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How Pentax User Ruined My Photos

Father Ted
Posted 22/10/2008 - 20:08 Link
I thought that title would make you look!!!!

I've just dug out a load of old photos I took with my MESuper as I remembered one or two which may be suitable for this week's competition.

Looking through them, I am now seeing lots of errors that I didn't notice before. Photos which I thought were fine now look out of focus, composition which I hadn't even considered before I now see is wrong.

It shows I must be learning
Getting there! Thanks to you guys

Pentax K3ii, Pentax K10d, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.
ttk
Posted 22/10/2008 - 20:27 Link
Surprising how much better we get, and how much we learn as we get older
Tel,
Father Ted
Posted 22/10/2008 - 20:44 Link
ttk wrote:
and how much we learn as we get older

That's the trick isn't it.
Getting there! Thanks to you guys

Pentax K3ii, Pentax K10d, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.
ttk
Posted 22/10/2008 - 20:48 Link
What getting older: or the learning bit.
Tel,
Edited by ttk: 22/10/2008 - 20:49
Father Ted
Posted 22/10/2008 - 20:50 Link
Both
Getting there! Thanks to you guys

Pentax K3ii, Pentax K10d, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.
Hardgravity
Posted 22/10/2008 - 21:49 Link
Thank god for that, I'm getting older and learning, and my memory seems to be going, oh yes and I'm getting older. What was I saying.....
Cheers, HG

K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.

Mustn't forget the Zenits, or folders, or...

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Father Ted
Posted 22/10/2008 - 22:11 Link
Getting there! Thanks to you guys

Pentax K3ii, Pentax K10d, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.
JackL
Posted 23/10/2008 - 14:10 Link
Hecky thump! I'm ancient and I haven't learned owt. At least, I can't remember learning owt - but if I did, I must have forgot it!
Never mind, since I'm well on into my second childhood (or so the gaffer says) I might manage to learn summat the second time around!!!
Jack
fatspider
Posted 23/10/2008 - 17:19 Link
JackL wrote:
Hecky thump! I'm ancient and I haven't learned owt. At least, I can't remember learning owt - but if I did, I must have forgot it!
Never mind, since I'm well on into my second childhood (or so the gaffer says) I might manage to learn summat the second time around!!!
Jack

Hecky Thump? Owt? Summat?
Your not really from Warwickshire are you Jack
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Rees
Posted 02/03/2009 - 16:58 Link
impotentspider wrote:
JackL wrote:
Hecky thump! I'm ancient and I haven't learned owt. At least, I can't remember learning owt - but if I did, I must have forgot it!
Never mind, since I'm well on into my second childhood (or so the gaffer says) I might manage to learn summat the second time around!!!
Jack

Hecky Thump? Owt? Summat?
Your not really from Warwickshire are you Jack

Just what I was think-in thout carnt be from waarwwickshiire lad can tha be?
Mongoose
Posted 02/03/2009 - 17:33 Link
I find the problem is less with my own photos and more with other peoples. I hasten to add, not because mine are in any way flawless, but just because I wont get upset with myself for not liking my own photos!

Most of my friends and family are not photographers, but most of them do take photos (mostly on compact P&S cameras on auto). Occasionally they want to show off how wonderful their holiday snaps are and it can be very difficult to hide my disapointment at their "wonderful" pictures which could have been 100x better if the composition, focus or exposure had been slightly different.
you don't have to be mad to post here



but it does help
Father Ted
Posted 02/03/2009 - 18:44 Link
I bet that makes for fun photo viewing sessions.
Still, it probably saves you from having to put up with them the following year
Getting there! Thanks to you guys

Pentax K3ii, Pentax K10d, Kit lens ( 18-55mm ), 50mm f1.7 lens, Tamron 70-300mm lens, Prinzflex 70-162 manual lens, Various old flashes.
womble
Posted 02/03/2009 - 20:02 Link
I remember some years back having a holiday snaps slide show with a friend. Mine were all nicely exposed slides of ruined castles and old churches. Good competent pictures, and dull as ditchwater. Ideal for lecturing about the buildings which was mainly what they were for. My friend, who rarely shot slides, had underexposed ones, wonky ones, and a few real keepers but in the end they were much more interesting as photographs rather than "lecture slides".

Since (a) getting the K10D and (b) discovering this site I have been trying much more to take good images rather than good teaching materials. I leave it up to you lot if I am starting to get there. I have a way to go.

Cheers, Kris.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.

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