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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
12-15-2012, 09:41 AM
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You really nailed this one, lightbulb!
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Forum: Photographic Industry and Professionals
07-20-2012, 12:55 PM
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I'm glad it turned out well for you, tweet25. The experimentation is a lot of fun - you never quite know what you are goin to get! Good going!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-27-2012, 06:56 PM
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The spring garden giving way to summer blooms!
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
05-31-2012, 08:25 AM
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Sunday, May 27, 2012 at the 11 km. mark.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-02-2012, 04:19 PM
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The poenies in my yard are opening. I have some whites and pinks that I hope to share.:D
P.S. I fought the urge to automatically do PP - other than converting from DNG to .jpg and re-sizing this is un-retouched.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
05-25-2012, 09:40 AM
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I just had to offer one more bloom from this week's collection. They don't last very much more than a week or two around here, in any case.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-23-2012, 02:55 AM
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It's a perfect scene for b&w. It looks like the scene was probably shades of grey that early and with the mist. Nicely done.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
05-22-2012, 08:14 AM
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This photo was taken today with the "electricity" weekly challenge in mind. But it would seem to fit the criteria of this thread and it has not been posted elsewhere. The traffic on the highway in front of the towers moves at 100 kmph (60 mph) and 1/800th seems to have stopped the car in its tracks.
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
05-21-2012, 08:00 AM
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We'll have to start a special forum just for amateur photographers who are also grandparents - with how young grandparents are these days, it might be an awfuly big group.
Welcome to Pentax Forum. I will look forward to seeing more of your photography!
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
05-17-2012, 10:05 AM
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Mr. Wizard: I was going to just let it pass, but, I do not think the perspective distortion has anything to do with whether you use auto or manual focus. Suggestion: go back to the same site where you took the picture of the buildings in the distance; take pictures using both auto and manual focus and closely compare the results, with repect to the perspective. GThere are many good books on the subject, including Physics books.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
05-15-2012, 05:55 AM
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I was shooting in Major's Hill Park, not really looking for lilacs but this one just grabbed my attention and begged to be photographed!
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
05-03-2012, 12:38 PM
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You are invited to see my set of pictures from the Ottawa Tulip Festival; actually it is a preview of the Festival. It has not quite started.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-02-2012, 10:22 AM
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Here is my edit of your picture.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
05-01-2012, 06:26 AM
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Very nice, Ron. The more I look at it, the more I appreciate the skill involved in getting this image. I have some aspirations in this direction; your comments will help. Thanks.
Bob
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
04-29-2012, 01:49 PM
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Ron,
I absolutely don't mind the critique! I just bought a 50mm f/1.4 and will bear this advice in mind when it arrives. I had a polarizer when I had my Miranda Sensorex, way back when. In fact I still have it. I'll check the thread size; it may fit on the new 50mm. In any case, I will get one, but probably not for the two kit lenses which are useful, of course, but ...
Anyway, thanks for this.
Bob
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-28-2012, 03:38 AM
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This has been a most interesting discussion and the first in which I have been engaged in Pentax Forum. I have appreciated, particularly, the patient, and respectful, explanations Forum photographers offer one another.
It would not be very helpful to try to engage readers in a theoretical debate about the virtues of RAW and .jpg formats. I am happy using both. Some of the comments in this "thread", however, are at variance with the way I understand the mechanics of digital photography and this "understanding" affects my workflow as a photographer. A "RAW" file is the digital information from the sensor and represents the light from the scene we are looking at. The camera then applies our "settings" (WB, EV, contrast, B&W, etc.) to the RAW file. Most digital cameras, certainly the Pentax, will also convert the RAW data to other file formats, for example, JPEG or TIFF, which are formats created out of the RAW data according to a formula which involves the loss of RAW data (hence, the smaller file size). When one says he/she is shooting in JPEG, what is really being said is that the RAW data file has been discarded and the converted JPEG file retained.
My point is, we do not really shoot in .jpg, nor in B&W. We shoot in RAW. I am most sympathetic to the idea of "getting it right" in the camera, because it does save some time in subsequent processing. But is it not a mistake to think that the "settings" we apply to the RAW data in camera are somehow more "correct" than those applied "out of camera"? Realizing that the digitized RAW data that comes off the sensor is "processed" according to our settings, I have chosen to work with this saved RAW file instead of the secondary .jpg. Of course, sooner or later, a few, actually very few, of these photos will have to be converted to .jpg becasue of the use to which they might be put - e.g. posting on Pentax Forum, for example.
I have taken too much of everyone's time and I apologise but I really want to understand what it is I am doing in the hope of it making me a better photographer.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
04-27-2012, 09:15 AM
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First, I greatly admire these photos! I assume they were originally colour photos and converted to B&W. They are very handsome. Regarding # 2. above, I do not understand why it is at all important to ensure that the blue sky in your photo is the same as the blue sky you saw. If your intent in photography is to mimic nature, then you have a problem for which there is probably no answer. However, if it is your intent to create a beautiful image, which may approximate something you saw in nature, then variations in the blue is really irrelevant. If I understand the process, a RAW capture, with appropriate camera settings, will be as close to the "real" blue as you are going to get. When the camera converts the image to .jpg it is changed according to an algorithm which may, or may not, render the RAW blue sky faithfully. It seems to me that the photographer, as an artist, is free to do what he likes with the blue sky, whether or not it "correctly" mimics what he/she saw in nature. The objective is to create a beautiful image, as you did when you converted the above pictures to B&W.
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