K-x and its vacation to hawaii

This is also my first dslr and my return to any sort of shooting beyond p&s since highschool (15 years). Love the K-x and can't wait to remember all that my dad taught me growing up assisting his shoots. All shot with the 18-55 kit lens with some pp in lightroom. Looking forward to adding a longer zoom, lens baby, and a prime or two.

Any thoughts on basics, pp, etc would be appreciated. After I changed settings in the camera for exposure lock with focus -- both spot, usually -- it greatly helped getting what I wanted. I really wish I could change exposure metering with the green button instead of going through the menus. Maybe a firmware will add it.

Here is a link to 19 photos -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28454566@N06/sets/72157623076338619/

Cheers and happy New Year!

p.s. went for the k-x after researching on this forum. you guys rock, thank you.

I like the jump and the peaceful landscape shot.

the dichotomy of action and calm.

wow great pics...

any suggestion for good lense for indor portraits ? or std kit(18-55) is enough ?
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Aj

You are not taking pictures here, you are creating art. I have a feeling the camera plays just a small trivial part here.....
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K10D, K-7
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Sigma Zooms: Sigma 10-20, Sigma 100-300 F4

'Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming... 'Wow! What a ride!'

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Menno

second that. Looks like you learnt well from your dad.
Akhil

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Ajayang said:

any suggestion for good lense for indor portraits ? or std kit(18-55) is enough ?

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Not to hijack this thread but the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 is popular. I can shoot indoors all day without wishing for a faster or sharper lens. The constant f/2.8 aperture helps with AF as well.

I'd recommend a flash first though. The old photog's rule of thumb is to add more light before better glass and better glass before a better camera body. That advice pre-dates the digital era but I think it still holds up pretty well today. It's the first thing I think of when contemplating equipment to buy. Of course, if you're shooting sports or motosports that's a different story.

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Group Captain Mandrake: 'I was tortured by the Japanese, Jack, if you must know; not a pretty story....Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.' ( Dr. Strangelove , 1964)

toulon99 said:

This is also my first dslr and my return to any sort of shooting beyond

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Very impressive work. The second one looks almost unreal, and the third one very interesting..

Beautiful shots. I just came back from a trip to Hawaii as well. Hopefully I'll have the pics up soon!

Can I ask: How did you get those close up photos of "your love's" eyes? I love the - bright crispness (for lack of a better term) - to them. I'd love to know what technique you used to achieve that.

Thanks!

Sent you an email, Josh.

Thanks ya'll. It has been great getting my photographic feet wet again. And the K-x is perfect for this. I

My next step is definitely to get a flash and learn how to expertly use it and the built-in one. Just ordered a diffuser to help with that. I am not against PP but really want to avoid using it as much as possible and learning how to light is where I can achieve this. There is just something satisfying to me about achieving a great photo off the bat by having understood the situation and accommodating for it then and there. That said lightroom is the sh$! and really helped develop these shots.

I'll look into that tamron. Really wish I had bought the 55-300 as I needed the length for some whales breaching. 55 just couldn't cut it, lol.

Here are a couple more.