A few photos with my new K3 and 31mm Ltd

View towards Sleight Farm - Devizes, Wiltshire, England

Sleight Lane - Devizes, Wiltshire, England  (One of my daily walks)

Frosty Bramble leaves

Frosty leaf frozen to the track

Two gnarly old trees - Stert, Devizes, Wiltshire, England

Into the sun, my wife walking ahead of me as usual

My wife again silhouetted against the bright sky

I just love taking tree silhouettes as you might have noticed

View looking towards Sleight, Devizes, Wiltshire, England

The 31mm Ltd is a lot heavier than my old SMC 50mm f1.7, I have not tried the 50mm on my K3 yet so not sure which one I prefer yet

Thanks for looking

My favorite combo! Thanks for sharing.

flektogon wrote:

Very nice pictures, indeed.

Thank you very much sir

maranatha wrote:

lovely photos with ur new Combo and I do like the way u frame ur photos what do u use
A question is only easy when you know the answer
Paul Hegarty N Ireland

Thank you for your comments. I edit my photos using several programs, firstly I use Topaz Photo AI for noise reduction and sharpening, then Luminar Neo for further enhancement and finally Photoscape X Pro which has an amazing selection of filters, frames, textures so much stuff, so it's Photoscape X Pro that I use for the frames.

flektogon wrote:

WiltshireMoonraker59 wrote:

maranatha wrote:

lovely photos with ur new Combo and I do like the way u frame ur photos what do u use
A question is only easy when you know the answer
Paul Hegarty N Ireland

Thank you for your comments. I edit my photos using several programs, firstly I use Topaz Photo AI for noise reduction and sharpening, then Luminar Neo for further enhancement and finally Photoscape X Pro which has an amazing selection of filters, frames, textures so much stuff, so it's Photoscape X Pro that I use for the frames.

Well, a pretty complicated process . Any way, and please don't take it as a criticism, I think that somewhere in this process you apply a little bit more sharpening, at least for my taste. It is visible especially on the tree branches, just look at the first picture.

Feel free to criticise I really don't mind. I have only just started using Topaz Photo AI and still getting used to it. It is a great temptation to choose a too high level of sharpening from the recommended ha ha well it is in my case

flektogon wrote:

WiltshireMoonraker59 wrote:

flektogon wrote:

Well, a pretty complicated process . Any way, and please don't take it as a criticism, I think that somewhere in this process you apply a little bit more sharpening, at least for my taste. It is visible especially on the tree branches, just look at the first picture.

Feel free to criticise I really don't mind. I have only just started using Topaz Photo AI and still getting used to it. It is a great temptation to choose a too high level of sharpening from the recommended ha ha well it is in my case

I am pretty lazy with the PP of my pictures . I am using the ACDSee photo editor, but doing any post processing only very rarely. Usually I am shooting JPEGs, and the sharpening I set to the bare minimum, i.e. equivalent to the radius of 1 and the amount of 25%. And if I see any such "halo", I reduce sharpening even further. Such an approach makes the pictures closer to the "analog" photography .

I like editing but I feel that I tend to overdo it. I have tried Raw Therapee and Darktable but find them too complicated to use. I shoot RAW+jpeg because I worry that the jpeg does not have enough latitude to recover highlights or shadows

Beautiful set. Fa 31 mm effect is very nice .

KPM2 wrote:

Hello WiltshireMoonraker59

Congrats to your K3 and the 31mm !

Very nice pictures.

In the picture : Into the sun, my wife walking ahead of me as usual

I really like how her shadow extenders the existing shadow line, look's really very good!

best regards. KPM2

Hi KPM2, thank you for your comments. Yes that's what I liked about that photo too

Quite impressive , ` like them .

Regards ,

mrp .

M R Padmaraju wrote:

Quite impressive , ` like them .

Regards ,

mrp .

Thank you very much

hhh316 wrote:

Is the autofocus snappy on the 31mm?

Well to be honest the autofocus seems plenty fast enough for me, although it is noisy because of the focusing system used but I really don't see the need for super fast autofocus with a 31mm lens, it's not as though I would be shooting sports action with it. Changing from close up to infinity is more than adequate but I have actually been using it with manual focus because it has such a short throw, its about a quarter turn from close up to infinity and I find the screen on my K3 great for manual focus

robbo d wrote:

Nice set of images.

Starting to look cold in the northern hemisphere.

Yes it is the most snow we have had for quite a few years but still very little compared to other parts of the UK