Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #41

<p > Yap Jeannean. I know this guy. 3 weeks ago I met him at the shore of Huron Lake having last sip of nectar before long journey to Mexico. I'm glad it reached your area already. It's 2/3 of the way to its final destination. Great take Jeannean. <br>

Very strong week everyone. I would like to leave form and shape of the WedNEsDAy tread as it is. Any changes even well meant may have negatively effect chemistry of this so popular tread.</p>

<p>A tree and root system on the Oregon Coast<br>

Shot with a D80 - 50mm/1.4 ISO200 1/125th @ f2.5</p>

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<p>Sorry, I'm 35 minutes late. I wanted to post an outdoor photo this week, but couldn't get out to shoot at all. Here's a bit of last minute work. A bottle of sake I picked up in Japan last year, being saved for a special occasion.</p>

<p>Cheers,</p><div></div>

<p >I like them all. The pics I like the most so far:</p>

<p ><strong >Lil Judd</strong>: Your IR photos always give me the “wow”. I like the IR effect. I will give it a try someday. May be not a converted camera, but an IR filter.</p>

<p ><strong >Per-Christian Nilssen</strong>: Did you combine three different photos in to one? I like it.</p>

<p ><strong >Rene’s Villela</strong>: I like the lighting, the towers and the dark blue sky.</p>

<p ><strong >Matthew Brenna</strong>: Sharp. All most like a painting. </p>

<p ><strong >William Nickens</strong>: Nice. I like the IR filter effect. Very dreamlike and mysterious.</p>

<p ><strong >Brandon Wu</strong>: Very nice close-up shot. I like the colors. </p>

<p ><strong >Dave Greenidge</strong>: It’s a poster material.</p>

<p ><strong >Richard Karash</strong>: The color of Fall. Beautiful. </p>

<p ><strong >Jeff Lipsman</strong>: Beautiful sunrise. Like the sun shining through the morning fog. </p>

<p ><strong >Freddy Tu</strong>: It’s so quiet/peaceful. I like your composition.</p>

<p ><strong >Lex Jenkins</strong>: It’s a classic.</p>

<p>Evan Browning - that's an excellent picture. Was that in Baltimore? </p>

<blockquote>now if only I could afford off-camera flash, I'd get rid of that harsh shadow :)</blockquote>

<p>To Josh Sauer: You have a very nice subject, and you already have a good SB-600 flash. I would attach a bounce card on the flash to soften the harsh shadows from frontal direct flash. Additionally, your EXIF data show that you are using 1/500 sec. If you change that to something like 1/30 sec, you'll get more ambient light contribution to brighten up the background.</p>

<p>Hope you can try those and show us some new images in the following weeks.</p>

<p>David L-<br>

Thank you!!! The show was in NY last friday, one of my favorite groups, check out a few more on my blog if you like: treintacincomilimetro.blogspot.com</p>

<p><strong>Ian:</strong> Very nice, I especially like the reflection and the colors of the cows and grass - I think I have 40+ rolls of Superia 200 in the freezer.</p>

<p><strong>Jeff:</strong> The layers in your Tuscany shot are fabulous.</p>

<p><strong>Hamish: </strong> Thank you, I hope you will one day be able to climb Denali (I prefer the name to McKinley also). It is an incredible sight, it is so massive. I was awe struck the first time I saw it a few years ago. My photo was taken ~38 miles away from the summit.</p>

<p><strong>Paula: </strong> Thank you, I've wanted a picture of Denali to print large and give to my wife, I'm hoping it's the one.</p>

<p>@Paula: Thank you. The picture was taken as you see it. It is not a composite. The white balance was set to "tungsten", but as you see, the streetlights have different color temperatures, and are therefore way off.</p>

<p>For my part, the ones that have strongly catched my eye are the following:</p>

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<p >Bogdan Nicolescu and the summr heat</p>

<p >Wouter Willemse and the cloudy moon</p>

<p >Kemal Riza and the Swiss lake (Lucern?)</p>

<p >Aguinaldo de Paula and the night party</p>

<p >Matthew Brennan and the grass that can be smelled</p>

<p >Kan Yakamoto and the shouting stone</p>

<p >Tom Pernal and the documentation of Nobel compositions</p>

<p >Carey Moulton and the lovely hair</p>

<p >Shane Srogi and the Velvia Canyons</p>

<p >Ryan Solti and the new life</p>

<p >Evan Browling and that romantic bandoneon</p>

<p >Jeannean Ryman and the 100F macro</p>

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<p >Nice pictures everybody!</p>

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<p>So instead of making a list of the ones that stand out for me - since that list always tends to be rather long - I'll just select "my favourite of the week" instead.<br>

That of course does not mean that's the only picture I like, in fact the standard is again very high, and inspiration just breathes throughout the thread. Many lovely quiet landscapes, great portraits, a great f/0.75 (wow!) shot... so much different point of views, subjects and so much talented photographers, it cannot stop to amaze. A big thanks to all!<br>

So, my favourite of the pictures so far, after lots and lots of scrolling, is <em>Adam Neinstein</em>'s polluted water. How something filthy and sad can still be beautiful.</p>

<p>Luis, Thanks for the compliment, but it is in fact a cloudy sun :-)</p>

<p>Another wonderful thread! I think it is really amazing how everyone's eyes see things in a different way!<br>

I hope this is not too long! </p>

<p><strong>Alex Foto…..</strong> You made me take a look at the file one more time to see what PP I had done. I use Capture NX2 and what I did to it was sharpening and I used 1 color control point on the roof of the main tower to brighten it up so it can be visible against the dark sky.</p>

<p><strong>Hamish Gray…</strong> Thank you! I love it here to. I was telling my friend that prague looks like a giant Disneyland! :) Too bad 2 weeks is not long enough but I'll be back in December! </p>

<p><strong>Paula Wang…</strong> Thank you for mentioning my shot!</p>

<p>I think all the images are beautiful in its own way. I will just named those that caught my eyes </p>

<p><strong>J</strong><strong>ose Angel, Pedro Cardoso, Lil Judd, Monika Epsefass, Per-Christian, Chries Nielsen, Kevin Cassar, Aaron Bonnici, Cees Maas, Matthew Brennan, Ray Gosalia, Paul V. Gorky, Doug Santo, Jens Frederiksen, Dave Greenidge, Shane Srogi, Richard Karash, Darrell Styner, Anish Mankuthel </strong>and<strong> Lex</strong>.</p>

<p><strong>Everyone else...</strong> congratulations for such a great work! See you next week!</p>

<p>Thanks to everyone for another great trip around the world! And welcome to those new comers who are just joining the group. Pictures that caught my eye this week are: <br>

Jose- Typical self portrait, that looks so atypical. Well done.<br>

Alejandro- I love the whimsy of your shot. Makes me smile<br>

Pedro- Beautiful shot and thanks so much for all of the details on the shoot. Also the link to a shot of your set-up was a good idea.<br>

Per- I'm glad we were finally able to see the castle. It looks like a fun location to be shooting!<br>

Rene'- You have my vote for the best shot this week. I love the perspective and the "pop" of yellow in the middle tower.<br>

Kemal- Well done. Strong subject and good title.<br>

Tim- I love this shot. Nice perspective. It took me a moment to figure out that the background wall is a waterfall.<br>

William- Beautiful shot of the tower. Looks surreal!<br>

Doug- Anytime someone gets a shot of a hummingbird, that clear and sharp, that is good shooting!<br>

Sanford- Is the pic taken at a mission or is the woman on a mission? Either way very nice and aptly titled.<br>

Paula- Lovely shot and I love the water background.<br>

Brandon- Welcome and good job!! I love the pastel coloring.<br>

Amy- IMO you have one of the most unusual perspectives of the arch that I have seen!!<br>

Zoltan- Nice skyline shot. Try cropping out some of the sky and maybe a little of the water and I think you will have a stronger photo.<br>

Richard-I love New England and I love FALL and you have done a nice capture of both. Kudos on imbedding the scrolling feature!!!<br>

Lex-The noise makes the photo look as old as the boots. Nice!<br>

Jeannean- Once again you nailed the macro shot. Nice colors and sharpness.<br>

Until next Wednesday............</p>

<h1 ><em>“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”</em></h1>

<p><em><strong>-Aaron Siskind-</strong> </em></p>

<p><strong>Luis Argüelles and </strong> <strong>Paul V. Gorky,</strong> <strong> </strong> thanks for your compliment and comments. Highly appreciated. :)<br>

Luis, this is not Lucern but Lugano...</p>

<p>Luis Argüelles and Ray Yaeger, thank you for commenting my photo.</p>

<p>Lawrence Ho's pic is the one that has impressed me the most. Congrats.</p>

<p>Luis Argüelles and Ray Yaeger, thank you for commenting my photo.</p>

<p>Lawrence Ho's pic is the one that has impressed me the most. Congrats.</p>

<p>No photo from me this week. Thanks to all for the positive comments on last weeks shot.</p>

<p>Wanted to send kudo's to <strong>Pedro Cardoso, Oskar Ojala, Matthew Brennan, Bernard Mills, Wayne Wrights, Shane Srogi, Keith Gierman, Jeff Lipsman </strong> & <strong>Raaj K</strong> -- I found your photo's most inspiring this week.</p>

<p>In light of the discussion in another thread about file size and loading speed, etc, I did want to mention to Keith Gierman that (at least on my screen) it appears we've lost some of the detail in the steam on the left side. The edge has some banding instead of a smooth transition. I think this might be caused by trying to get smaller file size? Not a criticism, but hopefully a helpful comment that perhaps with this subject a little less jpeg compression might have been called for. I love the way you held all the detail in the black parts of the locomotive.</p>

<p>Took this 3 stop HDR, finished in Photoshop Elements 7, then Lightroom 2.<br>

<br /> Chelan, WA. great portrait prop for me.</p>

<p>I don't normally post comments so I will keep it short.<br />Thank you, Aguinaldo. I am really flattered.</p>

<p>Excellent pictures everyone, the bar keeps getting raised.<br>

The 3 pictures that caught my eyes were<br>

Jose's reflection<br>

Jeff Lipsman Tuscanny sunrise<br>

Evan Browning's Martín Ferres of Bajofondo<br>

I think that since photographers from all over the world post in this forum, it will be nice to tell from which country we come from....I'm from Malta (Europe)<br>

Well done everyone till next Wednesday</p>

<p>Thankyou for the kind words about my image. I really love this thread each week - and the kindness and talent of the people in it.</p>

<p>As always hard to pick favourites but here are a handful of the stand-outs for me (not on any rational criteria, just those images that speak to me particularly strongly) - Alejandro, Monica, Ofey, Wouter, Jana, Richard, Tim, Carey, John, Thomas, Adam, Keith, Jeff, Freddy and Evan.</p>

<p>Long live this fabulous thread.</p>

<p>Another fabulous Wednesday! Stimulating as always.<br>

Here are the images that particularly caught my attention:<br>

 

<p>@Alejandro, the clown with mini-umbrella.<br>

@Pedro, the flower and bokeh are terrific; thanks for sharing the setup shot.<br>

@Lil, terrific IR<br>

@Oscar, grass and dark rocks, <br>

@Gary, red leaf on blue<br>

@Paul B, congrats on a happy new client<br>

@Luis, three women, has a bit of Edward Hopper feeling to me.<br>

@Graham, little girl with bubbles, wow.<br>

@Steven, great pet portrait.<br>

@Aaron, your angel and rose. Nice lighting.<br>

@Carey, the hair-knot portrait in B&W. Very interesting. <br>

@David, the cala lily<br>

@William Nickens, the Bok Tower infrared feels like a miniature. Or another universe. Nice.<br>

@Mark, dad and baby.<br>

@William Pahnelas, little girl in driver's seat. Great kid portrait.<br>

@Travis, your son Brady.<br>

@Jon, fall colors, beautiful abstract makes one think.<br>

@Brandon, nice TV-Heligon shot, great color and bokeh. I'm experimenting with similar lenses myself. <br>

@Amy, Zoe visits the Arch... So glad you posted this image.<br>

@Adnrés Arteaga, ladybug on final approach to landing. Pretty amazing shot.<br>

@Evan Browning, acordianist<br>

@Bill J Boyd, trumpeteer in red.<br>

@Jeannean, butterfly "hanging on."</p>

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<p>Here is a photo of my 14 year old grand daughter Elsie taken this week. I thought it was pretty good.</p><div></div>

<p>Of course not everyone has such material to work with.</p>

<p>Hi<br>

First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to Hamish, Anders, René, Paul Gorky, Steve Lyon and Richard Karash for the kind words. I try my best to explain how the shot was made to share the knowledge. No point in holding it back =)<br>

Now, the pictures that really caught my attention are a handfull:<br>

Evan Browning's shot of Martin Ferres is absolutely stunning. The light, the mood, the composition. I love everything about it.<br>

Matt's beautiful patient wife and the coolest dog =). What a pleasing portrait. It shows that a small strobe and an umbrella can do wonders (I'm getting there very, very slowly..)<br>

Jim Intelicchio's dog looks like a 18th century painting. Very nice work! I would print it and hang it on my walls.<br>

Cees Mass' seascape is so calming and so minimalistic. D700 is the nicest camera, huh? =)<br>

Last, but not least, Janne Kaakin's Fall colors over the cemetery are absolutely gorgeous. Great image and very nice composition.<br>

To all the others, I can't wait for next week! Every Wednesday is a better Wednesday!<br>

Cheers,<br>

Pedro.<br>

PS - Please excuse my poor English, as it's not my native language. </p>