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The point about contrast is a good one and for EPZ I actually darkened down Boulge Church very considerably.

An increasing thought is that I'm using a CRT here and those with flat screens may well be looking at images with a lot more contrast. This might mean that something looking fine to me might be well OTT on another type of screeen.

I know, I should get with the programme and update my monitor, but I still like the image from a good CRT.

Comment by johnriley posted on Haddon Hall Chapel HDR at 06/08/2008 - 17:54

It's interesting what people like. I've posted a few HDR on EPZ now (user name johnriley1uk) and the favourite has been Haddon Hall Chapel by a wide margin. The more realistic Boulge Church hasn't had the same response.

Do we like our HDR to look very much HDR?

Comment by johnriley posted on Haddon Hall Chapel HDR at 06/08/2008 - 16:37

Because Sigma lenses are reverse-engineered (Sigma don't pay the required royalties to Pentax to get the technical info) then communication between new Pentax bodies and older Sigma lenses cannot be guaranteed. Sometimes Sigma re-chip lenses to update them.

Comment by johnriley posted on K20D - Lens focus adjustment at 06/08/2008 - 09:29

Good question. I would say it means the system locks on instantly to the correct point of focus. And then the shutter releases with a continuing press of the shutter release.

Comment by johnriley posted on DA 70mm f2.4 - play in barrel at 06/08/2008 - 09:26

I'm sure it's the camera. We had two *istDS bodies and both were spot on with all lenses.

Are you using centre-spot only focus? Multi-point can be a bit annoying.

Comment by johnriley posted on DA 70mm f2.4 - play in barrel at 06/08/2008 - 07:55

Early days yet and just a few images that I had on hand, not necessarily shot with HDR in mind.

I'm absorbing all this info and soon I'll be going out to shoot some images for the purpose.

Comment by johnriley posted on Haddon Hall Chapel HDR at 05/08/2008 - 21:23

We're getting some good info here, many thanks to all!

Comment by johnriley posted on Haddon Hall Chapel HDR at 05/08/2008 - 18:30

Still a bit OTT, but as far as I can see at least aligned!
[IMG]http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff250/johnriley1uk/004-Haddon-Chapel.jpg[/IMG]

Comment by johnriley posted on Haddon Hall Chapel HDR at 04/08/2008 - 23:44

Congratulations to the winners and we'll look forward to Lilly setting the new competition. An auto e-mail will trigger the process, so we'll see how that works.

I suspect the lack of comments is because of a discomfort with English, which I'm sure we can understand as we have members from all over the world who have various native languages.

Many thanks to PentaxAngel for selecting the winners.

Comment by johnriley posted on Weekly Competition #56 My Hometown at 04/08/2008 - 08:00

Guilty, and not even done in Photoshop. This was a simple montage of 6"x4" colour prints, all shot specially in sequence using a 50mm lens.

I've always been up to no good photographically....

Comment by johnriley posted on Pictures by unknown in the Gallery at 03/08/2008 - 23:36

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