** Weekly Pentax Photo Thread 18 - 24 February **

*Please reply to this original post so that your post starts a new section and change the title to reflect the subject of your image/s.

*Keep it fresh, photographs you took or post-processed this week.

*If you can provide details on the subject, story, camera, settings and processing, that would be great for people reviewing the images.

*We have more than enough threads about gear, so let's have some photos showing what you and your Pentax camera or lenses can do. Beginner or pro, doesn't matter, this thread is about enjoying photography and perhaps receiving constructive feedback

all K3III, darktable, 55-300 PLM

the two bussard shots are cropped, the highland cattle more or less "as is"

I still fight with getting the images as sharp as I would like them to be - but maybe I do expect too much.

The first bird with 1/100 sec - okay, not the best idea for full zoom, so I tried again with higher ISO. But still it looks somewhat "soft" to me (even though I tried to tweak it in darktable)

The animals are beautiful!

I would say some movement blur in #1 and the #2 a bit front-focused, but if you don't pixel peep they're very great.

I have to get back to morning walks... Thanks for sharing

JeremieB wrote:

The animals are beautiful!

Yes they are!

I would say some movement blur in #1 and the #2 a bit front-focused, but if you don't pixel peep they're very great.

Thank you!

I have to get back to morning walks... Thanks for sharing

yeah, movement blur I would expect (as said - 1/100 - handheld, cold, nothing to stablizie myself...)

I tried before to tackle the front/back focus issue but resigned a little bit as i feel it not to be excatly consistent over the zoom range - and hard to decide for a small target 10meters away to start with. Maybe I should try to put an adjustment into a user setup and only use it for "long distance shots"; but I'm not sure if this is would even work.

t_3 wrote:

JeremieB wrote:

The animals are beautiful!

Yes they are!

I would say some movement blur in #1 and the #2 a bit front-focused, but if you don't pixel peep they're very great.

Thank you!

I have to get back to morning walks... Thanks for sharing

yeah, movement blur I would expect (as said - 1/100 - handheld, cold, nothing to stablizie myself...)

I tried before to tackle the front/back focus issue but resigned a little bit as i feel it not to be excatly consistent over the zoom range - and hard to decide for a small target 10meters away to start with. Maybe I should try to put an adjustment into a user setup and only use it for "long distance shots"; but I'm not sure if this is would even work.

Well either it requires AF fine tuning either it's the "wrong" focus point that was selected ?

I know that in auto AF it tends to focus on closest element, like the fence here. When subject is relatively small in the frame I prefer to use AF zone or whatever the name (the smaller box that I move over the subject if needed). Or even smaller if it keeps being inconsistent ?

I also tend to take an absurd amount of duplicate photos "just in case" then select the sharpest ones, but it's a really bad habit (and often the first one is the best anyway...)

Somebody has done some trimming.  Nice capture!  I like it.

Conjure wrote:

K-3 III + HD DFA MACRO 100mm F/2.8 ED AW

This lens is fantastic!

Cheers
Anton

Lovely photo ! Like the scene of a theater, waiting for the actor.

Maybe a new "lonely bench" specific thread would be welcomed ?