Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #21

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<p>Near Regent's Park, London, earlier this year. Nikon F90X, Fuji Superia 400, 50mm f1.8, 1/15th, hand held...</p>

<p>My favourites this week: Aguinaldo's lovely subway shot, C. Bay's building, Pedro's chairs and Nina's hair.</p>

<p>Bernard - you should start of POTW over there at Canon. I have a Canon P&S and would love to contribute.</p>

<p>Wonderful Wednesday again! I'm very late since I've been stuck travelling and I would not have posted but Hector's May 17th shot in Tromsø Norway inspired me. I'd be suprised if Hector and I didn't bump into each other not knowing it. Here is a shot from the same day a block away during another parade.</p><div></div>

<p>Bernard - We also enjoy obsessing. We just take a little break on WedNEsDAy.</p>

<p><strong>Shawn</strong> , any time. I feel positive feedback is the best incentive to drive us all on. :-)<br>

<strong>Rene'</strong> - thank you. You're took kind. :-) Glad you enjoyed them. :-)<br>

<strong>Simon</strong> - thank you. You are also too kind. I'm glad you enjoyed them & good luck in your purchase of the new lens. Can't wait to see how you do with it. :-)<br>

<strong>Jose</strong> - I can't help but have to ask.... What are the samples in Apple Aperture 2. I guess this is a compliment & thus I thank you. I've not ever worked in Aperture so I don't know. :-) <br>

<strong>Anish</strong> - thank you as well. :-)<br>

To all those who visited my Zenfolio gallery - Thank you. :-)<br>

The quality of the photos in these threads amaze me each week. I love looking at them & Wednesdays are now such a joy for me having this to look forward to.<br>

Thanks all for contributing & especially to Jose who started the thread - it sure shows how talented the people in the forum are.<br>

Lil :-)</p>

<p>A day late and a dollar short, I'm afraid. Don't ask! It's been one of those weeks where one thing leads to another and the car needs attention and I have a prior social engagement and ..... blah, blah, blah.<br>

Anyways. Managed to actually find time to use the camera at one point, and here's one of the results.<br>

Technical stuff: D700 with 14-24 AFSIFEDGN lens (C,mon Nikon you'll run out of alphabet soon). Some shutter speed or other @ an aperture between f/2.8 and f/22. Oh, just read the Exif data if you're that bothered.</p><div></div>

<p>Lil, Aperture comes pre-loaded with some tutorial sample images of birds, travel, weddings and more. All taken by professional photographers with both Nikon and Canon gear. Jose is correct, your robin photo and many others could easily be included in the Aperture sample images.<br>

Dick</p>

<p>Lil, very impressive bird shots. Congrats from Norway!</p>

<p>Bernard & Sanford: If you start a Canon equivalent, please let us know. I often carry a G10 with me!</p>

<p>this thread is growing week by week. all good stuff.<br>

thanks to all for the nice comments on my tulip shot.<br>

Brian, the black background was just a piece of black card.</p>

<p>cheers, gary. </p>

<p>Richard is right. Lil, <a href="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v8/p521767506-4.jpg"> this one from the week #17</a> looks like taken from this tutorial. Check the screenshot below; it looks to be from the same sort. This one has been taken at a similar angle although the backgroud is ugly blue (BTW, I prefer yours). There are other two samples from a very similar bird with the same pleasant green background.</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Richard </strong> -<br>

thank you for the clarification. I am humbled.... Thank you so very much.<br>

<strong>Per-Christian</strong> -<br>

thank you from our dear old North.<br>

<strong>Jose</strong> -<br>

thank you so very much for your compliment. I feel I've grown a lot of the last few years & the support of this forum & others have been a huge part of that. I am very grateful to all those who've helped & nurtured me.<br>

Lil :-)</p>

<p>Bernard, Per-Christian, Canon won't allow a POTD or POTW thread for some reason. They only have five categories of questions while this forum has over thirty!</p>

<p>Well better late than never. Here's another photo from Columbus Circle, New York. This time from above the pavement.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks Gary. I'd seen black backgrounds used with similar looking animal shots and had always meant to ask... I assume they were doing something different however. Still, it's a good technique for making the subject stand out. thanks</p>

<p>Wow Jeff, great long exposure!</p>

<p>Houston Art car parade, last week.</p>

<p>Cheers,<br>

Julian</p><div></div>

<p>thanks Georg, Dick, Shash, Eric, Lil & Justin. What got me here was the sheer and all too obvious enthousiasm displayed. To be honest I don't think all photos here are great and wonderfull but so what. What is however is the fact that it's increasingly inspiring to people all around and pushes them in a very positive way to upload ( and improve) their work. Great job.</p>

<p><em>Bernard, Per-Christian, Canon won't allow a POTD or POTW thread for some reason. They only have five categories of questions while this forum has over thirty!</em><br />Sanford, another reason why the Nikon forum at photo.net is the best (no, I am not going to start a flame war - that's why I mention the forum, and not the brands!! ;) ;) )</p>

<p>Or, maybe we should establish a new "Thursday" thread: "For Nikon shooters who by some or other reason this time only brought with him or her a non-Nikon P&S" :D :D</p>

<p>Jeff: that's a nice shot. Good exposure and composition!!</p>

<p>We should start a Canon POTW thread right here on the Nikon forum! Let's support our fellow shooters (and maybe pull some of them away from the Dark Side... :-)</p>

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<p>Jose..... Why don't you like long lenses?????</p>

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<p>Because Jose is (secretly) a ninja and doesn't need to be bothered with things like telephoto ;)</p>

<p>Hi everybody, that was a long wednesday, haha<br /> <br /> Per-Christian, does the seagull desktop help? haha<br /> Ryan, Sasvata, Michael and lil, thanks you for the nice comments.<br /> I really appreciate the comments people send, they really encourage me to contribute to this wonderful thread<br /> Always looking forward to wednesday to see all the great pictures and comments.<br /> <br /> A lot of pictures have been added since I posted, so I will (try) to give a short update on favourites:<br /> <br /> hector, the colors blind me<br /> Lil, you always have some fascinating birds<br /> Anish, nice shot, great angle<br /> Ian, I see more ghosts than just the ghostly hand<br /> Ton, nice portret<br /> benjamin, she looks happy<br /> Dennis, how do you get a shot like that?<br /> Eli, nice fire rings<br /> Matthew, my top favourite, great shot<br /> Dieter, there are some weird animals on this planet<br /> Adey, yummy<br /> Michael, FEED ME<br /> John, nice kitty<br /> Jeff, great shot, would have been nice to see even more car lights moving on the right side<br /> <br /> See you all next wednesday</p>

<p>gee, I was Nr. 200 to respond, well done Jose, new record?</p>

<p><em>"We should start a Canon POTW thread right here on the Nikon forum! Let's support our fellow shooters (and maybe pull some of them away from the Dark Side... :-)"</em></p>

<p>justin, canon <strong>is</strong> the dark side. only darth vader could love a company that makes you pay 8 grand just to get their best AF performance. that would be pretty funny, but also ironic, as it would again speak to the ubiquity of nikon and the, well, whatever it is that canon doesnt have, of canon.</p>