Share Your March 2022 Photos!
Quote from kcphotogeek on March 17, 2022, 6:10 amHappy St. Patrick's Day, I'm happily getting more time for photography lately. All shot on the Pentax MX-1, he first two are also developed on the Pentax. I was inspired to do this by a new FB group called PSOOC setup by fellow Pentaxian Eddy Summers.
Very nice photos, that MX-1 sure is nice. The red shirt one is my favorite, with the walking man pedestrian sign. Good timing.
I joined that group but haven't contributed anything yet. I have been developing in-camera more and more so it was neat that he made that group.
Quote from JBP on March 17, 2022, 1:53 pmQuote from kcphotogeek on March 17, 2022, 6:10 amHappy St. Patrick's Day, I'm happily getting more time for photography lately. All shot on the Pentax MX-1, he first two are also developed on the Pentax. I was inspired to do this by a new FB group called PSOOC setup by fellow Pentaxian Eddy Summers.
Very nice photos, that MX-1 sure is nice. The red shirt one is my favorite, with the walking man pedestrian sign. Good timing.
I joined that group but haven't contributed anything yet. I have been developing in-camera more and more so it was neat that he made that group.
Thanks, the red shirt is my favorite also. I took the GR III with me also but all my best shots that day came from the MX-1, proof that sensor size isn’t everything, certainly for street shots anyway
Amazing photos every one!
@heggendazs I love whenever I visit Colorado! Beautiful place. Looks like you had a great trip. Awesome pics.
@denniscrommett I love the street images. Beautiful colors and compositions.
@sprucebruce You do that OG fujifilm justice 🙂 I love small town pics.
@justintung nice pics and scans! I appreciate the film taste you always bring here 🙂
@kcphotogeek Reminds me of Sean Tucker's images! I don't know photographers very well, but I know the ones on YouTube 😉 But the high contrast images with a lot of blacked out areas. Shapes and bold colors. Very nice. That group sounds interesting! I might join later. I shoot a lot straight out of camera.
And to any others I've missed!
Some recent shots:
Hawk by Snappiness, on Flickr
Barred Owl by Snappiness, on Flickr
Little Birdhouse by Snappiness, on Flickr
Hi everyone,
I haven't had the time to check all your images yet, but will do 🙂
Those two last days I have been busy at the Circuit as there was two days of Pre-Season testing for 2 categories or racing cars, so I have had lots of images. As those are test days, I also tried diferent things and angles and types of images.
I will slowly share images here as I don't want to overload the post.
One image I really like is this one:
_IMG6320 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
The two types of race cars were single seaters as you can see in this image, and GT cars.
We have not had nice sunny days, but grey ones so action images do not look as spectacular to me, and I just have uploaded Day 1 images on flickr (and flickr decided to not add them to an album xD)
So will just add this one about action here:
_IMG0101 by Daniel Gonzalez Aguilera, en Flickr
Just because I shoot this and a couple more photos at 1/20sec speed and so when one of those are on focus it's a great pleasure.
It was also great for me to take the chance to test out my new lens, the Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 Pentax mount, as I wasn't sure if this lens is a keeper or not. I haven't decided myself yet, but somehow it can produce images. That I can tell you 🙂
Great photos! I love that Lambo action shot. Very clean! Here's another photo I ended up liking from my CO trip.
Open Range by Alec Heggen, on Flickr
Quote from HeggenDazs on March 18, 2022, 7:26 pmGreat photos! I love that Lambo action shot. Very clean! Here's another photo I ended up liking from my CO trip.
Thank you very much!
Such a beautiful landscape.
Quote from red5isalive on March 18, 2022, 10:23 amHi everyone,
I haven't had the time to check all your images yet, but will do 🙂
Those two last days I have been busy at the Circuit as there was two days of Pre-Season testing for 2 categories or racing cars, so I have had lots of images. As those are test days, I also tried diferent things and angles and types of images.
I will slowly share images here as I don't want to overload the post.
One image I really like is this one:
The two types of race cars were single seaters as you can see in this image, and GT cars.
We have not had nice sunny days, but grey ones so action images do not look as spectacular to me, and I just have uploaded Day 1 images on flickr (and flickr decided to not add them to an album xD)
So will just add this one about action here:
Just because I shoot this and a couple more photos at 1/20sec speed and so when one of those are on focus it's a great pleasure.
It was also great for me to take the chance to test out my new lens, the Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 Pentax mount, as I wasn't sure if this lens is a keeper or not. I haven't decided myself yet, but somehow it can produce images. That I can tell you 🙂
That Lambo photo is amazing. 1/20s, how the heck?! I've never tried it, but I think I get the basic idea of shooting action like this at low shutter speed. You want to pan with the subject so relative to the camera it isn't moving as much, and you get that nice background blur which conveys speed so nicely. But I don't get how that worked in this photo since it seems it is moving away from you. Just amazing. Can you tell me what your technique was? Which way you were panning, stuff like that. I can't wait to try this someday. 😁
Quote from JBP on March 18, 2022, 9:04 pmQuote from red5isalive on March 18, 2022, 10:23 amHi everyone,
I haven't had the time to check all your images yet, but will do
Those two last days I have been busy at the Circuit as there was two days of Pre-Season testing for 2 categories or racing cars, so I have had lots of images. As those are test days, I also tried diferent things and angles and types of images.
I will slowly share images here as I don't want to overload the post.
One image I really like is this one:
The two types of race cars were single seaters as you can see in this image, and GT cars.
We have not had nice sunny days, but grey ones so action images do not look as spectacular to me, and I just have uploaded Day 1 images on flickr (and flickr decided to not add them to an album xD)
So will just add this one about action here:
Just because I shoot this and a couple more photos at 1/20sec speed and so when one of those are on focus it's a great pleasure.
It was also great for me to take the chance to test out my new lens, the Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 Pentax mount, as I wasn't sure if this lens is a keeper or not. I haven't decided myself yet, but somehow it can produce images. That I can tell you
That Lambo photo is amazing. 1/20s, how the heck?! I've never tried it, but I think I get the basic idea of shooting action like this at low shutter speed. You want to pan with the subject so relative to the camera it isn't moving as much, and you get that nice background blur which conveys speed so nicely. But I don't get how that worked in this photo since it seems it is moving away from you. Just amazing. Can you tell me what your technique was? Which way you were panning, stuff like that. I can't wait to try this someday.
Thank you!
Of course I can 🙂
First thing to do is see and find the spot. In this case I have seen it while driving my car on the service road going somewhere else.
So once in place: I have seat in the floor in a position I have lowered myself as much as I could. My elbows were touching my knees so I had stability.
Now: Of course you will not get a magnificent photo shooting only one image and your first image will probably suck.
What I do on my K3-II is I set it up to burst mode, central AF focus point, and then I just try to pan as much as I can. In this corner as you can see we have quite some seconds when the car is visible so that helps to have a better hit rate. I have been there shooting every single car that was passing by. Let's say that by any good image I have had like 20 blurry ones. Maybe it was 1 out of 15 but to be honest is not a great rate. So you also need patience.
Also to mention, as I know the radious of the corner is on the inside I was following the car (trying to point the AF central focus point) poiting on the right side of it, not the back, not the left side (outside side of the car in the corner). That also brings you more time to follow the car and shoot it while panning it.
My first idea was to do some 1/125sec images but my mate joined me with his Nikon D7200 and massive 150-600mm Sigma lens and was doing 1/20th sec images so I though "it's gonna be challenging but if he can, so should I", and I just started shooting.
As per camera configurations:
1. I use TV mode. I like it more than TAV mode. (you can also shoot Manual or even TAV mode)
2. I do use Central Point AF
3. I just set the camera to 1/20th sec (you can start, I also did that) higher at 1/60th for example, and starting going down.
4. I did use auto white balance due to the fact that the day was quite grey
5. I did use high burst mode. This I think it is crucial.
6. Shoot, repeat, shoot, repeat, shoot repeat and don't worry on having zero images on focus. For me it was a testing day so I was expecting to test things.
7. Combined with TV I do use AUTO ISO most of the times. If the day is bright I do set ISO as low as possible but in this case I wasn't feeling that comfortable with the light. (it was a grey / cloudy day).
8.Pre-Focus. Please see the attached photo. There is a bit of a straight before the corner so I used that part to pre-focus and focus on the car in order to keep tracking it at the corner.
I think i do not miss anything, if you see I do please let me know and I'll happily reply 🙂
Hope it helps !
P.S.
Wait! Let me show you how did I seat on the floor. My friend decided to picture me.
You can also see how much of a view we had prior to the corner. We were able to see and pre-focus the cars some meters before they just turn into the corner, so that also helps a lot in order to get the auto-focus to work.
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Quote from red5isalive on March 18, 2022, 10:21 pmQuote from JBP on March 18, 2022, 9:04 pmQuote from red5isalive on March 18, 2022, 10:23 amHi everyone,
I haven't had the time to check all your images yet, but will do
Those two last days I have been busy at the Circuit as there was two days of Pre-Season testing for 2 categories or racing cars, so I have had lots of images. As those are test days, I also tried diferent things and angles and types of images.
I will slowly share images here as I don't want to overload the post.
One image I really like is this one:
The two types of race cars were single seaters as you can see in this image, and GT cars.
We have not had nice sunny days, but grey ones so action images do not look as spectacular to me, and I just have uploaded Day 1 images on flickr (and flickr decided to not add them to an album xD)
So will just add this one about action here:
Just because I shoot this and a couple more photos at 1/20sec speed and so when one of those are on focus it's a great pleasure.
It was also great for me to take the chance to test out my new lens, the Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 Pentax mount, as I wasn't sure if this lens is a keeper or not. I haven't decided myself yet, but somehow it can produce images. That I can tell you
That Lambo photo is amazing. 1/20s, how the heck?! I've never tried it, but I think I get the basic idea of shooting action like this at low shutter speed. You want to pan with the subject so relative to the camera it isn't moving as much, and you get that nice background blur which conveys speed so nicely. But I don't get how that worked in this photo since it seems it is moving away from you. Just amazing. Can you tell me what your technique was? Which way you were panning, stuff like that. I can't wait to try this someday.
Thank you!
Of course I can 🙂
First thing to do is see and find the spot. In this case I have seen it while driving my car on the service road going somewhere else.
So once in place: I have seat in the floor in a position I have lowered myself as much as I could. My elbows were touching my knees so I had stability.
Now: Of course you will not get a magnificent photo shooting only one image and your first image will probably suck.
What I do on my K3-II is I set it up to burst mode, central AF focus point, and then I just try to pan as much as I can. In this corner as you can see we have quite some seconds when the car is visible so that helps to have a better hit rate. I have been there shooting every single car that was passing by. Let's say that by any good image I have had like 20 blurry ones. Maybe it was 1 out of 15 but to be honest is not a great rate. So you also need patience.
Also to mention, as I know the radious of the corner is on the inside I was following the car (trying to point the AF central focus point) poiting on the right side of it, not the back, not the left side (outside side of the car in the corner). That also brings you more time to follow the car and shoot it while panning it.
My first idea was to do some 1/125sec images but my mate joined me with his Nikon D7200 and massive 150-600mm Sigma lens and was doing 1/20th sec images so I though "it's gonna be challenging but if he can, so should I", and I just started shooting.
As per camera configurations:
1. I use TV mode. I like it more than TAV mode. (you can also shoot Manual or even TAV mode)
2. I do use Central Point AF3. I just set the camera to 1/20th sec (you can start, I also did that) higher at 1/60th for example, and starting going down.
4. I did use auto white balance due to the fact that the day was quite grey
5. I did use high burst mode. This I think it is crucial.
6. Shoot, repeat, shoot, repeat, shoot repeat and don't worry on having zero images on focus. For me it was a testing day so I was expecting to test things.
7. Combined with TV I do use AUTO ISO most of the times. If the day is bright I do set ISO as low as possible but in this case I wasn't feeling that comfortable with the light. (it was a grey / cloudy day).8.Pre-Focus. Please see the attached photo. There is a bit of a straight before the corner so I used that part to pre-focus and focus on the car in order to keep tracking it at the corner.
I think i do not miss anything, if you see I do please let me know and I'll happily reply 🙂
Hope it helps !
P.S.
Wait! Let me show you how did I seat on the floor. My friend decided to picture me.
You can also see how much of a view we had prior to the corner. We were able to see and pre-focus the cars some meters before they just turn into the corner, so that also helps a lot in order to get the auto-focus to work.
I would have never ever thought to shoot a race car at 1/20s, so this was super educational for me. That photo your friend took is great, very illuminating to see the photographer, scene, and subject like that. And where you said to focus on the car is something I'll definitely remember, because I was thinking (and I would have done if it were me) that you were focusing on the rear of the car.
Super helpful, thank you!
Quote from JBP on March 19, 2022, 12:22 amQuote from red5isalive on March 18, 2022, 10:21 pmQuote from JBP on March 18, 2022, 9:04 pmQuote from red5isalive on March 18, 2022, 10:23 amHi everyone,
I haven't had the time to check all your images yet, but will do
Those two last days I have been busy at the Circuit as there was two days of Pre-Season testing for 2 categories or racing cars, so I have had lots of images. As those are test days, I also tried diferent things and angles and types of images.
I will slowly share images here as I don't want to overload the post.
One image I really like is this one:
The two types of race cars were single seaters as you can see in this image, and GT cars.
We have not had nice sunny days, but grey ones so action images do not look as spectacular to me, and I just have uploaded Day 1 images on flickr (and flickr decided to not add them to an album xD)
So will just add this one about action here:
Just because I shoot this and a couple more photos at 1/20sec speed and so when one of those are on focus it's a great pleasure.
It was also great for me to take the chance to test out my new lens, the Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 Pentax mount, as I wasn't sure if this lens is a keeper or not. I haven't decided myself yet, but somehow it can produce images. That I can tell you
That Lambo photo is amazing. 1/20s, how the heck?! I've never tried it, but I think I get the basic idea of shooting action like this at low shutter speed. You want to pan with the subject so relative to the camera it isn't moving as much, and you get that nice background blur which conveys speed so nicely. But I don't get how that worked in this photo since it seems it is moving away from you. Just amazing. Can you tell me what your technique was? Which way you were panning, stuff like that. I can't wait to try this someday.
Thank you!
Of course I can
First thing to do is see and find the spot. In this case I have seen it while driving my car on the service road going somewhere else.
So once in place: I have seat in the floor in a position I have lowered myself as much as I could. My elbows were touching my knees so I had stability.
Now: Of course you will not get a magnificent photo shooting only one image and your first image will probably suck.
What I do on my K3-II is I set it up to burst mode, central AF focus point, and then I just try to pan as much as I can. In this corner as you can see we have quite some seconds when the car is visible so that helps to have a better hit rate. I have been there shooting every single car that was passing by. Let's say that by any good image I have had like 20 blurry ones. Maybe it was 1 out of 15 but to be honest is not a great rate. So you also need patience.
Also to mention, as I know the radious of the corner is on the inside I was following the car (trying to point the AF central focus point) poiting on the right side of it, not the back, not the left side (outside side of the car in the corner). That also brings you more time to follow the car and shoot it while panning it.
My first idea was to do some 1/125sec images but my mate joined me with his Nikon D7200 and massive 150-600mm Sigma lens and was doing 1/20th sec images so I though "it's gonna be challenging but if he can, so should I", and I just started shooting.
As per camera configurations:
1. I use TV mode. I like it more than TAV mode. (you can also shoot Manual or even TAV mode)
2. I do use Central Point AF3. I just set the camera to 1/20th sec (you can start, I also did that) higher at 1/60th for example, and starting going down.
4. I did use auto white balance due to the fact that the day was quite grey
5. I did use high burst mode. This I think it is crucial.
6. Shoot, repeat, shoot, repeat, shoot repeat and don't worry on having zero images on focus. For me it was a testing day so I was expecting to test things.
7. Combined with TV I do use AUTO ISO most of the times. If the day is bright I do set ISO as low as possible but in this case I wasn't feeling that comfortable with the light. (it was a grey / cloudy day).8.Pre-Focus. Please see the attached photo. There is a bit of a straight before the corner so I used that part to pre-focus and focus on the car in order to keep tracking it at the corner.
I think i do not miss anything, if you see I do please let me know and I'll happily reply
Hope it helps !
P.S.
Wait! Let me show you how did I seat on the floor. My friend decided to picture me.
You can also see how much of a view we had prior to the corner. We were able to see and pre-focus the cars some meters before they just turn into the corner, so that also helps a lot in order to get the auto-focus to work.
I would have never ever thought to shoot a race car at 1/20s, so this was super educational for me. That photo your friend took is great, very illuminating to see the photographer, scene, and subject like that. And where you said to focus on the car is something I'll definitely remember, because I was thinking (and I would have done if it were me) that you were focusing on the rear of the car.
Super helpful, thank you!
Glad it helps 🙂
Yes I thought the photo would show better than a thousand words 😛
P.S.
One more thing I missed to say is that I think there is a rule or at least I just try to "follow that rule" that it is that depending on the distance between you and the subject/car, you can or can not slow down much. What I mean is, if the car is 1 meter away from you, probably panning at 1/20th will be very hard as you'll have just not much time to shoot it and the distance here doesn't help you at all.
If the car is 100 meters away from you, there you have plenty of time to shoot it. I don't know the rule, I just apply it that if it is not super close, you can lower your shutter down.
I know, it is a weird explanation. It works better when in the field.
