How much will it cost Pentax if you can chose your own clolour combo's.
Some shoe makers already have that option and Pentax can charge extra for it.
What do you think of a grip tailor-made to your hands, that's worth some extra cost
They special grip for the K20D and the K10D was very fine to hold, hopefully they will have also that option for the new models.

Oh wow splendid, did you compress the dynamic of the first two photos. They look very cathcy, certainly the contrast with the car and the flowing water is great.

The first photo of the aquaduct looks massive with distortion.
The flow of it in the second image isn't so pleasant, mainly on the end of it.

You surely got lucky with the horse, The first one is lovely.

I'm no good with black and white, only have some converted but I wished I had your eye for it.

Ian, I love the colour tone in your image. It's not so vibrant as alot of other flower photos and thats a good thing

Thank you RR

#1 I did process the first one like said but I didn't pull the colours that hard but tried to get a contrast in them. Maybe went a bit iver the top with that. Will try to get more gradution in it tomorrow.

#2 That was really pure luck that it came out of that. The only thing that bothers me is the high lights or little sparkels on the base of the glass. Just need to find another way how to light it better.

Sometime ago I also did something like that but differendly with a whiskey bottle. The bottle didn't catch the light but the dust on it did catch it so you have this faint outline with an old feeling.
Will upload that one tomorrow, you might like it

#3 that was what I liked about it though the softness against the hard glass. The left part has been kept white to get some balans, I might try a crop on it and see how it is.

Once again thank and I will try your advice and see how it works.
If you wanna have a go for it yourself when it is raining, a polarizer is a must.

Yes I know, the prices are silly in the UK at the moment.
Certainly with the more expensives lenses it can save €200 or even more of the new price, that's why I'm proposing a trade.

I can of course also sell the lens here and buy a new lens in England.

With a bit of post processing of course
The chromatic aberration is easly to remove as you can see here above but you really need to do that with most photos I believe.
The Sigma 70-300 suffer less from this but it's sharpeness drops at the longer end, the corners suffer the most.
The Pentax has the best of both worlds, just as sharp or maybe just a bit more then the Tamron and less prone chromatic aberration.

The Tammy is a very good lens for his price of £99.
The Pentax is better but you need to stretch your budget to £189 but it's worth it.
Sigma is for £169 not really an option though with the Pentax so close to the price.

Okay, something completly different then birds.
Someone was talking about food colouring here on this forum, but I've used something else for this.
I hope you like it and I dare you to give some C&C

#1


I quite like this one. It has the most post processing of all the photos, the others only had very little.
I was listening to Je T'aime...Moi non Plus while working on this one, quite fitting song some how. Here is the song if you don't know what I mean imeem.com
Je t’aime, je t’aime, Oh oui je t’aime
Moi non plus
Oh mon amour
Comme la vague, irrésolue
Je vais, je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Et je me retiens
Lovely right, they don't make songs like that anymore

#2


Not so happy about this one but oh well, I like the effect on how the glass is shown. 1/3 second hand-held

#3


I'm Quite pleased how this one came out. I've used some soft-layers to come to this result, very little of anything else.

Thank you for looking, reading and maybe even listening

Ronald, It doesn't lock the aperture it works like Av mode, it adjust the shuttertime according to the aperture when you press the green button. I've used it thousands of times and it never locked to aperture.

I did used to do that, but I now use the green button in M mode for that. Sometimes it's also very helpfull to meter the light on the grey pavement/stones of the street since the camera measure the grey value you get a better exposure.

Wow Father Ted you did an amazing job cloning out the white horse in the second photo

I trully like your second Image, surely how the lights get captured against the flanks of the horse, It looks beautifull.
To be honest I like this one better then the one you used for the competition.

The white horse in your first photo, makes the metering goes crazy i think. So if you wonder why the difference in exposure, here you have it.

Mist is very hard to capture, I'm also always struggling, can someone give some tips please?