Photos taken by Pentax cameras for tech. discussion - Season III

[Baracus]

Bro did you use healing brush or clone brush tool? I'm looking at the top left corner.

It's a tear in the fabric of space-time continuum. :bsmilie:

 

[pinholecam]

No. it's a fa50mm, f1.4 wide open

Hmm interesting, never knew FA50 rendered OOF highlight points that way

My thoughts exactly. I had thought only the Cosina rendered it this oddly.

 

[pinholecam]

Punggol Beach

Took a chance and went to Punggol Beach with yesterdays break in the weather. I did not have high hopes of a good sunrise, but with my morning schedules, it was to give it a try or not at all. It was still before sunrise when I reached, which gave an opportunity to shoot w/o the need for a ND filter.

BTW, I'm struggling with the Tianya 8 stop ND.
Color is still a bit magenta even when I have done a custom WB (saved as custom WB #2 on the K5).
Light seems to leak in on the corners when using the filter (or rather it reflects light and its caught by the Sigma 10-20 at 10-11mm).
Seems like I need to wrap the filter holder with a black cloth or something to keep it from happening.
Anyone else has this problem and an alternative solution?



Some more landscape photos on my thread here :
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/land...49-[pinholecam]-wanderings-2.html#post7641108

 

[edutilos-]

BTW, I'm struggling with the Tianya 8 stop ND.
Color is still a bit magenta even when I have done a custom WB (saved as custom WB #2 on the K5).
Light seems to leak in on the corners when using the filter (or rather it reflects light and its caught by the Sigma 10-20 at 10-11mm).
Seems like I need to wrap the filter holder with a black cloth or something to keep it from happening.
Anyone else has this problem and an alternative solution?



Some more landscape photos on my thread here :
http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/land...49-[pinholecam]-wanderings-2.html#post7641108

Light leaks is one of the key reasons why I still advocate the inconvenience of the screw-in filters...

Even the Big Stopper from Lee has had its fair share of complaints about this issue; foam will also degrade over time, I would think..

 

[tigershiok]

arowana uneasiness
K-x, fa50mm, 1.4 wide open

the sky turned dark, while he was at pasir ris farmway 2. and the rain fell. he went into a fish farm to take shelter.... read on

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[pinholecam]

Light leaks is one of the key reasons why I still advocate the inconvenience of the screw-in filters...

Even the Big Stopper from Lee has had its fair share of complaints about this issue; foam will also degrade over time, I would think..

Ok. Thanks for the tips.

 

[kengoh]

The only bird I got at Pangkor Island, was actually a holiday trip not a birding trip so didn't bring my 500mm.
Shot with DA*300.


Oriental Pied Hornbill by kengoh8888, on Flickr

 

[pinholecam]

Some night shots while having Christmas Dinner at Pangkor Island.

at an earlier timing...

Pangkor Island @night #1 by kengoh8888, on Flickr

Fantastic!
The couple (or are they 2 guys ) in the distance completes the resort feel of the picture.

 

[pinholecam]

Punggol Beach #2 -in B/W

Haven't gone thru all photos taken that day for the short ~1hr at Punggol beach, but at a glance, this is probably the only other one worth posting. Converted to b/w since the sky was pretty drab. I also screwed up the WB with the ND+GND. I have the WB preset as a custom WB for the ND filter which was fine, but the GND added its own orangy cast onto the sky.

 

[edutilos-]

Haven't gone thru all photos taken that day for the short ~1hr at Punggol beach, but at a glance, this is probably the only other one worth posting. Converted to b/w since the sky was pretty drab. I also screwed up the WB with the ND+GND. I have the WB preset as a custom WB for the ND filter which was fine, but the GND added its own orangy cast onto the sky.

Try doing this - output one image with WB corrected for the foreground, and another one for the sky. (assuming your shot RAW) Then layer and erase accordingly. If you positioned the GND properly, it should be an easy job!

 

[tigershiok]

qingming shanghe tu
K-x, DAL 18-50mm

went to see the exhibition. quite a few people also came..... read on

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[pinholecam]

Try doing this - output one image with WB corrected for the foreground, and another one for the sky. (assuming your shot RAW) Then layer and erase accordingly. If you positioned the GND properly, it should be an easy job!

Hey! Thanks again for this.
I will give it a try tonight.

 

[kengoh]

Fantastic!
The couple (or are they 2 guys ) in the distance completes the resort feel of the picture.

Thanks JK, no that you mention I didn't notice the couple. :embrass:

 

[kengoh]

A beach shot at the resort I'm staying last weekend.

Pangkor Beach #4 by kengoh8888, on Flickr

and the sunset...

Sunset @Pangkor #1 by kengoh8888, on Flickr

 

[Supersimon27]

Ye liu revisit . The 1st round we meet with a heavy storm ..... So I told my wife , we need to revisit during our extended 2 day .... and pray hard for the weather . Wasn't good . But at least it doesn't rain when we are there.

44# Ye liu 


ye liu main by Simon Teo Landscape, on Flickr



#45 Queen Head at Ye liu - Blue background was PP in as the sky was really really flat


ye liu queen head by Simon Teo Landscape, on Flickr

47# Ye liu big Wave


ye liu 3 by Simon Teo Landscape, on Flickr


#49 - Yu ren ma tou revisit . Need to thanks my wife for waiting for with the cold weather while I doing a long exposer


yu ren ma tou night by Simon Teo Landscape, on Flickr​

 

[otc]

macro with panagor 55 mm. flash light used.


IMGP9757 by luctomar, on Flickr


Image00001 by luctomar, on Flickr

marcus

 

[creampuff]

marcus, those are some awfully great macros. Your lighting is superb. :thumbsup:

 

[trowa77]

Using F*300 and K5

 

[otc]

marcus, those are some awfully great macros. Your lighting is superb. :thumbsup:

thank you, Denis. These were PP using Picassa to bring out some colors on the subject. As for lighting, the char kway teow plate was used as diffuser


marcus

 

[figo007]

Some of my december holidays shots from The Land Below The Wind: