I have posted it elsewhere, but maybe I will get opinions that are more tender here in this thread! I took this about 10 hours after I bought my K-r. My first ever shot at iso3200 too, as all my previous cameras have been vile even at only iso 800. Maybe the main thing that identifies me as a newbie, even after 50 years of photography, was that I didn't think of Law of Thirds, Golden Mean, the intention of the final outcome, the ethics of composition, whatever. I just thought "" Oooh, pritty cullers!" and CLICK!
(1/40 f5.6 iso 3200 18-55 kit lens)
This was taken in a place that was once called a village, but is now basically an outlying suburb of Chengdu. It is a place called Shi Ling, created when the Chinese government decided to relocate 5 different mountain villages (each containing maybe 10,000 people!) to create a new "village" near Chengdu, which in itself is referred to here as a small city. (Of 9 million people!)
7-11s are for slackers, as some shops never seem to be truly closed, and many shops are the width of a western store front, but with a depth of only 1 or 2 metres, so they are basically giant cupboards, with just enough dept for the owner to sit on a kitchen chair out of the rain. Another Chinese habit is to have many shops selling identical things lined up next to each other - very convenient for the customer, but reducing takings I expect. Still, there are so many people here that if you lose one customer there are always another 100 behind him.
This portrait was taken with a Pentax-M 50 mm f1.4, and I am pleased with the results with no flash
Earlier today I went for a stroll along the river bank:
In fact, they are making more effort than some restaurants, who cut their vegetables on the sidewalks, and I mean literally on the floor!