4th one is fantastic. The rest are ok, but nothing that strikes me as any different to many airshow pictures we've seen before. 4th image though shows a great angle, punchy colour that demands attention, imaginative composition, somewhat abstract view, yet immediately recognisable as an aeroplane.

Number 1 for me too. I'd crop the doorway on the left out though, to give it even more of a minimalist feel.

Love the crazy pinkness.

For most stuff I use photobox, but if it's something really special, I'll use pro-am imaging.

http://www.proamimaging.com/index.html

I enjoyed the images and the story they tell. Thank you.

Chris,

If you could post an image taken with the K-7 and the same scene taken with the K10 at the same time, under the same lighting conditions, it would help us to understand the problem/symptoms you are experiencing.

Duncan

Great thread.

I think this is the shot I'm most pleased with from 2009. Why? Because it was my first time in a studio and I'd never done much in the way of "people" photography before. Learned an awful lot that day.

All the information is on the Pentax UK web site.

Here:
http://www.pentax-cashback.com/home.php?LNG=ENG
and here:
http://www.pentax-cashback.com/modal/modalites_UK.pdf

Sorry if I've missed it when I've skimmed through this thread, but what is the original poster's budget?

Hi,

I'm struggling to understand the colour temperature figure which appears to be set when using the "flash" setting in-camera on my K-7. According to the handbook, this should be a figure of around 5400K. I normally use the "Auto" setting, shoot raw, and fine tune it later as required in Capture 1. I did a portrait session a couple of days ago, lit entirely using studio heads, which, according to the technical specs have a temperature of 5650. I used the "flash" WB preset in the camera for a change, rather than "auto".

When I look at these shots in Capture 1, the "as shot" WB setting appears to be 7450K and a tint of 16. This gives the images quite a warm reddish magenta tint. If I set C1 to use its own preset "flash" WB it sets the figures to 5250K and tint 2, which looks somewhat green to my eyes.

The walls of the room were relatively neutral, a sort of light mushroom colour, which may have affected the result, but I still don't see why the in-camera flash WB figure appears to be so high. I checked to see that I hadn't inadvertently fine tuned the WB setting for the flash, but I hadn't, it was still on the default figure.

I'm using a good monitor which has been hardware calibrated so I think we can rule that out.

If I check the image using the bundled Pentax software, I can't read the "as shot" figures directly, but it does tell me it used the "flash" preset, and the image does still look reddish.

Any clues? Do other K-7s set the flash WB to such a figure? It does seem to contradict the handbook, and the expected setting.

Do you mean this one Stefan?
http://www.photodeals.co.uk/product.php?productid=126&cat=5&page=1