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Forum: Photographic Technique
09-23-2015, 11:01 AM
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The market here dictates that, not the seller. You can't sell something no one buys. :)
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Forum: Lens Sample Photo Archive
07-12-2015, 11:41 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
07-03-2015, 12:32 PM
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Posted most in another thread, but since I shoot with a K5IIs...
Muskoka Stream
Mt. Nemo Sunrise
Crooks Hollow
4 Surfers
Mill St. Falls
Behind Hamilton
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
07-03-2015, 12:22 PM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
11-13-2014, 05:02 PM
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All taken with the 100mm f4
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-15-2013, 09:25 AM
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You should also consider manually creating your HDR images if you are printing large, by blending layers and selectively adding and removing bright and dark areas. Or you could use Photoshop's HDR blending tool and then bring it back into Lightroom.
I'm curious that you are creating HDR images that result in more noise. Part of the point of HDR is to create images with noise free shadows and darker areas.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
08-15-2013, 07:10 AM
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
08-07-2013, 03:04 PM
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135mm was traditionally the longest focal length you could use on a rangefinder camera (comfortably). It is a hangover from that era, and has thus fallen out of favour with most photographers.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-23-2013, 02:39 AM
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I'd use this lens more if it felt nice in the hands, like a limited. Still, the quality is there.
500px.com/RobbieVize
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-23-2013, 02:27 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
03-23-2013, 02:20 AM
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I'll contribute some of what I think are my best with this lovely little lens
500px.com/RobbieVize
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-23-2013, 02:02 AM
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Check out The Luminous Landscape for more information about the camera and back in question. From what I've gathered from my time spend there (and I spend quite a lot of time there - too much I'd say), the P45 is the better option for large prints and long exposure.
Of course, the best option would be for one of the new 260 or 280 Phase One backs, but do you have deep enough pockets?
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-28-2013, 07:01 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-10-2013, 01:21 PM
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Impossible to answer with the information given. How stringent are you with your printing? Do you colour profile and correctly output sharpen for your selected media or do you just hit print on your consumer grade desktop printer?
If you're not the most demanding fine arts printer, then your 16-45 will be more than adequate.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
02-10-2013, 01:18 PM
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They're going on a safari (I assume since Kenya is the destination). Why would they need a fast 50 or even wider?
Buy or rent the longest lens you can, and bring a back up body.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-10-2013, 01:14 PM
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I agree. Seems as though some people just poked through their collection and chose a photo with a blue sky, or used colour selection set on blue.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-10-2013, 01:06 PM
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
02-09-2013, 07:15 PM
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Mine swirls a bit.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
01-18-2013, 06:51 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-28-2012, 02:52 PM
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Erick, use light room to get rid of that chroma noise
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-28-2012, 02:14 PM
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Yup!
With the SMC-M 50mm F1.7
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-28-2012, 01:57 PM
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14 picture stitch with a Helios 44m 58mm at F11 and 250 ISO
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-19-2012, 09:01 AM
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You can't just crank the ISO and get clean images. When used properly this camera is capable of very clean high ISO images relative to other APS-C cameras, and some full frame sensors. The camera is not going to take a great picture itself. It needs a skilled operator to extract the most from a given scene. Since there is more data held in highlights as opposed to shadows, it is advisable to expose to the right, or expose your picture close to the point of overexposure in order to gather the cleanest data to make your image. Pulling the exposure up in post in an underexposed photo will always result in more noise because there is less data in shadows, so the imaging software has less data to work with to retrieve details.
Read on exposing to the right, work on your technique to maximize the amount of data collected in a given scene and you will be on your way to collecting high ISO images that are clean.
Some examples...
ISO 2000
500px / Photo "Rockwellian Capture" by Robbie Vize
ISO 1250
500px / Photo "Spin" by Robbie Vize
ISO 2500
500px / Photo "Asleep at the art crawl." by Robbie Vize
(notice how much more noise there is visible in the darker areas, and how less noise is visible in the lighter areas? There is also much more detail in the highlights.
ISO 2000
500px / Photo "Gunner" by Robbie Vize
ISO 3200
500px / Photo "Gunner" by Robbie Vize
In all of the photos, notice that the clean details are in the brighter parts of the photos, along with the highlights that occur in the darker areas.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-18-2012, 11:11 AM
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Why don't you taking your camera out and shooting things you actually want to take pictures of and see how it performs? Or are you content with taking pictures of handrails? Sorry to sound sharp, but get out and use your camera, and then come back and tell us how it worked.
Take photos of a dark piece of wood at ISO 6400 is not relevant to anyone in judging autofocus abilities.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-14-2012, 07:12 AM
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It was a stack of 3 images. Stars are from a country drive to escape the city lights. Moon was from the summer and shot with a cheap 70-210 Tamron zoom, and the building was just shot downtown. The sky was orangy/blue since it was in the city, so I layered in the stars and used a layer blend to substitute the sky, and just cut out and pasted the moon after resizing.
I adjusted the exposure during processing in Lightroom to make sure everything was kosher.
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