possible, using the procedure described in the article linked to above. If you are in a windy location, try to shelter the camera and lens in your camera bag.

[Donald]

Put your lens to the smallest aperture; e.g. f22, point at fairly even sky (I find a dull day with even, whiteish cloud is best) and fire off a frame. Then put that onto computer. You might get a shock at just how many dust bunnies show up.

I used to put mine into a Canon authorised centre to get the sensor cleaned, but then took the plunge and bought gear (Arctic Butterfly & a swab kit) to do it myself. Once you get over the nervousness of doing it for the first time, it's fine. I'm not as disciplined as Janis at blasting things before I change lenses and lenses get changed in all sorts of very unsuitable locations and situations.

The sensor vibration thing on the camera is fine. It will move some of them, but not the more determined ones that stick on there.

MOD EDIT - I've just noticed that the topic is being more than adequately addressed in this thread, started by the same OP.

[Cananeer]

AOA this is a great shot - with just a little post (and I mean very little)




I've had to clean the sensor on my T3i too. Wasn't to difficult, I think you'll succeed with ease

If you'd rather I didn't mess with the shot just let me know and I'll be happy to remove it.

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Not a problem Roger, glad you like it. It probably needed a little sharpening since it was taken while riding my bike.