Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #46

<p>Early Sunday morning fashion shoot (my first properly organised one!) with <br />sunlight filtering through trees <br />D80 Nikon 55-200G VR F/4-F/5.6<br />1/125 F/4.2 ISO200<br />0EV Manual Flash - two strobes - softened front fill plus<br /> hairlight to rear<br />Photoshop - probably should learn to gel flashes...</p><div></div>

<p>Wednesday again - and the thread is off to a great start. I want to start by thanking <strong>MS Keil, Tiffany Brook, Hamish, Monika Epsefass, Wouter, Richard Karash & Ken Yamamoto</strong> for their kind comments towards my shot last week. Very kind of you all & I was going to comment, but found that the thread was closed before I had a chance to.<br /> Also, <strong>Aguinaldo</strong> , my horse is doing better - though the swelling is taking forever to totally go down. Thank you for asking.<br /> This week I revisit birds, I must bore people with all the birds I post....<br /> A bird I've long looked for & finally got a close encounter with. Maybe a tad too close at times.... ;-) Mandarin Ducks are not native to the US, but it has to be the most beautiful duck I've seen so far. I've looked hard & long to find this lovely duck. He came a tad too close this time. But I'll take that any day over not seeing him at all....<br /> Shot with the <strong>D300, 300mm AF-S f/4 at ISO 800</strong> (going in & out of shadows & light) <strong>Spot metering, Aperture mode, 1/1250s, f/8, -0.3 EV EXIFs embedded</strong> <br /> I should add this is the full frame. No crop here & I do wish I had a tad more room in this shot for him. But I do love the pose so it is what it is, as one of my friend's tend to put things....<strong><br /> </strong> <br /> <strong></strong> Male Mandarin Duck showing off all his beauty....<br /> <img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p503692655-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p >While shooting at a lake Monday, I happened on a family of bluebirds feeding on bittersweet berries. They were trading back and forth and I got to shoot for an hour, getting some good (for me) images of my favorite bird. After moving my pod a couple of times, I took up a leaning post on a tree. </p>

<p >After a while I heard what I took to be a woodpecker, and not too far off. Then I realized that I was feeling vibes on my back. I craned my head back. looked straight up the tree, and there is this little red-breasted nuthatch doing his thing, looking for bugs and not paying one whit of attention to me! I carefully unclamped my camera, and trying to handhold the 300mm plus 1.4 ext. as steady as I could in this position, got several shots of the little guy. They are little comics anyway and I love watching them. I felt really lucky that day, with the bluebirds and this guy, too. Life is good.</p><div></div>

<p>I love Wednesdays!</p><div></div>

<p>Hi all,<br>

Happy Wednasday again and I'm here...<br>

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night to all of you...<br>

Here is my contribution:<br>

Nikon D300 and 70-300 mm VR @ 200 mm, ISO 400, f/9, 1/320.</p><div></div>

<p>Last week, our firm surprised every employee with a lovely gift. My Coolpix L19 was at hand, as it always is, so I could memorialize the occasion.</p>

<p>I'm really starting to like the little Coolpix. It cost less than a good polarizer and makes pretty nice pictures, especially close-ups. It's hard to hold still with no viewfinder, but supporting it on something solid does the trick.</p><div></div>

<p>Finally some wind and waves!</p><div></div>

<p>Good Morning WedNEsDAy :)</p>

<p>After seeing lot of animal post today, I am posting the reptile which I took it last summer at Animal Education Center. Most of the reptiles were in the glass cabinet and got a chance of taking pictures of some. I took the pictures keeping my lens stick to the glass cabinet to avoid reflection (I forgot to take my CPL).</p>

<p>I liked the lighting captured through cabinet and out-of-focus area so smooth...</p>

<p>Model: <em>NIKON D40</em> <br /> ISO: <em>800</em> <br /> Exposure: <em>1/250 sec</em> <br /> Aperture: <em>5.0</em> <br /> Focal Length: <em>56mm</em> <br /> Flash Used: <em>No</em></p>

<p><em><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v_Hx1NTKpoc/SrkyoXfphII/AAAAAAAAApA/Y0La8NqXUZw/s800/DSC_5239-2.jpg" alt="" /> <br /> </em></p>

<p>Thanks for looking,<br /> Ray Gosalia</p>

<p>USS NEW YORK</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning! Thanks to those who commented on my image from last week. This week I had some fun with reflections. This is with my D300, 18-200 mm VR zoom, at f8, 1/80sec, iso 200, 18mm, handheld.<br>

Have an excellent week!<br>

Dick</p><div></div>

<p>My image this week is at Clingman's Dome on the NC/TN state line. I used my Nikon D200 with the 18-70mm kit lens. ISO 200 @ f16, 1/13 second @ 56mm. No filters or enhancements or camera tricks. Thanks for looking. Wish everybody a good day and week.</p><div></div>

<p>An unscheduled power outage a few nights ago did not interfere with painting fingernails. The colors are a little creepy, with the yellow candle light and the much cooler color from the computer screen, but it looks kind of flat in black and white.</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning everyone. This is my last post until December. Am going deer hunting in the north woods of the UP--no internet no TV. It is our annual "get-a-way" from the outside world! This photo was taken at the James River State Park outside of Williamsburg VA. Nikon D300 Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 lens at 75mm, f/11/1/80s.</p><div></div>

<p>Holy Wednesday to everyone, <br /> Zoureena Rijger, Miss World Suriname 2009. She will represent the Suriname in Miss World 2009 at Johannesburg - South Africa, Saturday 12th December 2009. Many cheers you to all. Regards,<br /> Ertugrul</p>

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<p>Hi Everyone,<br>

My pic of he week was taken a few weeks ago when fall was winding down and all plant life was preparing to hibernate (if one can say that). Nikon D200, ISO 100, 28-105(3.5-4.5) @105, f4.5, 1/160.<br>

Lil, outstanding image of the mandarin male duck. Sanford, a very poignant moment. Wayne, great image! Have been in that part of the country, regrettably not in the early morning or late evening hours. Have a great wednesday everyone.</p><div></div>

<p>I was at my local wildlife refuge in South Texas last Saturday and ran across these Nilgai bulls at a distance. The shot is heavily cropped as I don't have a long lens. The one on the left is a mature bull, while the one on the right is a young bull. These animals were originally imported into the famous King Ranch in the 1930s and have rapidly spread throughout the coastal region of Texas. They are very tasty animals -- not like chicken but like beef.</p><div></div>

<p>Joe, nice shot! I believe that is a white breasted nuthatch:-)</p>

<p >From Last Week (Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #45)</p>

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<p >Richard Armstrong – cute version of Halloween</p>

<p >Tiffany Brook – reminded me of Judy Garland in Wizard of Oz</p>

<p >Jeannean Buglady – scary version of Halloween</p>

<p >Aguinaldo de Paula – love the night shots (I am repeating myself)</p>

<p >Rick Dohme – yep, that bloke is crazy (nice explanation)</p>

<p >Jonas Fjellstedt – HDR or not, it looks good</p>

<p >James Kazan – very calming (love those shots)</p>

<p >Jay Miao – ditto “the right moment”</p>

<p >Igor Smirnoff – love the expression</p>

<p >Darrell Styner – nice composition lighting and mood</p>

<p >Jf Zhang – like the bold colours (orange v blue)</p>

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<p >To Tiffany Brook, Dave Greenbridge, Alex Foto, Francesco Pessolano and Savitri Wilder – thank you for your remarks. Some answers. Tiffany I don’t know what kind of bird these are (but will let you know if I find out). Dave, your caption works for me. Savitri these are wild birds, nothing was staged.</p>

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<p >So what were the doing? From under the eaves of a two story house these birds embraced and fell to the ground (concrete). I was curious to see if they were OK but they flew off before I could blink. I came back with my camera just in case. 15 minutes later, same thing – they embraced and bang to the ground. The shots that I have captured are what they ended up doing once they hit the ground.</p>

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<p >D300, Nikkor 70-300 (G VR version) @ 300 mm, f/5.6, ISO 720 and 1/2000 sec.</p><div></div>

 

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<p>Nikkor 200mm f4 AIS at f4</p>

<p>D700 + Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm 1.8<br>

f/1.8 1/2500 ISO 200<br>

<img src="http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8394/redfepsmini.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>FIRE!!</strong></p>

<p>Hello Everyone. I am back from my couple weeks of touring Europe! Here is a statue of Dante in the open square of Florence. So many picutres to choose from. Many weeks of Wednesday Pics to come. :)</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning, afternoon everyone. We went to see relatives down south and I had only taken non-Nikon film camreas, but my wife packed her D60. So I snuck one morning to the locak park and took a few snaps. It's a nifty little camera. This Wednesday thread really gets me out there. It was a beautiful but chilly morning and I probably woiuld not have gone, or at least not that early, if it was not for you guys. I hate to be empty hanced come Wednesday AM! Thanks!</p><div></div>

<p>Good Morning/afternoon/evening to all! I missed posting last week due to a business trip. Oh well, life and Nikon Wednesday, still goes on. I shot this photo two weeks ago, on one of my outings to the local aboretum. Warm, sunny fall day and all the bees were busy with the few flowers that had not gotten hit w/ frost yet. The day was also an opportunity to play w/ my new SB600 flash. Can't wait to see how the day unfolds.</p><div></div>

<p>Another great Wednesday! Hello everyone, gotta love this thread and all the talent in it. Here's my pick this week. D200, <a href="mailto:18-55@26mm">18-55@26mm</a>, f11, 1/180, iso 200, slight NX2 pp.</p><div></div>

<p>Thought I'd try to confound the D300's metering system by asking it to make its own sense of this absurd nocturnal lighting situation. Considering what I was handing it, it actually came up with a workable exposure on the fly. </p><div></div>