WedNEsDAy PiC #16

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<p>Great shots so far. You guys are better at hand held than I am. I had to cheat and use a tripod for my shot. Off to Europe tomorrow. Hey Rene, maybe I'll see you there. :-)</p>

<p>This is another from our local county fair a couple weeks ago. D300, 17/35 at 35mm, f/8, 1.3 seconds. And yes, that large ring is people swinging around in baskets.</p>

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<p>hi everyone,<br>

i spent saturday on the east coast of anglesey in north wales. we had great weather. this photo is of the old lifeboat station at moelfre. taken using my D200 with the sigma 10-20mm attatched.</p><div></div>

<p>Third time lucky...</p><div></div>

<p>As usual excellent images this week.<br />Nice images Rene' ,Jose and Bruce<br />As usual excellent landscape Gary.<br />Something from the Holy week from me too Jose.</p><div></div>

<p>Chris looks like they're finally taking this border patrol thing seriously. :O)</p>

 

<p >Hi,</p>

<p >This is one my pigeon-friends I feed everyday in front of my kitchen window.</p>

<p >Nikon D300 - AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR</p>

<p >Taken at 85 mm, ISO 400, 1/800, f/5.6</p>

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Just got back from a field trip to Tanjung Piai National Park, where the Asia's southernmost land mass is located.<div></div>

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Baseball Beanpot at Fenway Park Monday night. This is UMass vs Northeastern University. NU won (yay!) 5-3. It was my first sports game in awhile that I wasn't there as a photographer from my paper. It was nice to just sit and enjoy the game for once, and take photos on my own terms. Plus Fenway was nearly empty, so I could wander around and take the 'artsy' photos that you usually can't get there because of the crowds.</p>

<p>D200 with Sigma 70-200 at f/4</p>

<p>Ashboro Zoo last Saturday</p><div></div>

<p>Hi!Everybody,<br>

This is my first post on this thread,a tea processing factory perched high up in the Nilgiri mountains-southern India is just about to be engulfed by the clouds.</p><div></div>

<p>Great shots, folks! I especially like Pedro's Monopoly pieces, Bruce's neon lights, and the dragonflies. I'll contribute my submission this evening.</p>

<p>Questions for Hamish. (1) Did it really take five exposures to capture that image? I'm wasn't there to witness the conditions, but I think my D700 could have done it in one shot with (a) post-processing shadow recovery, (b) fill flash, or © a reflector. (2) How does the HDR resolution program compensate for movement (yours and the subjects')? Please excuse my ignorance, I've never done any HDR. I'm kind of a single-exposure dude.</p>

 

<p>A window dressing in our small town of Benton, KY. The Quilt Ladies have a sense of humor.<br>

philb<br>

benton, ky</p><div></div>

<p>My parents and I went to see one of the most traditional festivals in Japan. We wait all year to see the cherry blossoms. In japanese we call it "hanami"<br /> It is a lot of fun. Whole families come and sit under the trees. They drink and eat all day while looking at the cherry blossoms. <br /> <br /> On this pictures I like the color of the sky combine with the pink color of the flowers. <br /> <br /> Ms. Lil, Thank you for asking to my dad about me after the little accident with his lens. <br /> <br /> My father will be away so I won't be able to post for the next couple of weeks. I will be missing it.<br /> <br /> Thank you.</p><div></div>

<p>The Space Shuttle Enterprise at the National Air and Space Museum. Shot with a NIKON D700, 14-24mm f/2.8 at ISO 640. A great place to visit but a tough place to photograph.Air & Space 1024x681.jpg</p><div></div>

<p >This is a project I recently completed. This chair is one of a set of eight dining chairs. The design was inspired by the work of Greene and Greene Architects who practiced in southern California in the early 1900’s. The Greene brothers would often design some or all of the interior furniture as part of their home designs.</p>

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<p >The chairs are made of cherry. Secondary woods include black walnut and zebra wood. The walnut was hand harvested from a family farm in Zamora, California. Construction is primarily mortise and tenon. Tenons are pinned with contrasting wood or brass dowels. Upholstery is leather. The chairs complete a dining room table of similar design that I built several years ago.</p>

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<p >The photo was taken with a D700 and Nikon 24-70/2.8, 5s, f/16, ISO 200, matrix metered. </p><div></div>

<p>After screwing around with a macro photo last week, I'd decided to stick with the same setup and take it outside. Here is a flower from a cactus I have growing in my back yard. I like the little green hand that it extends.<br>

D60 w/ VR 105mm F/2.8G<br>

Kevin</p><div></div>

<p>The decision to "can" the Canadian GP by the FIA was very unfortunate. Hopefully we will get a Canadian GP in the near future, as the Montreal GP week was by far the biggest event in Canada. This weeks pic is from the last year that Michael S raced in Montreal. I used a D200 with an 80-200 AFD f2.8 @ 200mm</p><div></div>

<p>Hi all,</p>

<p>My first Wednesday pic - I took this recently in London's Elephant and Castle with my F90x and a 50mm f/1.8 lens, Fuji Superia 400 film, at around f/16...</p>

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<br /> And for what it's worth, I particularly like Ian's and Hasse's shots this week! Cheers</p>

<p>Have had the grand children this week has given me the oppertunity to take a lot of pics; with them, and here is one from the open air museum where I work every summer.<br>

Alot of very good pictures today, I really like Bruce's swing.</p><div></div>

<p>WOW - I'm really impressed about some of the shots...congrats to all those Wednesday-Girls&Guys! My photo was elaborated last week (could be by last Wednesday in fact),  with the D70s+50mmf18AiS (yes, there are things that can't be done with the D700).  It is also posted in the critique forum, but did not receive too much attention so far :-(</p>

 

<p>So, here my Ektachrome-IR-still-life!</p><div></div>

<p>Dan, you are quite right in that there are other ways to do this. <br /><br />My problem was that I was facing into the sun. You can't see where it is in my shot as it is just out of the frame approximately right between their heads. Despite the fact that at the time I took the shot it was overcast where we were standing, there was still a considerable amount of light coming from behind them, rendering them virtually black at 1/4000s. <br /><br />So, to answer your questions...<br /><br />1(a) Post processing. I tried using only the shot at 1/4000s where the sky was correctly exposed and adjusting the levels in post processing to gain the right exposure on my two subjects. However this resulted in a lot of noise in the dark areas. By using HDR I illiminated all noise in the shadows. <br /><br />(b) Fill flash. I have tried that before and think that it often gives a superimposed look when the background is so light.<br /><br />© Reflector. This I haven't tried but no doubt would work just fine, however in this case I was out on a 15km ski trip with my camera just hanging over my shoulder and didn't want to have to bother with any time consuming setup.<br /><br />2. The program automatically aligns the pictures based on the content and then crops it. However movement can be an issue. I was aware that this could be a problem due to past experience and therefore bracketed 5 shots using continuous shutter release so that the 5 shots were taken in less than a second, thus reducing the possibility of subject movement. The program is able to compensate for the small amount of movement that I had. I also told them to stand as still as they possibly could. If they had moved much then this would not have worked. <br /><br />The D700 maybe has a higher dynamic range than the 300 which would indeed make the shot easier with only one exposure. But basically I was just messing around having fun and wanted to make sure I got the shot the way I wanted it. You maybe wouldn't have noticed the noise in a 700x500 pixel internet picture, but as a desktop background it was very noticable, so the HDR was a success for me :-)</p>

<p>D 90 VR 18-200mm 1/125 sec @ f/5.6, 48 mm, 100 percent crop</p><div></div>

<p>One day I'll buy that macro lense, but until then, its the 18-200 and a bit of cropping...</p><div></div>

<p>Hi Hideyuki,<br>

You're young and already take excellent pictures. Keep it up and very well done.<br>

Simon.</p>