Thanks, my friend at work said I should get a Tamron AF 18-270mm so I could have one lens to walk around with. Thoughts?

On a crop sensor camera, the 24-105 will not be as versatile as it is on the 5D3 (a full frame camera), because the wide end becomes almost normal (38 mm full frame equivalent).
I got myself an EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 or my 60D (also a crop sensor camera) and could not be happier. It’s very fast and sharp, albeit a little expensive.
Happy shooting!

Hi,
I don’t think your post was disrespectful but you seem to have a different idea of the power of Photoshop than most people.

First of all, Camera RAW – which indeed is included in Photoshop – is a separate module. It’s still considered as an add-on in PS as the functionality of PS doesn’t depend on it (of course the user profits immensely from it).

Camera RAW is also included, albeit in a limited version, into PS Elements which you may agree seems like a different product compared to “standard PS”.

Lightroom uses the same engine in Camera RAW but integrates it as a core module and you can’t sadly update it with a more recent Camera RAW download version. You need to get a new LR version in this case.
What’s the advantage of this integration: In LR you can *always* go back into develop mode and change the parameters of the RAW interpretation/conversion. In PS you haven’t the same level of control (although it increased with newer versions).

About compositing images: This is perhaps what defines PS – so getting rid of it (for even a month) limits you massively in what you can do with your images.
If you only use LR this means no layers, for a start, which means you can’t combine images at all. This is decisive for many image editing functions.
LR also offers no panorama support, no HDR processing, way less effects and other handy stuff (like the “semi-intelligent” fill function). And I’m not even mentioning the new stuff like improving unsharp images etc.

Yes, LR still offers much, but most functions still only operate on the whole image (which of course is the intention) and while certain area functions have been included and sometimes improved over the years (like the selective brush) there’s still a lot of ground that isn’t covered.

I can only imagine how crippled a PS user would feel if he loses most of its features and is restricted to LR (and not even using third party products). While I think it’s possible to survive a month – and even yield impressive results – Matt will feel relieved when he can use certain PS functions again. 😉

Hey John. I still couldn’t get as long of a shutter speed as I wanted so I put the ND filter on.

Thanks Tomas!

Thanks! 🙂