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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-14-2018, 02:50 AM
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Thanks. That's a cracking shot!
I had another quick go last night, this time in the garden, but with no luck. It seems my Astrotracer is only safe up to about 7 sec. Ran out of time before trying everything ;)
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-13-2018, 07:26 AM
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Ah, yes, thank you, good points.
I have forgotten the latest firmware, and hot air..... plenty of that in this house ;)
Definitely best outside I think. And yes the image above is probably soft because of my finger on the button.
Anyone got any idea how long an exposure I could get away with, pointing a 300mm at Orion in winter from South England? :o
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Forum: Photographic Technique
02-13-2018, 04:22 AM
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The K1 astrotracer seems to have a rather limited interface, with no real guidance compared to the hot-shoe version. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I feel completely in the dark (sorry :) ) when I'm using it.
Essentially, I turn on gps, set the camera to bulb, calibrate the astrotracer, then just hope it's doing something.
I keep trying to shoot Orion as a test, but I'm still not satisfied. The shot below was taken hastily outside the house on the road, with the K1 and 300*, 1600 iso, and my finger on the shutter for 24 seconds! I got away with it just and it seemed to be tracking here, but other times the stars are streaks - notably last night with a remote release, from the comfort of my son's bedroom while he was on his computer - magnetic problems?  |
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-01-2018, 05:40 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
10-22-2017, 09:32 AM
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Lightroom can use the camera to shoot raw. The latest OS can allow raw shooting from the on-board camera.
But I just can't see any way to get a raw through Image Sync from the K1 into Lightroom.
If Lightroom could 'watch' Image Sync's directory then maybe it could find the file?
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
10-22-2017, 07:32 AM
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Anybody know how to get the DNG file out of Image Sync and into Lightroom mobile on my iPhone?
I took a test shot and because my K1 is set to DNG, Image sync now has that file, but doesn't seem to know what to do with it.
I never shoot JPEG.
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
09-07-2016, 08:24 AM
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
04-26-2015, 10:04 AM
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Thank you everyone for voting. Lovely surprise to win :)
I'm not sure how all this works, but I hope this is the place to respond?
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
03-27-2015, 06:41 AM
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Molly, kissing her reflection in a wrapped hay bale :)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-16-2013, 02:24 AM
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What functionality do you loose with a lens adapter?
I don't want one of these btw, optical view finders are what it's all about and who the heck needs 36 MP?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-27-2012, 02:04 PM
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Guys, I can't find anything on my machine. Last week I purged my hard drive of all the old Raw files to free up about 300 gigs, which turns out to be bad timing!
I'm happy to judge the next one if someone has an image, or pass on the batton, I don't mind. Sorry, I'm a muppet :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-27-2012, 02:28 AM
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Thank you Tom.
This has just made me realise I'm meant to be finding a new image for you guys. Sorry, completely forgot. Is it too late?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-23-2012, 02:43 AM
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Oh cool!
Thank you Todd :)
Hmmm, let me have a think, I've often had images I wanted people to fix for me! Now I have to try and find one of them :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-20-2012, 02:53 AM
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Just tried to get the best from the file. Two runs in PS CS6 raw processor. Images married and flattened in PS.
Image rotated and tower straightened (using cut and paste, not lens correction). I like perspective, but when there's only one tower it looks like it's leaning.
Cleaned, tweaked curves, selective sharpening.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-04-2009, 02:29 AM
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hmm...thanks guys, Looks like the gum has to go!
But for Panoramio I will leave it. It was there after all.
Cheers, and Happy new year!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-03-2009, 01:07 PM
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I Guess most of you are aware of Google's Panoramio - but for the uninitiated, It's a photo library thingy linked to Google Earth where you can pinpoint your precise position when taking the photo. I have been on it for a few months now, it's fun, some people just use it as a portfolio but I try and keep the images relevant to the location. Here's a taster (some of you will have seen it before), my others - mostly Devon, England, can be found here
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Would love to hear from you guys on there if you have signed up already.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-03-2009, 12:54 PM
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These are great. I used to love film 'noise' and bought 1600 asa film regularly just to get the grain, but I hate digital noise! so it's good to see that there's life after (in my case) 800 iso.
When you say 'letting the highlights fly', did you over expose in camera to reduce noise or tweak them later?
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Forum: Photo Critique
06-15-2008, 01:02 AM
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I hope you meant 'spur of the moment' ... eeuuww :lol:
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-22-2008, 11:53 AM
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not sure what point you are trying to make there falconeye, that is definitely the worst sharpening I have ever seen:eek:.... the first image is irredeemable and the second proves it...... I must be missing something:confused:
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-22-2008, 11:21 AM
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I agree with the comments above and normally I would hate overworked photos but this has a lot of potential. It has a lot of the quality of the old airbrushed photos from that era.
I would stick at it or have another go paying attention to the tyres and masking as Donald says. I think the reflections are the easy bit and again the shot is worth the time.
If you are using PhotoShop, the pen tool is your friend for geometric things, create as few anchore points as possible, time taken getting the mask just right is time saved. don't forget to soften the edges of the mask a little. try blurring the mask (in the alpha channel or quick mask) before using it in earnest.
(edit) BTW, you apear to know your way round photo editing software, so no lecture intended :) it's a cracking shot and worth the effort.
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-20-2008, 08:22 AM
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That's quite alright Arvin, I didn't take it as a negative, I am impressed you noticed!
He is so small, when I started I didn't even realise he had eyes, let alone 8 gorgeous black spheres, it's really weird to be reflected in them!
If you look at this you can really imaging standing on a piece of paper in a linen basket looking out at some dude with a HUGE shiny eye (the lens) :D
Thanks for the nice comments.
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-20-2008, 04:38 AM
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very slight crops. the spider was filling the viewfinder but a I was able to loose some white around the edge when I got to the computer.
BTW the histogram was heavily biased to the right. The white was overexposed and I had to pull the black end in about 5%.
I prefer to work this way rather than trying to find detail in the dark end and bleaching out the white in PP would have clipped the shadow.
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-20-2008, 12:21 AM
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yep that's the lens. because it was reversed it was revealing the metal ring. Athough I think I got away with it here, I think I should tape it up in future, not least because of the lens flare it can introduce.
I think the apperture was around f8-f16, anything more and I couldn't see anything, but as you guessed ftpaddict, the greater DOF didn't make a nicer shot, just a more informative one. I have a bunch of ordinary angles with lots of DOF for the boffins. I was going for a more editorial look.
The jaunty angle on the second one was due to the curvature of the light tent which was made from one of those fold up linen baskets (bright white wired sack thingy from Ikea). this image was just a quick and dirty levels job on a jpeg whereas the first came from the raw file.
thanks for your comments chaps. It's really difficult to look at your own efforts objectively isn't it?
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-19-2008, 07:27 AM
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Thanks,
They're actually quite easy to control - they have a natural tendency to turn and face danger so my 99 pence lens about an inch and a half away was just interesting for him. If you tap the ground next to them they jump and turn and generally go where you want and if you do it enough I think they stop to take a breath!... or maybe he was just posing
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Forum: Photo Critique
04-19-2008, 03:41 AM
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Trying a high-key look on this little dude. do you think I could get away with any more contrast?
any other comments welcome.
4mm jumping spider (very cute!)
K10D handheld
Lens: 28mm m Soligor reversed onto 44mm extention.
Flash: fired remotely (on the left) through white fabric, mirror on right behind fabric.
Sorry about the watermark.
for example, here's an extreme, very ghostly and sinister version, but I'm not sure if it would be any use to anyone...
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