Ballaaaaa.

Is that two 5DII's?

Some of us rely on our camera gear to pay the bills.

If you want to make a small fortune in photography, you need to start with a large one. :p

or maybe you just don't spend enough LOL

but yea I learned that if your good and your REALLY into it gets REALLY expensive. But for someone who just wants to take pics every now and then ... thats different =D

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that is true. but when you think of it. it's probably alot cheaper than starting most businesses...

a small restaurant will cost alot more than $10,000 to start...

^^^ but the potential returns of being a restaurant owner are greater.

lol so true :D

i think that's arguable.
it all depends on ur market and how much research you do. just like photography, if you offer the wrong product at the wrong time/place, you're not goin to make it.

also is how you go about with the business. Most ppl start photography as a part time hobby, if they make it then they do, if not, then watever stick with the dayjob. Not many ppl willing to give up their dayjobs to put all there time into photography. How many 1st time restaurant owners can say they do it as a part time gig?

that's a good company, they do nice work. But i can assure you they dont do as many different exposures as you would think. maybe 3-4 lights, up to 6 exposures. the rest is done in post.

if you're looking into achieving that look, my advice is to put as much time if not more into figuring out the editing than on the actual photographing

these are awesome!

Nice photos! How do you like using that K20D?

To sum it up; shooting landscape, portraiture, and flowers/nature it is superb. The K20D resolves a lot of detail and the lenses are wonderfully sharp and produces excellent color and out of focus bokeh. The K20D even does AF micro adjust calibration to make the most of each lens. Built in image stabilizer allows me to take shots with lower ISO etc. I've also used it in pouring rain without cover because camera body is fully sealed as are many of the lenses.

At it's price point it cannot be beat as you can buy top dollar lenses for much less than of the cost of Nikon or Canon. Just my opinion, but I think its pretty accurate.

Where I have found limits of the system has been with Sports photography and birds in flight photos; Pentax AF is very accurate but it is slower than competing cameras such as a D300 or 40D. Its not a deal breaker as it just means I have to do more anticipation and manual / catch in focus at certain times.

Theres a new Pentax coming out on May 21st, I hope it will improve the AF then I will be really happy.

Anticipating the same as well. May 21st!

That new Pentax 15mm f3.5 is a very interesting lens. They make really good lenses & cameras.

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I couldn't decide what was better so here's both!

Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 in halong bay, Vietnam.

Kayaking is exhausting.

Practice Practice.
My f-stop was too low.

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I like this one better :)

You got some great shots on that trip!

This needs some behind the scene colour work first. The kayaks don't stand out enough to be captivating.

are you talking about the colour image?

My photoshop is pretty limited... just recently I started working with layers, and i'm learning gradients right now? wanna edit the raw file for me and see what you can do with it? I'm captivated to sharpen up my photoshop.

You should play with the B&W colour sliders in ACR to get the tones the way you want them, or play with the channel mixer in monochrome mode.

Image>adjustments>channel mixer -click the 'monochrome' box. Just make sure the total exposure doesn't go over 100% to avoid blown highlights.

The approximate slider values to simulate traditional B&W filters:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ap/Filters.jpg

I really prefer the color one - the bright colors are such a great contrast to the grey background!

If you have Picasa, use the Filtered B&W function to play with color-filter effects - it's really easy to watch, as you wave the color dropper over the palette, how the different filter tones affect the B&W.

on this note, there is actually a great article in "digital photo pro" (one of the best magazines) on making great black and whites.

I'll see if i can scan it.

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First time playing with my camera after 8 months.. still have very little knowledge.

C&C Please =)

There is also a great article in this month's issue of 'Black & White Photography'.