Another one

Still getting to grips with PP

Sorry no birds today . Althought got a couple of them but haven't processed them. Decided to have a go at some macros today.
C&C sought please
Thank you

This is the dancing couple

and here I was thinking it was your other half that you mentioned she was coming from the States, sometime ago, but I got lost with the dates whethere it was now or around the pentax meet .

Kris, I have a neighbour that looks absolutely like the lady in the image, I kid you not , and I wouldn't be surprised that it was her, honestly, and she dresses also in black lots of times. Did you see happen to notice what the lady in your image happens to be driving? If she had the Freelander than its definitely my neighbour.

Kris,
This is a wonderful shot. Love the way you cropped it also and got the details to become more enhanced this way. The structure comes alive in this manner with very few plain areas in the image the ground being just the main plain surface. It has enough only to blend into the fantastic structures of the building. You obviously have put a lot of thought into this shot.
And the lady dressed in black staring at the top part of the building and precisely at the spot where she is standing makes the whole framing of this image quite stunning. In my view if she had been dressed in any other colour it wouldn't give the same impact as in this one . Was it planned?

Amin

Better in my view Howard. But you really need to bump up that shutter speed. 1/80 is way way too slow for handheld even though you were leaning on railings. From what they have been telling me you got to get the ratio of the focal length, so if you are using 300mm you got to try to get to at least 1/300 shutter speed or closer to that if limitations force you. Sometimes you can't get that because of the limitations of the aperture settings but from what I see you had plenty of it still in store, you had f16, you could easily still open it up by decreasing the values and that will allow you to bump up the shutter speed. It will work proportionally, as you open up the aperture value you will be able to increase shutter speed. And then still the last trick you can put to play is bumping up your iso, but I think in your situation here you might not even need to.
I hope I am not bombarding you with stuff that you are already well aware and experienced of, in which case I do apologise.
Sometimes the enthusiasm takes the better of me


Amin

That should give you a whoping 800mm Tel . If the weather helps you are going to capture some fantastic images from quite a distance.
I assume you will be using your tripod, unless you have arms like Mike or Scott for that matter .

Howard,
5 or 6 ft away is very close. Are you sure you calculated the distance correctly? And what lens are you using? I see you shot at 300mm focal distance, I would assume that you ought to get a stunner of a shot.
Get the settings right and you will have a cracker of a shot.
My experience is, assuming you are using a zoom, to use it at a shorter focal length, this is in case they were really that close.
I might be wrong here in which case I do apologise and someone please correct me, my experience is still limited.

Amin

That's exactly what Rhayles did, after reading the manual. He read and couldn't work out so he asked for help.
This forum has been extraordinarily helpful and most members here bend themselves backwards to explain any details or doubt and help improve. I would still be using the green mode on my K20 if it wasn't for the fantastic help that I have always had from here. Let's not taint it by making someone feel awkward and hesitate to ask a question, no matter how silly it is. A simple thing for one could be the trickiest to the other in understanding terms, specially to someone who is just a beginner in this field.
I have been there and I know the feeling of "should I drop the question or not, will it sound silly? will it infuriate someone and will I be told off? And often the simplest expression to read the manual if its not worded properly can transpire an attitude that probably the originator didn't exactly imply (consequences of the written word in a virtual world, one doesn't have the facial expression to accompany it so sometimes one interprets differently than what it was supposed to be intended).

Gave it a go this afternoon after reading it here on your suggestions and its excellent.
From now on I am going to use this procedure, first pass with faststone and then LR. That way I get rid of the rubbish images (which I still seem to get the ratio quite high :cry but in faststone its much easy to put 4 images each time and spot the bad ones and throw them out before then going to LR.
Thanks for the tip, .
I am glad I asked this question, it throws a new dimension now into my editing procedures .
Thanks for all your suggestions and recommendations also, once again this forum proves to be an exceptionally helpful place to learn and improve
Amin