Springtime

I've had my K-3 for a few months now and I'm starting to get to grips with it. I took advantage of the lovely weather today to go out into the garden and capture some images of the gorgeous orange-red tulips we have growing in one of the borders. I'm finding that the K-3 is a magnificent camera for taking photos of flowers and for macro work, in fact the K-5IIs is hardly getting a look in of late. I hope you like these images, please pass comment, whether you like them or not!

DFA 100mm F2.8 Macro WR





DFA 100mm F2.8 Macro WR





DA*50-135




Regards
David

Fantastic shots Dave. I love the one with the Bee.

+1, - great timing

Phil

ME TOO!

The 'satiny' texture that the K3/100mm combination has produced is interesting. I too have been photographing red tulips today using a K5 and Sigma 105, they simply do not have that sheen irrespective of the camera/light positioning.


Roger

Hi Roger

I'm a massive fan of both the DFA 100mm macro and the DA*50-135, they both have a magical way of rendering images. Having said that, I'm also a fan of the Sigma 105 macro and only sold it because I couldn't justify owning two macro lenses of similar focal length. I think the K-3 also has a significant effect on the images, it really is a superb camera and is leaving my K-5IIs in the shade at the moment. The K-3 does seem to add a sort of 'gloss' to images and produces more accurate colours than the K-5IIs does. I have had to adjust the red hue though to make it accurate to the actual colour of these flowers; all Pentax cameras seem to add a magenta tint to reds.

Regards
David

I'm not normally a big fan of flower photo's but when they look as good as those ...

Lovely images especially 1&2

Superb!!

I'm not much into flowers, but they are good images and the one with the bee is something special.

Jeff

Fab shots mate - love that bee one

Nice images.

The red tulips in the first one really pop out of the dark background.

Lovely, David. Given the quality of these and previous bird shots, is it time for a PU trip to your back garden?

Really rather lovely, and I rather like the texture

Cheers

2nd one for me too, great shot, BTW what happened to the colours in the shot taken with the 50-135?

Cheers Steve, I think I got it wrong on that one! The DA*50-135 renders the colours differently to the DFA macro, but I had to adjust the reds on all of them to get rid of the famous 'Pentax Magenta' tint that is there straight from the camera. I processed the last shot at a separate time to the first two and overdid the adjustment on the red hue, it's gone too orangey. Not the fault of the lens, but my ham-fisted processing!

Cheers
David

I like that one as well, how did you get a shot like that?