Saturday, October 27, 2007

Wedding

I shot a wedding today, only the party. The pentax 540 flash works all right and the diffuser works very nice. I probably should get one myself. I shot with 16-45/4 with flash on my K10D and 50/1.7 on a friend's K100D with ambient light. The 50/1.7 is mostly used in F1.7 and DoF is very shallow. I missed quite some focus due to MF. The contrast is not high and saturation is on the low side. I forgot to tweak the setting on K100D and maybe that is the reason. Or maybe it is just the Pentax feeling people talked about old Pentax lens, not very high in the color. The party is on a low-roof room and most of the flashes shots turn out fairly good. But I should watch out more in the wide-angle (16mm) shots, sometimes the flash head bend too much in bounce position and the direct light shows up in the upper corner of the pictures.

I would like not to reveal the people here. So here are two still life shots and they are actually on my K10D. The saturation and contrast is fairly high here though. So maybe that is just the setting on camera.