|
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
01-12-2023, 07:38 PM
|
| |
| |
|
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-11-2023, 07:30 PM
|
| |
Better build quality? What about the aperture block failure in the K-50?
|
|
Forum: Photo Critique
01-11-2023, 07:00 PM
|
| |
This is very pleasing compositionally, but I feel like it's got a couple things to look for next time.
Firstly, focus is a bit soft, even at f8. It looks like critical focus starts somewhere around gentleman in the golf cart. Wish either your friend or the horse were critical focus.
Secondly, and this is the trickier thing to learn, I think: always expose for your highlights. Shadows will recover incredibly well, but once your highlights are blown out, there's no coming back. Better to underexpose your photos so that the sky detail is retained and can be pulled down without getting all...digital looking.
Keep it up!
|
|
Forum: Photo Critique
01-11-2023, 06:48 PM
|
| |
I'd push it in post more...you could do with more overall brightness in your image.
Preserve the gloom, but bring it up a touch.
|
|
Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
10-15-2018, 07:05 PM
|
| |
I'm pretty sure I want an X-T3 at this point. Fuji's color handling is just superb. It really does have that classic rendering profile that reminds me of film school.
But I'm thinking drone before camera.
|
|
Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
10-15-2018, 06:58 PM
|
| |
#1
Runners up are #11 & #15.
|
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
10-04-2018, 09:48 PM
|
| |
| |
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
04-22-2017, 05:53 AM
|
| |
MotoGP is this weekend at Circuit of the Americas. From yesterday.
|
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
11-06-2016, 07:14 PM
|
| |
More shots from the USGP:
 |
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
10-24-2016, 06:13 PM
|
| |
Race day at Circuit of the Americas.
|
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
10-22-2016, 09:56 PM
|
| |
A couple of shots from the USGP in Austin this weekend with the DA* 60-250mm strapped to my K-50. Handheld.
|
|
Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-20-2016, 04:47 PM
|
| |
Unrelated question on this lens:
I rented a copy from Lens Rentals for F1 this weekend, figuring it would be nice to have a long tele for shots from our seats in the stands. It arrived today and the zoom ring feels tight and almost gritty, especially between 60-135 according to the lens barrel. Is this copy in bad shape and should I report this to LR or does the zoom always feel this...severe?
|
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
10-04-2016, 09:05 PM
|
| |
This might be my favorite lens.
 |
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
09-14-2016, 09:23 PM
|
| |
This morning with the DA 35 Macro.
This lens is maybe the most versatile lens I've ever had the pleasure of shooting with.
|
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
09-01-2016, 09:39 PM
|
| |
First time out with the camera in about three months. All with the DA35 Macro Limited.
 |
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
08-16-2016, 05:52 PM
|
| |
If you ever have trouble finding used lenses, you can always post in the Wanted section. I did for the DA 15 Limited and a fellow Pentaxian got to me with a better deal than I'd seen on Ebay. It was a gem of a copy and made shooting architecture on my vacation that much more enjoyable.
|
|
Forum: General Photography
08-15-2016, 05:24 PM
|
| |
My system's pretty simple. I don't delete anything. I import everything and quickly rush through them in Lightroom to see what I have. Ones I want to come back to, I flag. Once I have a pile of flagged photos, I start editing them in no particular order. I occasionally go back over the entire import to see if there are photos I missed flagging the first time. Sometimes flagged photos get demoted back into the pile, so it works both ways.
|
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
08-13-2016, 08:03 PM
|
| |
Some shots from my trip to Spain:
 |
|
Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
08-13-2016, 02:45 PM
|
| |
K-50 purchased 6/1/2015 (That's June 1st).
Shutter count is now 4952, no perceived issues yet.
|
|
Forum: General Photography
08-02-2016, 08:04 AM
|
| |
| |
|
Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
06-10-2016, 06:24 AM
|
| |
This is for live view and video only. I don't utilize either of those features--if I did, I would have moved on from Pentax long ago.
My point is more about the fact that the number of AF points isn't any higher than it is on my K-50. I want more resolution and latitude, but I'd sacrifice video performance for nailing focus when it actually matters to me.
|
|
Forum: Pentax K-70 & KF
06-09-2016, 05:48 PM
|
| |
Is the K-70 just the K-3 sensor with the electronics of the K-50 & K-S2? The increased resolution with stagnant AF makes me feel like I'd still rather the K-3 II. But it also makes me wonder what Kenspo's been dancing around the past week...
|
|
Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
06-05-2016, 07:53 AM
|
| |
In the two weeks I was in Spain, I saw dozens of Canons & Nikons with a handful of Sonys, Panasonics and Fujis and precisely one other Pentax body.
|
|
Forum: Lens Clubs
05-31-2016, 04:58 PM
|
| |
The only reason I'd consider parting with the DA 15 Ltd is if I switched to a FF body. I think I've outgrown the K-50, but I don't see the need to get the K-1 over the K-3 at the moment. Less money on the body means more money for lenses and trips to foreign lands!
|
|
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
05-30-2016, 07:32 AM
|
| |
So hard to whittle it down.
|
