Opinions requested on photos

[djelibeybi]

Well, after splurging on my first dSLR (Pentax K100D Super), I went out into the Peak District today and decided to have a play.

 

Some shots were taken fully automatic, others I used the landscape setting or macro setting. All were taken with autofocus and image stabilisation activated. At the moment I'm waiting on delivery of my UV filter, so all the photos shown have been taken with a polarising filter. I only have one lens at the moment and so all the photos were taken with the 18-55mm Pentax lens.

 

The contrast is pretty poor in some of them as the sky has gone too light. It was a cloudy day anyway, but they were thin and high so they were quite bright and the blue sky was rather pale. I'm assuming I'll need to play around with manual exposure settings, but at the moment, I'm still coming to grips with the fact I've got a flash bit of kit!

 

When I used to go out taking photos with my Canon Powershot, people would gaily march through the shot, but today, I noticed that people were alot more aware of me and were incredibly polite about not getting in my way! I felt rather guilty to be honest, and when I saw someone coming and they were going to spoil my shot, I just pretended to fiddle with my camera and turned away to allow them time. Aren't I daft!

 

Anyway, I'd be grateful for any comments or suggestions to get me started: Djelibeybi's day out in Hope Valley

[Squiggs]

when I saw someone coming and they were going to spoil my shot, I just pretended to fiddle with my camera and turned away to allow them time. Aren't I daft!

 

 

I do exactly the same.

 

And I did the "fiddling with dials" a lot, today since I was taking photos in the NEC Outdoors Show

 

Only trouble is, when I WANTED shots to show crowds of people, they all parted like the sea for Moses....

[djelibeybi]

Only trouble is, when I WANTED shots to show crowds of people, they all parted like the sea for Moses....

 

Squiggs

 

You had me in hysterics with that observation!

[hockeybear]

Some good photos there

I like the "entrance to Odin mine" and the "Gorge by Odin mine" has great detail in the forground.

Play about with the manual controls, take the same picture on different speeds etc and look at which is the best exposure.

Also if you want to come along on a SF photo meet we'll be glad to see another new face.

 

Dave..

[djelibeybi]

Some good photos there

I like the "entrance to Odin mine" and the "Gorge by Odin mine" has great detail in the forground.

Play about with the manual controls, take the same picture on different speeds etc and look at which is the best exposure.

Also if you want to come along on a SF photo meet we'll be glad to see another new face.

 

Dave..

 

Dave

 

Many thanks for the advice and thanks for the compliments about my composition.

 

The SF photo meets sound like a great idea, but I have a balance disorder which makes it difficult for me to walk distances and as a result I suffer from chronic fatigue.

[hockeybear]

 

The SF photo meets sound like a great idea, but I have a balance disorder which makes it difficult for me to walk distances and as a result I suffer from chronic fatigue.

 

Ah right, well check out where Aprils meet is,(its not been decided yet) and see if it looks like too much walking for you, we don't tend to go far and we walk very slow because people are stopping all the time to take photographs.

 

Dave..

[djelibeybi]

Ah right, well check out where Aprils meet is,(its not been decided yet) and see if it looks like too much walking for you, we don't tend to go far and we walk very slow because people are stopping all the time to take photographs.

 

Dave..

 

Dave

 

That's a good point, actually......I'll keep an eye out and see if I think I can handle it.

 

Cheers!

[djelibeybi]

A friend asked and it's something I forgot to mention.....none of the photos have been tweaked on a computer. They're as is...straight from the camera, onto the website.

[Hemlock]

H! I totally agree with Hockeybear - I like the same 2 photos - but I also like the plant on the rock - not much of a surprise for those who know me!!

There are some lovely photos there & we would love you to join us if you could manage it. We tend to go to places where there is a smallish area where we wander around as we see fit & when everyone has had enough we will wander to the next 'area'. Not a lot of walking, just a lot of clicking!

If you have any suggestions for a nice photographic opportunity you could manage, just let us know!

[ImpInaBox]

Not a lot of walking, just a lot of clicking!

 

...and waiting for Hemlock to finish taking pictures of walls and tiny pieces of lichen!

 

I liked the two pics of Mam Tor. By keeping the sky to a minimum as you did there you get a much more powerful image and it has the added advantage that there's not enough sky to confuse the exposure metering and give you dark, under exposed pictures. Try some similar shots with more and less sky and you'll see what I mean.

 

I also liked the shot looking out of the Odin Mine. It's pretty much impossible to expose that sort of shot correctly tho - you went for detail in the foreground and hence over exposed the outside bit (which is probably the better thing to do there incidentally - tho it depends on what result you're looking for). The only way to get detail in both the inside and the outside of the cave would be to shoot raw and then fiddle with it on the computer - or to bracket your exposure (ie. take one under and one over exposed) and then combine them on the computer!

 

Looks like you had a good day anyway. Keep it up.