Thank you Alan, you certainly have an eye for these things!
We went from a female straight to him and we didn't make the lighting a bit harder
There was a softbox overhead and an lamp on the side I believe.

Thank you for the link as well, they are certainly nice!
Now all I need to do is try to reverse engineer them to see how the setup was

Simply experiment Amin and see what work for you, you will get there in the end

Btw I hear something about a BBQ if I can stay over at someone places I'm more then happy to come as well, I'm in need for a vacation

Most off the components are on the sensor with CMOS that's why they are cheaper and have more noise then CCD

All we know for certain that Pentax has said during the time they launch the K10D that the next model (K20D) will have a better sensor or a better AF system, we now have the sensor so the AF will probable get some major improvements.
In 2008 I've also readed an interview of Pentax that they wont do a fullframe because the market was to small and that Samsung won't be doing any more models since sales werent so best I believe... (I need to find that article again! because I aint sure what I'm saying)

They have also made a new patent for a smaller designed prism viewfinder in 2008, luckely I got that at hand. link
So maybe we will see that already back in the K3 serries, it will also come in handy if they do make an 645D it will have a compacter design

Gwyn has an article that there will becoming 3 new models, I can't find where she found that though.

Well they create the acpectation you can use it in bad weather so if it got broken by using it in such conditions and also you expect that such a lens for that moeny would atleast work propperly for a good while so they need to replace it or make a sound offer, atleast that's how the law works here.
Pentax service are always quite helpfull I heard so maybe they can do something for you, who knows?

The SI is metric though so if you Brits wouldn't be so stuborn and just use that everywhere it would be a lot safer

I've trully no idea why we got stuck with that size Mike, it isn't so handy

They've tried to get a serie that use a ratio of 3:2 called PA but it didn't worked. the system would be the same as the A serrie just like an A4 fits 2 times in an A3 paper.
These would be the sizes in mm
PA0 - 840 × 1120
PA1 - 560 × 840
PA2 - 420 × 560
PA3 - 280 × 420
PA4 - 210 × 280
PA5 - 140 × 210
PA6 - 105 × 140
PA7 - 70 × 105
PA8 - 52 × 70
PA9 - 35 × 52
PA10 - 26 × 35
Too bad right, it would have been so usefull...

to go back to the original post, here is a list of the sizes of photo paper link
It's handy that they did this 3:2(1.5) so the closer the number between the brackets is to 1.5 the better it will fit.

edit: typo

Wonderfull shots Amin you're getting better!
Wanted to give the advice Cliff gave you,
The Shutter Priority mode is called Tv on the dial ontop. You set the shutterspeed and the camera do the rest you can even set the ISO to auto if you want.
You can also use TAv, you set the shutterspeed and arperture then and the camera use the best ISO setting, it helps if you set the ISO so that it has more step.
So set the shutter speed on 300th of a second in these modes and in TAv set the lens wide open if light is low to prevent the iso from going up too high but if you have some light set it one step down to get more sharpness.
The fast shutterspeed is needed so that you have less time to move the camera so that the overall image is sharper and not moved and it also helps that the bird doesn't have so much time to move either
Don't worry about the ISO too much, a bit of grain is much better then an unsharp photo.

Thank you Prieni and GivingTree that was very helpfull
We are still learning, so lets hope it improves over time and get a shot like that Givingtree. The studio lighting is very new to me

The thing he has on his lap is a Canon EOS 40D with a EF 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM, quite a nice lens I must say, I wonder if the DA* 60-250 is any better.

Really, I've some looking directly at me but it just get to intimate for my feeling. To be honest it really depends on how they look into the camera, they didn't smile why looking

They are all fellow students btw so no models and we didn't powder them to help against the highlights, the lamps get very hot over time you know


Kris what I'm doing isn't strickly a studio course but it has a focus on it so it's quite deverse. It's also outside my comfort zone so it's nice we go a bit off the track sometimes and try to aply things we learned in the studio on "normall" photography.
Playing with the lighting is really something new for me, well i got a flash gun so not all is new but you learn how to use the lighting better and in differend ways. Also how to play with differend type off lamps for example, you can use tungsten and day light lamps together for to get some nice effects and many more things.

The way the lessons are given is very loose, you really get set free and you can do what you want and the next lesson the photos are discussed and that are the times you learn the most really, you get to learn to look for detials for example. GiveningTree photo is a very nice photo and perfectly litt but imagine that the necklage was made out of silver it would draw away the eyes from the viewer to it, to look for that sort off thing and to set up a photo is also very new. We are going to do some still life next time with glass, so it would be nice to see and know how to light those things perfectly.

Cokin said it's a infrared filter and to be honest I've no idea it really is one, I simply went for the name
the glass looks like this.



I didn't custom balance the white balance as you can see and adobe raw doesn't have the range to do that so need to find another program to balance it if you want to see that version.

and okay I will try to get the flare away

it's quite hard to explain since I don't know exactly either but there isn't so much difference between linear and cicular polariser, they filter out vertical or horizontal wave lengths so it shouldn't matter which one you use basicly and if you set them 90 degrees to each other they should block both wavelengths.