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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
07-02-2012, 11:38 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
07-02-2012, 11:37 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
07-02-2012, 11:36 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-17-2012, 02:04 PM
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Thanks everyone for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-15-2012, 04:09 AM
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BTW...I always knew that Scottish cats look exactly like that. Bold and funny. And it's a boy. Am I wrong? Is it some national breed?
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-15-2012, 03:07 AM
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Thank you all guys for your C&C!
TOUGEFC: very interesting! Were those the controlled studio conditions? What strobes did you use to freeze the drops(or were they post processed later)?
p.s. sorry - just noticed the conditions on flickr.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-14-2012, 10:42 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-13-2012, 06:58 PM
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A little bit of love story here. Thanks for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-13-2012, 03:06 AM
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Oh- I see now. The perspective. It obvoisly should be different. More space behind the model - the more obvious the effect is. The longer focal length you use - the more compressed background you get. Objects on the long distances don't appear to be smaller. I'm not sure if it's that drastic if 50mm compared to 85. But the effect is certainly there.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-13-2012, 02:14 AM
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well...all I know that you should take into the consideration the censor density or the print size also. I don't have any of the 50/1.4 right now (hesitating about the legacy 55/1.4 or sigma 50/1.4) to give you a straight comparison. But many people assume bokeh to be the same as DOF. Extremely thin DOF doesn't exactly mean pleasant bokeh and vise versa. I used to own Olympus 35-100/2.0 and 150/2.0. It's equiv.to 70-200/4.0 and 300/4.0 (focal length and DOF wise), and I can tell for sure that none either of my customers or friends (canon users) could even apriximately guess the DOF eqiuv.on a FF looking at the pictures. But there was no way the pictures were simiar to canon 70-200/4.0. I mean it's all very relative assuming the distortions are corrected if present. There are so many other characteristics besides DOF which affect the look of the background.
As for the Samyang 85/1.4 lense...it can be very soft wide open and give you very dirty colors depending on the lighting conditions - which I dislike. And..can be reasonably sharp at 1.4 and excessively sharp at 2.0 for portraits with good light. It took me sometime to adjust my prosessing accordingly to manage it's character. But any 85/1.4 has something special - it's weaknesses and strong sides. It's just this kind of lense. But it's certainly a must have for portraiture since you have some space behind to step away from the model. 50mm even on a crop doesn't always give you that special look. It makes faces bigger, etc.
I'm not really fond of technical part of the shooting. I mean I have to learn my minimum to get the idea and somewhat predict the result. But I enjoy shooting much more. One of the reasons I left russian forum. Many people are whining there that they need this or that camera or lense to fullfill their needs. And Pentax is the only brand that has to do it... Etc.
So..I dunno if I've answered your question...If not - it's not becuase I didn't want to, but becuase I don't know myself; if yes - well, it's still unintended:o
Two more files with this lens on K-5 just to compare with the other shot:
http://www.filedropper.com/ost0920 - f 1.4
http://www.filedropper.com/ost0938 - f 2.0
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-13-2012, 12:02 AM
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wow...thank you all guys for your tries and opinions. and steliost: thank you, too. your treatment seems the most interesting to me. I don't know how but suddenly reminded me "The Mullholland Drive" mood. I hope this girl doesn't read pentaxforum:o since they all hate being exposed unprocessed...and thanks for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-12-2012, 01:51 AM
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Go ahead if you want to play with it: http://www.filedropper.com/sev3108
I got you - I have no problems saving the skin and other deatails when present. This is just not this case. I use different tools depending on the picture and model skin condition. Usually some combination of clone, patch tools in conjunction with all kinds of layers and image apply and high pass filters, etc.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-12-2012, 01:25 AM
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Thanks everyone for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-12-2012, 01:22 AM
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Thanks for an opinion anyway. This is what actually drives and encourages a photog. Me at least. I think your impression has a lot to do with: a low contrast scene(I deal with the existing uncontrolled light often - this what I enjoy a lot about K-5), the downsize engine makes the image look softer (what I hate the most about any forums - it killes a lot of details and skin tecsture which are actually there), my PP techniques and approaches need to be improved at least for low res screen presentation - all of it has it's input respectively.
But...just to give you the idea I publish the original unmanipulated image here, too. I don't find it overprocessed, at least to the degree which makes the ladies keep contacting me, besides shooting. PP is one of the reasons to order pictures. None of them want them raw as is.
And the overall idea was so. Kinda vintage style since her outfit and overall surroundings are up to it.
I dont' insist this is my best shot though,-) I hate many of them:) But still post just to know what people think.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-11-2012, 10:26 PM
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Thanks everyone for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-10-2012, 04:07 PM
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I'm planning to test a new set of water/lighting eqiupment next Tuesday (17th) at a studio (since the weather still sucks for being a Spring time) and definetely will need some assistance with it. Will you be on time? How long would it take to make it from Australia to here?:D
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-10-2012, 03:50 PM
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you are welcome:) honestly I can't say it's awesome, but it's quite descent once you get used to it. a very solid performer for it's money - I agree.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-10-2012, 03:45 PM
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thank you all and sorry for being so slow - it's samyang 85/1.4
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-10-2012, 08:02 AM
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Thanks everyone for watching
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-09-2012, 11:14 PM
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Why don't you come over here some day and perform a full diagnostics? I think your K-5 would be perfectly fine:)
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-09-2012, 07:24 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-09-2012, 07:03 PM
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And again thanks everyone for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-09-2012, 06:57 PM
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Thanks everyone for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-01-2012, 08:16 PM
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Thanks everyone for watching.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
03-31-2012, 04:53 PM
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Thanks everyone for watching.
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