Wrest Park today

Very pleasant morning wandering around Wrest Park with Papa Laz.

Just a few very quick shots. Starting to get to grips with the K5, but it's fiddly getting the post-process right. Some of these may be a little 'over done' to some eyes. Very happy with them though.

A few more...













All on the K5. A mix of lenses, but the majority are on the 35mm 2.4.

Good shooting, that's an excellent set. Looks like you're getting or have got used to your K5. Lovely looking place to shoot.
Derek

Many thanks Derek.

I'm very pleased with the results so far, though (and as mentioned in another thread), I'm surprised at the level of sharpening that seems to work ideally. Far higher than I'm used to with other cameras. On the other hand, the images respond very well and the available detail is excellent.

Not much use to you (though Wicklow is lovely), but I can thoroughly recommend the Wrest gardens. A stunning place.

Wrest Park is a beautiful place and that comes across in these photos. The compositions in several of these make interesting views. For me, some could be a little brighter (a K-5 image can take some brightening without noticeable harm).

(I suppose that you might have been experimenting with the camera, but I would guess that base ISO and centre-weighted metering would have worked fine for all of them.)

Cheers.
Philip

Great images of a lovely place. Well worth a visit if any one is in the area. Most of my shots of it are on film, and not all Pentax so I haven't been able to show them here.

If you hadn't said I wouldn't have guessed it was a new camera for you. Excellent stuff. K.

It's a lovely camera. I generally find that I have to brighten them and even up the contrast regularly. It's a matter of taste how much sharpening you use but you always need some. Just seems to be how the K5 presents the images, presumably because the makers assume you will know what you are doing and so leave a wide lattitude?
You've got these bang on

All the shots with it do seem to take (and need) a fair bit of post processing, but I don't mind that at all. Some of these to date could take a little more brightness, I agree, but monitor calibrations differ and I'm always nervous about losing any detail.

Still in the learning phase, but I'm enormously pleased with it so far.

They all need more of what I term 'high tone contrast ' ..... In PhotoShop terms that could be a curves adjustment with a steeper shape in the top third of the curve in order to bring up the highlights without losing the depth in the blues of the sky. The effect should be to increase contrast in the higher tones only.

If you use a programme with sliders for highlights, brightness and shadows, then try just the highlights one. It your programme has a ' white point' slider then move that downwards mostly and the highlights one upwards a bit less.

Thanks!

I always shoot RAW and use Photoshop, so the basic stuff is done in ACR. Just need some more time to play with settings. Enlarging massively in Camera Raw, I think I've got the 'normal' sharpness and NR settings about right now. I just need to work on the brightness to get a little more impact without losing highlight detail.