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Street Portraits from today (and a question)
cheers :) I would imagine focus peaking might be your best bet. I use magnified live view to focus my 50/1.2 but then you can't see the composition. Tis a PITA. :)
Posted by Smeggypants on 28/02/2014 - 23:00
Street Portraits from today (and a question)
cheers :) I would imagine focus peaking might be your best bet. I use magnified live view to focus my 50/1.2 but then you can't see the composition. Tis a PITA. :) Can only see part of #8 in your sample set. Is it partialy deleted anyway?
Posted by tyronet2000 on 01/03/2014 - 08:35
Street Portraits from today (and a question)
As the others have said...stay between 2.8 and 4 if your looking for a narrow depth of field. On my Kr I found I had to ignore the focus confirmation and go with what I was seeing. I couldn't be bothered doing a lens calibration because you have only one option on the Kr but your K-5 can remember se...
Posted by Gravelrash on 01/03/2014 - 15:50
Street Portraits from today (and a question)
thanks for the feedback guys THe 50mm 1,8 seems to be a good choice - might opt for it but still thinking manual might be the way to go in live view Could someone explain to me better how "focus peaking" works?
Posted by QuestionableCarrot on 01/03/2014 - 17:27
Street Portraits from today (and a question)
Could someone explain to me better how "focus peaking" works? I don't know the technicalities of how it works Alistair, but it uses Contrast AF to highlight the edges of areas of an image that are in focus. As you move the focus in and out, you can see the highlighted areas moving. Once you get us...
Posted by davidstorm on 01/03/2014 - 17:37
Street Portraits from today (and a question)
I don't think that an AF lens will solve your problems much. You want the eyes in focus which is really hard with the large apertures slash shallow DOF you want combined with the fact people just seem to move. You are better at judging focus and more importantly judging whether the focus is on the e...
Posted by joostdh on 01/03/2014 - 20:26
Street Portraits from today (and a question)
cheers :) I would imagine focus peaking might be your best bet. I use magnified live view to focus my 50/1.2 but then you can't see the composition. Tis a PITA. :) Can only see part of #8 in your sample set. Is it partialy deleted anyway? Should be fine. I can see it all here. :) - try reloadi...
Posted by Smeggypants on 02/03/2014 - 00:45
Close up of sweets
#1 This is the stand-out shot for me. Really nice but a little off in centering and also slightly tilted I think. Alignment really is critical for this type of shot. #2 This looks very promising. I think a greater depth of field is needed here though so smaller aperture or focus stacking? Nice c...
Posted by gwing on 01/03/2014 - 13:55
Close up of sweets
#1 This is the stand-out shot for me. Really nice but a little off in centering and also slightly tilted I think. Alignment really is critical for this type of shot. #2 This looks very promising. I think a greater depth of field is needed here though so smaller aperture or focus stacking? Nice c...
Posted by Smeggypants on 02/03/2014 - 17:46
Jupiter
Walked outside this evening and Jupiter was shinning bright. I had to get the camera out the car anyway so figured I'd have a go. Didn't have a clue what I was doing TBH, just tried out what I thought might work in manual mode! First I tried the K-3 with the DA*300mm. by , on Flickr N...
Posted by NeilP on 03/03/2014 - 22:39
Bird ident?
I've gone over some of the other images from yesterday and it's visible in them too, I think it's the double glazing effect. A reflection off the front element onto the rear of the filter and back down the lens, slightly off line.
Posted by Steep on 05/03/2014 - 13:32
Few from half term
Nice set of pics. Was at centre parcs a couple of weeks back but the weather was a bit wet and cold for any decent photos. Rufford Abbey is very close to the Sherwood Forest one, and some quite good photo opportunities there.
Posted by lennythelion on 07/03/2014 - 13:11
Few from half term
Very 'pin-sharp', impressive captures, and the little creatures all look very engaged (No 5 focus is fractionally off isn't it?) I like the way you have limited the contrast range, despite the conditions, which is right for this type of subject I think. Only thing is, I wonder if they are a littl...
Posted by McGregNi on 07/03/2014 - 21:04
Few from half term
Thanks for your comments, No 5 focus is fractionally off isn't it? Only thing is, I wonder if they are a little over-exposed, just 1/3rd - 1/2 a stop? I believe you are right re the focus in 5, the overexposure was my pp in lightroom as they looked a little dark on my PC, however they look t...
Posted by carmagw on 09/03/2014 - 19:54
Shooting Cliche's
Can't bring myself to apologise for using the Q for shooting the moon, with focus peaking and light weight I find it great for this kind of shot. 1: Posidonius 2: Theophilus
Posted by CIBarker on 07/03/2014 - 20:45
Shooting Cliche's
No problem, I'll sort that out for you. When I purchased the Q I bought a Kipon T2 to Pentax Q mount from eBay, about £17 and rather usefully this scope has 2 ways to mount the camera in the prime focus way first in the eyepiece using a T adapter for 1.25" telescope (available for about £10) or the ...
Posted by CIBarker on 08/03/2014 - 22:35
Shooting Cliche's
Focusing with K-5 is perhaps trickier without focus peaking but one thing I did do was improve the focusing mechanism on the 4se, which has a very small sensitive dial making fine focusing quite difficult. You could try a peg on the focus dial to increase the radius of the focusing dial. I have a ca...
Posted by CIBarker on 09/03/2014 - 07:42
Perth life
I have started to take a camera into work each Friday. My office is in the heart of the city so there's always something to shoot. Good practise. Restricting shooting to planned outings an meaning you miss out on a lot of stuff. You should shoot stuff at work too. Even if it's just for lookin...
Posted by Smeggypants on 08/03/2014 - 21:49
Sunrise over Aylesbury - Cliche alert!
Went out for a photo walk yesterday and decided to go back to this tree at sunrise this morning! 2x Lee Filters were used on this shot, can you guess what they were?
Posted by Unlocker on 10/03/2014 - 10:12
Sunrise over Aylesbury - Cliche alert!
Yes, it works nicely. What about having the tree bang in the middle! :D The ground is excellent - not so sure about the 'grad' look sky. Its a bit too tobacco for my liking (that is a cliche), and I think you need colder blues in the upper sky, as there's a seasonal mismatch between the frosty-lo...
Posted by Unlocker on 10/03/2014 - 18:04
