This is good news as I want to save up for one for my partner. All I need is to get some more lenses first though, otherwise we'll be sharing two which is a bad idea.

Actually, I've got a much easier, faster and simpler idea.

Desaturate the coloured building!!!

Done!

It definitely needed the contrast adjustment you made. I've never seen a sky like that with a polariser.

I wish that coloured building wasn't there though, could you crop it and still get a good picture?

Even better would be to clone it out and 'paint' in a background. I've done this successfully before to remove annoying people from photos. It was only a rough stone wall so not too hard. I tried it on the sea to remove a fence and decided it was not worth the effort for that particular picture.

It is actually white or have you desaturated it?

I'm asking because of the small building to the side that is cream/terracotta and looks rather out of place.

Where is it, and at what time as the sky is surprisingly dark for such a bright shot (wondering how you managed that ).

Not really, just because it is a cropped sensor doesn't mean it will act as a longer focal length in shaking respects. The shake would be just the same on a FF camera.

Secondly' mirror lenses have a reduced overall length and a reduced radius from the shake point. This means that there is much less amplification of the shaking than with a direct 500mm lens. In fact a 500mm mirror lens should have better shake control than a 300mm direct lens.

What we really need is holographic disks 300GB to start, moving to 2TB over a couple of years, same reader/writer so no need to upgrade.

I hate all storage technology as it is all capable of failing horribly.

I'm going to start to print all the photos I want to keep every month or so and keep them somewhere 'safe'.


At the moment I have 2 disks in my main machine one for backups as well as an external 320GB disk for second backups. Problem is I have 2x100GB in my machine which means I'll need a new backup drive to back up my backup when I fill both drives.

How about a RAID NAS? No need to set up anything complicated, practically plug in and go.

It is not easy to get the focus right as only the centre focus point works for confirmation in MF and the viewfinder is small. Everything was 'off centre' to avoid getting to much horrible background.

I'll try something as a reflector next time, big learning curve to climb.

I'll also take more time with focusing. I was hungry and it was getting cold .

I cheated with the scones, they were bought

Right, I love my food, love to cook but my presentation has been rather lacking. It all tastes wonderful, but if I want to do it properly it has to look and taste good. I thought it would be a good idea to kill two birds with one stone and actually put my K10D to good use. An other point would be, what is the point in arranging my food just to eat it? So if I take photos I can see what others think of both the image and the food shown.

(Teaser removed, waste of space and bandwidth really)

Here is (what was) tonight's dinner, Spinach and Quark Lasagne with Scones with Clotted Cream and Strawberry Jam for desert.

(I had no ricotta so I cheated and mixed a low fat soft cheese with thick clotted cream. I am very creative in the kitchen and 'make it up' as I go along. I do know what I am doing though as it is all Chemistry.)













Taken through Pentax SMC-A 50mm F1.7.

Full EXIF embedded. All taken in my dining room with a single tungsten lamp and a bit of light through (yellow) the curtains. I like the warm light though the shadows on some are annoying.

I really want a pair of 540s and one 360 for those 'light' days.

I missread, I thought he was saying when he moved (shook) the pictures blurred Need to read posts better...