[Deimos]

Superb shot !

Thanks Frederic!

[acoufap]

I like the photograph...and the subject. The angle is unique and I find it appealing.

Thank you for your kind feedback, lesmore49! - I like to experiment and sometimes tell small stories about the resulting images.

[fs999]

K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax DA* 55mm F1.4 SDM • Metz Flash 52 AF-1 Digital with softbox


K-1 • Crop Mode • 100 ISO • Sigma Art 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM


K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax F 50mm F1.7
Stuffed Veal Brisket with Cream Sauce


K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax FA 35mm F2 AL

[acoufap]

Facades & Eyecatchers







K-1 and DFA28-105 a nice sharp setup!

[BruceBanner]

Fog on the Corrib river (Galway, Ireland).







The light from that octagon looks really nice. I have a YN 560 III speedlight, do you think it's powerful enough to be used with something like that?

Depends on the strength of the ambient light. Outdoors in broad daylight even close to the subject... possibly not. Below are some images I just couldn't muster with the softbox so they were all triggered as bare flash shots. However indoors like the aforementioned shots, I'm sure they can, I don't think I was anywhere near full strength.

Love this series from you
Great Job

Thank you! Appreciated

If I understood correctly, this is know as a sequence (sequencing) in photography. I like the cameraman with the WWII style German helmet :-). Well done.

Hahah.... I honestly don't know anything about sequencing in photography, I'm just making this up as I go along
Thanks for the compliment.

Nice work on those. Is this a commercial project or just a personal one?
Also I'm curious about where in the images you stitched the Brenzier method shots, these seem very tightly composed for that technique. Interesting approach!

I was invited to join a bunch of other togs to cover a pre event promo shoot called 'Ironfest' that runs yearly in Lithgow in the Blue Mountains. Pretty much anything goes here, Medieval, WW2, Steampunk, Scifi etc etc. There was no fee attached, this was just local togs helping local events, I nearly didn't attend due to the effort involved (I did 4hrs driving that day....) but in the end I decided it was a great opportunity to get some interesting portfolio work done and try out some techniques such as a flash shot brenizer that I have been meaning to try.

I yearn for a FA31, so I got the idea to try and use my FA43 in a manner that may emulate a 31 by adding some content onto the shot, thus making it a bokeh panorama of sorts or a Brenizer. I've seen some excellent Brenizer shots completed with only two frames stitched! So I went for 3 and a more 'square' aspect ratio/medium format look. Each shot took in Portrait orientation of the camera, the first the centre shot, getting the whole subject head to toe nicely in focus, then adding a frame to each side of him. I used either Face Detection with back button focus (notice how well the sharpness held up for the wide aperture of the FA43 and how far the head is from the centre of the shot!) or Tracking mode in Live View. Using Back button focus (AF2) meant that after I got the first shot nailed I could then leave focus alone and just take a shot with the top shutter button for the left and right image without it adjusting focus, all I had to do was wait for my flash recycle time to kick in (which was almost immediate as I wasn't anywhere near full power).
IMO Brenizer is underrated, even adding one more frame to the shot can assist massively, especially with portrait work and wide open apertures. You can rely on the centre point AF system which is most accurate for AF system, and then add on an edge to give better framing to the final image.

Playing around with the K1, Pentax 12-24 (@18mm)

and a little Photoshop to fuzz out the background

Nice shot. With all this talk of the 11-18 (and it's seemingly incompatibility with the K-1) I have heard the 12-24 has a degree of usefulness on the K-1. Do you use it much on FF?

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Some more shots from the recent series.

"Like this?.."
"Yep.. perfect.." *Click*




Pride



The 'Boss'



The Horrors of War


All FA43.

[pentaxfall]

K1 + 150-450mm

[Merv-O]

1. Top Shelf Scotch (and beer taps below) at the PALM (Philadelphia)
2. Heineken Neon at FADO
3. P & P Club Bar Area.

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[northcoastgreg]

Trail through Lady Bird Johnson grove after rare snowfall, shot with the DFA 28-105:

[DW58]

Trail through Lady Bird Johnson grove after rare snowfall, shot with the DFA 28-105:

The green leaves scattered throughout this shot is what really caught my eye.

[Hattifnatt]

Sunset in Herastrau Park (DFA 24-70mm).

[rosettaquarrier]

Monument Valley in January. K-1 & Sigma 17-35mm f2.8

[mattb123]

Monument Valley in January. K-1 & Sigma 17-35mm f2.8

Cool to see that view in different conditions. Nice!

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1. Top Shelf Scotch (and beer taps below) at the PALM (Philadelphia)
2. Heineken Neon at FADO
3. P & P Club Bar Area.

I'll take a Doublewood, neat.

[acoufap]

K-1 • DFA150-450 @ 270 • f/8


K-1 • DFA150-450 @ 450 • f/5.6

[fs999]

K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax DA* 55mm F1.4 SDM • Metz Flash 52 AF-1 Digital with softbox


K-1 • FF Mode • 3200 ISO • Irix Blackstone 15mm F2.4 • Haida 150mm Filter Holder • NanoPro Series glass Clear-Night filter
Long Exposure : 31.02 sec


K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax FA 35mm F2 AL
Panorama 2 photos stitched together with Microsoft ICE 2.0


K-1 • FF Mode • 100 ISO • Pentax FA 35mm F2 AL
Topaz Labs Texture Effects 2

[eaglem]

On the prowl