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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-22-2014, 09:55 AM
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Welcome to the forums. I think my first shots were the Cats too :)
Try the same shots with the 35mm I think you'll be pleased. Go Av mode and leave everything else auto, it's only one dial to worry about. Great thing about digital is nothing is wasted in experimenting other than some time with your pets :)
Enjoy
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-20-2014, 07:15 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-20-2014, 07:13 AM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
04-06-2014, 02:46 AM
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Hi Adam
It doesn't really matter but I just wondered why my submission didn't make it to the voting thread? it's in the submissions thread. It's never a winner so I'd just like to know what I did wrong for it to be rejected.
Please feel free to delete this and PM me if thats more appropriate
Kind regards
Pete A
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
03-03-2014, 01:57 PM
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-21-2014, 05:39 PM
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I called this one "Dark side of the Shroom" was simply practising with off camera flash but I kinda like it. The mushroom was about 3-5 mm at the most.
And this second one seems to have caught spores dropping from the canopy, I'd love to say it was deliberate :P
Kind regards. Pete A
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-08-2014, 12:14 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-26-2013, 10:38 AM
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Thanks :)
Disco. The top shot of the injured dragonfly over the pond was a bit of an experiment, sacrificing everything for shutter speed and was using my 105mm sigma so a fairly hefty crop too The Migrant Hawkers are about 50mm long and I guess he was about 2m away. 1/6400 f2.8 iso1600 +0.3 EV. The other in flight shots were with my Da55-300 and a more modest 1/1600s
As for how to photograph them, we've visited that pond a couple of times. On one occasion within 10 minutes the dragonflies were happy to accept our presence and carry on their business, hovering within a metre or two (generally behind you while pointing lens elsewhere hehe) Other times they were much more skittish. Focus wise It seemed to work best for me to observe where they were flying and get a decent focus on a blade of grass at that distance so only fine adjustment was needed when they returned to the spot, they tend to hover for a second or two before moving on. I'm very much a beginner and still considering the better shots more luck than judgement :P
Pete A
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-22-2013, 03:16 AM
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My friend and I have spent a few hours at the nearby country park trying to capture the Dragonflies and Damselflies of this summer (what little of it we've had in the UK lol) These are my favourite shots. First year I've owned a DSLR so hopefully can improve next year :)
These first four are all Migrant Hawkers. This one had been in a fight and come off somewhat worse for wear!
This one is a Common Red Darter
A Willow Emerald Damselfly. A Rare insect in the UK (or so the Park Ranger told us )
A female Common Blue Damselfly
And a Common Red Male munching on lunch
Only the last two Pics were shot at Macro length, the rest are crops from 300mm so I used the Nature heading for the post
Thanks for looking, comments or tips welcome.
Pete A
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
07-02-2013, 11:07 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-02-2013, 11:03 AM
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
06-03-2013, 09:56 AM
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I think these count for "Planes"
Thanks for looking
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-27-2013, 03:17 PM
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Just getting into bug hunting and whilst out for a pleasant walk with a friend managed to grab a shot of this damselfly enjoying Sunday lunch!
Sadly I forgot batteries for my little ring flash and although the natural light was good f9 was all I dared risk.
A bit of sharpening in camera raw but otherwise pretty much as from the camera.
I think the lens is back focusing a bit as I never seem to get the head sharp on these shots, any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks for looking
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
02-19-2013, 03:52 PM
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Here's my first attempt at Bokeh effects using homemade heart cutout behind a UV filter on manual lens, thanks for looking
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Forum: Photo Critique
12-01-2012, 03:40 PM
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Thanks for the feedback.
Gregory I find that really interesting, as many others have said your comments are insightful and helpful. With the mouse, most of the pics I took were vertical but the dof was really really shallow on those shots (as I had the Aperture a 2.8) I had already tried adjusting the WB but found it looked kind of "cold" (if correct) for the subject. Do you think your edit is more sales friendly? I have no ambitions of selling images but would like to help my Wife with better pictures of her bears / mice for Etsy /Ebay. The light was a "Daylight bulb" from a craft store that my wife bought some years back and I found in a drawer diffused through some tissue paper. In your opinion are those £30 kits for tabletop work on Ebay worth bothering with or should I wait until I can afford some proper softboxes and a table etc?
Stevizzy. Thanks. The Bengals are gourgeous cats but they tend to settle in spots that are not so photo friendly, no amount of blur or bokeh could make parts of our house attractive lol. I have since "healing brushed" out the eye boogers, works a charm.
Thanks for your time
With the Picture of the family. It was disco lights. All the other shots I took that evening were of people dancing etc and I had made a conscious effort to keep as much of the coloured lighting in as I could to try and keep the party atmosphere in the pics. I think it works in those action shots but I completely see your point in the portrait
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Forum: Photo Critique
11-28-2012, 04:21 PM
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Hi there.
I'm completely new to photography anything further than point and shoot. I'd really appreciate some feedback on my first few shots that have made it into my "keeper" folder on my PC
If you'd like to know anymore about why I've joined PF I made an intro post https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/welcomes-introductions/206685-hi-essex-uk.html
I appreciate that the HDR in the landscapes won't be to everyone's taste and is probably total overkill but learning what software can do and then learning to hold it back somewhat is part of the challenge I guess.
For the moment I'm concentrating on trying to understand the basics of manual mode. All the shots are AWB and natural colour profile.
Thanks for your time and any comments +/- appreciated.
Must just point out that the first two were taken on a Canon600D with kit lens That I was mis-sold ( the guy had ruined the focus screen with a cotton bud and I was quoted > £100 to replace it) and went back to the seller the next day to enable me to make the better choice of the Pentax that I'd wanted in the first place before being talked out of it by friends.
1. Bella the Bengal. Only post processing was changing the white balance as I hadn't set the camera to change to flash (on flash)
2. Maud the Norwegian Forest Cat. First attempt at the common trick of leaving a feature of the pic in colour using Photoshop.
3. Edward the Bengal, yes I know they are named after Twilight but in our defense Bengals do sparkle in natural daylight!
4. Local Park, attempt at silhouette. Detail Extractor plugin used for effect
5. Hadleigh Castle Park at Sunset. I used quite heavy NR and then an HDR plugin. Really for seeing how stuff works but I kinda like the result
6. Hadleigh Castle just after sunset. Playing with HDR plugin. I like the "aura" it gives around the building
7. One of my Wife's creations in my quick home made lightbox thingy. ISO800 f4 1/40th no PP
8. In this Pic at a Birthday Party I've cloned out the reflection of myself in the Bar Mirror, would you notice too easily ?
Kind regards. Pete A
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Forum: Welcomes and Introductions
11-28-2012, 01:46 PM
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Hi there.
The forum wants me to introduce myself, so here goes...
So, I have for many years shied away from Photography as a hobby as my estranged father had been a professional and my ethos in life was to be as little like him as possible. However my daughter needing to learn some photography skills for College and finding out the 'ol man had died led me to thinking maybe now was the time to get my hands on a DSLR.
Anyway I sold up some kit from my other hobby (Airsoft) to fund a camera. I had decided upon a K-7 but advice from friends ended up with me buying a second hand Canon 600D, turned out it needed a £150 repair so it went back to the seller and I ended up spending more than planned (about typical for me) on a lovely K-5 with a Tamron 17-50 f2.8 and Metz AF50 Flash.
I'd really appreciate feedback on the photos I post to my "learning" album please. I know straight away that using PP filters such as HDR in photoshop may not be popular but it's part of the learning, software as well as hardware.
Come Christmas I'll be adding a DA70-300 (again second owner) and a tripod.
I've also made a hashed up lightbox with a cardboard box, ikea tray and my wifes daylight lamp for photographing her teddy bears. not as light as a real deal but pics seem nice on ISO800.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Pete A
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