A great set, Eric. I felt the competitive juices stirring again! Very
reminiscent of the local XC scene. You have managed to capture the mental &
physical side of the sport.
Alan C
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From: Eric Weir
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 8:58 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: I'm over my hang-up on manual focus
Took my K-5 with my new [used] DA 50-200/4-5.6 ED WR lens to the state
cross-country championship yesterday. I’m over my hang-up about getting
manual focus down before thinking about autofocus. The results were mixed
because autofocus is auto only so far. There are still things to be learned,
technique to be develop. E.g., I can see that in some of the images the
subject is not sharp while the background is. I will be learning about where
the camera focuses and paying more attention to what I have it focus on.
The light was perfect. I was able to shoot at 400 and didn’t have any noise
to correct for. Most of my processing was cropping to put the subject more
clearly in the frame.
This is the gallery I put up for the team I’ve been following. Nothing great
and some not very good, but a great improvement for me with this subject
matter. Comments more than welcome.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeweir/10781314504/in/set-72157637520908245>
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
[email protected]
"It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in
each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits."
- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
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