This is in Verulamium, the old Roman part of St Albans, Hertfordshire. I had a wander around the churchyard with an old manual lens - XR Rikenon 1:1.7 50mm (an eBay bargain), on a K-70.

1. Daffodils in the churchyard and the Roman Museum in the background:



2. The church is surrounded by tall trees, so a view in between them:



3. Another view of the church - couldn't get far enough away, so this is a 5-shot vertical pano:



4. One of the gateways from the churchyard:



[ They are camera JPEGs tweaked in PaintShop Pro; also made use of the Nik software for the gateway and Microsoft ICE for the pano.]

Cheers.
Philip

A splendid image Chris. My choice is the first version in post #1 - the balance of the composition just feels better to me compared with the later altered image. Perhaps tone down the very bright highlights in the reflection near the tip of the strawberry?

When you comment that you "didn't do much to the original image", was the "original" a default raw conversion in PS ACR or was it a JPEG from the camera?

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Philip

Thank you, DSP.

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Philip

Thank you Sry and Nigel.

This outing was really for just a bit of experimenting. I got the 18-50 RE cheaply a little while ago, mainly to have a WR lens to slip in the pocket when taking along only one or two of the non-WR Limited primes. It certainly fits.... literally! When closed it isn't much bigger than one of the primes and it's very light weight. So I put the RE on the K-70 and took all the shots with it, just to see how it did. I'm certainly no expert judge, but it seems to me that its not bad at normal viewing sizes, and pretty good for a so-called kit lens. The other part of the experiment was to have a play with the Nik software, and I am enjoying that also.

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Philip

You've captured a truly delightful and natural expression there, Nigel!

Perhaps just a matter of personal preference but the image seems to be slightly biased towards orange tones.

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Philip

Another dull day yesterday but I fancied a stroll in the fresh air, so wandered around Cookham Church (by the Thames in Bucks). These were shot with a hand-held K-70 + 18-50 RE.



















The captured colour images were converted to mono in Nik Silver Efex Pro 2, with a few tweaks in PaintShop Pro X8.

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Philip

The charges against him were pursued by the Inland Revenue so he said that he lived at the seaside.

Pentax often do things differently - that is the Drone Mode.

My vote goes to two too.

Philip

Ken Rockwell has had one on his home page for years - scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Philip