Kitchen Sink Baby Bath
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Apologies for yet another baby shot. This was my entry for the recent fortnightly "Relaxation" competition and I am just putting it up here to get it into my portfolio.
My grandson Sam has a short pause for relaxation while being bathed in our kitchen sink.
Pentax k-5 with DA35mm macro limited.
1/40sec, F3.2 & ISO 800
Shot handheld without flash on 23/12/2011 at around 7pm
Cropped in PSE10
Glyn
My grandson Sam has a short pause for relaxation while being bathed in our kitchen sink.
Pentax k-5 with DA35mm macro limited.
1/40sec, F3.2 & ISO 800
Shot handheld without flash on 23/12/2011 at around 7pm
Cropped in PSE10
Glyn
28/12/2011 - 19:58GlynM
CategoryPortraits / People
LensN/A
ISO800
Focal Length35mm
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Posted 28/12/2011 - 20:18
What a lovely lovely shot 
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Posted 28/12/2011 - 21:38
Pure joy.
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SP, SPII, SPF, PZ-10, P30, SFX, K110D, istDS, Optio 60, Z-10, H90, RZ10, I-10, f3.5 28mm, f1.8 55mm, f1.4 50mm, f3.5 135mm, f2.5 135mm, f4 50mm Macro, f4.5 80-200 F, f4 35-70, f3.5 28-80, f3.5 35-135, f3.5 18-55, f1.8 31mm Ltd., two Auto 110's, Auto 110 lenses and filters, tubes, bellows, Manfrottos and a sore back.
Mac from Montreal
SP, SPII, SPF, PZ-10, P30, SFX, K110D, istDS, Optio 60, Z-10, H90, RZ10, I-10, f3.5 28mm, f1.8 55mm, f1.4 50mm, f3.5 135mm, f2.5 135mm, f4 50mm Macro, f4.5 80-200 F, f4 35-70, f3.5 28-80, f3.5 35-135, f3.5 18-55, f1.8 31mm Ltd., two Auto 110's, Auto 110 lenses and filters, tubes, bellows, Manfrottos and a sore back.
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Posted 28/12/2011 - 22:26
What a gorgeous capture, full of joy and the easiest place to bath a baby !
Kind regards Maria
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Kind regards Maria
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maria-Gray-photography/589310071158079?ref=hl
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Posted 28/12/2011 - 22:37
As soon as I opened this, his sheer joy had a similar effect on me. You captured it so well. Thank you for sharing it here.
Regards,
Nezih
Regards,
Nezih Last Edited by nonur on 28/12/2011 - 22:38
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Posted 28/12/2011 - 23:09
Thank you all for your kind remarks.
This baby beams like this at everyone he meets. I can't remember any of my children being this social at this age. It does though take three times longer to get round the shops because he is constantly smiling at anyone who then have to stop and chat back to him. Reviewing today all the pictures I took of of our family Christmas gathering I find they are virtually all of this little chap.
Watching him being bathed in our kitchen sink was a highlight of the Christmas evenings where the whole extended family gathered in our smallish kitchen to watch and certainly his great grandmother would not have got up the stairs to watch if we had used the bathroom.
In reply to "focus" I very much like the 35mm limited lens. I have had it for a few years. It is almost like putting the standard 1:1 view 50mm lens on an old full-frame camera.
You have to remember though that it is really a macro lens. Most of its longish focus travel is for close distances, about 135 degrees of rotation for 0.139m to 0.5m but then only around 5 degrees of focus travel from 0.5m to infinity. So I guess it would be a pain to manually focus for any non-macro use but it seems to work fine in auto focus for general use. It appears to be very sharp and I think, like most macro lenses, has a flat field with virtually no distortion. What you see is certainly what you get so perhaps its not the perfect lens for portraits where some softness might be more flattering but I have not found this to be a problem.
The only really critical thing I can say about it is that it is not very tolerant with any focusing issues in the camera. It certainly highlighted a focusing issue on my old K10D which was back-focusing a little where for non macro everything looked soft below f4. However the same lens has worked fine on both my subsequent K-7 and K-5 cameras.
It has a fantastic build quality and and has a superb quality feel in use. It is also modest in size and weight so not a burden to carry around.
I hope this helps,
Glyn
This baby beams like this at everyone he meets. I can't remember any of my children being this social at this age. It does though take three times longer to get round the shops because he is constantly smiling at anyone who then have to stop and chat back to him. Reviewing today all the pictures I took of of our family Christmas gathering I find they are virtually all of this little chap.
Watching him being bathed in our kitchen sink was a highlight of the Christmas evenings where the whole extended family gathered in our smallish kitchen to watch and certainly his great grandmother would not have got up the stairs to watch if we had used the bathroom.
In reply to "focus" I very much like the 35mm limited lens. I have had it for a few years. It is almost like putting the standard 1:1 view 50mm lens on an old full-frame camera.
You have to remember though that it is really a macro lens. Most of its longish focus travel is for close distances, about 135 degrees of rotation for 0.139m to 0.5m but then only around 5 degrees of focus travel from 0.5m to infinity. So I guess it would be a pain to manually focus for any non-macro use but it seems to work fine in auto focus for general use. It appears to be very sharp and I think, like most macro lenses, has a flat field with virtually no distortion. What you see is certainly what you get so perhaps its not the perfect lens for portraits where some softness might be more flattering but I have not found this to be a problem.
The only really critical thing I can say about it is that it is not very tolerant with any focusing issues in the camera. It certainly highlighted a focusing issue on my old K10D which was back-focusing a little where for non macro everything looked soft below f4. However the same lens has worked fine on both my subsequent K-7 and K-5 cameras.
It has a fantastic build quality and and has a superb quality feel in use. It is also modest in size and weight so not a burden to carry around.
I hope this helps,
Glyn
Last Edited by GlynM on 28/12/2011 - 23:39
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Posted 28/12/2011 - 23:33
Thanks for your input about the lens glyn, its a great help and much appreciated. - mary.
- mary.
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Posted 30/12/2011 - 07:15
nonur wrote:
As soon as I opened this, his sheer joy had a similar effect on me. You captured it so well. Thank you for sharing it here.
As soon as I opened this, his sheer joy had a similar effect on me. You captured it so well. Thank you for sharing it here.
I fully agree with Nezih.
Regards,
Gábor
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