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davect01
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Nice additions, flowers everywhere.
Penny
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- Outside Liverpool Uk
davect01
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The hits just keep coming. Nice work everyone.
Duane Pandorf
Top Veteran
- Location
- Western NC
Ricoh GRD III & Rhododendrons
The rhododendrons are starting to bloom here in the mountains. This was taken in my front yard with my almost new GRD III in macro mode.
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The rhododendrons are starting to bloom here in the mountains. This was taken in my front yard with my almost new GRD III in macro mode.
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Pelao
All-Pro
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
- Name
- Stephen
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BBW
Legend
- Location
- betwixt and between
- Name
- BB
This thread is like a breath of fresh air. Thank you all so much for such beauty.
mmacleodbrown
Regular
- Location
- London
After spending the last couple of months buried in textbooks, I took a week off work and the very first thing I did was grab my S95 and K20D and pop up to Kew Gardens and spend the day taking photo's. These are with my S95 as this is a compact forum so feel the K20D is cheating? Im also having a gentle dig at the K5 owners here, as the S95 can't compete with such aweome kit and Im jealous, very very jealous!! Bring on a Pentax mirrorless APC sensor camera and I will be happy..
I liked the colour and contrasts on this one, though I hate shooting vertical, might have to change my aspect ratios...
Same again here - I think I liked the foilage more than the flower!
Colour contrasts again..
It was the water drop that drew me to this one, I so wanted to get a reflection from it, but couldn't get it to work....
Playing around with some of the in camera colour filters, which I liked..
Overall I enjoyed myself and not suprisingly, I had forgotten alot of things that I had begun to pick up as my attentions have solely around studying. I was surprised that I took more photos with my K20D than my S95, though the S95 is far more intuitive to use and feels more fun for want of a better word.
I don't know about whether the S95 has soul, to me it feels like a fun quirky teenager of a camera compared to my grandfatherly Pentax DSLR which is very serious and to be treated with respect.
I had real trouble with K20D all morning with the AF continually trying to hunt, until I realised several hours later that I had it switched to AF-C rather than AF-S - doh
Still trying to work out what my shooting style is but it would definately seem that nature rather than urban or landscapes interest me at the moment and colour and textures in particular as that seemed to be a focus for my K20D shooting..
Aims for the summer - to go out and take some pictures for the competitions as hopefully that will force me to take photo's and try to work on my composition and above all else relax and not over engineer everything.
I need to learn to be more observant as well over what I see in the viewfinder as so many photo's were ruined by shadows or sunlight in places that I didn't notice which caused over exposure, but that what learning is for. The beauty of digital is that I took nearly 800 photo's and maybe if Im generous 20 are keepers, which doesn't matter as it costs nothing, if it was film, I d probably sell the camera and give it up as a lost cause with that ratio..
Then come winter it will be back to the studying..
I liked the colour and contrasts on this one, though I hate shooting vertical, might have to change my aspect ratios...
Same again here - I think I liked the foilage more than the flower!
Colour contrasts again..
It was the water drop that drew me to this one, I so wanted to get a reflection from it, but couldn't get it to work....
Playing around with some of the in camera colour filters, which I liked..
Overall I enjoyed myself and not suprisingly, I had forgotten alot of things that I had begun to pick up as my attentions have solely around studying. I was surprised that I took more photos with my K20D than my S95, though the S95 is far more intuitive to use and feels more fun for want of a better word.
I don't know about whether the S95 has soul, to me it feels like a fun quirky teenager of a camera compared to my grandfatherly Pentax DSLR which is very serious and to be treated with respect.
I had real trouble with K20D all morning with the AF continually trying to hunt, until I realised several hours later that I had it switched to AF-C rather than AF-S - doh
Still trying to work out what my shooting style is but it would definately seem that nature rather than urban or landscapes interest me at the moment and colour and textures in particular as that seemed to be a focus for my K20D shooting..
Aims for the summer - to go out and take some pictures for the competitions as hopefully that will force me to take photo's and try to work on my composition and above all else relax and not over engineer everything.
I need to learn to be more observant as well over what I see in the viewfinder as so many photo's were ruined by shadows or sunlight in places that I didn't notice which caused over exposure, but that what learning is for. The beauty of digital is that I took nearly 800 photo's and maybe if Im generous 20 are keepers, which doesn't matter as it costs nothing, if it was film, I d probably sell the camera and give it up as a lost cause with that ratio..
Then come winter it will be back to the studying..
BBW
Legend
- Location
- betwixt and between
- Name
- BB
Martin, your day in the gardens looks to me as though it turned out really well, both picture and brain drain clearing wise - nature's beauty will do that for most of us, I think....help clean out the cobwebs, or textbook studying malaise.
Whenever I don't use a camera for a while, I need to recalibrate...my eye, my "rememberings"...but the learning curve becomes less steep. You just came off a major studying course and are clearly off to a great summertime of picture making!
Whenever I don't use a camera for a while, I need to recalibrate...my eye, my "rememberings"...but the learning curve becomes less steep. You just came off a major studying course and are clearly off to a great summertime of picture making!
BillN
Hall of Famer
- Location
- S W France
- Name
- Bill
Martin - good to see you back on the Forum - good luck with your results
davect01
Hall of Famer
having fun
Martin I would be going through withdrawls not taking pictures for that long of a time.
A great few pics to get you kick started again.
Martin I would be going through withdrawls not taking pictures for that long of a time.
A great few pics to get you kick started again.
khozema
Regular
- Location
- Pune, India
Flowers
davect01
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davect01
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khozema
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- Pune, India
