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Today with your Pentax

Looks great to me! You did a super job, Dino. I'd post naked for you.

I got behind on my post-processing and posting, but not on my shooting. I'll hopefully get caught up today. For now, here's a couple from June 2.


Clover by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII and Pentax-K 50mm f1.2 at f2.0, 1/1000s, and ISO 200

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Grapevine Bokeh by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and Pentax-K 200mm f2.5 at f2.5, 1/2000s, and ISO 100
 
JCDoss said:
Looks great to me! You did a super job, Dino. I'd post naked for you.

I got behind on my post-processing and posting, but not on my shooting. I'll hopefully get caught up today. For now, here's a couple from June 2.


Clover by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII and Pentax-K 50mm f1.2 at f2.0, 1/1000s, and ISO 200

and...


Grapevine Bokeh by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and Pentax-K 200mm f2.5 at f2.5, 1/2000s, and ISO 100
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Some of these flower shots are outstanding. It is surprising how flower shots can go wrong so yes very good.

Keep them coming.

Regards Dino26323
 
Thanks, Dino. Those tomatoes were shot in the grocery store. Yes, I take my cameras everywhere. On this trip, I not only photographed in the produce section, but I took a few shots of the wine rack which caused one of the clerks to come interrogate me. All was OK in the end, but he was interested in what I was doing, because in his words, "Photographing the wine is not normal behavior." I told him that described me pretty well.

Today was another three lens day. The Ingelheimer half-marathon ran out front of my house, so I decked out the cameras with a pair of telephoto lenses and went out front to photograph the action. I don't own an autofocus lens because I'm addicted to manual focus, but today I really came to appreciate the skill the sports photographers of the 1980s had to manually focus those huge super telephotos on the sidelines. I ended up taking over a hundred shots of the marathon, which is over 90 more than I take in an average day. In my own defense, I'd have stopped shooting if they had stopped running past my house. After the marathon, I swapped out the lens on one camera and went to the coffee shop.

Here's today's catch.


Half-Marathon by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and Pentax-A* 135mm f1.8 at f2.8, 1/6000s, and ISO 100

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Half-Marathon by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII and Pentax-A 400mm f5.6 at f8.0, 1/500s, and ISO 800

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Zinnias by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and Pentax-M 50mm f4.0 Macro at f4.5, 1/1500s, and ISO 400
 
Yes Jason there was a lot of skill used in Sport photography in those film days. I suppose they still need some skill these days but it just does not appear to me and neither to a lot of the public that they are in the same class as film sport shooters were. The editors are terrible as well. The commonwealth games was littered with crap photos from professionals that showed no movement and i searched 1000s of images and was pretty bitter that Sport Photography has sank to being this bad. VERY VERY BAD collections from the latest tech cameras. Editors are the main problem for asking for these sharp photos all the time. Producing movement is risky so nobody did it. I was disgusted with the sets i saw.

By the way Great shots again.

Regards Dino26323
 
Iris are coming on strong now. Few shots from the Pentax K-3 III.

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Great looking irises! Unfortunately, ours have come and gone already. Same with the roses... some are still hanging around, but the peak is past.
 
Two images taken wide open on a pair of fairly fast lenses. I've discovered that the dehaze tool in Lightroom can help mitigate the dreaminess that some lenses show when wide open. Anyway, here's today's catch.


Poppies by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K.1 mII and Pentax-M 50mm f1.4 at f1.4, 1/350s, and ISO 100, closest focus distance

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Vetch by Jason Doss, on Flickr
Pentax K-1 mII Limited Silver and Pentax-K 135mm f2.5 at f2.5, 1/1000s, and ISO 100, closest focus distance
 
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