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Forum: Photo Critique
07-11-2022, 09:13 PM
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I'm an amateur but I've been looking into high key photography lately too, so it's fresh on my mind!
My understanding of high key photography is that the goal is bright images with clear details. White backgrounds, even lighting that illuminates the details in your subject, and lower contrast. Bright to the point of being blown out is what I've seen, but with lighting that's even enough that you still have plenty of texture and detail on your subject. Background detail is pretty much unimportant - super duper bright or pure white for that.
For your image, I think you can bring the background to white to get it more high key. The stem could be lightened (I downloaded your image to play with it and bringing up the shadows does the trick for that). A bit of desaturation can bring the contrast down. A lot of high key photography I've looked at takes it to grayscale, but the color of your roses is an important aspect so I doubt that's what you want to do.
Even looking for it I can't tell where you cloned the stem, so I think you did well with that.
So I would say you're on the right track but you aren't quite bright enough yet. I'm attaching a quick edit that implements some of the things I mentioned.
It's a beautiful photo, I hope you do more like this!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-05-2022, 10:28 PM
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Our town puts on a fireworks show for 4th of July so I took some photos. First time doing fireworks photos with a 'real' camera! I read up on suggested settings beforehand and then kind of winged it. Set the ISO to 100, started at f11, then I used bulb mode and adjusted the aperture to whatever seemed right at the moment.
The fireworks were at the fairgrounds and the whole city was packed around it (people were parking and setting out chairs literally anywhere there was a patch of pavement or grass) but we managed to snag a parking spot at an adjacent Taco Bell.
I had a little tiny tripod and set it on the bed cover of my truck but it wasn't super stable; the bed cover is fabric, so a lot of the light streaks have little wobbles in them. There was an obnoxiously bright light coming from the Taco Bell directly to my left that neither I nor my lens hood was prepared for, lol, and so there's a big nasty lens flare in some shots.
The moon was competing for top billing in this show as well -
I tried some intentional movement that turned out some cool abstract light shots -
And some of the fireworks were remarkably abstract on their own -
This one just happened to be VERY pink, I love it -
The finale -
And the aftermath -
There are more photos in the album here - ccbl's Album: Fireworks - PentaxForums.com
I did my best with post-processing; I'm not entirely sure what to aim for when processing fireworks? I like how they turned out, at any rate, so I want to show them off :lol:
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-02-2022, 11:30 AM
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Looks like it was worth getting up close and personal with the spider! I love everything about this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
07-01-2022, 10:32 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
07-01-2022, 10:32 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
07-01-2022, 10:31 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
07-01-2022, 10:30 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
07-01-2022, 10:29 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
07-01-2022, 07:30 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-24-2022, 07:03 PM
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Dad helping his kid jump the waves, Surf City, NC
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-24-2022, 04:18 PM
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Grackle on the beach got away from me a bit... or a lot
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-20-2022, 09:17 PM
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The image was a mess but that fish tank is so pretty
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
06-07-2022, 11:40 AM
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Back to the house after a day at the beach.
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Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
04-23-2020, 08:16 PM
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My thought is that constraints induce creativity, so shooting with black and white film makes you think in black and white and get creative within that limit.
If you shoot in color you think in color. Maybe you convert it to black and white later, but it's a different mentality and it makes the photo different.
Also, if I know I can use a photo as either color or black and white I'm less discerning about certain elements of my subject. If I know it will only ever be black and white, I'm more careful about shape, values, lighting, and composition. Obviously if I was a terrific photographer I would be disciplined about those things even when shooting in color. Since I'm thoroughly mediocre, black and white film is ideal for exercising those skills.
And it looks cool. It might be a lack of post-processing prowess, but my color-to-BW images never look as good as actual black and white film images.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-02-2020, 05:39 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Photographic Technique
01-31-2020, 09:20 AM
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This thread has been eye opening for me, it really makes me glad this forum exists and has so many knowledgeable users. I'd never heard of ISO-invariance, so I didn't realize some digital sensors worked so differently from film with regards to ISO.
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Forum: Sold Items
01-25-2020, 11:19 AM
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Sent a pm about the Sigma
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-18-2019, 06:34 PM
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BIF... Bug in flight? Thanks!
It helps that Benjamin and the other carpenter bees hover nice and still midair while staking out their territories against less attractive bugs. Gave me plenty of time to fumble frantically with the focus, lol.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-18-2019, 05:07 PM
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This is Benjamin, one of our two backyard carpenter bees. He chases away wasps for me and occasionally initiates intense staring contests.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-10-2019, 05:35 AM
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Keh had another in stock, so they're exchanging it for me. I'm looking forward to it! I love the sample images I've seen.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-09-2019, 02:49 PM
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If it was just f22 I might ignore it; but the A setting doesn't work either, and I do want that.
I guess I'll have to send it back after all :|
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-09-2019, 02:04 PM
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Well, now I have a new problem.
The aperture is getting stuck at f22, when attached to the camera.
Everything seems to work smoothly by itself. After I attach it to the camera, if the aperture is set to Auto or f22, it gets stuck. It can't open any wider.
If I attach it while set to f2, it will work at each aperture, up to f22, where it gets stuck again.
I'm guessing this is a lever problem? When I compare it to my other lenses, the lever looks closer to the black bit of metal that sticks up even with it (don't know what that's called). The gap between them is very small.
Any suggestions?
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-09-2019, 01:31 PM
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Thanks! I'm glad it was something simple :)
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
04-09-2019, 01:12 PM
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I just received this lens: SMC Pentax-FA* 24mm F2 AL [IF] Reviews - FA Prime Lenses - Pentax Lens Reviews & Lens Database
after ordering from keh, and the autofocus doesn't seem to be doing anything at all. No noise, no focus. MF seems to work ok.
I am using a K-01, with the switch on AF. My other lenses with autofocus are the 40mm XS, and two Pentax-F zoom lenses. AF works fine on all when I push the shutter release halfway.
I'm pretty new to autofocus lenses, so before I send it back for a refund or exchange, is there something obvious that I'm missing? An easy fix or a setting I'm unaware of?
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