My Pentax K3 arrived earlier in the week, so this weekend is my first chance to give it a test drive. All I can say is that the more I use this camera, the more impressed I am. Here are a few shots from this weekend - ordered by how well I like them (favorite first) -click on an image for a larger file. These closeups were all taken with the Pentax K3, A* 200mm f4 macro, tripod mounted. Live view, with focus peaking was used to take most of these shots.
Moss
This morning I visited the Allegan Forest, which is crawling with hunters this time of year. In a field that reliably hosts Halloween Pennant and Calico Pennant dragonflies in the early summer, I took a few intimate landscapes. This moss shot is a stacked focused composite of several images.
Yesterday was a very windy day and lots of sprigs of berries, like this, were littering the ground. Not sure where they came from. Unlike the previous shot, this is a single exposure.
More Moss
Another stack focus shot - a different kind of moss.
Didn’t want to adjust anything here…
Eastern prickly pear is pretty abundant in the forest - you gotta be careful where you drop down to take that bug photo.
Berries on moss. These almost look like grapes…
Another stack focused shot - some random leaves on the ground in November…
And lastly - during Saturday’s windstorm my wife and I went to South Haven in hopes of seeing big waves crashing against the lighthouse. Well - you gotta have high winds and they have to come from the right direction to make those big waves. But here is a snapshot of the lighthouse - again in the mode of test driving the K3 - with a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 EX lens. This is the earliest version of the lens, non-macro and non-DG - but it seems to work OK with the K3:
Pentax K3, Sigma 70-200 f2.8.
This entry was posted by Mark C and filed under Allegan State Game Area, Allegan Forest, Macro Photography, Pentax K3. 2 comments
Comment from: Mike LeValley Visitor
Comment from: mcc Member
Thanks, Mike - I see what you mean about the shape of the leaves. I guess take the adage “if you see three let it be” a little too literally at times.
Mark
Mark,
First time looking at your blog in a long time - months actually. I really like some of the images that you have posted here (especially the first moss image), but I think you made an error in identification. The one plant is not poison ivy, the leave shape is all wrong - poison ivy does not have as many teeth on its margin. It looks like a variety of raspberry or blackberry to me. I can’t see any thorns, but there are thornless varieties.