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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-14-2009, 07:30 PM
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Great shots! The second one is the best IMO. I can just imagine being on that boat.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-14-2009, 07:29 PM
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I love the fall colors. Great composition too.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-14-2009, 07:10 PM
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Thanks for the kind comments.
The pictures come off of the camera rather dull, but I cut out the subject(s) with magnetic lasso and use high pass filter and unsharp mask to sharpen them, then I adjust the color cast of the background and the subjects seperately to enhance the color and contrast (the on-camera white balance just never quite seems to get it 'right').
With ISO over 800 on the K10D, you pick up a lot of noise, especially in the under exposed regions of the photos.... so I usually contrast the image a bit to try to lose some of the dark area noise by clipping it black... from there you just have to be careful not to go overboard w/ sharpening.
Here's a blow-up of #2... still not full size, but as large as flickr will allow me to post.
You can see there's a bit of motion blur in this one as well, 1/125s for this shot was just not quite enough.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-14-2009, 10:58 AM
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I was using ISO1250 on my K10D. I did a lot of massaging and smart sharpening in PS though to eliminate the noise, and shot in DNG of course.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-14-2009, 10:30 AM
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Just a few cheerleader photos to post today. Highschool football season is ramping back up!
All taken w/ the K10D and Tamron 70-200/2.8 Di LD
Enjoy!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-14-2009, 10:23 AM
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Wow! Those are great captures.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
10-14-2009, 08:39 AM
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I'm not really sure that a tripod is the answer. I do a lot of cheerleading photos for my sister-in-law at night and the key to getting good action shots is achieving adequate shutter speed. I use a tamron 70-200 f2.8 for the most part and use Tv mode, with the shutter speed set to 1/125 - 1/200 sec depending on the lighting conditions. I also set auto ISO 100-1600 (I have a K10D, yours will go even to ISO3200)... With that high of a shutter speed, a tripod does you little good (except tick off the guy sitting in front of you).
The pop-up flash does you absolutely no good unless you can get close to the cheerleaders, but I like the suggestion from Captmacq of getting a hot-shoe flash if you're able to get closer... that'll really help.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-08-2008, 07:43 PM
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I spy a Tall Buildings!!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-08-2008, 05:11 PM
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That's a really nice series. I love the first shot.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
12-08-2008, 07:44 AM
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Hey I think there's a typo in rule 4. It still has last week's dates on it.
Thanks,
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-08-2008, 05:03 AM
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Hey nice shot Jimbo. A shame that the sun is so low at 4pm though.
Love the reflections on the water.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-07-2008, 08:05 PM
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Here's another one for the series. I couldn't resist myself for this one because it was just too funny. My father-in-law (to be) loves to yell at the referees so this one is for him.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-07-2008, 08:03 PM
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Bigben hit the nail on the head here. If you're going to use your lens without the hood, do yourself a favor and go buy a decent UV or 1B filter. Better to scratch a $40 filter than the front element of your $700 lens.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-07-2008, 06:44 PM
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Thanks guys. I've been talking to a few people w/in the organization and they're working on getting me a field pass for next week's game so hopefully there's a few more to come.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
12-06-2008, 09:34 PM
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All. Some great shots this week. Here are three of my favorites from this week:
All taken w/ my new Tamron 70-200 f2.8 Di LD
1.) My fiancee Beth before work:
2.) The PIAA Semi-Finals:
3.) A bad case of hemorrhoids:
Thanks for looking.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2008, 09:23 PM
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Great work.
These are impressively sharp and very well composed. I especially like the first one in the second post.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2008, 09:20 PM
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WOW.
Incredible stuff Chris. The lighting in each of these is phenomenal.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2008, 09:17 PM
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Hey all,
I just got home from the PIAA semi-final game in State College PA where Bethel Park defeated Wilson High 38-35 in 3 overtime periods. What this means to me is that I'll be headed to Hershey PA for the PIAA Final game next weekend.
Here's a few shots:
Tamron 70-200 f2.8 Di LD @ 200mm f3.5 1/1600s ISO 200
Tamron 70-200 f2.8 Di LD @ 200mm f3.5 1/1000s ISO 200
Tamron 70-200 f2.8 Di LD @ 160mm f3.5 1/1250s ISO 400
Tamron 70-200 f2.8 Di LD @ 108mm f3.5 1/1000s ISO 200
Tamron 70-200 f2.8 Di LD @ 140mm f3.5 1/800s ISO 400
This last photo is the game winning field goal, booted after 3 overtime periods to seal the 3 point victory.
Pentax SMC F 35-70 f3.5-4.5 @ 55mm f5.6 1/125s ISO 400
Hope you all enjoy these as much as I enjoyed taking them. The weather was a balmy 29Deg F. though.... brrrr.....
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2008, 09:04 PM
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You all see now why I'm working on fake backdrops here.
@Mike - I straightened and sharpened the prints. That was an original that I posted.
Thanks all.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-06-2008, 05:59 AM
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Thanks for the comments guys.
I did use a feather for cutting the selection but looking back at it I probably should have used more. There are some hard edges.
@Gary. The mothers did get what they asked for. These photos were done in October so they've had their prints for a while now. I'm just doing this for my own collection.
Here's a de-res'd original.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-05-2008, 08:47 PM
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Ok so I've got some great photos that, unfortunately have horrible backgrounds. They're all portraits from a homecoming dance about a month ago. Unfortunately the mothers insisted that the portraits take place in front of the family room TV console, so everything in the background looks like cherry and AV equipment.
So, with that in mind I've been working on cutting the couples out of some of the portraits in PS with the idea of making a background montage. The problem is that I'm not good enough w/ PS to conjure up a background that doesn't look horribly fake. Case in point:
Does anybody know PS well enough to give me a few pointers here?
Thanks much,
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-05-2008, 08:27 PM
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Great series. I especially enjoyed #5 and #10
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-05-2008, 06:53 PM
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Get a zoom and a flash. The AF540FGZ can make even the kit lens look excellent!
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Forum: Lens Clubs
12-05-2008, 06:28 PM
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Here's two from my new Tammy 70-200 f2.8 Di LD
P.S. Piotr, those shots of the cruise ship are absolutely incredible!!
P.P.S. fs999, is that your shelby in your avatar? If so very nice.
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
12-05-2008, 06:25 PM
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That's definately out of focus.
i'm finally going to have mine out during the daytime tomorrow. I'll take a few near infinity shots and let you knowwhat happens.
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