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With the manual, to be honest I never even gave it any thought until now - someone has too much time on their hands
With SR I go with the manufacturers recommendation, I'm guessing there is some reason they keep emphasising that it should be turned off - I leave it set as on by default and then just use the 2 second timer when taking photos on the tripod
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With SR I go with the manufacturers recommendation, I'm guessing there is some reason they keep emphasising that it should be turned off - I leave it set as on by default and then just use the 2 second timer when taking photos on the tripod
Simon
Comment by simonkit posted on K-5 manual moan at 08/10/2011 - 22:24
I'm going to have another go with this - it was processed using the "painterly" setting in Photomatix which is definitely heavy processing, I'll see how something slightly more subtle works out
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Comment by simonkit posted on Conwy Castle - the fantasy look? at 08/10/2011 - 09:45
RAB wrote:
Why not adapt the software to take one exposure, then produce the under and over exposed images electronically before combining them to produce an HDR image? This would deal with the time-lapse between exposures and result in fewer shutter actuations.
Am I missing something really obvious here? If not, I claim the idea as my own and demand a new 645 from Pentax in recompense.
I don't think there's much reason to do this in camera as it's easily achieved by shooting raw - infact that's exactly how I created the Conwy Castle image I've just posted but with 5 exposures 1/2 stop apartWhy not adapt the software to take one exposure, then produce the under and over exposed images electronically before combining them to produce an HDR image? This would deal with the time-lapse between exposures and result in fewer shutter actuations.
Am I missing something really obvious here? If not, I claim the idea as my own and demand a new 645 from Pentax in recompense.
Simon
Now is just the start of the best lighting, autumn colours and crisp, clear winter days (hopefully), sunrises and sunsets are also often more dramatic in the winter months - the problem and fun about landscape photography is you never quite know what (or if) you'll get, I actually take the vast majority of my photos between October and April
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Comment by simonkit posted on outdoor photography at 07/10/2011 - 16:09
ChrisA wrote:
Is there a reason you're only posting it at 600px wide?
I find it very difficult to form a view of anything at this sort of size, all the more so when there's a lot of detail to look at as in this one.
TBH, it doesn't evoke a 'fantasy' feel in me - I'd expect something more like something out of Harry Potter or LOTR.
This looks more like a twilight shot gone a bit wrong, to me, but I'd be interested to see a bigger version where the detail looks less like grain.
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No problem Chris...Is there a reason you're only posting it at 600px wide?
I find it very difficult to form a view of anything at this sort of size, all the more so when there's a lot of detail to look at as in this one.
TBH, it doesn't evoke a 'fantasy' feel in me - I'd expect something more like something out of Harry Potter or LOTR.
This looks more like a twilight shot gone a bit wrong, to me, but I'd be interested to see a bigger version where the detail looks less like grain.
Sorry!
A couple of reasons for posting at 600px, the shot is hosted on my website and this is the default image size, I also like to keep them at this size to hopefully make it less usable as a copy - a problem I've had in the past unfortunately. I appreciate this does also make it difficult to see all the detail in a shot but I'm erring on the side of caution these days
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Comment by simonkit posted on Conwy Castle - the fantasy look? at 07/10/2011 - 12:36
I've posted before that I do normally prefer natural looking photographs, especially landscapes but I'm always open to ideas and having just picked up a copy of Photomatix I'm searching through all my photos for something suitable and I think I've found one here, I actually really like the processed look of this shot of Conwy Castle - it has a "fantasy" feel to it. Feel free to let me know what you think!!
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[IMG]http://www.landscapephotographyuk.com/images/Conwy_Castle_north_wales_photograph.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://www.landscapephotographyuk.com/images/Conwy_Castle_north_wales_photograph.jpg[/IMG]
Comment by simonkit posted on Conwy Castle - the fantasy look? at 07/10/2011 - 11:35
I've owned the FA50mm 1.4 in the past and it was an excellent lens, the one problem I had with it though is that I found the focal length a bit too long for general use, I now use the FA 35 F2 and find it pretty much perfect. There's obviously the new DA 35mm (which I've also owned), differences between the 2 are probably minimal but for reasons difficult to explain I prefer the FA
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Comment by simonkit posted on Low light lens recommendation at 07/10/2011 - 11:34
Well I've turned off the lens correction, taken a few more shots and it seems ok now - hopefully just a bug that could do with fixing First time it's happened & seems a bit odd that I'd just swapped to the FA 35mm
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Comment by simonkit posted on K5 - all rear buttons/LCD freezing after shot at 05/10/2011 - 19:56
Thanks Steve, I'll turn off the lens correction as I mainly shoot RAW anyway - it's only just happened today whilst I was using my FA 35mm F2
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Comment by simonkit posted on K5 - all rear buttons/LCD freezing after shot at 05/10/2011 - 19:14
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EDIT: Single-shot HDR is usually pretty appalling... the whole point about HDR is to re-introduce detail which was clipped out at either end during capture.
If you expose for the bright sky, you'll be trying to bring up detail from a dark foreground, which i find is never the best option. So, if exposing for the dark foreground instead, you'd bring down the over exposed sky, which should be the better option for addressing 3 exposures in RAW from a single shot.
Still, i think the one shot option is riskier.
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