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Flying Scotsman Fail 2019 At Speed With A Whistle - Who said Pentax FF couldn't do Action Photography.
Super!!! It is stressful looking at the video, thinking you might lose the shot. I can certainly understand opting not to overdo the motion blur! You could crop some of the grass in front. It would be even more striking in 16:9 format, i think. And would it be cheating to clone out the post on th...
Posted by GeoffMoore on 01/07/2019 - 23:02
Flying Scotsman Fail 2019 At Speed With A Whistle - Who said Pentax FF couldn't do Action Photography.
Love it, great video and final images too. Good stuff. I agree that the 16:9 aspect ratio is often pretty nice for stills too. Also allows your image to be a screensaver for example/display nice on a TV. Did you prefocus manually ahead of the shot? I think I'd be leaning that way to avoid an...
Posted by richandfleur on 02/07/2019 - 23:12
Flying Scotsman Fail 2019 At Speed With A Whistle - Who said Pentax FF couldn't do Action Photography.
Love it, great video and final images too. Good stuff. I agree that the 16:9 aspect ratio is often pretty nice for stills too. Also allows your image to be a screensaver for example/display nice on a TV. Did you prefocus manually ahead of the shot? I think I'd be leaning that way to avoid an...
Posted by GeoffMoore on 03/07/2019 - 16:29
some for the Prime + ext tube club
Blimey Joe - how can you suggest they aren't as good as the ones posted so far? IMO these show precisely that beautiful soft background look as the lens drifts out of focus - great shooting 8)
Posted by LennyBloke on 03/07/2019 - 19:20
some for the Prime + ext tube club
Blimey Joe - how can you suggest they aren't as good as the ones posted so far? IMO these show precisely that beautiful soft background look as the lens drifts out of focus - great shooting 8) Couldn't agree more. Cracking set.
Posted by derek897 on 03/07/2019 - 19:35
some for the Prime + ext tube club
Very nice images. I much prefer this style of macro shots without everything in focus and almost the whole frame clinically sharp, they're much more pleasant on the eye. I think this is helped by using an older lens. I have also found that Takumars on extension tubes can be great at macro, though...
Posted by Jonathan-Mac on 04/07/2019 - 08:47
Acanthus - Spot the Difference
Did you try any with the lenses stopped down for comparison? The Pentax Standard 50mm at 1.7 isn't ever going to look really sharp at full aperture used as a macro lens. At f2.8 it would match the Sigma and provide a truer comparison The first of the F1.7 pictures is at f2.8 so that's the comparison...
Posted by Lubbyman on 06/07/2019 - 15:12
So glad I didn't sell this lens
I listed my A* Macro 200mm f4 a few months back and had an agreed sale that didn't work out so it is still in my possession. This afternoon the light was pretty strong but had a nice quality about it as it was lowering in the sky, I spent a little while wandering around the garden with it mounted on...
Posted by LennyBloke on 07/07/2019 - 22:34
Garden Macros and Snakes
Woo hoo, what a set Super balance of detail, colours and composition. I tend to sacrifice all for detail, just cant help it 😂 So for me this set is great, how they can be shot. No critique just well done. 👏👏👏 Hi Derek, thank you for your comments! I always pla...
Posted by davidstorm on 07/07/2019 - 23:02
Garden Macros and Snakes
Such a strong set David, great variety, composition, selective focus, processing - everything about them works so well 8)
Posted by LennyBloke on 07/07/2019 - 23:05
Roadside Flowers
Yesterday evening I made a quick visit to one of the legacies of the 2012 Olympic sailing - a new road to Weymouth (after 30 years of arguing!). The local authority had insisted that the sides and top of a cutting through a chalk hill were sown with wild flower seed. The result is a riot of wild flo...
Posted by Lubbyman on 08/07/2019 - 13:48
Roadside Flowers
Nice set Steve - that first shot is lovely - soft, pastel palette, just the right amount of selective focus - spot on 8) Is the last one some sort of Chive :?:
Posted by LennyBloke on 08/07/2019 - 15:03
Ripon Cathedral.
Takes me back to when I used to live in Ripon.:D
Posted by ilovesaabs on 09/07/2019 - 21:00
Cleave Hill Macro
From a trip up Cleave Hill on Monday evening, a superb warm and still evening with high humidity All Pentax 120mm macro lens with Pentax 50mm Ext tube, tripod and natural light except one - exposure varied slightly around 1/50th Sec F9 to F13 and 400 ISO Marbled White - focus point just behin...
Posted by Chrism8 on 10/07/2019 - 12:54
Little and Large in the Garden
I like the rose , well I like both, but the rose is lovely The rose is a weed, spread from next door and took up residence in an almost inaccessible spot at the back of a flower bed. It has ferociously prickly stems. The flowers are the only good thing about it! Steve
Posted by Lubbyman on 10/07/2019 - 23:05
Thistle Pollen
K5, SMC Pentax-M 200mm f4 + SMC Pentax-M 50mm f1.7 reversed. AF280FT on camera diffused flash. Manual focus & exposure. 39 frames, in 3 slabs, stacked in Combine ZP. Elements 11. Any thoughts or comments most welcome, thanks for looking, Roger.
Posted by coker on 10/07/2019 - 17:31
Thistle Pollen
Really nice images. Really good display of what a good focus stacking workflow can achieve. Hats off to you sir
Posted by derek897 on 10/07/2019 - 22:51
Thistle Pollen
Does that make the grain (0.2 divided by 4) = 0.05mm. Wikipedia says the diameter of a pollen grain is between 0.006mm and 0.1mm, depending on species. So your estimate looks pretty good to me. And you've got detail on those grains that could well be 1/10 of 0.05mm = 0.005mm. Have you ever though...
Posted by Lubbyman on 11/07/2019 - 13:57
Beetle in Flight
Until today, I thought that birds in flight was difficult... Lots of soldier beetles in the garden today. Spent a while trying to spot when they were about to take off. Then spent another while trying to press the shutter button quick enough for the beetle to still be in the frame. As for focus ....
Posted by Lubbyman on 10/07/2019 - 18:53
Beetle in Flight
Well captured, that cant have been easy, But what a great way to pass some time, and you got an excellent shot too. Now for today's macro challenge, how about a beetle flying towards you. With its eyes in focus :twisted::twisted: Only joking I'm not that mean :lol:
Posted by derek897 on 11/07/2019 - 08:03
