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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
02-19-2016, 05:27 AM
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The Kanye West of photography...
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-21-2016, 11:54 AM
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Saw him in Ahmedabad, India during my recent travel and his mild and gentle smile instantly caught my attention. Pls share your comments and critiques if you like it
Thanks
Yusuf
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
01-19-2016, 02:35 PM
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A view from Inverness Castle. :)
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12-14-2015, 06:39 AM
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These are some of my favorites from a really beautiful park. I will break up the series into three parts so as not to cause visual overload. As I mentioned earlier, this trip was to commemorate our 50th wedding anniversary. Our son, who spent 6 years in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor, was able to join us for part of the trip. He finally decided to come home for good. This was one of the parks where we met up. It was a joy to be able to share it with him.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-08-2015, 07:08 AM
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Tours of both the upper and lower slot canyons must be taken with a Navajo guide. If you are lucky, you will get a good guide who will allow you to take your time. The lower canyon was still a zoo. Narrow, little light and so many people that it is amazing I could get a shot off much less end up with some I liked. We were allowed to use a tripod (we took the photographer's tour) so that certainly helped. The upper canyon is the one that you see photographed the most it has wonderful shafts of light coming through the top. The lower canyon is all color and texture. Hope you enjoy these. I will post some vertical shots later.
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11-13-2015, 02:21 PM
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I recently returned from a month-long trip to visit family and friends, and I was able to use some new subjects for practice! I'm still working through what seems to be a neverending backlog, but here are some of my favorites so far:
 Caroline, taken with the FA 31 by Keitha, on Flickr
 Noah, also with the FA 31 by Keitha, on Flickr
 Penelope: 46 Months, taken with the FA 31 by Keitha, on Flickr
 Sara, taken with the DA 70 by Keitha, on Flickr
 Penelope the Dancer, with the DA 70 by Keitha, on Flickr
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Forum: Photo Critique
02-25-2015, 12:21 PM
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shooting skyscrapers is similar to shooting mountain ranges; you don't put the tallest mountain in the middle and you if you cut off a mountain it needs to be a leading line.
with mountains/skyscrapers you want low to high with highest peak on a 1/3 comp line, or a high to low to high again using rules of comp to place peaks and valleys.
you have a couple things compositionally going against you, the bump of the skyscrapers combines with either lens distortion or shoreline change that makes the picture feel as if there's a hump right in the middle.
a 1 stop stop graduated ND filter would have brought out the colors (purples) of the sky more.
the birds "photo bombed" you, they are instant clone out material, or retake
the softness is from iso 800 and underexposure. add a wide open aperture and that softens things even more. I'm guessing the majority of the frame is at least 1-2stops underexposed because of the bright building in the center of the frame. This probably should have been a 2-3 second exposure at iso 100 which would have definitely required a tripod. Shot at f8 you could be up to 5 seconds. I have a Kerry Park image in my online portfolio under similar lighting conditions. I was up to 8 seconds at f13.
I think had you shifted your composition to the right and started with the building with the blue flag you would have had interest along the waterline (boats) as well as a better flow of skyscrapers heights. you also would not have placed the radio antennae and the ferris wheel so centrally. as long thin straight lines they compete for attention.
if this was taken from alki, I have a couple full night images (albeit panoramas) that show my interpretation of the same scene
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Forum: Photo Critique
02-26-2015, 01:57 PM
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I can only speak to my philosophy, but if semi-blurred birds are an important compositional element, the image needs a lot of help. you touched on the frustration of landscape photography; you can be in the right spot at the right time but things don't always work out. your instincts are also correct, a cloudless sky doesn't contribute much an the overall image. but as my mom always preached, two wrongs don't make a right, in this case cloudless sky and blurred birds still doesn't add value to the image.
I've planned entire trips around a certain image, only to take 300 pics and get back home and have to trash all of them, not because of some technical error, but because the lighting wasn't up to par and/or clouds didn't cooperate or a dozen other things beyond your control. you so badly want to make something work because you feel invested in it, but it still won't make an image an objective viewer would connect to.
you have to be your harshest critic, with an eye developed over time by others being harsh but constructive. I'd say based on your comment, you have some good instincts, learn to trust them and couple that with more advanced technical shooting and you'll be happy with your results sooner rather later.
The really great thing is that this scene is readily available, you can experiment, you can build upon little successes, even if it means sending 1000 (or even 5000) pics to the recycle bin. But that one day, on your 100th trip, the clouds part (literally in seattle) and you get that sunburst and because you have the composition down and the exposure down, you'll nail that picture and hang it on your wall like a trophy!
Honestly, if you wouldn't grow bored of the task, I'd say every Saturday at sunset for a year take the same image, honing in on the perfect exposure and composition. try different things (like composition, faster shutter, longer shutter, small aperture, big aperture - since it's landscape you should be at 100iso, but try to catch a ferry and learn what compromises you have to make, how far you can push the iso, what you aperture needs to be for the shutter speed you needed to stop the motion).
Don't leave until you've taken 50 pics (or more if you want). That would be roughly 2600 pics of this image under different lighting conditions, weather conditions and your own emotional conditions. You will learn a lot and you will see your progress because you have other images to compare against. each week you can decide what you could have don't better, what you really like and want to do again. You can try different equipment, like GND filters, even diff GND like 1-stop, 2-stop, CPLS etc. Try different lenses, different Field of View, tight and panoramas. Once you've mastered this scene, you can take all that accumulated knowledge and apply it to your next image somewhere else.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-20-2015, 07:17 PM
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11-30-2014, 11:30 PM
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02-04-2015, 04:21 PM
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Taken last night, 5 shot panorama. Moon was unfortunately blown out beyond recovery, and 20 second exposure gives some cloud blur and star streak. But otherwise happy.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-13-2014, 09:00 AM
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12-05-2014, 03:51 PM
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12-06-2014, 12:28 PM
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12-06-2014, 11:33 AM
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Here's a image that I captured from a recent cruise. I have always wanted to go to this beach to capture these planes coming is at such a close distance.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-07-2014, 01:02 PM
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her name is nashita noor.
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12-04-2014, 11:49 AM
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11-06-2014, 11:11 PM
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10-30-2014, 10:19 AM
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Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum. I finally had a chance to take my Pentax 645Z out last week. It was hard to shoot outside because we've been having so much rain everyday here. This image is from a single shot, taken with Lee Big Stopper and B+W polarizer and pretty much simple adjustment (adjusted shadow and white balance, reduced saturation and increased vibrancy).
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
10-19-2014, 12:22 PM
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A few more on a drive through the cove
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09-13-2014, 04:16 PM
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Sometimes you don't have to go far to get a shot. We moved to our cottage year round because of the view out the front windows!
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07-27-2014, 06:05 AM
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07-22-2014, 01:24 AM
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Tried at the Golden Gate Bridge tonight. The K5/DA 15 Ltd combo did the job again I think. This is what I have come up with in processing the RAW file. There is room available there. Any suggestions greatly appreciated! Thanks, Andre.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
05-13-2014, 06:29 PM
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We are back traveling on the road again, stopped for a couple of days in the park where the weather was terrible with high winds and passing clouds. At sunset the clouds finally opened for a bit for this capture of a sunset on the land where the Anasazi once lived.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-20-2014, 07:13 AM
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