sleahy73

Hi Miserere,

I have no idea. That's just how they show up. I don't anything special, just upload from the Confirm/Upload page.

Sorry I can't help. I really am pretty simple minded when it comes to these things.

Sean

A recent post suggested we should post more pictures to this forum, so...

Today was my last opportunity to take pictures of that light house I've been

working on. I think I got a few good ones.

Comments are welcome, and while we're at it, why not post some of your own -

maybe a common theme - lighthouses, sailboats, beaches...

Thanks,

Sean<div></div>

I have several zooms that cover that range, even a couple of 28-70/80 f2.8 - that's turned out to be a favored range for me for a good fast zoom. My plan was to go out with my primes. I've had the 50mm for a little while, and I recently acquired the 77mm - BEAUTIFUL lens!

The intended subject is the same lighthouse/marina I've been studying for a while (posted some pics in an earlier "underexposure" thread. Along the way to my usual location I found some other subjects with the same lighthouse in the background. Due to the beach, palm trees, sidewalk, and near by road, I didn't have much room for a bipedal zoom. I suppose I made so many lens changes because I'm used to using a zoom. It moght have been more effencient to work the subject thoroughly with one lens before making the change, but I was shooting on the fly, as I saw new ideas for compositions, I made the lens changes to match. I missed a few shots durring some of the changes, too.

I was out to stretch my self a little and I'm curious how others manage the single focal length challenge.

Thanks,

Sean

... And who doesn't love photo's from work. This entertainer allowed me to take pictures during his performances, from my position behind him on stage! (as long as I gave him his pick of the results)

Anyway, here's what a show looks like from my perspective...<div></div>

I've got some older one's I never got around to posting...

This is from a friend's appartment in Puerto Vallarta, Mx. Man, I love that place...<div></div>

The other day I went out shooting, taking only primes lenses with me - my FA

50mm 1.4 and 77mm limited, an old M 28 f/2.8, and an old manual Hanamex 135mm

f/2.8 (not that it's vital to this question). I found myself changing out

lenses quite often, even though it was a fairly windy day - so there's the

obvious inconvenience of the changes and the less than healthy exposure of the

sensor. I found myself going back and forth between the 50mm and the 77mm quite

a bit (though I can think of situations where I might have prefered the 28mm or

the 135mm, alternatly).

So my question to you prime lens shooters is this: when you go out, in general,

do you carry more than one body, or have you deleloped a method for minimizing

the lens swap? If it's just one camera and a selection of lenses, how do you

approah your subject in terms of effeciency/minimizing lens changes?

I guess that's (potentially) two questions...

Thanks,

Sean

Yeah, I expected to have to push the EV up a little. With the 77mm on the camera, I had to go between +0.3 and +0.7 for an acurate exposure. I did push it as far as +1.3 to "expose to the right". Anything beyond that using the 77mm lens and I blew the highlights. With the Tokina I had to start at +1.3 and that was usually under a bit.

On the other hand, when I got home I did some testing of the Tokina through the f/stops on a more or less medium grey shirt in tungsten light (best I could do at the time) and it turned out more or less correct (maybe 0.3 under). So I don't know. I guess I'm going to have to go back and see if I can figure what's bugging the meter.

Thanks,

Sean

I suppose that could be... When I got home, I did some "test" shots on a medium grey shirt through the appertures in Tungsten light. The exposures looked pretty close, if only slightly under. However, on the underexposed example above, the histogram in almost all on the left side, and nothing is anywhere near the right edge. So if the camera meter was trying to hold the highlights, it way overshot...

Also, I brought my new 77mm ltd with me and had no problems with the metering.

A couple of weeks ago I was in the same location and having the same problems. I thought it had more to do with my cirular polarizer. Next time I get the chance I'll have to go back and try different metering and see if it clears it up.

Thanks,

Sean

Here's a shot from today.

28mm

Manual mode

ISO 400

f/8

meter suggested 1/400<div></div>

I did check the bladdes; they seem fine.

I haven't tried stopping it all the ay down, but from f/11, and every point I've tried openning up from there it's been doing it. I suppose I should take it out for a more thorough test, but I'm not sure what to look for jst yet, so all I ould do is keep proving that it is, indeed, underexposing.

Any suggestions on how to test it? AV mode through all of the f stops?

Thanks,

Sean

Hi all,

I picked up a AT-X Pro 28-80 last December and it was working great. Lately,

though I've been noticing a problem with metering with it on my K10D. It's been

pretty consistently underexposing by ab out 1.5 stops (sometimes more). I've

been using Multi-segmneted metering. It seems to have started about a month

ago. I haven't been shooting anything so tricky to require special metering.

It's shows up in both AV and metered Manual modes (the ones I use the most).

Has anybody else had this kind of experience, or, better still, have any

suggestions for why this might be happening?

I don't have an example to post handy at this momnt; I'll try to get one in

later this evening.

Thanks,

Sean

Thanks Miserere,

I think I see what you're talking about. I'm still using CS2. I took a quick shot at it by converting to LAB mode and keeping only the Lightness channel - is that what you mean by "Luminance"?

Anyway, it think the results are better, you're right. What do you think?

Thanks,

Sean<div></div>

Nice shot Matt, the color/B&W really brings attention to the sax.

Yeah I really slaved over the channel mixer for the B&W version. Making it brighter brought out over things in the image I didn't like, and I didn't want to invest too much more time just then. I'll probably go back to work on it before I try to print it.

Thanks for the kind words.

Here's the info:

K10D

Tokina 28-70mm f/2.6-2.8 @ 70mm

f/2.8 for 1/40

ISO 1600

AV Mode

PEF RAW

Thanks again.

Sean

Yeah, I didn't sleep much last night - working on a project...

Sorry for the rambling, too.

Ok, I'm done posting. ;)

I?ve been lurking for a while, reading as much as I can, when I can. Man, you

can learn so much from these threads. For as much as I have been reading and

learning, I figured it?s my turn to share something. I have posted in the past,

revealing my apparent ignorance, so I thought I?d post something I actually do

know something about - saxophones.

I bought a K10D last October while on a trip to NYC. It was an upgrade from my

K100D I bought a little more than a year earlier, and I haven?t regretted it

for a second. From the instant I took the first few shots I was in love. It?s

fun, I guess, to speculate about the newest technology/next camera, but I can?t

keep up with all of this stuff. I just want to take better pictures. (Having

said this, I have to admit that I sit and stare at the B&H lens ads at the back

of photography magazines, drooling like it?s pornography? and is there a way to

permanently disable e-Bay on my computer? ? Very dangerous for my pocketbook.)

While I have been out taking pictures, I haven?t had time for much editing

lately, as my job has been keeping me pretty busy these days. So I haven?t had

much time to keep my gallery up to date.

I took this picture (and several others) for an e-Bay auction. It sold in a

couple of hours, but I guess that's irrelevant. I was kind of proud of this

picture, so I took some time out recently to work on it a little.

Anywho, I guess I just wanted to share a little something. I posted to the

critique forum, but I haven?t ever gotten anything useful from any of the

photos I?ve posted there. So, if you have a comment/critique, please feel free.

Or, for that matter, post a shot of your own, if you feel like sharing.

Sean<div></div>

$750 is what I was told it was supposed to be listed for. That's still a great deal. I just checked and the wed site says they're in stock. At the store, they were surprised they weren't selling any for such a low price.

Hey, I can't really afford that right now either, but I thought I'd get the word out for anybody who chould swing it.

Sean

I haven't seen any reviews of Robert's. If you go to the link and out the lens in you shopping cart, the price remains the same. Second, I went into the store and asked about the price, they informed me that it was a typo, but would give it to me for that price because it was what was listed on the internet. If you've got the money right now, I don't think you can loose. Give it a try.

Sean

Not to contradict what Justin has said - lord knows he's WAY more knoledgeble than I - but you might be able to get away with one of those 70-300mm f4-5.6 lenses (Sigma, Tamron, I'm not sure about Pentax or Tokina) that go for about $180. You'd have to set a high ISO and run he lens wide open, if you want to stop motion, and about an hour before sunset, it probably wont work anymore (not enought light for the f5.6), but it will fit your budget. These lenses are pretty cheap and not the sharpest, but not terribly big or heavy, and for your own personal desktop photos, it might be sufficient... for now.

If you want an easier time getting closer to pro quality images, you'll definately have to do it Justin's way.

Sean