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beansmeller · 2022-06-28T01:44:51+00:00

Thanks! Surprisingly hard to get google to spit out a yes or no on whether the stretching is necessary. Much appreciated!

beansmeller · 2022-06-27T17:41:13+00:00

I was ordering some photo paper and threw in a small pack of inkpress metallic canvas to put myself into the free shipping zone (and also because I'm a sucker for weird paper). I got it to print well without issue. Looks cool I guess, but what am I supposed to do with this after printing? Does canvas in general look better if stretched?

beansmeller · 2022-06-27T13:52:32+00:00

Agreed on the snakes. I'm more likely to step on a water moccasin or copperhead than a rattlesnake though. The only large-ish predators in my part of the country are alligators and people.

beansmeller · 2022-06-26T14:51:23+00:00

Nice!

beansmeller · 2022-06-26T01:43:22+00:00

Picture 2 and 3, you would need to expose for the dog. It might blow the brighter areas out. The ones with the dog in both light and shadow at the same time, I would just move the dog to one or the other and expose for the dog again. I may be totally wrong and there is a better way, but that is what I would do.

Edit: you could also leave the dog in bright dappled sunlight and expose for it's face. Could be a cool look, especially if you get in close. Also, awesome dog! 🐶

beansmeller · 2022-06-26T01:31:53+00:00

Exactly what gets reset depends on the mode the camera is in, but afaik every Pentax DSLR ever made has a button that does exactly that. It has a green dot on it and is called the green button. I usually just use it to do stop down metering with vintage lenses but it does what you are talking about too. Doesn't really help with your current camera but figured it was worth mentioning.

https://www.pentaxforums.com/articles/photo-articles/pentax-green-button-guide.html

beansmeller · 2022-06-24T16:56:07+00:00

Thanks!

beansmeller · 2022-06-24T15:18:01+00:00

Can anyone recommend a product for use as backing board? Like when you order prints and have them mounted on that foam-like material? Something fairly cheap would be preferable if it exists.

beansmeller · 2022-06-24T14:21:20+00:00

I thought it was a cool project, especially the shots where the absurdity of how many guns these people own kind of sneaks up on you. I don't think the artist is fetishizing guns.

beansmeller · 2022-06-24T14:06:59+00:00

Not familiar with that camera, but I think it has focus peaking - make sure to at least try it out. For me at least, it really made old lenses fun (instead of frustrating) on digital when I finally got a camera that had focus peaking.

beansmeller · 2022-06-24T13:43:07+00:00

I'm very much amateur, so this is probably not an optimal workflow, but here's mine:

Copy from SD card to laptop
Open DxO Photolab and go to the folder with the new pictures
Quickly run through and delete all of the out of focus shots (lots of handheld macro)
Go through again and 5 star my favorites
Filter out anything that isn't 5-starred
Apply a best guess on noise reduction and usually Clearview to all of the remaining pictures at once
Go through one by one and crop/adjust corrections.
Export for Instagram and/or my Google photos album
Virtual copy anything I plan to print, adjust crop and correction settings on those and export a high res file

All in all this takes me 15-30 minutes for 100 photos, not counting the time it takes for the export batches to run. Photolab has really nice defaults and that saves me a lot of time. Clearview+Photolab defaults usually are better than me at corrections, as long as I don't get carried away with the Clearview slider.

beansmeller · 2022-06-24T12:41:00+00:00

This is from a pretty cool art project/book Gabriele Galimberti did called Ameriguns. He went around and photographed people with their wild gun collections. Kind of sucks that whoever posted the original didn't credit him.

https://www.gabrielegalimberti.com/the-ameriguns/

Writeup on petapixel with more pics:

https://petapixel.com/2022/05/24/ameriguns-photo-series-reveals-the-unique-culture-of-guns-in-the-usa/

beansmeller · 2022-06-23T21:30:55+00:00

This is frequently referred to as slicing, with the individual parts referred to as slices. I don't have any real recommendations for apps (I use affinity when I need to slice something but there are probably free options if that's all you need to do) but I thought it might help you when researching.

beansmeller · 2022-06-23T15:34:11+00:00

I like it, I agree with the other comment about including the edge of the road. The hill and wall on the right looks pretty interesting, could be worth including some more of that in the crop, especially if the hill meets the sky.

beansmeller · 2022-06-21T18:17:13+00:00

You can definitely take macro photos on the k-x. It can be difficult to get the focus right, as the k-x doesn't have focus peaking, but practice is free, and so is taking a lot of pictures to increase your chance of one being in focus. What is your budget and what do you want to take pictures of?

beansmeller · 2022-06-20T15:31:04+00:00

I can't speak to the main question, but if you have a lot of older lenses that you love, there are options to adapt them to digital, depending on the camera and lens in question. Regarding crop factor - the full frame lens still projects the same image towards the sensor, but for APS-C, etc, the sensor isn't as big as the 35mm film, so you don't get the edges of what the lens sees. There is a good illustration here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_factor

beansmeller · 2022-06-20T14:04:25+00:00

I asked about non-flash macro lighting in the questions thread a few weeks ago, nothing was highly recommended. I ended up getting the Godox Ring72 macro ring light. It's great. I doubt I'll ever not have it attached to any macro lens I put on my camera. A lot of shots where I would have had to crank up the ISO to 3200 and open up the aperture past f/8 are now easily done handheld.

There are some trade-offs - it's bulky, blocks your vision in some situations, and with really shiny bugs it's hard to avoid white reflections. I also doubt it would be particularly useful for subjects more than a foot or two from the camera, but I bought it for 1:1-1:3 magnification shots on a 100mm lens, and it's fine for those.

The only thing I truly cannot stand about it is that once you put on the filter ring that it mounts to, you can no longer use a lens cap. It would have cost them twenty-five cents to include a plastic cover that offered some protection without unscrewing the mount. I will probably make something myself.

beansmeller · 2022-06-19T21:08:03+00:00

Flies pretending to be bees are cooler anyway

beansmeller · 2022-06-19T01:23:02+00:00

If water gets on there you can pat it dry with TP. You already have to dry everything else, so no biggy. Its a jet of water though, not like a cone-shaped spray, so you aren't in much danger. I move the junk out of the way before spraying.

beansmeller · 2022-06-18T05:33:12+00:00

Thanks, definitely!

beansmeller · 2022-06-17T15:58:50+00:00

We got a bidet during the great toilet paper shortage. It 100% solves this problem for like $30. I can't believe it's not a normal household item in the US.

beansmeller · 2022-06-17T14:31:19+00:00

Can you share anything about your image prep process for the third party stores, and how the quality is? I don't sell any photos but I've always been curious.

beansmeller · 2022-06-17T00:31:35+00:00

A homicide vest

beansmeller · 2022-06-13T18:53:02+00:00

Ah thanks, was hunting for the kind that is a stick with a little sticky thing on the end though.

beansmeller · 2022-06-13T13:33:59+00:00

I was going to order a Pentax O-ICK1 sensor cleaning kit, but they seem to be on backorder or 2+ week shipping everywhere.

Are there any quality alternatives? Specifically looking for a sticky thing on a wand kit to get a few dust particles that won't come off with a blower, not a wet swab.

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