Been a smite of a time since I have posted some photos on here... my partners car went bang so I have been taking her to work. She works in Hope in the Peak District so to save fuel... I mooched about down there and thought I would take the cameras!

These are my results!

I have not posted on here in a LONG time... This is because I just lost interest in photography!

But recently I have rekindled my love for it... Due to health issues I have had to move away from my ususal area to a new ones.

So this has lead me to look in to Fisheye and Macro lenses... I have been looking at both Sigma and Pentax lenses but can't seem to make my mind up!

So... I thought I would ask for some advice from you guys!

I have a K5 and K5 MkII and probably next year I will move up to a K3 MkII or MkIII

Any recomndations or advice will be gratefully accepted!

Not to bad but you have over exposed it to much and its loosing detail as a result.

I would of used a faster shutter speed with a large aperture or slower shutter speed a smaller aperture. Also shooting into the sun you can use a lower ISO than 400. Also try running it thru Photoshop you may be able to get more detail out of the image. I would also recommend using a Polariser or Neutral Density filter too

Good effort tho!!

Here's one of mine to give you some idea of what you can do when you get more experience of this kind of shooting.




This was shot at 1/30 at f22 with 200 ISO and also on a IST-DL with a Pentax SMC FA 28-70mm with a Polariser on. It has also been thru post processing utilising Photoshop.

This is the none HDR version...




It's been through photoshop as the original was a tad washed out. Even thru PS it's a tad bland thats why I thru it thru HDR...

It was taken in 2008 when I finally get me backside into gear and started playing with Landscape shooting...

Never really done it before as I tend to go for more action based shooting.

I have done this but altho i love the way it looks I am not completely sure about it.

So i thought I would let you guys have a look and get some comments and ideas. It's been HDR'd but it's the clouds that I am most unsure of...

It's from a single image.

Photomatix...

I have found it in Photoshop so I am going have have a play around with that too.

I saw a post on here with some amazing images shot utilising HDR...

THey blew me away so I thought I would have a stab at it and this is what came out:




All comments welcome as this is my first time at trying this!

I have one of the multi remotes...

For a couple of quid you can't fault it!

To stop drinking....

hahahahahaha can I tell you another joke?