Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #19

<p>Cliché but I like it.</p>

<p>Edit: I just noticed you can see the chair and shadow in the top right corner, oops. I should've cropped it smaller.</p><div></div>

<p>Nice work guys. Mine was taken on Saturday using a D80 with the 300 f/4 and 1.4 TC.</p><div></div>

<p>This is a very impressive start! Great shots so far from everyone. This was from last Saturday evening. My daughter and I were playing around with the moon. This is with a D300, Nikkor 80-400 mm VR zoom at f8, iso 1600, 1/250 sec, 400 mm, on a tripod.</p><div></div>

<p>Taken 2 weeks agoo but I didn't have the time to post it until now.<br /> Taken with a D80 iso 1250 1/100 f/3,5 Nikkor 28-70 2.8 AFS ED @ 28mm<br /> The subject is Sylvain Aertbelien Bassplayer for the Belgian Mock Rock Band "The Clement Peerens Explosition"<br>

Processing was done in Camera raw( Color temp and tint) and in Photoshop CS2 resize and some sharpening</p><div></div>

<p>This is the ESB Power station in Cork City, Ireland. It is just down the docks from where I work so taken at lunchtime last week.<br>

D80 + Sigma 30mm f1.4 @ f8, 1/320, iso 100</p>

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<p>Not much activity this week... Practice, practice, practice. A view through the glass! D700, 70-200 f/2.8, at 135mm, 1/500 sec, f/11, ISO200. PP'd including cropping via NX2. Again, practice, practice, practice....</p><div></div>

<p>ISO 3200 is nice to be able to use. Sorry for the plain kid shot but it's been a busy few weeks at work (which in this economy I consider good) so there has been little time left over for my favorite hobby.</p><div></div>

<p>Hi all, some nice shots here as always. Particularly liking Bernard's street performer and Hamish's landscape, beautiful. Oh, and Bruce, that's quite the find! A helicpoter on a yacht...doesn't everyone have one of those??? ;)</p>

<p>My contribution is a shot of part of a family of hawks who have taken into nesting in the chimney of a local church. Only after watching them did I really see that they are quite the flyers and hunters.</p>

<p>Have a good week all,</p>

<p>Gabe.</p><div></div>

<p>haha, Bernard, thanks for the love. I'm happy when my sassy comments are accepted as such, and not basis for me being barred from posting, which has happened in the past.</p>

<p>I can recommend the 135mm DC, however, I must say i was MUCH happier with it on a FF camera (I tried it out on my friends D700, and on my FA) The D300 treats it a little differently, introducing weird unpredictable CA and focus issues. But, however difficult it is to use, i've still managed some nice shots from it. I can't wait until I can jump to FF.</p>

<p>That street performer is a really great shot... the expression, the colors and the crowd behind. I also like the haunted hotels. Another great Wed.</p><div></div>

<p>Great pictures so far I especially like:<br />Bruce's yacht (well at least a picture that he took)<br />Pauls hotel (there's always room at the inn)<br />Richard's moon shot nice detail<br />My contribution this week is an Admiral Butterfly that I captured at a local Garden<br>

D40 18-200mm set at 200mm f5.6 1/250 cropped in photoshop</p><div></div>

<p>Some really great shots so far.</p>

<p>Here's mine: A classmate of my son making the delivery, under the lights, with a runner on 2nd and the centerfielder looking on...</p>

<p>D700 + AF-S 70-200 VR @ 200mm, ISO3200, 1/800s @ f/2.8</p><div></div>

<p>Last week in Venice... BTW, can someone tell me what kind of filter is this man using?</p>

<p>Last week in Venice... BTW, can someone tell me what kind of filter is this man using?</p>

<p>p.s.<br>

There really should be an option to attach another picture after deleting one from message! :-)</p><div></div>

<p>Another collection of great work. Standouts for me so far are Gary's, Hamish's and Matthew's landscapes, Nina's gorgeous flower, and Susan's fabulous, jewel-like hummingbird.</p>

<p>For my contribution, a rogue wave attacked while trying to make a slow sunset exposure. Somehow, nothing got wet other than the rocks at my feet!</p>

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D300 with AFD 85mm f1.8. F4.5, 1/125 and ISO 400.</p>

<p>Last week in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There were actually three cubs in the tree, but I could only manage to capture two at one time. Mama bear was at the base of the tree watching over things. I used a Nikon D300 with 200-400mm f4 lens, hand held to capture this image. Exposed @ f4.5 ISO 1000, at 400mm.</p><div></div>

<p>This is a very obscure outdoor sculpture by a very famous sculpter Adolph Alexander Weinman. D100 with 18-200VR<br>

Mike S</p><div></div>

My contribution today, a photo taken in Chicago, some time ago, at the skating rink in Millenium Park. <p><center><a

href=" title="Motion (skaters in Millenium Park) by franciscosl, on

Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3101/3119259823_4e79ab1ffe.jpg" width="500" height="337" alt="Motion (skaters

in Millenium Park)" /></a><p><i>Nikon F5, AF-S 24-120 VR and SB-28 in slow synch mode</i></center>

<p>It bugs me that I cut my son's hand off in the photo, does that bother anyone else? I was really focusing on getting his eye's in focus and making sure I upped the exposure compensation so the bright door in the background didn't throw off the exposure too much. Guess I totally forgot about composition :).<br>

So far this week my favorite is Pedro's Dog. I'm not sure exactly why and dissecting photos is not my strong suit. It does look like the pup is taking one last look at home before he starts on his journey. Again I don't know. Honorable mention goes to Mathew's clouds, Jose's Pig, Hamishes Landscape and Bernard's street performer. I'm sure there will be plenty of other great images posted throughout the day too.</p>

<p>Hi all,<br>

My photo this week was taken in my flat in London, F90x, f1.8 50mm, Ilford HP5 (fast becoming a favourite combination of mine!). I like the grain and depth of focus in this one...</p>

<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3511/3456977954_48b8cd1865.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></p>

<p>Excellent photos, I really like Benards street performer and the colors in Dennis' Butterfly and flower are amazing. Gary the rafters look like canons at the ready. Nina soft and somewhat sad, excellent pp. Ian nice work with film, very inviting, I like the shallow depth of focus. Richard nice moon shoot.</p>

<p>This was taken on monday on a bus trip to the zoo. Nikkor 20-35mm, f3.2 - D700, conversion in NX2.</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning, all, from my end of the world. We've had severe thunderstorms overnight, and it's gloomy outside, so this thread is even more welcome today. Gorgeous shots all around.</p>

<p>I have been shooting some MF film this week, and even more, working as photographic caddy and chauffeur to help my son finish his photography project for this trimester. Here's a shot from the past, inspired by the wonderful memories brought back by Rene's beautiful shot above of Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Other than a slight exposure mod in the LR raw conversion, this is an unmanipulated (no filters etc.) shot from one of the openings in the middle of the bridge, and is a picture of the reflections from the buildings you see on the right edge of Rene's shot.</p>

<p>Details: Nikon D80, Nikkor AF-S 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED, ISO 400, 1/100s, f/8.0</p><div></div>

<p>Another great week. Matthew B's takes by breath away. A lot of rain in Maine (oh, that rhymes!). It was another almost photoless week, although I was called out at 3:30 AM Sunday night and returning at 5:15 saw this, ran inside and grabbed tripod and D700:</p><div></div>

<p>Very good pictures everyone! Here is my wednesday contribution...</p><div></div>