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Selling photos on Ebay, is it a good idea?
When selling any type of image (or even having it available on social media such as Facebook)... It's always best to have it watermarked in numerous locations; even going so far as to placing other photo alterations to the image to make it almost unprintable. Cannot begin to mention how many imag...
Posted by Smeggypants on 05/09/2015 - 04:34
Selling photos on Ebay, is it a good idea?
I completely agree with Smeggypants; sold a few myself and had a few nicked including a front cover shot sold to a British Country sports magazine which turned up in an advert from a prestigious British artist run in an Italian Gunmakers magazine;. However, I considered that as an advert and refe...
Posted by Daronl on 05/09/2015 - 08:19
Seen better days
A few weekends back, we were out at Grove Hill, just south of Darwin. This is an old gold mining area. There were a few old cars and trucks around, that had seen better days. I would not mind a return there when the weather cools down again. I guess that this is an old military truck. I could be ...
Posted by JForeigner on 04/09/2015 - 13:59
Encouraging youngsters into photography.
I'm sure the K-01 would appeal. It's a stylish and original design. I also think its right to get an interchangeable lens system type camera ... This opens up so much more and will draw more involvement and curiosity about the optical side of photography. My only doubt really is about the viewfind...
Posted by McGregNi on 05/09/2015 - 10:01
Encouraging youngsters into photography.
When I realised how little my old K10d and kit lens was worth as a trade-in, I decided to give it to the teenage son of a friend of mine who showed some interest in photography. I also loaned him a couple of old manual focus lenses - 50mm 1.7 M and a 35-105 3.5 A lens. The surprising thing to me was...
Posted by smudge on 05/09/2015 - 16:21
Artificial DOF - Does This Look Fake?
Looks good to me. I've done similar work with portraits in the past using photoshop, but would probably use lightroom nowadays. Sometimes it's safer to shoot with a wider depth of field anyway, to cover any focus problems, especially if you have a group of people who may be a different depths. ...
Posted by richandfleur on 09/09/2015 - 00:30
Artificial DOF - Does This Look Fake?
It looks fake. It's because there's a section of the ground (the closest part) which is less blurred than it should be & because the blur's also just too smooth. Well that rather depends on the depth of the focal plane. It may well be that some of the ground behind the boy would be almost in focus....
Posted by SteveLedger on 09/09/2015 - 08:18
Artificial DOF - Does This Look Fake?
It looks fake. It's because there's a section of the ground (the closest part) which is less blurred than it should be & because the blur's also just too smooth. Well that rather depends on the depth of the focal plane. It may well be that some of the ground behind the boy would be almost in focus....
Posted by alfpics on 09/09/2015 - 09:18
Artificial DOF - Does This Look Fake?
Look at most any magazine cover or most professional wedding photographs or other portraits. Typically it is best to keep the background out of focus as much as possible, focusing the attention more onto the subject. Sure there are examples of keeping basically everything in focus, but for most p...
Posted by 50mpCMOS on 09/09/2015 - 22:30
Artificial DOF - Does This Look Fake?
Look at most any magazine cover or most professional wedding photographs or other portraits. Typically it is best to keep the background out of focus as much as possible, focusing the attention more onto the subject. Sure there are examples of keeping basically everything in focus, but for most p...
Posted by SteveLedger on 09/09/2015 - 22:38
Artificial DOF - Does This Look Fake?
Back on the laptop now so here is the before and after, I modified the after to remove the graduated filter as some suggested Before: After: I also had a very quick go on Topaz lens effects, this took about 5 mins building the depth map, it would take more time to get it right cos hi...
Posted by mcpieman on 09/09/2015 - 22:49
Artificial DOF - Does This Look Fake?
But this thread isn't about how to do this optically, most of us here know how. It's about whether faking it in post is effective and how well the OP has managed his 'fake dof'... Exactly, and I think it's come off ok. As an aside, the graduated filter in lightroom works well for this, as you c...
Posted by richandfleur on 09/09/2015 - 23:41
DC motor or ultrasonic?
SDM Lenses I have a battery of DA*Lenses and I have up to now not found anything optically better in Telephotos. (in wider primes their are very good options as their are in some zooms some of which are Ricoh / Pentax). However the SDMs are prone to failure in early releases of the DA*range an...
Posted by Daronl on 10/09/2015 - 12:46
DC motor or ultrasonic?
My DA* F4 300mm is an early one, whisper quiet and works fine. I read heat from early cramped circuit boards and fragile gearing were the big enemies of the 16 - 50 and 50 - 135mm models. Shame they never did a proper recall and a clearly identifiable fixed MKII of such. My 18 - 135 zoom is DC and...
Posted by wvbarnes on 20/09/2015 - 23:00
Pentax vs nikon
The previous post from "richandfleur" , as always, is such a good perspective on this topic, but whilst I doubt it likely, I hope Ricoh / Pentax take note of what is being said and people in general reflect of the points in John Riley's earlier post too . I am sometimes frustrated at the Pentax f...
Posted by Daronl on 14/09/2015 - 04:53
Pentax vs nikon
Following on from Daronl's link it would appear that the FF could be a game-changer in persuading some other brand users to switch to Pentax, much like the 645Z. Presumably there will be a new FF kit lens or lenses launched at the same time and we are seeing the brand working hard to expand the FF l...
Posted by RobL on 14/09/2015 - 11:25
Pentax vs nikon
Pentax needs to be realistic about where they price their new models too. Pricing high and then dropping quickly doesn't leave a good impression. It hurts reviews, because the camera gets pitched against higher spec competition, and it hurts Pentax supporters, who pay full whack for something that w...
Posted by richandfleur on 15/09/2015 - 01:40
Pentax vs nikon
I don't know anything about the D7100 or any other Nikon camera and to be honest I don't really care. It's great to read about comparisons between various models / brands, but really the only thing that matters is 'are we happy with the performance of what we have'? I like Pentax ergonomics, I lik...
Posted by davidstorm on 16/09/2015 - 23:18
Pentax vs nikon
Can't argue with that.. We all want the best our money can buy, spend hours researching how best to spend it before making a choice. Then once we have it the grass starts to look greener on the other side again. Complex species us hoomans.. I came to the conclusion a while back that there' no ...
Posted by SteveLedger on 16/09/2015 - 23:40
Pentax vs nikon
Yes, that's just not professional behaviour frankly. A professional should take the responsibility to know about and understand the range of systems and be skilled enough to adapt their technical points to that. As I said a while back here, it may have been a fair point that the entry level K500 ...
Posted by McGregNi on 19/10/2015 - 09:46
