Best Of The Day - K-5

You may have noticed a few shots being uploaded to the Forum and the Gallery by Shaun Wilson, Andrew A and myself, taken at a small local Music and Dance Festival (T-fest) held in Tickhill, South Yorkshire last Saturday. Here is the first of a series of three from me, these all taken with the K-5. I'll post another two sets later, one with the K-5iis and one with the K-01. Apologies in advance for the watermarks, I was told I had to apply these.

As always, CC is invited, especially as this is new territory for me.

First Time Nerves - Sigma 150-500




Katherine Mason - Sigma 150-500




Katherine Mason - Sigma 105 DG EX Macro





Stafford Galli - Pentax DA 17-70





Stafford Galli - Pentax DA 17-70





James Sunderland - Sigma 150-500





The Torn - Sigma 150-500





Audience & Sunset - Sigma 150-500





Painted Face & Pop Bottle - Sigma 150-500





Awesome! - Sigma 150-500





Painted Face - Sigma 150-500





Watching Them Go - Sigma 150-500





Out of The Race - Sigma 150-500





Tension at the Start - Sigma 150-500




Regards
David

Great shots in there David.

David, these are absolute belters! You've captured some great moments.

Nice varied set David.

I thought the 4th one looked a bit like you at first glance !

My personal favourite is 'Out of the race', not so keen on No 2 as I feel its spoiled by not being able to see the ladies face although appreciate probably not much you can do about that. I like Andrews guest appearance as well !

How are you getting on with the 150-500 ? I must admit I only tend to take mine out when its good light / sunny as I'm happier with the results. Off to British Touring Cars at Silverstone this weekend I may take it if forecast is reasonable.

Regards

George

Super set and great timing.

Excellent set.

These aren't using autofocus on the K5 are they?

Love "awesome", I so want to see the other guys face

Hi Alan, I've fixed it as far as possible by going into the Debug Mode on PK_Tether and making a large global adjustment. This has helped! Also, it's much better on the Sigma 150-500 than it is on most of my other lenses! Not sure why this is? The problems come when the light drops off and once the levels are a bit low it's all over the place.

Regards
David

Thanks David. Tongue in cheek. Don't mean to spoil a thread containing these good photos

Looks like you had a steady hand that day

Nice set David, my favs are out of the race and the the Fender Strat shots.

(Have to admit not overly keen on my guest appearance and that dress I seem to have thought was a polo shirt has now been put in the bin)

No problems Alan, I have no hang ups about discussing the AF on my K-5! Also don't forget the Siggy 150-500 has a 'quick shift' feature that does rescue the situation if AF is not quite there - this gets used quite a bit!

Or a tripod

Sorry about that Drew I had no intention of altering your wardrobe

Thanks all for the comments received so far, much appreciated, especially as I'm new to this genre of photography.

Regards
David

Great set David like them all you did well not to infringe my copy right and Drew it does look like a dress lol

Thank you to everyone who has commented on these images.

Regards
David

A very good set indeed David. I particularly like the profile view of the harpist in the church.
David

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