B&W day today - and I'm shooting red. So it's both again, from me. And my (white) do-gi and kurobi (black belt) with its red logo, seemed to fit the bill just right.




SMC Pentax-M 1:2 50 mm @5.6;K-30.

I did another without blown highlights, or the grain, but I preferred this overall.

K50/1.2 on K-1




Was a nice morning on the river this morning....K30/2.8 on K-1




My favourite from this morning

Had to move the lens to my k-50 as the battery for the k-s2 was running super low and I didn't want to get caught out. I reset the k-50 firmware and reloaded it a while ago, but I feel like it hasn't been the same ever since The user interface colours could certainly do with an improvement, if nothing else...

Going from k-s2 to k-50 seems to be a bit of a shock to the system, and I did not get many keepers at all.

This I think is the strongest I've got today.




And here is a secondary one - just so you can't say I never play the game




SMC Pentax 50/1.7 ,k-50

May 7th 2016:"50-54 Watt Street"

Today's subject is part of a cluster of terrace houses built in Newcastle's inner city in the dying stages of the 1800s.



K5iis + Pancolar 50/1.8 @ f8. A stitch of ten frames using PSE13(Mac). Conversion with NIK Silver Efex Pro 2.

Meet our new dragon:



Two heads are better than one.

B&W processing in camera in raw-jpg translation. Pixel peepers will note that the tail is just out of focus. I couldn't help this - I was down to the smallest f-stop already!

Roasting in Bedfordshire today. Had to find a bit of shade to supply some contrast for the theme so options were limited.
K3 and F50/1.4

Shy Maiden by -Wargus-

Side by side:


in keeping with the day's black and white theme...



And it full color



K-50, SMC Pentax-DA 50mm f1.8

K-50 + Rikenon P 50 1.7

Not completely black and white, but pretty much there.
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K-S2 A50/1.7

I normally play along with the themes (except selfies), but today we were at one of the local farmers markets and the colors were too much to ignore:



and





many more in my flickr-stream...


K-3 with DA 50mm f1.8

The Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50/1.8's yellowed glass should be perfect for bw conversions. So the pressure was on today to find a good one to post. Despite numerous attempts to take a suitable non-flower bokeh shot, I've succumbed to this one. Ironically this was my first shot of the day.



And if you'd like to see a bw photo from that E.Ludwig Meritar 50/2.9 I photographed a days ago, here is one outside our local pet shop:

Day 7, FA 43

color and B&W

Our first thunderstorm & downpour of the season. Portrait of a flower
From the back


From the front


K5IIs 50M 1.8

K3, SMC-M 50/1.4
ISO 1600, 1/250th @ f11

Tru BW :
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BW with a dash of color
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