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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-25-2015, 12:12 AM
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Forum: Lens Clubs
02-08-2015, 09:16 AM
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Love the look on his face, and placement of his arm. Looks so serious - lol.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-21-2013, 03:43 AM
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Nice sunlight on the buildings and yes Mountains are always beautiful..
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-24-2013, 10:03 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-17-2013, 04:20 AM
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Hello Faceless,
Nice job on the 1st photo, good composition, colors, reflections. A couple of suggestions; The tall buildings on the left/center have some lens distortion, they're tilted slightly to the right or inwards. I see this quite a bit with my 24mm prime and 16-45mm zoom. If you have Lightroom, there's a 'lens correction' function near the bottom of the Develop menu, it's vertical distortion.
The horizon, other verticals and pillers of the stadium are straight, and overall it's a fine photo.
Also, this is more a matter of personal taste than critique; I know the sky comes out purple at night (with timed exposures), you know the sky looks purple, and it's accurate. But, I've found that if you tweak the temperature slider towards blue, and get that 'midnight blue/black' color, it really looks like a jaw-dropping, dark night shot. Even though you've 'modified' reality. Just try it on your file, you can always change it back! I'd be interested to hear how you like it.
Photo number 2. Panos are not my favorite layout, but aside from that, this one doesn't work for me. The entire left side (Mercury building) is uninteresting compared to the city skyline, the city is distant and hazy and the two spotlights are too bright and distracting. I would rather see a telephoto shot of the bridge and right-side skyline, in other words, just the right side of the photo, enlarged.
So, you've got good ideas and night photo techniques, keep it up!
Ron
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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
07-19-2013, 04:18 PM
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I also think the first one is the better version.
Monitors must be calibrated, otherwise they will render colours... uniquely. And a lot of monitors are "smart" - they have their own filters to boost contrast or saturation. For photo editing you have to turn these off. You can also buy calibration tools (looks like a mouse that you put on the monitor and then you run its software)
And yes, when you upload a photo to a website, the website might do things to it. Websites usually resize, which can affect sharpness or even create artifacts, if the website recompresses the photo. You can avoid this by resizing the photo yourself before you upload it, just check how your chosen website deals with this and what size (dimensions, and kB size) is "safe" from auto-resizing.
Colours can become an issue if the jpeg is saved as ProRGB or AdobeRGB, because websites prefer things in sRGB, and when they convert it, they can mess things up. Even internet browsers (Internet explorer, Firefox, Chrome,..) can also render different colour space oddly. sRGB is the safest choice for online uses. You can set colour space to sRGB on the camera, but you also have to set it in your raw converter software when you export to jpeg.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-06-2013, 11:58 PM
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Some shots from yesterday at Supercon in Miami, FL. Had me out of my comfort zone working in low light conditions and high ISOs. Had to make full use of the noise reduction options in Light Room for most of these shots. As always feedback is always appreciated.
Double Angels B&W- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Green Man- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Cheerleaders- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Samurai- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Steampunk Lady- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Steampunk Man- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Redman- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Headache- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Daredevil- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Gangster- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Naruto- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Splicers- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Borderlands- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Funky Colors- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Cloud FF- by C Rankin, on Flickr
White Hair- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Man at Arms- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Cammy- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Barbarian- by C Rankin, on Flickr
Cop Lady- by C Rankin, on Flickr
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-07-2013, 07:47 PM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-08-2013, 11:23 AM
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Control freak here, I only use M mode and I usually turn off AF and do all my focusing manually...I just don't trust...robots.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
05-09-2013, 08:24 AM
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This is a video done by Pentax USA with one of their sponsored Pentaxians, Kerrick James. Superbly done, and if you are new to the world of interchangeable lenses, give yourself the 6 min to see it through. If not for the informative presentation of what the lenses are and how to use them, but the excellent scenery as well. I promise you'll learn something!
Feel free to pass this around to your friends too!
You Tube
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-Heie
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