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More Barn Owl pictures
Fantastic set Alan . This is a Bird I have not managed to get a shot of yet. I have a couple of places lined up. I have seen one hunting in fields to the back of my house and seen one coming out of a barn behind a friends house.
Posted by bassman on 23/07/2012 - 20:32
The Road To Wu Yuan
Following on from (or actually prior to !) the recent bird threads I've posted from WuYuan I thought I'd just show you the drive down there. Most were taken through the windscreen (at speed !) though there are two where I was so enchanted by the beauty around me I stopped to take a shot. Altho...
Posted by Frogfish on 20/07/2012 - 19:18
What I did when the SUN CAME OUT!
I took a Kiron 105mm Macro and Sigma 105 macro up on the roof and 9Gb later had a quick look through. Here are a few just out of Picasa and from the K-5 jpg,a couple of crops and no processing. I'll do some RAW when the rain comes back :D Four from the Kiron and one from the Sigma, can you gues...
Posted by dougf8 on 21/07/2012 - 20:02
New to this
There all soft mate. And maybe your focus is off slightly. Some sharpening applied in PP would help. Or stopping down the lens may help also, say around F8. Most lens's are soft when they're wide open, ie at the lowest possible F number. And don't be afraid to 2nd guess auto focus. I love my K10...
Posted by bettyswolloks on 22/07/2012 - 10:18
New to this
Too much background, not enough fly, Also need to be sharper (focus). :shock:bj.
Posted by Pentaxsam on 22/07/2012 - 10:32
New to this
That is what I thought I just didn't know how to over come it, I had it on manual focus I found it a little easier, I haven't edit any of my pics yet i wanna learn to take good pictures before I do that :) There r a few random shots, like I said I'm really new to this, ...
Posted by Wokingrob on 22/07/2012 - 13:42
At the Garden Centre
Had a good lunch at a garden centre yesterday, followed by a bit of camera fun. The thing that might be of interest to some, is that the photos were taken with an old Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8 manual focus lens on a K-r body. The great thing about the animals there is that they are so co-operative and ...
Posted by MrB on 22/07/2012 - 12:43
My first Airshow
These look pretty good, better than my efforts (which is why I didn't post them). I was at Rhyl as well, in fact I was up at Bodelwyddan at the classic car show. I came down into town on the bus so I could photograph the steam train as it went through, then catch a few of the air show, then back ...
Posted by droopsnoot on 24/07/2012 - 11:31
My first Airshow
I used the Bigma Mike, what else:D It was so bright I was using anything from f16 right up to f38 along with shutter speeds of up to 1/750 and higher, anything else and I was getting over exposure warnings, I used TAv with spot metering and centre point focus on AF-C, finding the aircraft with th...
Posted by fatspider on 24/07/2012 - 16:01
My first Airshow
...spot metering .... I had camera set to meter at -1 as mine tends to blow highlights quite easily. That'll be the spot metering, especially if the background is cloud. Still, if you can keep the thing focused using centre-spot only, you've a steadier hand than I. For most of my ground-to-...
Posted by ChrisA on 24/07/2012 - 16:19
My first Airshow
Well I guess I was lucky with blue skies:D And the Tornado shots weren't that bad, I just had more out of focus and tail shots than any of the other aircraft. Had a play with highlights and shadows on these. And something you don't see everyday, apparently.
Posted by fatspider on 24/07/2012 - 16:37
My first Airshow
I absolutely LOVE that one of the two Tornadoes. The front one is a touch soft, but catching the back one like that in the front one's exhaust is really, really excellent. You should do a lot more with that one, I think - it's an absolutely marvellous capture and very unusual indeed. BTW - if...
Posted by ChrisA on 24/07/2012 - 16:59
More Juvenile Kingfishers
These are stunning... again! Are they stuffed? Are you invisible? How do you get so close? It's not just the closeness to the subject though. Lighting, focus, framing, plain background - it's all expertly done.
Posted by WobblyGoblin on 24/07/2012 - 14:38
More Juvenile Kingfishers
These are stunning... again! Are they stuffed? Are you invisible? How do you get so close? It's not just the closeness to the subject though. Lighting, focus, framing, plain background - it's all expertly done. +1 *claps* Now your next task we are setting you is KF in flight and KF ente...
Posted by Frogfish on 25/07/2012 - 07:03
Acadia
After a long long fallow period due to work craziness, finally got a chance to spend some time taking photographs :D. These were taken in Acadia National Park (Maine USA), from a snatched day during a work trip to Maine (it's OK for some...). Absolutely fantastic landscape which deserved mor...
Posted by Northgrain on 24/07/2012 - 23:35
Kiron 105mm 2off
I have the Vivitar version... it really is a great lens. Only problem I have with it is the long focus throw which can be a bit of a bind when trying to get full magnification quickly.
Posted by Mike-P on 25/07/2012 - 19:45
Kiron 105mm 2off
Yes it's not one for fast focus. The blocks are exceptional .... once you wipe the dribble off them. I just need to sort out the way they look on the mac vs the way they appear on the laptop ;) It's different!
Posted by dougf8 on 25/07/2012 - 20:59
New K30 pictures
Thanks for the comments folk. I'm loving the K30. There are quite a few differences between it and the K5 but I soon got the feel of it. Like all Pentax cameras I've ever used its ergonomically superb. I thought I would miss the top plate information panel but I can work happily without it. All the ...
Posted by davidtrout on 27/07/2012 - 00:16
New K30 pictures
Thanks for the comments folk. I'm loving the K30. There are quite a few differences between it and the K5 but I soon got the feel of it. Like all Pentax cameras I've ever used its ergonomically superb. I thought I would miss the top plate information panel but I can work happily without it. All the ...
Posted by steven9761 on 27/07/2012 - 14:55
Tower Bridge
Nice shot! I turned down an approach from them a while ago, for an image of a museum in Qatar, as I decided I was not prepared to give such a large company an image for free. I quoted them $300, which they said was outside their budget. I then offered them the image for $75; they said they'd get ...
Posted by aliengrove on 28/07/2012 - 14:27
