Good job!

Nice colours though. Have you considered cropping the sky out of it, and then lifting the levels a little?

Phil

John

Great detail, I particularly like #3.

This, and other examples on here and elsewhere, do seem to give the lie to the story (speculation?) in the media that older Pentax lenses would work on the K-1 because they just weren't good enough. Is that fair?

Phil

What a set! Congratulations, not only extremely well taken images, but lots of imagination as well.

Phil

David

I really like your original version posted in the Gallery. I think that the lighting across the whole image worked more effectively in that version. With this one, the vignette doesn't work for my eye and looks more like unwanted noise. Maybe a simple OOF & de-saturated vignette might be a more effective variation.

w.r.t. your original post - the only area where I have a (very) slight misgiving is the multi coloured strand of light above the handle on the right - I think I would be tempted to clone that out to match the uniform blue background of the remainder of the image.

Phil

I don't use Lightroom, only Elements 12, but I record images as DNG - same as Barrie.

Phil

Lovely set!

Phil

Less is more! (just fewer letters to remember and type)

Phil

6 for me.

Phil

I'd agree with many of the points raised above, but in particularly the one about what type of photography you are most intersest in - or indeed whether you haven't settled on a preference yet. Secondly, an idea of your rough budget would help.

A point that several have made is that there some very good second hand cameras available which you can buy with confidence from 'proper' photographic stores - have a look through the forum here, and you will see some very highly rated stores mentioned. This can save you quite a bit over buying a new camera, which you can invest in lenses - a point raised by Andrew & Nigel above.

Phil