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 Hi Photographer friends,

Download a FREE sample of the Pentax K-1 e-book or the K-3/K-3II or the K-5/K-5II e-book, or K-S2 ebook.


K-1 e-book:



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K-3/K-3II e-book



K-5/K-5II e-book

Now, for you Pentax owners, I do have e-books for most of the Pentax DSLRs. You can check this site ebooks4cameras.com and even download any e-book for checking the contents. 

The K-1 e-book is available NOW.

Click on the image above to visit our e-book store. You can also download sample e-books and get the free AF front and back focusing adjustment charts at this e-commerce.

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Thank you for your support. Here are a few comments from people that purchased one of our e-book.

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 Hi Photographer friends,

Thank you for your support. Here are a few comments from people that purchased one of our e-book.

• Thank you. I find your books very helpful and have recommended to my Pentax friends. JPS

•  Hi Yvon
  I just wanted to let you know that I read through some of the K3 book this evening, and it's really excellent. I've been using the camera for about 18 months and would consider myself proficient with it, but there are some facilities I've never used (because I didn't think I needed them). Your book is opening up new possibilities for me, plus it's an excellent way to remind myself of things I've forgotten.
   
  Thanks for a superb product.
   
  Kind regards
   
  Mike

• Good morning Yvon,
  
  
  Thank you for sending me your eBook sample as per my request. From what I have seen I really liked your book and I find that it will be very helpful to me as a new comer to the Pentax DSLR world, so when I get home this evening I will be buying your book.
  
  
  Again, thank you very much and have a great day.
  
  
  Kind regards,
  
  
  Jorge

• I wish Pentax would give you the task of writing their manuals. Your books are what their manuals should be like.  Peter.s

• I thought I knew my K-3 but after buying your ebook, I realized there was so much I didn't know. Very well written and easy to understand.
   
  Thanks, 
  Larry

Thank you,

Yvon Bourque

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Our Pentax e-book store just got a face lift.

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 Hi Photographer friends,

We upgraded the look of our Pentax e-book store. You can now download e-book samples directly from the store. The AF front/back focusing adjustment charts are also downloadable for FREE.

Our main Social Media sites are accessible directly within the e-store.

Let's get away from the new FF Pentax and lenses for a while and look at what we can do to improve "not-so-good" images.

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Hi Photographer friends,

Color images are great, but sometimes they lack punch and no matter what you do, you can't make them project what you had in mind.

I like Black & White images but they are more often than not very cold. I found that turning some images to antique looking in Photoshop Lightroom often save some bland images. There is a little more to it, but the process in most Imaging software is about the same.

When you turn an image to basically a Black & White (or antique or sepia which renders warmer images) in Lightroom, the color saturation section can be used like the old Black & White film filters. Playing with blue, red, yellow, green and orange filters, you can change the intensity of the shadows and contrasts of your image. 

You ought to try this on some of your images you find flat. You might be surprised. The images below looked flat to me and now I believe they have more punch and project more of a 3D look.

All images were taken a while back using the Pentax K-5 or K-7.

Thank you for reading,

Yvon Bourque

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# 18 - Our current two-year RV trip across North America. This week's; Red Rock Canyon, Nevada. I used the Pentax K-5 and the smc PENTAX DA 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 ED (IF) Fish-Eye

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 Hi Photographer friends,

This week we find ourselves in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area just outside Las Vegas. It's not the most magnificent Park we have in the Country, but if you visit Las Vegas, you should plan for a visit. 

THe images herein were all taken with the Pentax K-5 and the smc PENTAX DA 10-17mm F3.5-4.5 ED (IF) Fish-Eye. This is really a fun lens to use. It can distort the images but if you keep the lens perpendicular to the horizon, it shows very little distortion.

Because so much of the image in condensed in this ultra wide angle lens, the colors are more saturated. The skies gives this dark blue without the use of a polarizing filter. You actually cannot use a polarizer with this lens as the skies would have dark spots. Try it, and see for yourself. You cannot use a filter as the front lens curvature is in the way.

We are having the time of our life travelling across this big Country. 

Thank you for visiting,

Yvon Bourque

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Follow our two year trip across North America with our Pentax Photographic Equipment.

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 Hi Photographer friends,

We have been on the road since July of 2013. Midway through our trip, I started a weekly report of our journey, complete with a short history of the location and some images taken with my Ricoh / Pentax K-3 or K-5 using various lenses.  If you haven't been following, this week is a recap of part of our trip.

The first section of the trip was from California to Florida. We then visited part of the Atlantic coast and  now we are going back West. 

We will continue to post about the places we visit and will explain which lens was used and why. It should be interesting. Click on images below to  read the post about each place and to view additional images.

Yvon Bourque

This is our house on wheel for this adventure.

Recap of our trip across North America in our RV and our Pentax equipment...simply the best.

Week # 12 - Florida, Click on the image. 

Week # 11 - Jacksonville, Florida, Click on the image. 

Week # 10 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Click on the image. 

Week # 9 - Baltimore, Maryland, Click on the image. 

Week # 8 - South of the Border, South Carolina, Click on the image.  

Week # 7 - Amish Country, Pennsylvania,Click on the image. 

Week # 6 - Maryland, Click on the image. 

Week # 5 - Savannah, Georgia, Click on the image. 

Week # 4 - St-Augustine, Florida, Click on the image. 

Week # 3 - Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Click on the image. 

Week # 2 - Breaux Bridge, Cajun Country, Louisiana, Click on the image. 

Week # 1 -
New Orleans, Louisiana, Click on the image. 

# 10 - Weekly Chronicle and Photo Album of our current two-year trip across the U.S. and Canada in our RV with our Ricoh/Pentax equipment. This week, retro to Las Vegas which is one week before starting our trip. I used my Pentax K-5.

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 Hi Photographer friends,

This week, I am taking you back to before we started our RV travel. We visited some friends in Vegas and I ventured late at night to capture some night photography. Vegas is surely a good place for that. I like neon lights, busy streets and illuminated buildings. There's no place live Vegas for that.

This time, what happens in Vegas is not staying in Vegas.

I was still using my Pentax K-5 at the time, and used various lenses on this photo shoot. I thought I would be alone, since it was around 1:00 A.M. Well, Vegas never sleeps. 

A few things you need to know when shooting at night.

• You need a tripod or a device to keep the camera from moving. I used a Gitzo tripod. 
• I often use the Pentax remote control F but when in an environment like this, I prefer using a cable switch like the Pentax CS-205. Similar results could also be achieved by using the built-in self-timer. Never press the shutter with your finger. It will generate blurring.
• Once you frame the scene, an aperture of f/8 is usually a good place to start. A wide aperture can introduce flares and a small aperture will take forever. My first test shot is always at 1 second. From there, I adjust accordingly. Using Digital SLRs is great as you can see the image instantly and make all of the adjustments until you like the results. 
• Remember that it's always easier to fix an underexposed image that it is to fix an overexposed one. You can always fix shadow to a point but if a portion of the image is so overexposed that it's washed out, you can never bring that back. 
• I use Adobe Lightroom on all my images. There is always something that can be fixed.
• I shoot exclusively in RAW and convert to JPEG after fine-tuning the while balance, the exposure, the colors, the clarity, and other parameters. Of course, it doesn't always need correction, but if it does, RAW is the only way to go.

Go out there and make some images.

Next week, I will be in Florida. I'm sure there is going to be a lot of opportunities.

Have a great week and I hope to have you all as visitors next Wednesday for the continuation of my travel series of images.

Thanks for reading,
Yvon Bourque

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Revive old images taken with a 3.39 megapixels camera using Lightroom.

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 Hi Photographer friends,

I posted a while back about keeping your pictures that were well composed but with an incorrect exposure. My point was that someday, software would be available to correct the badly exposed images. Every year, new software packages are introduced with more and more capabilities. The pictures below were taken with digital cameras between 1998 and 2000. One camera had 3.39 megapixels. 

Using Lightroom 5.3, I was able to revive some pictures, even more than I did before. I think they were all well composed , but the exposure and other factors keep me from doing anything with these images, except for keeping them in my photo files.

I cannot make them bigger and expect great results, but by using today's tools, I think they are acceptable for computer screen viewing and emails, or even Facebook and other social media places.

Here's what I did.

I tweaked the color and made them more vivid. I used Lightroom's Clarity slider, then the sharpening slider (to the right) and finally the Noise Reduction and Luminance. It makes the images look slightly like a water color print, but hides all of the imperfections.

In the end, photography is an Art and what ever pleases you or the viewers, is okay. 

Thank you for reading,

Yvon Bourque

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