[Zelig]

Pentax Q + Tamron 70-200mm F2.8 + Pentax F 1.7x teleconverter (slightly cropped)


I believe it's a young or a female Red-breasted Flycatcher.
Adult males have a rusty-orange throat that continues onto the breast

[henkvanzuylen]

Santo Amaro Tram Station. Lisbon, Portugal.
Pentax Q + 02 standard zoom

Nice shot!

[Zelig]

Nice shot!

Thanks!

[scribble]

IMGP2642-HDR | Steven Wymer | Flickr

[Tony Belding]

Carmelite Mission and Point Lobos, Carmel, California. Pentax Q7 w/ Pentax 110 50mm @f4.5:

That look is really striking, and your other shots with that lens came out very nice too. Got any processing tricks to share with us, I wonder?

Originally posted by Cipher QuoteCarmelite Mission and Point Lobos, Carmel, California. Pentax Q7 w/ Pentax 110 50mm @f4.5:That look is really striking, and your other shots with that lens came out very nice too. Got any processing tricks to share with us, I wonder?

There is a reason that Ansel Adams, Edward and Brett Weston and other photographers lived in this area!

The Carmel/Point Lobos pictures were taken on a hazy/misty day and were initially quite flat. Another part of the "look" on these images is due to the 50mm Auto 110 lens and its 230mm equivalent FOV. Because I'm only using the center part of the image it has a uniform edge to edge sharpness with virtually no distortion or vignetting. At f4.5 it is on the edge of diffraction, which also gives it a smoother look. It may not be as clinically sharp as the 06, but I like it. As far as the initial capture I always have a 30mm deep hood (37mm on a 37.5-37mm adapter) on the 50 and expose manually to have a fair amount of headroom in the highlights. Unless there is a wide range of light values, I usually use JPG, I find that at low ISO it gives me better results than I can get from RAW, YMMV.

I use Photoshop Elements 2020 for processing and I usually up-size the image to 32" x 20" at 300 dpi first before doing any processing. I applied the haze removal tool at its default setting and then used the adjust sharpness tool, but not very strong. I then set levels and added some saturation, both over-all and in the greens. The mission image had some shadow-area burning to get some deeper blacks in the trees.

The water on the rocks may have had a little more sharpening. You can see a little fringing on the upper left edge of the rocks image, if I had regular PS I probably could have gotten rid of that, although it doesn't bother me, it adds "edgy-ness" to the image. It might be tricky to get that over-all look with a FF camera at 230mm but it is a snap with the Q-7 and the 50mm.

I down-sized the images to fit my blog, which is where the Pentax Forum files came from, the full-size files look even better, of course.

Hope that gives you some ideas, I find the haze removal tool to be a real godsend for images like these provided you don't over-do it.

[Transit]

Pentax Q + Tamron 70-200mm F2.8 + Pentax F 1.7x teleconverter (slightly cropped)


I believe it's a young or a female Red-breasted Flycatcher.
Adult males have a rusty-orange throat that continues onto the breast

Heck that's a good shot !
Interesting lens combo
sure seems to work, what sort of tripod are you employing ?

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Q7+01, Museum mode, handheld, native lighting, close crop, LR+NIK...



Detroit Institute of Art

Cheers... M

Nice framing
incredible colours in the work, always surprises me

[tromboads]

Geess there are some great images here!

[Zelig]

Heck that's a good shot !
Interesting lens combo
sure seems to work, what sort of tripod are you employing ?

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But very hard to focus!

I used a very basic manfrotto tripod. The bird had landed on that post several times,
so I had already framed and focused and used a remote to avoid touching the camera.

[Elias Paniki]

Masters, I have returned after a few weeks of trying to get to know the Q. Although I have a loooong way to go, here are my current hauls.
























06 lens




02 Lens





01 Lens


Sorry for the flood, I didn't want to make multiple threads. As excited as I am with the 01 lens, I have noticed I keep leaning towards the 06 a lot more. I will try and venture out with just the 01 lens to force myself to learn

[Transit]

Masters, I have returned after a few weeks of trying to get to know the Q. Although I have a loooong way to go, here are my current hauls.

Your long has too many o's
You have a good eye !

[Elias Paniki]

I come to this section a lot for ideas and matias burling's Q video. I want to be able to wrangle the Q as easily as I can with my Pixel phone. I scored a super cheap vintage tripod from a charity shop that's arriving soon, I was hoping it would help me in low light which has been quite a frustration with the Q.

[Transit]

I come to this section a lot for ideas and matias burling's Q video. I want to be able to wrangle the Q as easily as I can with my Pixel phone. I scored a super cheap vintage tripod from a charity shop that's arriving soon, I was hoping it would help me in low light which has been quite a frustration with the Q.

Your best lens is a tripod someone once said
That 01 works nicely wide open so that is a help

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But very hard to focus!

I used a very basic manfrotto tripod. The bird had landed on that post several times,
so I had already framed and focused and used a remote to avoid touching the camera.

excellent ! That remote is great, I use it to good effect on my 1200mm telescope

The Clinton-Walker house, Frank Lloyd Wright architect, Carmel California. Q-7, Pentax auto 110 50mm @f4.5, stitched from three images:

[Transit]

Good shot, interesting window design on that house