Welcome to another round of Picture of the Week. This is edition #264 covering 28 Apr 2013 through 12 May 2013.

Thanks to mecrox for hosting last week and coaxing a fine collection of shots from our fellow Pentaxians. POTW is a great spot to show off any shots you took last week but haven't processed until now. In other words, you can post your shots from this week AND last week. POTW is a great place to show what you've been shooting day-to-day. We can share ideas, learn from one another, tell stories, and have a good time.

Again same rules as always:

1) No theme, just post your favorite pix.
2) Lets keep it to fewer than 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) Enter anything you shot last week or during this current week until the thread closes.
5) The current host will appoint the new host as an invitation via Private Message (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 bluestringer, Moderator via PM.

Here are the records of previous POTW threads:

1 Peter Zack, 2 Eaglerapids, 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, 129 jmschrei, 130 photolady, 131 photolady, 132 bbluesman, 133 rparmar, 134 reeftool, 135 reeftool, 136 Oldschool, 137 xjjohonno, 138 KarenH , 139 Rense, 140 daacon, 141 Tamia, 142 JeffJS, 143 bbluesman, 144 fotaki, 145 fotaki, 146 Woof, 147 Bramela, 148 Bramela, 149 Tamia, 150 Nomad, 151 Clou, 152 drugal, 153 rparmar, 154 Nomad, 155 jmschrei, 156 noelcmn, 157 noelcmn, 158 rwfarnell, 159 ramseybuckeye, 160 christophleipzig, 161 JeremytheIndian, 162 SpecialK, 163 emetcalf, 164 emetcalf, 165 stevebrot, 166 rparmar, 167 Mattt, 168 JeffJS, 169 jmschrei, 170 fotaki, 171 xs400, 172 TOUGEFC, 173 TOUGEFC, 174 Warped, 175 MaryAD, 176 Davidw0815, 177 baro-nite, 178 baro-nite, 179 pentaximus, 180 lukulele, 181 lukulele, 182 rob 1234, 183 lukulele, 184 lukulele, 185 pentaximus, 186 ramseybuckeye, 187 ramseybuckeye, 188 StDevious, 189 Free Soul, 190 Clou, 191 brvnara, 192 pentaximus, 193 Noelcmn, 194 Noelcmn 195 GmcarsMAN, 196 jmschreii,197 wolfiegirl, 198 xjjohnno, 199 Arn , 200 Peter Zack, 201 bluestringer, 202 cif, 203 Rollsup, 204 noelcm, 205 Davidw0815, 206 Davidw0815, 207 cif, 208 ramseybuckeye, 209 paulh, 210 Oldschool, 211 SpecialK, 212 mecrox, 213 pentaximus, 215 bramela, 216 jmschrei, 217 Exandr, 218 Noelcmn, 219 Noelcmn, 220 sergiu, 221 sergiu, 222 sergiu, 223 sergiu, 224 sergiu, 225 sergiu, 226 sergiu, 227 sergiu, 228 Davidw08, 229 reeftool, 230 reeftool, 231 cif, 232 mecrox, 233 mecrox, 234 glennbp, 235 glennbp, 236 pentaximus, 237 pentaximus, 238 pentaximus,239 Paul, 240 Nick Nero, 241 Arnold, 242 Arnold, 243 Arnold, 244 Arnold, 245 Nick Nero, 246 ramseybuckeye, 247 ramseybuckeye, 248 Douge, 249 Douge 250 Douge, 251 Dr Orloff, 252 lukulele, 253 lukulele, 254 nosliwmit, 255 nosliwmit, 256 nosliwmit, 257 casil403, 258 casil403, 259 Davidw0815, 260 Davidw0815, 261 ruggiex, 262 ruggiex, 263 mecrox


Let's begin!

[pentaximus]

You captured the water drops beautifully. Regarding the ballet, how were you able to fire your shutter during someone else's flash which is very brief? Good capture of the shadows.

I actually had no idea I had captured anything during their flash. I was distracted by it, as I'm sure the dancers were as well. Then after the piece I was reviewing my shots and was glad to see this shadow shot. You just have to develop a great sense of timing in photography. Or, get lucky. I choose lucky.

[mtux]

Last weekend I've been to a beach so, I have some photos from there,
here is the first but not last one :
I took a silhouette of my friend when she jumped up in front of me

[pentaximus]

Last weekend I've been to a beach so, I have some photos from there,
here is the first but not last one :
I took a silhouette of my friend when she jumped up in front of me

Welcome to POTW, mtux! That's a fine shot. Well-exposed and composed. A beach in Malaysia sounds pretty good right about now as our chilly spring continues! Looking forward to more stuff from you.

[smf]

A Pentax user in my local camera club graciously responded to my request for the settings he used when photographing carnival rides at dusk. I tweaked that a bit, and then I tweaked some more by using Nik's Viveza 2 plugged into Photoshop Elements 10. (It also would plug into Photoshop, Aperture or Lightroom.)
My K-x was tripod-mounted, and I used an electronic remote shutter release.
Comments and criticism are welcome — in this thread or by e-mail or Personal Message.

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[mtux]

Thanks pentaximus,
Here is another shot from that trip, It may not look very well as I'm trying to use DarkTable for PP on Linux and I'm not yet comfortable with it.

These banana boats (they call it this way) is quite popular as a beach activity in Malaysia, Here is a big group of local people going to have adventure with it.
Thanks to my K30 weather sealing which made me brave to go into water (just myself ) and photograph people swimming and boating there from a nearer place

[paulh]

Thanks for hosting pentaximus. Great stuff this week! Here's some shots from nearby Lake Grapevine one evening last week. We are lucky to live just a few blocks from it. I used my old Tokina RMC 80-200 MF zoom for these. It's a tank of a lens, but it has good color & sharpness, imo.






We met another dog-lover with his pair of beagles -

[Davidw0815]

Thanks for hosting, pentaximus! A lot of great images here this week!

For me it's a premiere: I managed to develop a black & white film in time so I can post the images in this thread.
Pentax ME, various lenses, Ilford FP4+ developed in D-76:









And one digital image:



Have a great week!
Cheers,
David

[pentaximus]

A Pentax user in my local camera club graciously responded to my request for the settings he used when photographing carnival rides at dusk. I tweaked that a bit, and then I tweaked some more...

Really like this, Stuart! It not only has a sense of motion, but also of serious speed.

Thanks to my K30 weather sealing which made me brave to go into water (just myself ) and photograph people swimming and boating there from a nearer place

Love it!

I used my old Tokina RMC 80-200 MF zoom for these. It's a tank of a lens, but it has good color & sharpness, imo.

Some nice manual focusing going on there, Paul! And I like how you composed that last shot. Very nice.

For me it's a premiere: I managed to develop a black & white film in time so I can post the images in this thread.
Pentax ME, various lenses, Ilford FP4+ developed in D-76:

More film! Thanks for sharing these with us. I especially like the first and last of your film shots. How did you digitize them? I would like to get around to developing b&w one of these years...



Thanks for all the contributions so far! I think things look pretty darn good around here for a Tuesday. I can't wait to see what else "develops" this week!

[smf]

Davidw0815 wrote: "For me it's a premiere: I managed to develop a black & white film in time so I can post the images in this thread.
Pentax ME, various lenses, Ilford FP4+ developed in D-76."

Ah, D-76. I remember it well. Also Dektol. I used to develop 4x5 sheet film from Crown Graphics and Speed Graphics. Thanks, David, for posting the nice images and for prompting the memories.

Thanks also to all who've posted in this thread and to everyone for the "likes" and comments.

[ruggiex]

Ahh, had a bunch of pictures to post but then I just realized that they are expired for this POTW! Well this experimentation result will have to do...

The rose was red with fading edge on the petals so I decided to over expose it a bit using flash and a bit of adjustment in PP to get the final result. I didn't really know if it was going to work or what I was doing but I think it turned out interesting. I kind of wish more of it was in focus but at the same time I think it gives a little bit of mysterious feel to it right now.

[mtux]

Some more photo's for this week
There was this white building in the middle of green trees in front of us and caught my attention for several times



And here is another boat heading to ocean at dusk

[ramseybuckeye]

Thanks for hosting, pentaximus. I've been on the forum very little in the past week, I've been out with the camera, and I see a lot of others have too, some very nice images so far, well done all. I'll bore you with some bird pics, Ive, spent 3 days in the last week shooting migratory birds, it's been very fun. Even saw a Pentaxforum member out there on Monday, and at least three other Pentaxians on Tuesday.

Prothonotary Warbler:



Magnolia Warbler:



Chestnut-Sided Warbler:



Black-Throated Green Warbler:



Palm Warbler:

[arnold]

I'll bore you with some bird pics, Ive, spent 3 days in the last week shooting migratory birds

Good shooting there, what equipment?

[pentaximus]

I like the experiment. The softness adds to the abstraction. Very interesting!

Some more photo's for this week
There was this white building in the middle of green trees in front of us and caught my attention for several times



And here is another boat heading to ocean at dusk

I spy an observatory? And I really like the light on the water. A lovely silhouette. I think dusk is the time I'd be coming in from the ocean though!

Thanks for hosting, pentaximus. I've been on the forum very little in the past week, I've been out with the camera, and I see a lot of others have too, some very nice images so far, well done all. I'll bore you with some bird pics, Ive, spent 3 days in the last week shooting migratory birds, it's been very fun. Even saw a Pentaxforum member out there on Monday, and at least three other Pentaxians on Tuesday.

Glad you showed up, Tom. I feared we would have a POTW without you! Also, glad to hear you spotted some Pentaxians out there in the wild. I hear those are some rare birds!


I attended my niece's elementary school production of Annie on Tuesday night. Here are a few from that occasion. Here she is captured mid-song.




And here are some familiar scenes and characters:

[ramseybuckeye]

Good shooting there, what equipment?

Thanks, K-30 and a rented Sigma 50-500. I still have a lot of photos to go through, I had to make the most of the rental.

Here's a Cape May Warbler:



and a Hooded Warbler: