~Some Native Americans I photographed on one of my travels~

<p>All shot with my K10D and Tamron 18-250mm lens.<br>

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<p>nice work! some sharp arrows you used!</p>

<p>Thanks Todd. Everytime I go out with that lens, it makes me wonder why I have others.</p>

<p>Very Nice Javier. That is a sharp lens. You must have been shooting quite wide open to get that bokeh in the last few shots.</p>

<p>Very nice . I love the colour and composition of these shots. Bravo.</p>

<p>Those are pretty awesome Javier.. last one is my favorite! Good work!</p>

<p>These are very good Javier. Nice colours and sharp images. Thanks for sharing. Care to fill us in a little? Who? What? Where? Why? :)</p>

<p>#6 is my favorite! All are stunning, Javier. Great stuff!</p>

<p>Javier, you clearly had more luck photographing native Americans than I did! :-D</p>

 

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<p>I especially like #1 and #5, which I believe are the same girl. She really seems to be feeling the dance and you captured her emotions perfectly.<br /> <br /> Are these South American natives?</p>

<p>Some are very nice. I think though that a couple of the images are harmed because of the harsh shadows (I might suggest like #6 possibly #7). Short of fill-in flash trying to photograph the subjects the best way would be to photograph such subjects in softer light. Also the images could be improved with less distracting backgrounds.</p>

<p>Great set. Very vibrant colors.</p>

<p>very cool Javier! I really like the 1st one for the stop action, the 3rd and 4th for the colors, and the 5th for the expression.<br>

The 6th would have been great if some filled flash was used, since the person's face makeup is quite intense. <br>

Ideally, more blurring of the background, but the fact that it was your Tammy I think it's worked fine. Was this at full stretch? I thought the Tammy went 200mm and the Pentax 250? I own the 18-250 and do most of my shots with that, I just love the range!<br>

I like how the title was changed... no seriously, I did! I'm Indian, as in Asian sub-continent Indian lol!</p>

<p>@Scot, Thanks for the kind words. With this lens, I usually do shoot it wide open or stopped down ever so slightly.</p>

<p>@Lummi, Thank you..I'm glad you noticed the composition, because that was what I was mostly after here. All these images are anyplace from 25-50% crops.</p>

<p>@Haig, Thank you. The last is also my favorite.</p>

<p>@Peter, Thank you. There is a huge ''Native American'' movement that has been happening the past three years and so I stumbled on to these folks. These are from the Navajo.</p>

<p>@Pete, Thank you very much!</p>

<p>@Mis, Thank you. Not sure of what the original origin is, other than to say these where all Navajo. I know this because they announced it. I had seen them before as well and shot them on film...I will look for the pictures when I get home as I feel they are a tad nicer.</p>

<p>@Doug, Thanks for the critique. Something I feel is more needed around here. The harsh shadows, bugged me also and was my main reason I was hesitant to even post them. As I mentioned earlier, these are pretty heavy crops and allot of what I cropped out was shadows and some blown highlights. Not much I could do as it was in the middle of the harshest light of the day. Likewise, there was nothing I could do as far as the background went either. I knew this was going to be a problem, so shot all but the first at @250mm to try and get as much bokeh as possible. I knew when I shot them, that I would be cropping. Thanks again for the critique. It shows me I am on the right path.</p>

<p>@Brendon, Thank you. Vibrant mode works great in the Pentax DSLR's</p>

<p>@Somanna, Thank you! I have the latest Tammy, that goes to 250mm. In fact, It is a twin to the Pentax 18-250mm lens. As I explained above, sometimes fill flash and more bokeh are simply not there.</p>

<p>@All...Thanks again for the kind words. A couple of thoughts. As far as the ''Title change'' goes, I will need to be more conscience of that next time. My Wife is part Mexican and part Navajo Indian as well, so when I refer to Indians, I think of Native American Indians.....My kids are super mutts. I call them Spanicans.. LOL</p>

<p>As far as my camera settings, As always, I was shooting J pegs, Vibrant mode, +2 sharpness, +2 contrast, 0 Saturation, ISO400, 0 EV....PP was mostly cropping and resizing and P.net sharpening technique.</p>

<p>Hi Folks, Here are two of the original uncropped images from above. NO PP done what so ever, other than a simple resize. They are as they came out.</p>

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<p>Nice shots! And you may have already answered an upcoming question about lenses.<br>

Dan</p>

<p>Thanks Dan. That lens is the one I can't live with out!</p>

<p>Those look pretty good, occasionally i see a few images that make me thing about a super zoom, but until they make a weather sealed one I'm gonna pass. We'll, at least that is a convenient way for me to avoid buying one since I'm not expecting a sealed version. But consider that a sealed super zoom almost makes the most sense since the whole camera stays closed and out of the elements with one lens.</p>

<p>I like #1 the best, the skeleton head dress is pretty cool as well.</p>

<p>I'm with Doug on the harsh lighting, maybe a bit of fill flash to fill in the shadows, I don't recall you mentioning a flash in that Pentax kit of yours. But I think the background is soft enough, especially considering that we know the lens involved.</p>

<p>Looking down the thread I noticed you used +2 contrast, not shooting JPEG i might be wrong, but you might tone the contrast down to +1 in the harsh lighting, especially if it's front lit vs. back lit.</p>

<p>I was thinking same thing as Justin--try reducing contrast in-camera if you're relying on in-camera processing. I might reduce it even further.</p>

<p>Thanks Justin, Thanks Andrew. Contrast is something I have recently only started playing with as far as in camera processing goes. It seems to work better for me most of the time, but come to think about it, I was having a very difficult time with the Histogram on this particular shoot. Now I am wondering if the added contrast was my nemesis? hmm</p>