Looks good to me Tim. I think HDR has a place in specific situations. I do like the obvious HDR stuff though and have a few favourite Russian colleagues that do some wonderful work. IMO.

I will spend some more time with HDR and would like to use it in the sports area. I have another shoot in two weeks and may do a group of RAW shots to play with HDR. I normally shoot full size JPG.

Lets not forget that the crop factor is field of view. The magnification stays the same, so a 50mm lens has a field of view of a 75mm but does not have the same lack of focus as a true portrait length.

This is unfortunately the burden of FF lenses with cropped sensors.

A 400mm lens on cropped has a FOV of a 600mm lens yet still only has the 8x effective "closer" view.

The term compromise would come to mind.

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I agree with the "rich in colour" Andrew, but I did want to leave it "as converted" in Photomatix. As a starting point, it shows what can be achieved and then could be re-worked to bring the colours back to normal. This was my first try with the software.

I have another shot lined up which will be a night time image so I will post once its done.

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Just playing with HDR. Taken in very bright sunlight with heavy shadow area. Just wondered what would be the result.

Original





Basic HDR version




I am not sure about the increase in saturation and maybe this could be lowered. Processed from three exposures -1, 0 and +1. Original is at 0 comp.

Your thoughts?

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Many thanks Mike.

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Not a chance. They will not even allow you to take any food or drink inside, that includes water as you must buy from stalls at five times the price outside.

In Qatar, tickets mention that you will not be allowed to take photographs at events using "professional" cameras i.e. DSLRs etc.

Just part of the monopoly.

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Many thanks for the comments gentlemen.

As for the F1, it is a closed shop. You would not be allowed longish glass even as a spectator. I did the practice sessions a few years back and was approached by team security members who needed to establish that I was not with another team!

Only had the Bigma with me and there were guys with 400 and 600mm glass down at the pits but obviously they had official passes for photography.

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A few images from the Bahrain Open that was held on Friday and Saturday.

Friday was very dusty, resulting in the K7 and 50-135 SDM having the appearance of being sprinkled with talc! These are from Saturday.

Davis Park on the 1st T.




Low level detail




Reflection




Saleh Ali Misbah





Camera and lenses performed very well and caused interest at the clubhouse on Friday as most people could not believe the state it was in with the dust. They were well impressed that I was not worried as the camera is weather sealed.

Several commented that they had not bothered with cameras due to the weather!

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Images were taken purely as an exercise to see what ISO 1600 produced in good light. I have normally used low ISO in such light but if you don't try, you don't know.

Lens was the Pentax A50mm f/2.8 macro.

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Taken today at ISO 1600




Next is straight from camera with no noise reduction and only auto levels in PS.




C&C required (please).

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