I couldn't agree more with John. Its the simplest method - do it in the camera that is going to use the card. It only takes a few seconds.
David
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#4 is a competent action shot which is also a fine portrait. #5, as others have said is perhaps the weakest of the five but none-the-less is handled professionally and completes a very accomplished set.
David

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Well done to the Riley family. This competition seems like the slide competitions camera clubs used to have in the days before digital photography, although even then some clever photographers used to turn out some stunning manipulations.
David

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Yes well done Tim. Tim's name is often featured in international photo salons due to his superb nude portraits.
I would like to point out that another of the award winners in this same PAGB competition was until recently a Pentax user. Joe Grabham, current president of Durham Photographic Society, is the author of Trouble Brewing, the third awarded picture in the above link. I don't know if Joe took this on his Pentax, he had a K10, or on his new Canon.
David

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What a fabulous set of images. The bull is a powerful portrait, the Schools Class loco is a wonderful atmospheric landscape and the portrait of the footplate man just terrific. I'm looking forward now the next of your five in a row.
I hope you post more of your pictures on this forum, they will enhance the Gallery.
David

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Weekly competition #386
People at work, this falls into the general category of environmental portraiture. Work can be widely interpreted, such as train driver, professional sportsman or woman in action, teacher, baker or candlestick maker. Street performance falls into this category, for instance the professional performers at The Edinburgh Fringe but I would draw the line at pictures at say Goths parading in their costumes at Whitby specifically for the benefit of photographers or someone who is clearly involved in a personal hobby that is obviously not some sort of work. I look forward to a wide interpretation of the subject and hope there is something for everyone's style of photography in this subject.
Please Remember whoever wins you have to judge the following week's competition, pick a winner and runners up and comment on all the entries. Too many times recently this has not been done.
Also entries must be taken on Pentax, Ricoh or closely related cameras. The competition closes next Sunday at Midnight, British Winter Time.
David

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Thanks Barrie, next time we're on a club assignment or Pentax meet I would appreciate a try out with it.

David

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It was a friend's Nikon scanner, but it was in my early digital years and we were relatively inexperienced at scanning so perhaps both our techniques have improved since then.
David

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Would the HD Pentax DA AF 1.4 AW be equally as good on the DA*200mm lens? If so this could be on my future shopping list.
David

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I can only add to the praise already given to this set. They are excellent. The K5+Sigma 10-20 is a dream combination, I've just started using my Siggy again after I rarely used it for a couple of years.
David

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