I think the high key look is very good when it applies to the whole image, that is, the shadows have detail in them too.

To my taste, these images don't quite make it because there is too much shadow.

The poses are good and the parts that are 'correctly' exposed look good too. Focus is spot on, just the lighting needs some work.

Good effort though, well done and keep at it.

PS: The more I look at #5 in isolation from the others, the more I like it.

PPS: The more I look at #5 . . . the more I can see your sensor needs a clean. A few spots top right, bottom right, and above her right shoulder.

Ready for another reality check?

If I had paid you to take these photo's of my daughter (if I had one), I'd want my money back.

Now to be helpful . . .

#1 Her face is almost totally blown out.
#2 Her nose is as #1.
#3 Her hand is as #1.
#4 (The best of the bunch) Her forehead is as #1.
#5 Is not to my taste, there is no detail in it.

I'm no expert on portrait lighting but I think your main light was too close in #1 to #4.

On the other hand, if you were after a high key look, you got it. Well done.

My wife and I had a trip to Granada recently and on our visit to the Alhambra palace I saw only one other DSLR besides my K20D. Everybody else who was taking photo's that I saw was using either a video camcorder, a P&S compact, or a mobile phone ().

The other DSLR I saw, and spoke to the lady user, was. . . .

A Pentax K-M.

Nice, they have an 85mm FA* and a 300mm FA* as well. Somebody must have switched to another brand I think.

They have a 500mm f4.5 PK lens too at £749, reduced from £949. Lovely lens.

Mine are too Jack but when I have a VPN connection to my UK server, the ads change to English.

One of the adverts on the side bar stated:-


Pentax 43mm F1.9 £349
*Free Delivery! Shipped from UK* In Stock Now for Same Day Dispatch
SimplyElectronics.net/Pentax

The link was this.

I clicked, and . . . the lens is not only twice this price, but out of stock.

Haardly a high quality advert to be displaying here, is it?

You know it makes sense. Good decision.

I've also got two K20D's and by the time I've finished with them they'll be worth next to nothing so I plan to use them and their grips as fully functional 14+Mp bookends.

I'll be posting a few images of them taken with my (then) Pentax K-M-7/8/9-X-10/20/30/40/50/1000D

I wouldn't say that, some of the grass is purrfectly in focus.

Well somebody had to say it . . .

No worries. His name is (was) Keri BTW. Long since gone to the great kennel in the sky.