Wot, no snow? (seven pictures)

Just to remind everyone that there remains a small corner of the West Country which is still green and pleasant. The local kids are furious!

Bark


Leaf Litter


Tunnel


Love You


Tension


Walking the Dog


Trees at Sundown


All taken in our local park with K10 and Pentax f2 50mm. Any excuse to get out and use that camera... These are all JPEGs, when I get the hang of using RAW, I hope the quality will improve.

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Best wishes,

Andrew

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Robert Adams
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You're not going to see a great improvement in quality. RAW really only helps when you get the exposure wrong (though sometimes it's impossible to get right, when a scene is very contrasty).

But if you do get the exposure wrong, as I tend to do too often, then RAW really helps.

G

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Keywords: Charming, polite, and generally agreeable.

By the way, you do have a good eye for patterns.

G

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Keywords: Charming, polite, and generally agreeable.

Excellent composition on the "walking the dog" shot.

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One or two odd snaps I have taken.

Tension and Walking the Dog are rather good Andrew! Slightly burnt highlights on Tension but even so I like it very much indeed.

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Tim
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Do you mean there won't be a step-up in detail and dynamic range? My main reason for fussing about this is the number of reports I've read in old magazines and on the net which suggest the K10 only produces its best when most of the processing is done after the fact, rather than in camera.

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Best wishes,

Andrew

"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
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'walking the dog' is a very nice shot indeed - love those shadow lines

regards
Carl

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No matter how many lenses I have owned - I have always needed just one more

Ah, if I'd shot it in RAW, Tim, then I may have been able to recover the highlight details. Perhaps...

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Best wishes,

Andrew

"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
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Hi Andrew

Nice shots again, number 1 is my favourite.

I stand to be shot down here regarding raw/ jpeg - it would seem that some believe that by version 1.30 (or maybe before) of the firmware the jpeg issue is not there any more. Personally I can't really comment as I uploaded v1.30 not long after having the camera and as I broke my leg about 2 weeks after getting the camera it did not see much use for the next 10 weeks therefore I have not really noticed any major jpeg/ raw issues as I was too busy wobbling around on crutches.

However, I always shoot in raw, I would not go back as it really does have flexibility that a jpeg does not

Depends on the software though, apart from susnets I find photoshop the most suitable as a personal preference.

Regards


Stu

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I think Tunnel and Walking the dog are Stunning

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I'm almost glad you dont have snow, you'd be putting everyones snow pics to shame too

I quite like the rope shot

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Thanks everyone.

I don't know about that, but it makes getting out of the drive easier. Still below zero at 11.25 a.m.

Got some interesting frost pictures earlier: not often we get frost in the trees and bushes.

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Best wishes,

Andrew

"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
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I think I can live with the burned highlights in Tension. That definitely ticks the boxes for me.

I think Sundown would come second, except that I can't live with those burnt out highlights...yep, I'm a hpocrit!
I do like the placement of the empty bench looking towards the trees. I thik I'd also clone out the branches in the top left corner

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Getting there! Thanks to you guys

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Tunnel and walking the dog are my two favourites. The snow melted here but the hoar frost has been one of the hardest and prettiest I have ever seen. It was -7 here this morning, very rare for Hertfordshire.

K.

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I'd go for the reverse order Andrew - walking the dog is my No. 1

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