K5 goes to Vizag (pics)

Vizag ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizag ) is on the east coast of India and has some lovely beaches. I had been to this sea port on a recent vacation and there were some interesting sights to capture. Unfortunately I was on the beaches in bad light and did not click any images there.

Here are some images:

The 'Vizagapatam Club' est.1904 is in a stage of disrepair. Unfortunately there wasn't enough space in front of the building to get a complete view of it.

Many constructions in a neighboring town Anakapalli have thatched roofs:

I regret having set the ISO a little higher than needed for this. I had been trying to freeze birds flying with the rising sun in the background but gave up and then forgot to set the ISO lower:

The Beach Road in Vizag:

There is a locality where fisher folk live and bide their time when they are not out fishing:

Dried fish:

Here was an elderly lady who was watching over her fish as they dried in the sun (which was now very low in the sky):

This scene was very strongly backlit but I did not want to lose the background. The trade off was the halo at the transition from dark to the sky behind the lady as I pushed the 'fill light' slider very far in Lightroom 2. I could have done some manual 'repair work' on this but was too lazy:

She had a nice smile and I could not help trying various crops and treatments to her image:

This was my first trip with the K5 and I was curious to see if the budget lens Sigma 70-300 would do any justice to it. I think it just managed, but then, I haven't used a 50-135mm yet!

I also used the kit lens for the first image and Sigma 10-20mm for the next two images.

Of course, the K5 has totally blown me over!

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