[nocturnal]

Prince Harry? Is that the Harry Potter movies or something?

Right back on track here... This is from The Cooley Mountains, County Louth, Ireland, 2018. These four fellows 2 Irish & 2 Polish were quite friendly to me by not robbing me of a K-30 and 20-40 Limited 😀

This was my first time hiking here, stayed up in the mountains until after dark, made a mistake in trying to get back to the car by a different route traversing the mountains, got lost and ended up in severely dangerous territory. No GPS, map or phone but eventually I managed to get back.

This is cropped to 2.35:1 'Anamorphic-esque format'

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Some HD DA 20-40 portrait work, on FF K-1 Mode no less;

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[nocturnal]

Great portraits Eddy! The 20-40 truly is a brilliant lens and so versatile.

The vignetting on the K1 actually helped your portraits here! Even on certain landscapes vignetting helps the viewer concentrate on the most interesting part.

[BruceBanner]

Great portraits Eddy! The 20-40 truly is a brilliant lens and so versatile.

The vignetting on the K1 actually helped your portraits here! Even on certain landscapes vignetting helps the viewer concentrate on the most interesting part.

Thanks nocturnal! Yeah I did the lens correction, and then actually put some vignette back in to some of the shots or other shots where it couldn't me removed completely left as is. Really I use vignette a lot (and more of the lens correction vignette than the actual vignette tool), and just like you said even in landscape it cane be welcomed.
For me it's not a lens you want to use if perhaps urban landscape is your thing (on FF K-1 that is, KP it will be fine). I think for a lot of those kinda shots you want zero dark edges.

I was quite pleased with how it was performing shooting into strong light sources as well, the star bursts are quite pleasing actually;

30mm/f4

[BruceBanner]

Some amateur product photography with the 'can do' 20-40, keeping with the FF mode on K-1;

34mm/5.6


34mm/5.6


34mm/7.1

[nocturnal]

You say you like the starbursts? Check out this sunburst with the 20-40 Limited. The photo was extremely difficult due to the massive dynamic range and the 'stream of photons' you see was a nice mistake caused by using a polariser and a physical grad filter on front of the lens. The filter probably was a little covered in pollen which gave this effect which I liked.

[BruceBanner]

You say you like the starbursts? Check out this sunburst with the 20-40 Limited. The photo was extremely difficult due to the massive dynamic range and the 'stream of photons' you see was a nice mistake caused by using a polariser and a physical grad filter on front of the lens. The filter probably was a little covered in pollen which gave this effect which I liked.

Nice. Yeah I haven't put my 20-40 through star bursts properly yet, Vivid in Sydney next weekend so should have the opportunity to try that out

[nocturnal]

Nice. Yeah I haven't put my 20-40 through star bursts properly yet, Vivid in Sydney next weekend so should have the opportunity to try that out

f11 created the above burst, but f11 not much good for night photography unless long exposures are employed. I prefer the above sunburst to the infamous SMC DA15 ones!

[BruceBanner]

f11 created the above burst, but f11 not much good for night photography unless long exposures are employed. I prefer the above sunburst to the infamous SMC DA15 ones!

Yeah, I had the HD DA 15 and sold it due to poorish sun bursts, I expected the same with this lens, but I think it's better. I look forward to putting it through it's paces next week because if I can feel satisfied from the 20-40 then I might skip trying to find a SMC DA 15 altogether!

[BruceBanner]

[nocturnal]

Very creative 2 and 3 Eddy, don't mind if I steal your ideas on No.2 for a try? Nice way to stretch a building 😀 I'm thinking you did this with a ball-head on a tripod... stiff enough friction to hold but moveable with a bit of force and slowly moved?

Don't tell me you did it on the computer 😀

[BruceBanner]

Very creative 2 and 3 Eddy, don't mind if I steal your ideas on No.2 for a try? Nice way to stretch a building 😀 I'm thinking you did this with a ball-head on a tripod... stiff enough friction to hold but moveable with a bit of force and slowly moved?

Don't tell me you did it on the computer 😀

That's exactly right. Just messing about and being creative, I've learned from doing events that using flash and shooting people at 1/4s and then deliberately moving the camera can give you cool effects. No flash here but same principle. I left it taking the shot steady for awhile, and then just before it was complete then dragged it away. This version I liked the most, can't recall exactly my approach, I may have actually moved the entire tripod. I think the key is to give the shot 3/4 of the time static and only mess with movement for 1/4 if the time, if you move for 100% of the shot then nothing is really decipherable. And you're not stealing anything that hasn't already been done before, "I am a copy of a copy of a copy of a..."

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[BruceBanner]

One Love

Happy Friday everyone, give the ones you love a good long hug...

[BruceBanner]

Another K-1 shot in FF mode. We have a cpl on the lens as well, taken at 24mm f8 (hdr bracketed). After applying lens correction and additional vignetting I still had to crop slightly down to 31mp to combat that decently (still same aspect ratio), so this is not a bad compromise and certainly worth the additional width that shooting KP at 24mp and only achieving a 30mm FF equivalent FoV (shooting at 20mm). I'm sure the 24-70 can do better, but then there's a significant price difference between those two.

[nocturnal]

Looks great Bruce, I'm not sure the 24-70 would be better for the above view, maybe the 20-40 is better at 30mm?