Hi, Fellow Pentaxians! Sub-forum moderator has gotten in touch with me to see if I can help organised this month's meet. :sweat: An honour to do so for the local CS Pentax scene.
Please allow me to indulged a little bit of my experience with Pentax ...
I got into Pentax with the K100D. Like many of you who started in CS and in your photographic journey with CS-Pentax, I explored several genres. But what got me into Photography was to travel and shoot slightly better images. For me, it's about documenting the moment in time, or the expressions of the locals, or the landscapes we see. That's how I have been using my Pentax cameras.
Recently, someone in the group asked me, how did I learn to utilize my photographic tools to take the sunrise or the sunset photos I took. I actually suggested to him, keep going to the same location, get use to using your camera to the point that you don't need to fumble through the settings. And even in the same location, you'll start to expand your compositional sense asking questions, "Is there another angle?", "Where's the sun now in this part of the year", "Do I need a wider POV", "should I go for a more "compressed" POV?" "How can I make use of the features-laden Ks I have?" ... Familiarity of the location helps you work on these other questions.
So why Merlion Park? It was the easiest location to get to for me (sorry to say). It was also the easiest location for me to get my sunrise. I took this image back in 2009 when I wanted to be a bit more serious with my landscape/cityscape genre.
Till this day, I kept going back, exploring angles, exploring camera's in-built capabilities, exploring how to use my filters with my different set of lenses, utilizing different tools for different weather.
And hopefully I have improved a little bit over the years through my images...
Please allow me to indulged a little bit of my experience with Pentax ...
I got into Pentax with the K100D. Like many of you who started in CS and in your photographic journey with CS-Pentax, I explored several genres. But what got me into Photography was to travel and shoot slightly better images. For me, it's about documenting the moment in time, or the expressions of the locals, or the landscapes we see. That's how I have been using my Pentax cameras.
Recently, someone in the group asked me, how did I learn to utilize my photographic tools to take the sunrise or the sunset photos I took. I actually suggested to him, keep going to the same location, get use to using your camera to the point that you don't need to fumble through the settings. And even in the same location, you'll start to expand your compositional sense asking questions, "Is there another angle?", "Where's the sun now in this part of the year", "Do I need a wider POV", "should I go for a more "compressed" POV?" "How can I make use of the features-laden Ks I have?" ... Familiarity of the location helps you work on these other questions.
So why Merlion Park? It was the easiest location to get to for me (sorry to say). It was also the easiest location for me to get my sunrise. I took this image back in 2009 when I wanted to be a bit more serious with my landscape/cityscape genre.
Till this day, I kept going back, exploring angles, exploring camera's in-built capabilities, exploring how to use my filters with my different set of lenses, utilizing different tools for different weather.
And hopefully I have improved a little bit over the years through my images...
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