Yes davem these were just lit by the stage lights, which were not very strong. Cabstar I thought the Nikon 600 might have been better, but the K5 Mk11 is certainly a vast improvement on my old K7, which I still enjoy using for Landscape and low ISO stuff by the way.

Thank's for the comments Colin.

Thank's malross73 & stub.

Colin.

Really pleased with the DA 50mm 1.8 seemed to autofocus fine even in the dark conditions and seems very sharp, great for the price.

My sons band Lovats were headlining at the Hare & Hounds Birmingham last night, so I took the opportunity to try out my new DA 50mm 1.8 with my Pentax k511 on some of the bands.



Laranja.


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I understand what you are saying, but don't forget we used to have negatives that came out the back of the camera which had to be processed in the way that the photographer felt suited the image, all we are doing now is the same thing with a digital file, but the process is probably more accessible to the average photographer now. The fact that it can be done in several different ways adds to the magic of photography.

Colin.

I had a play with it in Lightroom and perfect effects.

Another pic from a little while back taken with my old K100D Super.

A pic from awhile back of Kinwarton Church, taken on my old 100D Super
and standard zoom lens. Reworked in Lightroom 4 unfortunately the sky had completely blown out, wish I had bracketed it. One to redo this Spring all being well.

Somehow brings it home seeing something like this.

Hi thanks for the comments, the main light on the guitar was flash diffused with an umbrella, the bit of light causing a hot spot was my attempt to skim light across the Fender logo to make it stand out. This was done by hand holding another flash, I probably should have tried to diffuse it more. It is early attempts at using off camera flash which is a lot of fun but throws up different issues along the way. The pic was originally taken vertically but I moved it to horizontal so I could use it as my Facebook cover Lol! By the way the guitar finish is pearlescent slightly more cream than pure white.