Please share your photos by a Pentax camera here :)

[fengwei]

Was at the botanic garden in the late morning, wanted to be there early but couldn't wake up early... my brains got fried due to the wonderful weather. Couldn't get any good flower shots only got 1 dragonfly to show...

Excellent captures, really love these, especially the first one. Pity about the tail though...

 

[fengwei]

Beautiful shot, James. So you got the two Zeiss? How about the 85? Are you gonna buy that one too?

 

[night86mare]

Great capture as usual. For photos like this, probably you can post slightly bigger sized one

yeah...I second it! I tried this shot before but either the foreground is too dark or the background too bright. I guess I have to really learn HDR for such shots to work...

That's one heck of a great shot. :thumbsup:

thanks fengwei, richard, denis..

the lighting was relatively less contrasty, so just the tianya gnd that i was talking about today did the job. cheers!

 

[LancerEX]

K20D, Sigma 17-70, dual flashes

 

[skypacker]

Haven't converted most of the museum gathering files, but here are a couple from the evening.

 

[seafone]

Been very busy... here are some new one to share...

 

[seafone]

cheerss..

 

[adiknaim]

cheerss..

wow! nice shots! where is this? looks cool...

 

[le petit prince]

DA50-200mm

Trying to focus on the flags, but those kids were waving it around too fast for me to get a lock on, hence everything's a flurry of blurs.

 

[polbear81]

First run with the pentax at nite.

Was at the nite festival too.. but got there too late so struck at the end.

Toying ard with the foucs to get the pic, experimenting.. ;p Should have cropped a bit more.

 

[otc]

K20D, Sigma 17-70, dual flashes

Lancer, almost without shadow. I enjoy these shots:thumbsup:

otc

 

[fengwei]

wow! nice shots! where is this? looks cool...

Bullring at Birmingham UK? Looks very cool indeed, I'd love to see a whole view of it ;p

 

[otc]

Those images are great, seafone.

[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/young7081/16july08085_cr.png

took this today boring housefly...quite like the sharpness. cropped.

otc

 

[seafone]

Bullring at Birmingham UK? Looks very cool indeed, I'd love to see a whole view of it ;p

Yes, its Bullring at Birmingham. This place has clean up a lot over the years. I think I still have a photo of it on film taken many years ago when it was still under construction. =)
Anyway, here you go...

otc, adiknaim, thanks!

cheerss..

 

[danst]

My little son taken with K10D GP DA*300 F5.6

 

[LancerEX]

thanks otc. i have been experimenting with the flash both mounted and using slave flash as secondary for fill-in, with Gary Fong's diffuser. I realised that keeping my Sigma's len wide open at f2.8 is better than pointing the flash (1:1) at the object.

also, is it true that i can get even better pictures using a PRIME len like Pentax SMC 100 F f2.8 Macro?

regards,

 

[otc]

thanks otc. i have been experimenting with the flash both mounted and using slave flash as secondary for fill-in, with Gary Fong's diffuser. I realised that keeping my Sigma's len wide open at f2.8 is better than pointing the flash (1:1) at the object.

also, is it true that i can get even better pictures using a PRIME len like Pentax SMC 100 F f2.8 Macro?

Lancer, I suppose you are referring to wide open at f2.8 without flash than using flash at varying aperture of your sigma lens, with two flashes.

I do not have sigma 17-70 and pentax f 100 f2.8, so can't really comment. Really one is a zoom and the other is a prime with macro 1:1. Different focal length serves different functions. 17-70 is more of a walk-about lens and can double as portrait lens. SMC 100 f2.8 is a macro lens and I believe is a superb one for macro, that goes 1:1. As a portrait, I believe is tact sharp, even at f2.8. Hey.... must check with Fengwei on this cos he own these two lenses before.

otc

 

[longko]

Those images are great, seafone.

[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t3/young7081/16july08085_cr.png

took this today boring housefly...quite like the sharpness. cropped.

otc

Nice, you working on ur bokeh? This shot seems to have a green cast, try Enhance > Auto Color Correction in element to correct it.

 

[longko]

thanks otc. i have been experimenting with the flash both mounted and using slave flash as secondary for fill-in, with Gary Fong's diffuser. I realised that keeping my Sigma's len wide open at f2.8 is better than pointing the flash (1:1) at the object.

also, is it true that i can get even better pictures using a PRIME len like Pentax SMC 100 F f2.8 Macro?

regards,

I'm guessing u mean at f2.8 u get a more blur background (bokeh)? A macro lens will give u a sharper result as it tends to retains more details and you'll be able to go closer than zoom "macro" lens (which is actually close-up). Sigma 17-70mm is 1:2.3 macro not 1:1.

 

[longko]

I'm currently practising the use of available light, hope I didn't fare badly^^;