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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-23-2022, 01:29 PM
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We have a lot of those in NYS also, usually during the brightest sun during the day though, seldom at night that I've seen.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-11-2018, 12:52 AM
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Singing in the rain along with my Pentax K-3II and HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE. Rained all day, but that didn't stop me from a walk around the yard having fun in the rain to take these snapshots. Went inside after to dry off and processed these three lightly with love in darktable.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
06-04-2018, 01:17 AM
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I love a wet-headed eagle! For a year and a half minus the coldest winter months here in the Capital Region of New York I've been casually "stalking" six adult eagles and two juveniles on the early mornings my shifts end just before the sun rises over the Hudson River in Green Island.
There are more details leading up to the photo on the Flickr post for it. This shot is one of the sharper favorites of at least 20 photos I took this day of this bird. Being pretty decent to begin with I did do some post-processing in darktable, nothing too drastic. Mainly cropped the dead space over the head and sides to frame the bird in better and tweaked the lighting to match what I saw at the time of the capture.
The head of this bird is the best part to me being wet already from the rain created that separation between the feathers that I love so much in other peoples eagle photos.
This is now my new favorite of the bird photos I've taken.
Gear used:
Pentax K-3 II
HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-16-2018, 11:52 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-03-2017, 01:54 AM
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Pentax K-3 II w/ Samyang 10mm F2.8. Set up the camera how I thought best and being a manual focus lens I guesstimated the distance since I was shooting with the camera backwards at arms reach in front of us as the ride went. Nothing groundbreaking, but I got more keeper "snapshots" than I thought I would under the circumstances. The fair is always a good time.
Scrambled x3
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-18-2017, 09:47 AM
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Female Monarch
I bought the used smc Pentax 80-320mm in a pinch looking something longer for our Cape Cod vacation without spending too much. In hindsight maybe new cheapo Sigma 70-300 APO would of been a better choice for another $75 than what I spent, but oh well. Most of what I've taken at 320mm farther away is not very sharp, why everything within 12 feet at 320mm is not too bad.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-17-2017, 10:29 PM
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One of my favorite dwarf sunflower variety that I'm "pretty" sure is what is referred to as a "Little Becka"
320mm on a tripod from roughly 6 feet away.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-18-2017, 12:46 AM
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The 80-320mm here again @320mm, getting as close as I could and still be able to get the flower in focus from a few feet away.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-22-2016, 09:43 AM
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"Fall-bany" New York
---------- Post added 10-22-16 at 12:51 PM ----------
Rain day
Fall reflections
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-21-2016, 03:23 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-17-2016, 03:22 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-14-2016, 12:34 AM
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Shhh...
Supermoon
HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED WR @300mm on tripod.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-15-2016, 08:03 AM
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Mine is my kit lens and the most used on my camera being the most versatile and dependable. I find the only limiting factor other than myself when shooting with it is light like most lenses, but even in so so light I'm happy with my shots most the time.
Here are a few more handheld 18-135mm + Raynox DCR-250
water droplets
Around our house |
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-14-2016, 05:27 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-14-2016, 04:15 AM
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Taken with the 18-135 WR on a hot sunny day. Much respect for the Native Americans in full dress.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-17-2016, 07:31 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-17-2016, 05:24 PM
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A few recent night shots in B/W with my SMC Pentax-A 50mm F1.4 on the K-3.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-21-2016, 03:55 PM
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I finally purchased a longer lens with the HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm. This is a shot from my 1st outing.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-11-2015, 10:07 AM
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Everyone usually seems to go mainstream with Windows and LR, but I can highly recommend the open source darktable if your on Linux! I've used the 3.x versions of LR before and recently tried the latest 5.x of LR to process a few K-3 raws and didn't care for the over all experience or end result of my edits compared to latest build of DT. To be honest though unless your some what familiar with Linux stick to the mainstream. :)
My PC has an Intel I5-3570K CPU @4.2Ghz, 32GB of DDR3 ram @2400Ghz and a GeForce GTX 760 w/ 2GB GDDR5 ram. It more than meets all my computing needs, but I can tell you the amount of ram is important. I've monitored my processes and ram usage when editing Pentax K-3 raw images to see ram usage reach as high as 24Gb or more with the larger raw sized files. I've noticed 32Gb to be snappier, but everything ran fine with 16Gb of ram previously and IMO would suggest that amount minimum for smooth raw edits and operations specially since Windows tends to devour ram.
Whatever you decide hope its a good fit so it doesn't get in the way of the fun of photography and your edits.
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