My favourite little dinosaurs are the rainbow lorikeets: bright and colourful, acrobatic, clowns, stroppy, and just all-around fabulous. We’ve had a pair around a few times lately, and I’m very happy with this photo I nabbed the other day: 40 year-old lens, btw. I love my Takumar 135. I also love Lightzone, which I’m learning to use better and better. Perhaps a post dedicated to … Continue reading Gorgeous Clowns
So then. iOS 8 then. Pretty cool, save one thing in particular. No, I’ll not join the ranks of the poor folks who thought that all their photos had been eaten, simply because the album organisation had changed and the camera roll disappeared… I do mean something in the photos app though: it really does not seem to cope at all well with RAW files. … Continue reading No RAW thanks, we’re iOS 8
I had a day most excellent today. Rosellas visited; then king parrots – a couple of bold ones even perched on my arm, then my young son’s, to have a feed. Then came a pair of rainbow lorikeets. This month my Pentax has affixed to it my Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 135mm – the perfect lens for today. 😀 After processing the resulting photos as usual, on … Continue reading Nailed it
I’m engaged in a mini-challenge, or project at the moment. That’s over and above the single lens challenge on the Pentax Forums (using one lens every day for a month): as well as that, I’m limiting myself to 24 frames (like a roll of film) a week; I take all unmetered shots – without chimping, at least until I’ve moved away and can’t repeat the … Continue reading Self-limiting
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