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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 12-09-2011, 05:25 AM  
Weekly Challenge Weekly Challenge 188 - Center Composition
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 39
Views: 5,502
Totally awesome dog shot!
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 12-07-2011, 09:28 PM  
Weekly Challenge Weekly Challenge 188 - Center Composition
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 39
Views: 5,502
I always think I'm sticking everything in the middle, and try not to compose my shots that way. I kind of had a tough time finding something in the center, but here's a bale I shot out the truck window, I had kind of a tough time leaning out the window looking back to keep the utility poles out of the shot.
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 11-04-2011, 06:54 PM  
Weekly Challenge 184 - A Life on the Edge
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 21
Views: 3,366


At a practice bull riding. This guy lasted all the way across the arena, to right in front of me. I am not sure why he still had a death grip on the rope, my hand would have opened up when my rear and left the bull's back (or about the time they opened the chute).
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 11-03-2011, 05:37 PM  
Mercury reflections
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 0
Views: 540
crop of a Mercury grill. It's an old car sitting out in the weeds, they don't make grills like that anymore
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-21-2011, 07:36 PM  
thinking about trading my K110D for a new K-r ? ?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 9
Views: 1,891
Get the K-r. I take it to bull ridings, and the pictures come out great. It shoots fast. I kept my old camera(s) - man, I have three camera bodies. Can anyone say hoarder?
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-21-2011, 07:32 PM  
focus issues?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 5
Views: 1,872
Well, if I posted that I didn't have the K-r yet, that means I took that with the k-100d. I would imagine the bull is a bit blurry because my lens isn't a low-light lens, the sun was going down, and the bull was moving. The shutter could have been open a bit longer than it would have an hour earlier. I don't think the K-100d has the multi-point autofocus. I couldn't have possibly taken that picture with a K-r, since I hadn't received it yet. The issue I have with shooting in low light is having my subject blurry, that happens on really overcast days, too. It sucks, but I can't afford a $800 2.5 lens. Oh, wait.... I can, I can't justify the purchase when I need a roof on my house. I'll take donations though! Any recommendations on a decent lens? And how are the 50-300's? This was taken with the 50-200.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-21-2011, 08:18 AM  
My k-r review
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 7
Views: 1,807
I had only 4gig card, and with a 10mp I wasn't sure how many pictures I'd get on the card before I ran out. My other cards are regular 2gig sd's. I don't know if they are 'fast' enough to store the info as fast as the camera takes the pictures. I now have two more 4g cards, and I'll get more, I'm sure, but the higher the mp, the less pictures I can take, and also the bigger the file, I wasn't sure if even those would get written fast enough. They were. So I'll have to test out the 12 mp now that I have more cards, but for what I do, even 10 seems overkill. I guess if the camera has the capability, I may as well use it. I was checking to see how fast it would take pictures and how well it focused.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-21-2011, 03:44 AM  
My k-r review
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 7
Views: 1,807
Thanks! It's a 50-200 4.5f I believe. Nothing fancy, it was around $200. I was looking for something to shoot the arena distance, sometimes they can get pretty close and I get nothing, but from the chute to about 15 feet away it does great. I have to remember now, since this camera is set on 10megapixels, that I can get away with not zooming right in and crop when I get home. Otherwise I chop off heads and feet, everything gets to moving so much. It's not like a horse race where they are running along horizontally. There's a lot of vertical movement with these guys.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-20-2011, 07:14 PM  
My k-r review
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 7
Views: 1,807
Oh, I suppose I should mention that I was not impressed with the idea that I would have to buy a camera with a chargeable battery pack. I met an artist with a Nikon that has the battery under the body, and she complained that the camera is heavy especially when you tack on a zoom lens, The K-r is light, takes super duper pictures, and I am very impressed with it, and am delighted beyond anything that I got this camera. There were people and bulls flying around, dirt etc. and I thought it did a very impressive job capturing everything especially considering the lighting wasn't all that great, no flash, I mean there was daylight but it was October sun going down, and set on automatic. I don't remember getting any blurry shots. Very satisfied. I was extremely hesitant about this camera because of the focus thing, but I have no doubt at all that I made the perfect choice with this camera. I am not sure what anyone might be unsure of when considering buying this camera, but unless you want to make movies with it too, I say get this camera!
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-20-2011, 07:08 PM  
My k-r review
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 7
Views: 1,807
I've had my camera about a month now. I have taken landscape shots early in the morning with little light, if I put it on the night setting, it takes good shots as long as I'm shooting away from the sun. I always shoot automatic since I don't pretend to be any kind of a photographer. I charged the battery, have taken oh, well over 700 pictures over a three week period and it still holds a full charge. I take the battery out when I'm not using it. I have a 4G card that has some sort of high speed rating thing, it looks impressive but the other number on the card is a 6 which is supposed to be good. I haven't taken any video with it, but when I went to the bull riding to shoot, it was firing off pictures one right after the other. They were very much in focus, and the only fault lies with the fact that I am a lousy picture taker. I can fix a lot in photoshop though, cropping and adjusting etc. The important thing for me was speed, a concern was focus (not a problem) and battery life (also not a problem). I did buy two more batteries, and a AA battery holder in the event the chargeable ones croak. So with three chargables, if I can get 1800 pictures and another 1000 on the AA's, I think I will manage quite well. The reason I upgraded was I had heard Pentax was going with the chargeable setup, and I am in love with the AA (CRV-3) but for another twenty bucks, I can just recharge those and save myself the cost of the lithiums.... although I'll have to keep some around for the 100K!
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-20-2011, 06:58 PM  
What's In Your Bag?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 40
Views: 5,469
I have a travel bag, I got it at wal-mart in the luggage dept. for ten bucks. It's kinda long looking, and has two zippered compartments on each side. The bag has the front that unzips, and the front flips open. The "lid" has two pockets, where I keep SD cards, batteries, business cards... then the bag has my K100d body, and the K-r that has my 50-200 lens on it. Both fit in there nicely. One side pocket holds my 100-300 lens, and the other side pocket holds lens wipes, my kodak p&s, business cards, the 2Xteleconverter or whatever else I decide to put in there. I mainly take landscape and animal pictures, and I'm not a professional so I don't have tons of lenses etc. I found another bag just like it awhile ago that was on sale for $7 so I picked it up, but now I can't remember where I stuck that. It's here somewhere.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 09:44 PM  
File sizes?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 18
Views: 2,886
Ok, I just want to be clear, when I am cropping an image that photoshop says is only say, an 8X10 and if I take the middle of it out, that reduces it down quite a bit, and I want the image to be at least 10X15, say. I can't get 10X15 out of an 8X10. What is it that I need to change, I can't find any type of setting in photoshop that will make the image bigger, or should I just change the image size to reflect a larger size to begin with? I guess I don't understand why this very large image is being perceived as something much smaller. Either it's a big file or it isn't, and for some reason these big pictures are being "read" as smaller ones. I have no idea what it is I need to change. Like I said, there isn't a dpi setting on the camera that I can find. I'm wondering why one camera would translate a 6mp file into something that is 33X44 and the next camera says a 10mp file is only 8X10. You're saying the photoshop program is reading it that way, I just don't understand why. I feel better knowing that the pictures I am taking aren't itty bitty. The K-r isn't the only camera that does this, like I said my kodak p&s does the same thing. For me, the important thing is that when I go to crop out all of the stuff I don't want in the picture, I still have a good-sized image to work with.
I'm not understanding why one camera will have larger image sizes with less megapixels. Am I making any sense? I don't ever print out my photos other than to either make 4X6's or print out for reference material for paintings. And calendar images. I end up cropping alot, like I said I learned to back off on the zoom at the bull ridings because I was cutting off body parts. Then when I get home I can crop out 2/3 of the image, and still have a workable photo in case I do want to make prints or calendars.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 04:28 PM  
File sizes?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 18
Views: 2,886
So how do I reassign the dpi value? The K100 must have automatically done that. I don't know why the k-r doesn't.
I notice the same thing when I use my p&s, larger megapixels but smaller in photoshop. Is it a camera thing? I can't find where to set that. The megapixels are set, and the quality is set. What else is there? Thanks.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 03:59 PM  
A thank-you to the K-r gods here
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 2
Views: 1,428
I appreciate all help you guys give me, I know nothing about any of this and if I appear stupid that's because I am. I really seriously was looking for the dpi setting on my camera. I found out how to set the camera on multiple shots (did you know it automatically goes to multiple shots in action mode?) and I learned that a 10mp photo is a 10mp photo no matter what I think it is. I will say that I can frame a landscape composition like nobody's business, I just won't know how big the pictures will be :D
Thank you thank you, and bear with me and all of my idiotic questions.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 03:54 PM  
More KR Issues
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 16
Views: 2,972
Hey, I was freaking out because Photoshop said my 10mp pictures are only 8X10 inches big. I sent a crop to flickr and found out that photoshop has its head up its butt. Flickr had the photo at gargantuan size. I am no longer putting faith in what photoshop says my picture size is. These people talk about things like DPI and other stuff I'll never be able to find on my camera (mainly because it's not a camera setting) so the fact that I'm a photo idiot isn't these people's fault. I hope I provided someone with a good shake of the head and they can go to their nerd group sessions and say, "this one broad didn't know what dpi was on her camera" to which all the others in the group will chortle gleefully while pushing their glasses back up on their noses. To be honest, I rely on these people to straighten me out and if I'm the reason the file isn't the right size (it's the size it is, I just don't know what I'm doing) then that's the way it is. I can't expect someone who knows what they're doing to know why I'm being a dipstick about something they find simple. I still don't know why my pictures come up so "small" in photoshop, but if they really aren't then I don't really care. P.S. My camera isn't all that loud, I'm surprised that's a complaint. Or maybe the noise is BIGGER than it really is, but I just don't KNOW it...
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 03:45 PM  
File sizes?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 18
Views: 2,886
Here's an example.I took this photo set on 6 mp with the K-100d and it's a horizontal shot, and I cropped this out of the middle.


Flickr says the bull is an original size of 1100+ by some other big number. Then I do this cat that I took today, in photoshop the cat is a whopping 7X10 inches *sarcasm*, but when I put it in flickr it's 2200X3300 or something, even bigger than the bull. I'm not going to post the original cat since it's even bigger than the bull - but is the issue with photoshop? Since apparently in flickr the sizes are reflecting the megapixels. I saved the photoshop crop to a file, then sent that to my flickr account. Basically you're saying I should shoot to my heart's content at 10 megapixels and screw what photoshop is telling me?? The flickr information is making me feel better about all of this. I should stick to painting!
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 03:30 PM  
File sizes?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 18
Views: 2,886
Ok, I make my own calendars. I make 11X17 sizes as well as the 8X11". I can use cropped photos *within reason* for either camera, and not lose any resolution. I'm thinking if I want a photo to show up on an 11X17" calendar, I would use something from a file that was 20X30 inches rather than 6X8". Does that make sense? So, if I crop something down out of the bigger file, I'm not losing much. If I'm starting with a 6X8" photo, I can't crop anything for use in a calendar that big. Why is the 6mp file larger in the "image size" than the 10 mp file? If I crop out something in the middle of the 6mp picture, it's way bigger than what I crop out of the 10mp file. The finished size on the 6mp is bigger than the 10mp which doesn't make sense to me since 10mp is LARGER than 6mp. Why does it do that?
I go to bull ridings, and if I take shots that have a lot of room around the edges, I can go home, crop down and have a decent photo still. If I have to zoom in on the action, I risk chopping off heads, hands, feet etc. but if I have the camera on 10mp, shoot and crop down to a third of the photo size, I'm only going to have a 2X3" file rather than the 10X15" I get with the 6mp files I take. Why is that?
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 01:49 PM  
File sizes?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 18
Views: 2,886
I got the burst photo thingy set, thank you very much! That was an easy fix. Now if I can figure out the dpi thing.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 01:47 PM  
File sizes?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 18
Views: 2,886
Using photoshop I take a photo set on 10mp from the K-r and crop it. When I check the size of the image, it goes from 6"X8" to 2"X3". With the photos I took with the k100d, set on 6 mp, the image goes from 33X44" to 10X15". I would think if I'm using four more megapixels, the file size would be larger. If I take a picture of a cat, and want to crop out the shovel and stack of buckets and two dogs fighting in the background, and still have a decent cat photo, I'd get a better one using the k 100d rather than the K-r, in this instance. I have no idea why if I set the k-r at 10 megapixels, the file is SMALLER and not LARGER. I never set anything on the k100. I went from a 4mp (which took a 22"X33") to 6mp and it INCREASED to something like 33"X44". So why is a 10mp setting taking a 6"X8" photo????? and if I already took the photo, I've lost the opportunity to get it bigger. What is it I have to change? I shouldn't have to do anything if it's set on 10mp. I can't see anything in the manual or on the camera menu about DPI. Gaaaahhh someone with a brain help me before tomorrow at 2pm please please Thanks!
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-08-2011, 08:09 AM  
File sizes?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 18
Views: 2,886
I went out this morning and used my K-r for the first time. I noticed when I put a picture in photoshop, the size of the image is about 6X8, on a 10megapixel setting. The size from my K-100d set on 6 megapixel is about 33X44ish. Why are the files so small in 10 megapixel?
One other thing, I noticed if I hold down the shutter, it won't snap pictures one after another but I can't find a setting for multiple frames like the K-100 and IstD have. It did snap two in a row a couple of times when I wasn't shooting anything I wanted two shots of.
I do like the brightness of colors when I was out before the sun was actually up, set on night scene it took great pictures.
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-07-2011, 07:49 PM  
Best pictures by newbbies with K-r
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 1,046
Views: 257,934
Pretty birds!
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-06-2011, 04:33 PM  
battery questions
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 4
Views: 1,446
On an average day I don't take any pictures since I'm not a photographer - but for instance last Saturday I was at a jackpot bull riding and took about 900 pictures. Lots of action, so I'd be shooting one picture after another. I'm wondering how the focus thing is going to work with that much going on, there is no trouble with either of the older ones so I can't imagine any with a newer camera, but the older ones didn't have a 11 point focus thingy.
I would love to go to the bucking horse sale in Miles City MT, actually planning to go next year. If I can fire off 900 in two hours, I'm sure I can get way more than that in a day or two but I can always recharge overnight. Problem is not being able to recharge at the arena. If I can't get plenty of pictures with the k-r, I may as well stick to the camera that uses the crv-3's that last six months. If I have to take the K100, why mess with a new camera?
Forum: Pentax K-r 10-05-2011, 07:33 PM  
battery questions
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 4
Views: 1,446
One thing I read below on a battery thread is that these rechargables don't take many pictures. I'd have to haul around three extra for one day's shooting. What I love love about the older cameras is that I could get the crv-3's and I needed two sets per year. That's under fifty bucks, and maybe that might seem pricey if I can pick up some generic rechargables for around ten apiece, but will the camera recognize any rechargable battery, as long as it's compatible? I'm almost tempted to return the camera based on the battery hassle alone. I don't want to have to mess with it that much. I am not sure why they won't allow the crv-3's on these cameras. I can take thousands of pictures on those, with no problem. *sigh*
I upgraded, thinking the higher megapixels would be a bonus, but now I'm wondering if the tradeoff is worth it? I'm waiting for the battery to charge up before I go photo taking and see how well I like it. There's a bull riding practice this weekend, I'll take the K100d as backup.
Forum: Pentax K-r 09-29-2011, 07:02 PM  
focus issues?
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 5
Views: 1,872
I just ordered a K-r, it will be here in ten days. The only bad thing I could see about this camera on any reviews was the 11 point focus thing, where there might be issues with focusing on what you want to shoot. I go to daytime bullridings (practices and jackpots) and wondered if this would be a concern with that much action. I am not going to waste my time with something that isn't going to focus for me. I have a K100d and the Ist-d. One is a backup (of course) so now I may have to decide which to sell? Or really, what's the harm in two backups?
Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help 08-21-2011, 04:34 AM  
where to store unused lenses??
Posted By pamzpix
Replies: 42
Views: 10,849
Photographers! LOL
What kind of carrying case do you use? If your lenses vary, do you have one that accomodates the biggest lens, and it will obviously hold the smaller ones? Or do you have several camera bags? Do you use camera bags? I use an overnight luggage thing with zippered pouches on each side. The middle of the bag holds my camera bodies (I can get one camera and the 100-300 lens attached in there or both bodies w/ 70-200) and the 'lid' has a zippered pouch for extra batteries and SD cards. It's not a professional carrying case, but it works for me and since I'm not a professional I can sleep at night. I know a guy who has gotten into photography and he has a big hard case he hauls around. I also know a professional photographer that uses a big canvas bag. Just wondering what someone with over 200 lenses uses.
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