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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-03-2010, 06:28 AM
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Thanks for the suggestion. A fast prime is definitely on my wish list but I think I'll wait until I gained a little experence with the stock lens. That way I'll know which focal length I would prefer. In the mean time I can still increase the aperture to get blurry background. That first picture was taken at f/8, it should have been with a wider aperture.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-02-2010, 05:55 PM
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Shameless bump. I'd like to get more comments if possible. Thanks!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-31-2009, 08:55 PM
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Thanks for the comments. I'm still struggling with framing, as my daughter moves a lot and fast and this is my first SLR. Should get better with time :)
The shot you refer to as 3200 is actually 6400, even more impressive.
As far as software goes, I use Picasa. I don't have much time for editing so I'd rather not shoot everything in raw and have to edit every single picture. I'd prefer to learn how to properly expose and choose the right WB setting in the camera. Also, raw on the k-x is only 12-bit and I understand that this gives less dynamic range (than 14-bit) to rescue bad exposures.
I've heard good things about LR, I might give it a shot if I need more editing capabilities. Although I'm also considering the plain Photoshop or even Photoshop Elements.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-31-2009, 08:31 PM
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Hi,
I got myself a k-x for my first SLR for Christmas and took several pictures on holiday in Florida (~1000). So far I'm fairly happy with my purchase but I obviously have much to learn. My biggest issue is proper focus and white balance. I need to properly test to see if my k-x has front or back focus problem and also see if it's affected by the SR problem that some are having at certain shutter speeds. Another issue I'm having is that I find myself constantly adding +0.5 or +1.0 exposure correction, otherwise it's often underexposed.
Anyway, here are some of my best shots. I'm obviously open to constructive critiques as I'm here to learn!
The background is distracting, I should have used a larger aperture. I still like the pic though! What I read is true, late afternoon light is very good to shoot with.
The white balance was off on this one, so I converted to sepia and I like it.
A good example of a great (by my standards) ISO 6400 shot.
An example of white balance problem, although I kinda like the sepia look.
Happy new year to everyone!
-Patrick
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
12-09-2009, 05:39 PM
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Is it just me or the prices jumped by 50$? A few days ago the k-x kit with the 18-55 lens could be add for 550$ and 100$ more for the 50-200 lens. Now it's 600$ and 700$ respectively (at both Amazon and B&H).
I'm looking for the kit with the 50-200 lens, do you guys know of the cheapest place? I'm from Canada so unfortunately cannot take advantage of the BCB.
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