Good stuff. Beautiful dog, nice portraits. He's a pretty patient sitter. Better than most of the women I've photographed. Paul On Dec 3, 2006, at 6:27 PM, William Robb wrote:
> Here is my first portrait shoot with the K10. This is pretty much a > straight dump to the website, so there may be some warty pictures in > there. > I shot DNGs using AWB, and the digital review histogram as a flash > meter. > The pictures were shot with the A85/1.4 at f5.6 at iso100. > I'm pretty happy with the white balance as shot, it's just a tad warm, > but studio lights tend to be. I want to play around with the custom WB > settings, I am pretty sure I can nail the WB really closely with this > camera. > > http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/harley/index.html > > Harley is a biggish GSD, probably around 100 pounds. We are good > buddies. I've done Shutzand work with him, so he is very responsive to > me, on the offchance that I will put a sleeve on and let him play > tug-o-war with my arm > > In the studio, the camera is a gem, even with the missing PC socket > and > no vertical grip. I bought an Olympus Safe Sync, which goes on the hot > shoe and connects to the flash system via a PC socket. > Not the best, but I wasn't using my own flash equipment, which will > trigger via my Pentax IR flash. > The screen is very easy to focus manually with under the modelling > lights, and the camera responds very quickly. I had no waits for the > buffer to empty, and according to the time stamps, I shot 56 files > in 6 > minutes, 17 seconds. > Thats a picture every 7 seconds, which isn't doable on the istD. > > I'm happy. > > William Robb > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
