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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-28-2021, 09:03 PM
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I particularly like taking two kinds of photos: candid shots of people and places, where I'm able to capture an unexpected moment or see the world in a surprising way; and because I'm a theater director, I like taking rehearsal and performance shots of the plays I direct. I feel they capture the spirit of the performances much better than staged "photo call" shots.
I took this picture of my mother off the cuff and with very little preplanning, but I think it captures something about her. At 87 she's sharp as a tack and kind as the day is long.
A Pentax K-70 would help me capture the spontaneous moments I'm interested in. My K-500 has been a great starter camera, but it's starting to show its age. It suffers from the well-known autofocus issue, and for some reason the date and time stored in metadata is all over the map; nearly every photo I've taken this year says it was shot on January 1, 2013, before I even owned the camera (BTW, this pic was shot on Thanksgiving 2021). The higher resolution, better low-light capabilities and better - heck, functioning - autofocus of the K-70 would help me capture the world as I see it.
Thanks for a chance to enter the contest!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-18-2021, 09:18 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-18-2021, 09:20 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-07-2020, 10:33 AM
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REALLY nice use of bokeh!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-10-2015, 08:06 AM
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On an outing on a hot sunny afternoon, trying to experiment with some severe backlighting.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-07-2018, 01:07 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
06-06-2018, 11:29 AM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-21-2017, 07:45 AM
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Awesome pic. Like a shot from a David Lynch film.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
07-17-2017, 03:54 PM
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Beautiful! Very reminiscent of cubist paintings.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-13-2016, 06:51 PM
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A few lucky captures during one of those great Tennessee summer thunderstorms on a recent visit back home.
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
01-26-2016, 10:07 AM
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A modest tip: Watch the work of some great filmmakers who tell stories visually. I think particularly of John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock. Look at the way they set up a scene, and where they place figures in an environment. They're a great example of the old tenet, "less is more".
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Forum: Photo Critique
11-11-2015, 07:44 PM
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Nice idea! I'll try that the next time I go there.
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Forum: Photo Critique
11-08-2015, 05:41 AM
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Shot on a recent bike outing to Coney Island. I miss the summer, but there's something about being on the boardwalk in cold weather that really makes me feel like a New Yorker.
What could I have done to make it better?
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-22-2015, 06:34 AM
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At the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, I got interested in taking closeup details of sculpture, taking advantage of the museum's dramatic lighting. Here are a few I liked:
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-22-2015, 06:37 AM
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Taken at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Sunday. Thank heaven Spring is finally here.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-20-2015, 09:36 PM
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On a trip to the Brooklyn Museum yesterday I got interested in taking closeups of pieces of sculpture: heads, hands, small details. Here's the first of many (more to follow).
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-28-2014, 09:18 PM
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Just a little experiment with low-light, shallow DOF, high-ish ISO. Happy holidays to all!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-01-2014, 08:28 AM
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Taken on a recent trip to Tennessee to visit my parents.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-04-2014, 05:05 AM
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A shot taken on the promenade that goes under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Brooklyn. A lot of people fish off the promenade, I guess somebody wanted to mark this as a good spot.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-06-2014, 09:34 PM
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Shot while out with some friends on a recent damp, bleak Saturday night in Coney Island. Nathan's lit up like an oasis.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
11-05-2014, 12:17 PM
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A chill in the air, a threat of rain...I'm feeling today how over summer really is. Looking through my summer vacation pics, this one kind of says "summer's over" to me.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-23-2014, 05:06 AM
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I only had a few minutes to test it out in the backyard yesterday, but I couldn't be happier with my "new" Ebay-fresh Pentax prime (manual, 50mm, F1.7) This shot was taken with the aperture wide open, and the exposure could use adjusting, but I'm pretty impressed by what this lens can do so far (100% crop)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-13-2014, 10:27 PM
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I would be very thrilled and honored to win this lens giveaway. A little about myself: I'm a theater (and a little film) director who makes his living teaching. Recently my lovely wife was kind enough to save up and give me a K-500 for my birthday. I love the camera, and I've learned so much from it already, but given that we're parents and teachers there's not a lot of room in our budget for the camera AND another good lens right now, so I'm making do with the kit lens and a couple of kinda gnarly zooms that came with my old thrift shop Cosina 35mm.
One big reason I got the camera was so I could photograph my own stage work; I work a lot in low light and with a lot of movement, and it's surprisingly hard to find theatre photographers who can handle that. I've already had some good results using the kit lens (see below, a rehearsal shot of a show I directed this summer) but I think a sharper, faster prime would be a much better choice for the kind of shots I want to take. I hope to get as much out of this camera as it can give, which I think will be a lot.
Thanks for your consideration!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-19-2014, 01:12 PM
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Played around today with an old Sears zoom lens with "macro" mode. It's not exactly macro (the focusing distance isn't much closer than 1m) but, given that I made these shots with the lens zoomed all the way in i'm pretty impressed with the lens' clarity, color rendition and focus. These shots are straight out of the camera, no PP. (Aperture set to 4, the lens' max, on the first three; I believe the last shot was F5.6)
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
09-13-2014, 09:54 AM
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Playing around with a little post-processing with LR for the first time. I took a bike ride out to Rockaway Beach yesterday, everything is pretty well closed up for the season.
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