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Nice compo!

In that sort of scene you could use an ND grad, or or as Chris says, meter for the highlights and rescue the foreground in PP. You could also attempt a 'pseudo HDR' shot in PP.

Alternatively you could try a 2-shot blend; works very well for tripod shots.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Blown-out Sky at 27/06/2012 - 09:07

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I can see what attrcted you to these Patrick.

I had a little crop at one of them, hope you don't mind. Not an earth shattering difference, but I didn't like the green bit trailing out of shot weakly in the original.

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In the first one I might also be tempted to crop out the red bit at the bottom, if it was mine.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Crazy golf abstract at 26/06/2012 - 19:04

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Quote:
'I thought we were doing Ben a favour by letting him take our pictures and now this. I am so upset and angry about it.'
So they didn't pay him, yet expect professional service? It's a shame and he's a douchebag for being so careless with his friend's pictures they had asked him to take, but they are the ones who took a gamble on their wedding photos.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on Oops - A lesson for budding wedding photographers perhaps at 26/06/2012 - 10:41

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Lovely silvery light. Great to see the waves defined crisply, rather than the usual blur.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on End of the World - The Lighthouse at 25/06/2012 - 20:48

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Feel better now, Kris?

Agreed, it's totally ghastly. Useful to me for comps like this, and sharing family pics though. I log in, do what I need to do; then I'm out of there.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on PENTAX Launches Meet Britain at 25/06/2012 - 18:14

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Yes I can see what you mean by gritty. There's a funny look to the trees, a bit of moire perhaps?

I have a couple of clips uploaded to YT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs281wQzr9Q&feature=g-upl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32OnPmVYmSc&feature=g-upl

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on K7 movie mode - tips/tricks? at 25/06/2012 - 16:06

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Would be good, yes. Mind you my PC is very bad at playing HD video - judders and stutters....

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on K7 movie mode - tips/tricks? at 25/06/2012 - 13:17

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I'm not sure what you mean by gritty. If it's not the 'snow' caused by the camera 'gaining up' the picture, perhaps it's compression artefacts? Imaging resource suggests using only the highest quality setting, to avoid artefacts.

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on K7 movie mode - tips/tricks? at 25/06/2012 - 12:49

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The K5 retains more saturation and contrast, but is equally noisy. In reality, I'm never going to apply +100 fill and +100 brightness, so it's an extreme example which reveals a slight benefit to the K5.

Now, try the same with the GX20 and the K5 or the K-01....

Comment by Pentaxophile posted on K5 or K30 at 25/06/2012 - 12:32

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