Lovely nostalgic feel the portrait, and a great 'knowing look' the lady has.

Phil

Simon

A great start - lovely use of an UWA to isolate the subject; super colours as well.

Phil

Simon

re the shutter speed - I chose 1/400 because of the speed of the plane and I wanted to get it as sharp as I could, but you're right about the prop - 1/150 or 1/200 would have been better for the prop, but I think that I would have been less likely to get the aircraft as sharp. I look forward to your 5 with interest.

Thanks for all of your comments and suggestions on my 5. Some of the reworked images will eventually reappear on the Gallery.

Phil

#5 - Spitfire




Finally something completely different. A Spitfire MkIXB at the Wings & Wheels Festival at Dunsfold in August on a low level, high speed run. Not a terribly inspiring shot, but a memory of a great day - I also happen to like the fact that the pilot is pretty much looking straight down the lens.

K-5iis, HD DA 55-300 at 260mm; f16 at 1/400 (double checked this time); camera on monopod.

Phil

Barrie

Feel free to play away. That strengthens the sky, but I think that the majority have it right - it needs some more foreground interest.

Phil

A couple of things - firstly on #4 there's a c***-up with the meta data (not sure how, but suspect human error!) but it's actually f4.5 at 1/1250. Does this explain the problem?

Here's a B&W version, but I think that the bush is the foreground is a bit dark, as are the background trees. However, it might be worth a bit more work.




Simon - I agree, some poppies in the foreground would have been great - perhaps I should have done some gardening! I will post a worked up version of #3 and put it on the gallery, hopefully before the end of the weekend.

Phil

#4 - Storm Coming




Taken in August this year near Newark Priory in Surrey waiting for the London-Surrey Classic cycle race to come through. A few minutes after this was taken it poured down, and yes I did get wet, but fortunately the Pentax weather resistance held true.

K-5iis and DA18-135 at 31mm, f20 and 1/125.

Phil

Thanks for the comments comparing the B&W and colour versions. I'll go back to the original RAW file and work it up as a colour image, rather than starting up with B&W in mind as I did before.

I'll post it up at some point as a colour image

Phil

Now that really is RED!

For me it's not the telegraph pole, but the shadow across the junction that distracts.

Phil

Simon/David

Here's the colour version.




It's probably in need of a little more work as a colour image as I went to B&W fairly quickly with this one.

Phil