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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-27-2023, 07:24 PM
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Air quality and broken cloud cover are the two biggest bugbears in outdoor gigapans. For cloud cover, you can get a rough idea by studying satellite weather photos the night before. For air quality, I find that Sunday morning is usually the best day for shooting, because mornings have less heat shimmer than middays or afternoons, and there is less traffic on Sunday mornings so therefore fore less smog.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-16-2023, 08:35 AM
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This one turned out better, didnt pre-process with Photomatix, still some vignetting evident in the sky, but not too bad and could probably be further reduced with another program: View of Copacabana and Lake Titicaca 2023 |
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-26-2023, 04:17 PM
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O_O
Hell's bells, man. That's massive :( What a shock... . There's nothing to say that somehow doesn't sound a bit trite, but I really hope you have heaps of people around you, and you're making sure to keep yourself as occupied as possible. - With that in mind, it'd be great to have you back in.
All that radio/chemo's not fun times :( I hoe you can manage that K-1 treat.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-26-2023, 05:18 PM
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jeez, man, get your butt in here with your camera and do some shooting with us....
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-26-2023, 05:25 PM
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Man, that's a tough go... I'm sorry to hear that but glad you're jumping in to share your journey. Looking forward to your posts.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-26-2023, 08:13 PM
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I’m sorry to hear this. As someone who’s health is well not cooperating I can vouch for the positives that participating gives me. It gently pushes me to keep going and do something I enjoy (even if I have to be prodded into action) and the feedback is really nice to hear. I think it would do similar things for you too.
As someone who swore I didn’t need a full frame camera…I love my K-1.
Thinking good thoughts for you.
Stevi
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-09-2021, 04:55 AM
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Cell phones can produce disarmingly good images. The very short focal length means a huge DOF, which in an image such as this means an unexpected and original perspective and rendering of a familiar subject.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-24-2017, 11:13 AM
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Taken in Bavaria with an old *istD..
davek
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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
01-27-2017, 04:38 AM
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Some of us are really cheap. I wanted the FA85/1.4 but settled on the Sears 50/2.0 instead. I think I saved about $1,000. :>)
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-15-2016, 07:08 AM
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K5ii and DA 16-85 WR
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-24-2016, 06:11 PM
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Berries, or some kind of fruit.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
10-31-2015, 04:57 AM
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To come right out of the gate, let me say that "I don't like wideangle lenses". Why? Mainly it's the distortion that bothers me, but the lack of background compression pushes everything so far away and the photo ends up consisting of more sky and floor than I'd be happy with. So I made a few experiments using the panorama technique. Essentially it's shooting the scene with a tele lens on a tripod, shifting the camera from shot to shot so that each photo overlaps with what's already been shot by about a third. Then I've been using Photoshop Photomerge to put these shots together. And it works perfectly! Okay, my 7-years old Mac Pro was working for half an hour stitching these together, but I end up with a 130 MP image, that isn't distorted, has beautiful background compression and that benefits from the sharpness of the 120mm F/4 macro lens I was using. I'm now editing a fashion shoot using this technique, but before I want to share with you the result of my test session
Ryan Brenizer who is well know for using this technique with large aperture lenses has said "By stitching together these image, you don't increase the angle of the lens, but the size of the sensor". Which honestly makes it even more of an interesting technique to use. Imagine a 130 MP large format camera with your favorite lens' optical properties. How could anyone not get excited about this :).
Have fun everyone trying this out yourself
Pentax 645z w/ Pentax smc 645 FA 120mm F/4 macro @ F/11 1s ISO100 -1EV
(the -1EV is crucial in retaining all the highlight detail in the background!)
Converted and edited in Photoshop CC
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Here is a 100% crop on the trees in the background. Check out the hand print on the tree trunk. So much detail....!
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
09-13-2015, 04:25 PM
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Stereographic projection of 12 stitched photos.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
08-21-2015, 10:01 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-17-2015, 03:27 PM
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-13-2015, 06:59 PM
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Slow moving traffic in Yellowstone this morning. K10D + DA*16-50.
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Forum: Photo Critique
02-22-2015, 02:55 PM
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A picture shot near Santorini.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-19-2015, 08:31 PM
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Here is one taken about 20 years ago while I was home visiting.I rode down to the old home place My great great great grand dad built this place My dad now owns it. As we were leaving it started a snowing lightly . Taken with a K1000 and M50 f2
 old home place by shooter147, on Flickr
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-02-2015, 06:08 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-07-2015, 01:58 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-12-2015, 10:59 PM
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