like this set Andrew the subject matter definitely has an appeal and the place certainly looks worth a visit. just to say if you feel the same about benches/seats there is an empty seats group on flickr with some interesting pictures
https://www.flickr.com/groups/emptyseats/

hello Stan, a bit late to the party but here is my five pennyworth

1. initially found the bits on the horizon a bit distracting but that aside i like this shot, having a go with more mono myself, love the textures on boulders and beach also the lead from the boulders to the breaking wave. i would have gone to a tighter letterbox crop but that is strictly a personal thing

2. my favourite, great waterfall, well taken and as Nigel said very dramatic but i would crop nothing ,i think it would spoil the balance just clone some extra trees at the top and clone over the white bits in the bottom

3. a nice scene well spotted but too dark and yellow for me, not sure if you enlarged it then crop to just above the water would improve it to get more of the water and less of what is behind it.

4 a beautiful landscape beautifully shot, i wish i could do that. would have been my favourite if there was no waterfall but a sucker for the misty water.

5. looks a lovely place to live, as said previously sharp, great sky, excellent composition but, on a personal note again, not fond of UWA lens on this type of scene as i find it annoying the distance buildings being just specks on the horizon.

all in all Stan a really nice set and you can definitely hold your head high with them
joe

catching up, 1. an excellent portrait and great use of b&w, did you by any chance pp in some of the oof area?

2. definitely my favourite so far ,dandies do make a great subject to play with and you have made something special with this, for me anyway
3. definitely got your signature all over this Maria and an excellent example, certainly reminds me of days long gone.

number 1. too dark in the distance for me
" 2. looks a bit mushy in the mid ground, i suspect mist, but it spoils it for me, gorgeous foreground colour
number 3. nice mix of light and shade but maybe the distance area could be lifted a tad
number 4. i think my favourite, love that golden glow yo have caught there
" 5. too much foreground, i feel myself not being able to get beyond it to view the rest of the image
as suggested elsewhere your colour management has come on in leaps and bounds, much more natural now.
joe

turns off up to 30sec apparently but not in bulb mode, i.e over 30sec.

item 18 custom menu ,page 92 of manual , slow shutter speed NR on or off

turn slow shutter speed noise reduction OFF. if you are doing star trails select continuous shooting ,shutter speed 30sec. aperture f5.6, ISO 200, lock the shutter open with remote , no noise problem this way. if you are after a static shot of the night sky i have no idea what the settings would be but someone on here will know but i am sure the NR is off and done in pp with software.

gorgeous images but the boats look the best, appears to be a halo around St Michaels Mount and the silhouettes in the sunset shot that spoils these two for me.

i thought the 16-50 SDM problems were sorted after 2012 as they are fitted with the new DC motor, i had an old model that gave me no problems but let it go in a deal, i now have a Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4 and to me it does not have punch in colour or the feel of the Pentax lens which, if and when i can afford one, i WILL buy again

Cotton Motorcycles back home in Gloucester where they were made. unfortunately not in the most photogenic place, the "garden" of the Folk Museum. loads of clutter and not a lot of room between them.

1931 Cotton 350



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