Fresh girl portraits - Pentax K10d Helios 44-2

[Salatik]

Beautiful young lady. Fresh photos from the latest photosession.

#1/2

#3

#4

#5

[Attila]

WOW , beautiful indeed! Stunning pictures.

[Salatik]

Thank you! She is so great. I'm lucky man because so many nice models here in Ukraine

[NikonD]

great colors and sharpness... are these at f4?

[Salatik]

1-4 at f/2.8 and the last one is at f/2. Shapness at f/2.8 isn't bad at all.

[NikonD]

sharpness is superb! even at f2

[Attila]

[F16SUNSHINE]

Yup she is fresh. Looks like you just popped opened the can on this one

Nice work. I hope she likes them.

[rbelyell]

very impressive. i think the k5/10 underrated/under represented. seems like a great camera.

[martinsmith99]

Great images from one of my favourite lenses!

[Salatik]

Thanks to all! What about K10d - it's a really great camera specially when you are using MF lenses to avoid problems with not perfect pentax autofocus. I wish only a little higher working ISO coz I don't like to use flashes.
#5 captured at 1000 iso and after +0.5EV correction it looks too noisy for me even in BW.

[rbelyell]

i dont know, 5 looks fine on my screen. what is the highest iso you are comfortsble with the camera?

[Orio]

The girl is beautiful, but your photos are even more so.
Great work. I like all the compositions, very tastefully made, and great directing of the girl's poses.
Great use of the hands which are historically the most difficult thing to pose.

It's really difficult to choose a favourite one. You obviously did also a very careful work of selection.
This is really a lesson that would benefit many: even with a beautiful subject, to select only a few, best shots,
is much better and has more impact than presenting 20-30 photos of many small variations.

I would make only one edit, I would clone off the zip of the boot in the first photo. It is somehow distracting.

[Salatik]

I think 1100 ISO is the highest useful value. 1600 is unacceptable for me on this camera. ISO 800 is a little noisy too, but sometimes noise at this sensitivity looks like film grain so it stills OK.

[Salatik]

Orio thank you for detailed comment!
You are right. We did total 58 shots in a hour photosession. I've already finished postprocessing for 8 of them. And this 5 is the best in my opinion.

[pich900]

Very nice portraits, I love them all and I like also a lot the post-processing, perfectly done!

[kds315*]

Beautiful portraits of a very pretty girl indeed!

[Lloydy]

The first b&w picture, she's holding the hood and looking up, is superb. She is a very pretty girl, that's obvious in all the pictures. But in this one she's gorgeous. Your camera angle and closeness show the curve of her cheekbones and her eyes sparkle. It's the best picture of a fine set.

[dude163]

I agree that 1st B+W is great

[atomstitcher]

Very nice. I particularly like #3

[Laurence]

GORGEOUS work, and gourgeous work with an unheralded lens!

I had heard somewhere that women in the Ukraine are REALLY willing
to pose. I wonder why? It's always a problem around here to get
a woman to pose, and just asking itself has to be very careful that a person
wouldn't offend the girl.

I'm not sure, but it seems that Japanese women are also comfortable
with posing for the camera.

[Salatik]

Thanks to all #3 is my favorite too. I don't konw why girls here willing to pose maybe it's because they want to look on themselves in compare with professional models.