Welcome to the 128th edition of the Pentax Forum's Picture of the Week!
This edition covers photos taken between August 22th and September 5th, 2010, or shots from last week you haven't processed until now.

Thanks to woof for hosting last week and thanks for choosing me as the host.

POTW is a great place to show what you're shooting day-to-day with your cameras. It gives us all a chance to see what other members are up to with their Pentax cameras in their parts of the world in which they live or have visited. We can share ideas and hopefully learn from one another which is great too!

So show us what you've seen in your little corner of the planet! I look forward to seeing all of what's out there this week.

Again same rules as before:

1) No theme, just post your favorite pix.

2) Let's keep it to under 6 images per post just so the thread doesn't get too big each week.

3) Any Pentax camera or Samsung SLR is fine, whether it's film, P&S, or DSLR.

4) Date: Sunday August 22 to Sunday September 5 2010. Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes. Old shots with a new look from post-processing during the open time period are also welcome.

5) The current host will appoint the new host as an invitation via PM. If possible, the new thread will be linked to the previous one and the new thread will start between Noon EDT and 5PM EDT on Sunday. If the thread doesn't start, please contact Peter Zack, Moderator via PM.

Previous hosts: Each one is a hotlink to that POTW thread to look past at the previous 117 weeks. 1 Peter Zack, 2Eaglerapids 3 rmtagg, 4 Peter Zack, 5 daacon, 6 Bramela, 7 mtnbearhug, 8 dantuyhoa, 9 gawan,10 roentarre, 11 daacon, 12 Kris, 13 mtnbearhug, 14 SCGushue, 15 daacon, 16 maxwell1295, 17 dantuyhoa, 18 daacon, 19 maxwell1295 19(2) daacon, 20 Bramela, 21 Syb, 22 maxwell1295, 23 maxwell1295, 24 dantuyhoa, 25 Gawan, 26 Peter Zack, 27 borno, 28 daacon, 29 gawan, 30 Damn Brit, 31 maxwell1295 32 maxwell1295 , 33 dantuyhoa, 34 daacon, 35 Peter Zack, 36 Damn Brit, 37 Borno, 38 Kevint, 39 Peter Zack, 40 Timbo13, 41 daacon, 42 daacon, 43 gawan, 44 dantuyhoa, 45 daacon, 46 Rense, 47 daacon, 48 Rense, 49 borno, 50 Rense, 51 daacon, 52 Peter Zack, 53 Peter Zack, 54 dadipentax, 55 David Whiteley, 56 planedriver, 57 daacon,58 Bramela, 59 daacon, 60 gawan, 61 virgilr, 62 daacon, 63 RickL, 64 Peter Zack, 65 Peter Zack, 66 Causey 67 daacon, 68 Bramela, 69 georgeweb, 70 daacon, 71 seacapt, 72 daacon, 73 AOski, 74 Rense 75 eccs19, 76 daacon, 77 xs400, 78 daacon, 79 Bramela, 80 borno, 81 legacyb4, 82 daacon, 83 gawan, 84 Rense, 85 Peter Zack, 86 davef, 87 davef, 88 xjjohnno 89 Bramela , 90 Peter Zack, 91 daacon, 92 stevebrot ,93 reeftool, 94 jezza323, 95 oldschool, 96 Iris, 97 Rense, 98 planedriver, 99 xs400, 100 Peter Zack, 101 Netuser 102 Photolady, 103 Tamia, 104 Irishwhite, 105 Ramseybuckeye, 106 xjjohnno, 107 Bumbibop, 108 JeffJS, 109 Tpeace, 110 Nomad, 111 Photolady, 112 rparmar, 113 Peter Zack, 114 casil403, 115 Tamia 116 JeffJS, 117 bbluesman, 118 Clou, 119 ruggiex, 120 Jimbow007, 121 jmschrie, 122 VaughnA 123 pop4, 124 casil403, 125 woof, 126 twitch, 127 stevebrot, 128 ohce


Here are two to start us off:
#1.


#2.

[jmschrei]

The schooner Lady Ellen

Awesome colours and images, Peter.

-Joe

[ohce]

Ottawa river sunset

[r0ckstarr]

[rparmar]

A couple from yesterday at the market. I think the French pug is called Callas.


stripes


(Shot with the FA 43mm Limited.)


pug


(Shot with the FA 43mm Limited.)

[and]

nice weather today so took a short hike up the local mountain, didnt have too much time to shoot though but took a few. hm might have gotten a bit oversharpened because of the flickr export output sharpening.

[Clou]

Thanks for the nice comments, bunch of great pictures in here...

Went to a small airport today, there were sone demonstrations. Here are a few results:

Demonstration of a scale model of a Walter Extra 260


Continued


View during a roundtrip in a power glider


Rope with parachute from a winch launch


Touching the propeller tips

[jheu02]

A couple from today's Single in September shoot. Slight levels/curves corrections, a little crop and resized. Forgot to write down the f-stop, but it was no higher than 4.8. I'm loving this lens the more I use it.

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[stevebrot]

nice weather today so took a short hike up the local mountain, didnt have too much time to shoot though but took a few. hm might have gotten a bit oversharpened because of the flickr export output sharpening.

Andreas,
That is an incredible (self?) portrait. The fill lighting is just about perfect. Excellent!


Steve

[and]

Andreas,
That is an incredible (self?) portrait. The fill lighting is just about perfect. Excellent!


Steve

thanks! well you can call it a future self portrait preview since its my dad.
I somehow managed to barely balance it but it was just barely, the flash was on full power and it was really close, just barely not visible in the shot. Oh how great it would be to get an electronic shutter that could sync at 1/1000. My old sony p&s can do it, annoying that expensive DSLRs cant. Moreover Pentax is behind the curve with their 1/180 compared to the more common 1/200 and 1/250 of other brands.

Well I wish I had a pcb einstein with a vagabond II and a large modifier in that situation, then I could live with the sync speed . AndI would have a lot more flexibility than just struggling to see how close to the lightsource you can get the subject.

[Clou]

{...} Oh how great it would be to get an electronic shutter that could sync at 1/1000. My old sony p&s can do it, annoying that expensive DSLRs cant. {...}

Err - both AF-360FGZ and AF-540FGZ are capable of high speed sync once you are in manual mode or in exposure time priority and below the flash sync speed (automatic mode will direct you to the flash sync exposure time).
You will have to deal with a lower guide number, but this information is available in the manual
Or is it something beyond that you are aiming at?

[and]

Err - both AF-360FGZ and AF-540FGZ are capable of high speed sync once you are in manual mode (automatic mode will make use of the flash sync exposure time).
You will have to deal with a lower guide number, but this information is available in the manual
Or is it something beyond that you are aiming at?

I was using a nikon flash so it was not an option. It is a very poor substitute for real flash sync.

[jmschrei]

Is there a new thread yet or should we extend this one for another week?

-Joe

[casil403]

Maybe we should start another....Who wants to host. I did it recently and I have a busy week ahead of me with school starting so am unable...
Joe...can you host it?

[jmschrei]

A new thread is up Lisa. It is a short week now so I'm sure I can manage!
-Joe

[Peter Zack]

The new POTW is now up! https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/mini-challenges-games-photo-stories/11355...12-2010-a.html