any pics of the 16-50mm?

Thanks for all the nice comments, yes a pair of k-5 is next on my shopping list

Like it Tim, the grain is fine & gives it that quickly snapped look, not posed. If it had been taked a split second later the framing of the door around the delivery driver would have made it superb...

Great capture of teh delivery driver smiling though...

Thanks Smeggypants, some good stuff there.

Access was arranged through the bands management, yes access limited to the front row pit. As with all arena gigs, escorted to the pit 5 mins before band on stage & then escorted straight out of the arena, after first three songs. Smaller venues they usually let you stay for the show, but arenas are a lot more restrictive.

Got to shoot a-ha at Sheffield Arena this week, now called the Motorpoint Arena, such is modern branding.

Found out I had access 6-30 night of the show, start time was 8-30 so literally 2 hours to get ready & drive 75 miles to Sheffield.

As always first three songs no flash.

This was a really good shoot, lots of great white light & an awesome video drop back, some front stage lights & monitors to navigate around, as can be seen in the group shot, but all in all a simple gig to shoot. Third songs was blazed in the gig shooters worst light bright red, so not many shots from that song.

105 images shot, 17 uploaded to agency, 16 accepted.

Lenses used tamron 17-50mm 2.8 & Pentax DA* 50-135mm 2.8

iso 800
Aperture f/2.8
shutter speeds between 1/180 & 1/320 not often I get to shoot at that high speed & low ISO for shows so good was the lighting.

Hi John

Sensible advice as always John, when I have posted images here I have used my flickr images as hosting, so although the images when shown on here are only 500 pixels wide they do still have the watermark on them. I do now use the small corner type watermarks as supplied by lighroom so hopefully they won't be considered intrusive.

Hi Tim

I have posted some of my images on this forum a few times, however last time I posted some photos I was accused of ruining them by posting my watermark on them & also promoting myself so I no longer post many on here. As I was at the time having a some of my images stolen from tumblr users I decided to place a huge watermark on the images on my flickr stream which I then linked to here, hence the watermarks.

Whenever someone asks for advice on concert photography or feedback I always try to offer some of my wisdom.

I guess I could post more images if other users would be interested.

What amazes me about this forum & the other Pentax forum is how people show images to show how good their gear is rather than their photography skills!!! Surely the main point of this forum is pentax USER with the emphasise on the user part. Discussing gear is obviously part of what this forum does, however some of the comments I read about gear just beggars belief.

There always seems to be an underlying inferiority complex about Pentax gear compared to canikon... I have just read the Jessops stocking Pentax thread, now I wouldn't shop at Jessops however within 2 posts someone mentions that other manufactures send staff round to gee up trade for their cameras of course they do they are called reps, its business. Having seen the prices Jessops are charging for Pentax kit idon't expect a stampede of buyers £479 for a 540 flash gun anyone???

Myself I couldn't give a monkey what the other camera makers are doing, digital photography has now reached a point where differences are measured very minutely & where very minor plus points can cost £1000s difference in price without that much difference in final image. Most buyers of photography couldn't tell you what camera was used to catch an image, most pro photographers probably couldn't either such is the similarities that computerised design & manufacture has brought with modern products.

Finally how George can say this not a general photography forum despite the main function of Pentax products is to take photos, then maybe I am missing a massive something....

talking about gold being a commodity & can be accounted for unlike money whiccan be printed.

i read recently the gold bullion exchange has sold certificates gold for 3 times the amount of gold they actually own...

to be honest it annoys me when peeps say a 1.4 lens is sharper at 5.6... of course it is due to the depth of field. why would you buy a 1.4 capable lens then shoot at 5.6?? wide open is where its at....