Just groceries? Nothing alcoholic? Surely you've not given it up...

Steve

Godox TT350P flash and Godox X2T-P flash trigger for the great winter adventure of learning to use flash .

Also a Cokin 2-8 stop variable ND filter because I want to experiment with balancing ambient light and flash outdoors (and because it was half price in the SRS Bank Holiday Sale :wink. Yes, I know about non-uniform density with wider angle lenses, but that's not where I intend to use it.

Steve

Thanks folks, most encouraging!
That's the intention . With flash for dim light outside and macro in the kitchen for when I want the comforts of being indoors, there should be plenty to get my teeth into during the darker months.

Go on, Serge, you know you want to. It will take your creativity into new dimensions .

Steve

For me, it's no. 1 rather than 2 or 5 because of the person in the water - about to be eaten by approaching open-jawed monster??

But the overall winner is no. 4. Human shapes standing in water - it has a touch of Antony Gormley about it.

Enjoy your scanner - just don't get lost in all that processing and forget your kids (and wife) !

Steve

I very rarely use flash. In fact, the only flash unit I've got is the AF160FC ring flash, and that's for tiny things of course. But with daylight hours becoming fewer, and evenings darker, I wondered whether it would be useful for evening photography during the darker months. Of course, straight-on flash can produce flat pictures with glaring reflections. So an arm was knocked up from an L-bracket, a mini- ball head and a clamp and, hey presto!, the ring flash could be securely held to the side of the K3 + Irix 150mm. Here are some of the pictures from an hour or so going up the learning curve at dusk. The 1st is with flash above, the 2nd with flash on the lens, the 3rd is with flash to the left.

The only problem is that it produced a desire to get a standard flash unit to experiment with ring flash and/or 2nd flash. So guess what arrived yesterday...

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.

1. Flash above



2. Flash on lens



3. Flash to left



Steve

Most definitely acceptable!

Steve

Has nothing pointless happened in the last 2 weeks??

I'm about to wash the car. It's covered in dust from next door's front garden having just been converted to a car park. Washing a car always seems fairly pointless to me, seeing as how it will soon be dirty again .

Steve

Really good. Love the little face below the jug, it complements the halos/heads in the reflection nicely. Well worth the struggle to get the composition.

Just a minor niggle - a small rotation anticlockwise, please, to make the corner of the walls vertical. My eyes seem to be rather sensitive to that sort of thing.

Steve

Impressive performance by camera, lens and, of course, photographer .

As a matter of personal taste, I prefer to see a bit of blur in the wings of a bird in flight that's flapping its wings (as opposed to gliding). Without it, the bird looks rather like a static model. It's the avian equivalent of wanting to see a bit of prop blur in picture of aircraft in flight. Am I alone in this?

Steve

An impressive start with the K3III . And certainly better than my efforts with a K3 at a falconry display a week ago...

Looking forward to what you can get out of the camera after the "bit of planning".

Steve