I was down the lake the other day with my camara and got these shots.
Number one is the best shot for me as i have NEVER seen a pelican before so it was a great shot and toped the day for me

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Shot with PENTAX K100D at Brooks in Alberta Canada dated 2009-09-03

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Shot with PENTAX K100D at Brooks in Alberta Canada dated 2009-09-03

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Shot with PENTAX K100D at Brooks in Alberta Canada dated 2009-09-03

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Shot with PENTAX K100D at Brooks in Alberta Canada dated 2009-09-03

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Shot with PENTAX K100D at Brooks in Alberta Canada dated 2009-09-03


Please any comments welcome any at all i am new to this lark and need all the tips i can.

I love the dog eye the detail is what i am looking at and it brings it all out i love em keep on try new things with it and keep us posted

Thanks everyone for the comments as i say its my first mess around with portraits, I can see what you mean about the eyes, to me its not all about vivid changes i like to make it as subtle as possible i just wanted to make a focal point and i like eyes tells you a lot about people so i thought i would give it a go.

The marks under her eyes are ment to make her look like a clown its a big thing here in Canada with the teenagers (or so she tells me there is a name for it but i don’t care)

So my wifes sister asked if i would take some pics so she could put them on her "FACEBOOK" so i decided to take some and edit them abit i told her to come back and when she did she loved them so i am after some veiws from you guys and girls to see what you think?

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Shot with a Pentax K100D

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Shot With a Pentax K100D

This is my first attempt at portraits and at changing them to BnW so please any feed back is welcome!?!?

Mate i do not hassle i just look for insperation however i get bugger all from you LOL Joking BTW.

Thanks alot for the comments i thought the same thing about the top bit and the roofs well thats just where i am i will be moving around abit more this is just for starters.

I got my Camara just before christmas, i have had it on manual so i was talking to a good friend and he convinced me to try out some manual work he talked me through some stuff and this is what i got. please let me know what you think and any pointers would be good.

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Shot with PENTAX K100D

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Shot with PENTAX K100D at 2009-08-08

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Shot with PENTAX K100D at 2009-08-08