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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-18-2024, 09:27 PM
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This was the composite I did from the 2017 eclipse, through the complete phases.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
03-23-2024, 02:50 AM
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Well thanks all I went ahead and ordered a ifootage CF cobra 3 mono pod, a large ball head, a pan fluid head, and a gimbal, with wimberly plate, along with a new CF tripod w/ bowl for leveling. This should get me heading down the right path, I want all the heads so I could shoot wildlife, macro, landscape and basic moon & Astrophotography. Shooting models for years, this was something I haven’t focused on. Oh and I picked up a new “to me” lens. The D-FA 100mm f2.8 macro WR. I haven’t owned a good macro lens, and I wanted something basic to see if I like it.
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Forum: Pentax Camera and Field Accessories
03-21-2024, 07:44 AM
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So much good information here, so much to digest, I haven’t picked up a new tripod in years and never owned a mono pod. So yeah I love hearing everyone’s opinions and really love seeing the images of your setups. As I age I’m starting to think more and more about these options, and the tech has come so far in the last couple decades. YouTube is good for basic info, but you don’t know who’s being paid what to promote what, but I find it more important to see what fellow photographers are actually using.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-21-2024, 06:40 AM
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I never realized how much I had until this past weekend. Putting it all in hard cases now. It was in a dozen bags.
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That’s what I was thinking too, when I got it all out, but even some stuff is still not pictured, like my old K1000 and a few others
Thank you, trying to organize it all is challenging.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-18-2024, 09:13 PM
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Spent the weekend going through gear, and organizing. 😅😅😅
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-01-2014, 12:21 PM
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A few of my images since my last visit and post
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Forum: Pentax K-3 Photo Contest
05-01-2014, 11:15 AM
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Model: Nikki King
Photographer: Sam Rambo
Shot using a Pentax K5 IIs, and the 70-200mm 2.8 lens,
focal length of 70mm
f 6.3
Iso 80
I always manually set my white balance, for the temperature that I'm looking for to bring out the right colors and tones.
I shoot Jpg, and get it right in the camera, that way you have very little work in post production (maybe a min or two). The only reason you will ever find me shooting raw, is if my client is looking for a "green" factor to the file. Up until 2012 I use to shoot Raw+, I started to ask myself why, I never used the raw file? If you get it right in the camera you will never really need that raw file.
Additional lighting is produce by a ring flash strobe, and balanced with the natural lighting of the sunset. Sun flare was brought in naturally to add that additional pop to the image, something to make it stand apart from normal "sunset images". It's actually a rather easy technique to reproduce. it's all about timing, location, and the angle of the shot.
Other tips:
Oil for the models skin
water for that wet look
position the model so you get a natural rim light from the sun, and position it so the sun is just off shot, to pull in that nice subtle sun-flare.
Let the hair fall naturally, so many models try to brush the hair out of their face, you have to tell them to let it fall across the face, it adds to the over all image.
A good make up artist is always good to have on hand.
And center yourself on your subject, if you are too high, it will make them look weak, and if you are too low it will make them look too powerful.
You want the viewer to connect with the subject, so never lose the eyes.
Happy shooting
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-05-2012, 10:58 PM
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These are from Last weekend with Jennifer, an amazing Playboy model. We had a little fun playing with different lighting!
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