I finished processing Christine and Aaron's wedding photos in time to deliver them on Thanksgiving weekend. Unfortunately my brand new 5D Mark II developed a hot pixel towards the centre of the sensor just before the wedding, and I don't have any fancy software to automatically eliminate hot pixels, so I had to photoshop it out of every photo by hand. Grrr. I will have to come up with a better solution before my next major photography outing. Canon has a "dust delete" feature... why can't they have a "hot pixel delete" feature too?

Regardless, I'm pretty happy with the way the pictures turned out. I learned a lot from this wedding gig. The biggest thing I learned was that I don't know my camera quite as well as I thought I did, especially when it comes to getting predictable results with the flash. It seemed to be far more inconsistent than my Rebel XT, but perhaps that was just because I was more anxious about getting photos right the first time rather than taking a bunch of test shots and carefully adjusting parameters.

Technical details: This photo was taken with my 5D Mark II + Tamron 28-75mm at 75mm, ISO 100, f/3.2 for 1/320th of a second.

Comments

Beautiful image.  I've heard there is an undocumented feature that allows you
to remap hot pixels.  This article talks about doing it with a 40D, don't know
if it works with a 5D2:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4530780_remap-canon-40d.html

Also, if your 5D2 is under warranty you could send it in to Canon and get them
to do it.  

Also if you use either Lightroom or ACR to convert your RAW files,
both will do a good job of automatically removing hot pixels.

You did a fantastic job with the photos Mike! Thank-you cannot be said enough.
We love ya for it!