Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC 2010: #2

<p>Try this again. Server crashed. Mini Toy Typewriter. Nikon D50, Kiron 100mm Macro</p><div></div>

<p>A wintery mix...</p><div></div>

<p>Wow, lots of great photos. For some reason I just can't stop looking at Jose Angel's view of the city, I guess that would be one for the wall.</p><div></div>

<p>Greg J - Nice composition of the rusting old car's grille.<br>

Anish - An interesting composition. The red uniforms grab the eye.<br>

Aguinaldo - I think this is the same photo that you posted last week.<br>

Ian R - Excellent windshield shot. It documents what it was like to be there very well.<br>

Jeannean - Nice capture of a wild beast.<br>

Kent - Nice sharp puppy shot. Your selection of a dark background was a great idea.<br>

Shun - Excellent pipeline shot.<br>

Adrian - Beautiful Rembrandt lighting.<br>

Steve V - Your winter swingset is amazing. Perhaps my favorite shot of the week.<br>

Maurice - Thanks for the comment. Nice, rich colors in clear, mid-morning light.<br>

Mircea - Great composition. You made me smile.<br>

Jeff L - I like the frozen corn shot very much!<br>

Tiffany B - That's a fun shot. It looks as though you softened the edges a bit. A nice touch.<br>

Mark J - Cool idea, well executed!</p>

 

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<p >Contributors whose shots I found to be particularly interesting this week - WedNEsDay 02:</p>

<p >Rene' Villela – Magnificent panorama crop</p>

<p >Paula Wang – Your dew is due acknowledgement – Wonderful texture & color</p>

<p >Enrique Rabelo – Nice night shot – the reflections jump</p>

<p >Lil Judd – cute puppy – leave the stuff, they’re “toys”</p>

<p >Hamish Gray– Love the smile! Oh to be a kid again.</p>

<p >B M Mills – Your contribution echoes your fondness of the moment</p>

<p >Dan South – Wow! Little else needs to be said.</p>

<p >Greg Jones – Special car – special shot – special bones</p>

<p >Aguinaldo de Paula – You captured the moment.</p>

<p >Arthur Richardson – I just started to smile as soon as I saw your shot</p>

<p >Richard Armstrong – Wonderful Kauai shot. You could spend the rest of your life shooting in Kauai and still not have enough “time”.</p>

<p >Shun Cheung – As always, stunning</p>

<p >Dallas McVicker – Blue on Blue - makes the shot</p>

<p >Adrian Oostermeijer – Your shot makes Music</p>

<p >Neven Jurkovic – My favorite!</p>

<p >Mark Gordon – Looks almost warm with the way you captured the light</p>

<p >Alejandro Held – Thank you for sharing the photo and the aftermath. I’m still smiling.</p>

<p >Janne Kaakinen – Your playing around paid off. Nice shot!</p>

<p >Jeff Lipsman – Terrific shot. The poor farmer who still can’t harvest the crop</p>

<p >Pascal Burel – Love the motion and the night colors</p>

<p >Filip Lucin – Fog is always a favorite</p>

<p >Jennifer Meighan – Wow! The picture is so interesting</p>

Thomas Gerstendoerfer – Great Shot! I can feel the cold. </p>

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<p >Nikon D300 with Nikon 70-300vr (@70mm) 1/250 f6 </p>

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<p>Downtown Church - D700 24-120mm f3.5<br>

BM Mills - Beautiful shot of 'The Treasury' Now I really want to go there!<br /> Gary McGhee - very nice composition<br /> Neven Jurkovic - impressive shot<br /> Jeff Lipsman - very cool!<br /> Don Harper - Arlington, Va One of my favorite places to shoot. VERY nicely done!</p><div></div>

<p>Hi,<br>

Thanks Steve Vanderford, Gej Jones and Tiffany Brook for your kind words on my photo.<br>

Dan South, in fact this is the same pic I posted two weeks ago. I'm embarassed!!! I'm only 47 and seem to be losing it!!! (laughs) Thanks for remembering it.<br>

Best regards for you all.<br>

PS: it's almost 40 Celsius around here!!!! I loved the winter pics!</p>

<p>It doesn't snow in the "high desert" of Southern California very often. I took this shot, across the street from my work place, when it did.</p>

<p>Kodak Ektachrome E100G. Nikon F4.</p>

<p><img src="http://mysite.verizon.net/johnw63/pictures/SnowDay_Small.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>An older film shot from last year. Hydrangea flowers.</p><div></div>

<p>A red umbrella at the Calatrava last week</p><div></div>

<p>Concerning my surfing image, as long as you have the right tools, it is actually not that challenging for the photographer. You need a long lens and a smooth gimbal head so that you can move the big lens smoothly to follow the action.<br>

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The harder part is to have the right surf/wave, good light, and a good surfer. Once I got to photograph former Mavericks winner Anthony Tashnick in action, and he was phenomenal. It was very easy to get good images with him surfing, but the light was poor that day.</p>

 

<p >Thanks to Dan, Gej, and Tiffany for your comments on my post this week. Appreciated.</p>

<p >Excellent postings. Here are my favorite top 10 from this week:</p>

<p >- Rene’s Florence at Night</p>

<p >- Eric’s Keep the Fire Burning</p>

<p >- Dan’s Steel City</p>

<p >- Kent’s Puppy Portrait. (Kent, your dog portraits are always so pleasant to look at.)</p>

<p >- Enrique’s Long Beach, CA</p>

<p >- Richard’s Napali Valley, Kauai</p>

<p >- Mark G’s Kelly Cut in the Snow</p>

<p >- Oskar’s Ice Formation</p>

<p >- Benjamin’s Winter ”Guest”</p>

<p >- Adrian’s Girl Portrait</p>

<p >Happy shooting.</p>

<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2519/4194730448_d45f9e0c8e_o.jpg" alt="" /> Off of Downtown L.A. D700 - 24-70</p>

<p>Dry Creek Falls in the Columbia Gorge. Taken 2 Jan 2010.<br>

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<strong>D700 24-70/2.8 @ 24mm .6s f/16 ISO 200</strong></p>

<p>I’m awed by the talent shown in the photographs posted here. Hitting a few high points,<br>

 

<p >I loved Paula Wang’s Dew as well as Ebb B.’s well-composed blue-sky landscape. Lil Judd’s picture of Kyrie was adorable. Great shot of Hamish Gray’s impish son curled warm within a red sleeping bag. Francesco Pessolano’s impressionistic shot of a woman walking with an umbrella was achingly beautiful, pure art as was the black and white posted by Monika Epsefass. Arthur Richardson’s shot of his daughter caught my eye if only because I recognize an expression so often visible on my own daughter’s face. Great shot by Usay Kisi, perfectly freezing the action at the critical juncture whereas Boris Miljevic’s shot a slower moving, but equally talented individual (in this case music), which I also enjoyed immensely. Paul B.! Wow. Great technique with his shot of the tree. I also got a kick out of Keith Powell’s young soccer player. Maybe my favorite shot of the evening was Ray Gosalia’s runner, which appealed to me quite a bit. And so many others that I can’t even begin to touch on. </p>

<p >As for my own contribution, through February, I shoot wrestling on Wednesdays. Here’s a shot I took earlier this evening.</p>

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<p>Wow! What a stellar collection this week!</p>

<p>Aguinaldo - Not to worry, my friend, it's a beautiful photo and I don't mind looking at it again and again!<br>

Gary M - I overlooked your image when I viewed it on a PC earlier, but it looks great on my calibrated iMac. Very subtle colors.<br>

Boris - I like how you darkened the edges to make the musician stand out.<br>

Bogdan - A National Geographic-quality shot of the fisherman.<br>

Andrew F - Excellent vantage point and nice even light on the big jet.<br>

Gej - Thanks for the nice comments. I like the light and the off-center composition in your image.<br>

Ertugrul - Very colorful and festive!<br>

Dave W - I usually don't care for HDR processing, but yours has nice, subtle colors. Very enjoyable!<br>

Filip - Nice composition and relaxed atmosphere.<br>

Richard Van W - Yep, that Queen Anne's Lace reminds me of summer.<br>

Adam Z - You've captured the mood of North Jersey in winter very nicely.<br>

Michael B - I like that church a lot!<br>

John W - Beautiful snow shot with a delicate hint of high-altitude blue.<br>

Tim H - Inspirational as always.<br>

Mark H - Excellent composition for an action shot. Very noise free, also. Did you use in camera or post-processing NR?</p>

 

<p>Dan,</p>

<p>Thank you, I appreciate your kind words. I do as little "in camera" noise reduction as Nikon will let me. I'm tending to do my noise reduction in two steps now for low light shots like this. In Camera Raw is my first step and this is a change as I wasn't using it much before. Then in PS, I make a duplicate layer and aggressively get rid of what noise I can. Then I do a layer mask and paint back in some of the noise in the wrestlers to avoid as much as possible having plastic skin. Lol, I'm still working on how best to get rid of noise.</p>

<p>Mark</p>

<p>D700 + Carl Zeiss Micro Planar 100mm f/2, 14 bit RAW, ISO-200, f/8, 1/250s, EV -0.7</p><div></div>

<p>Mark H: your comment on my photo "panning on runner" made my day :) , I appreciate it.</p>

<p>Ray</p>

<p>Dallas, thanks, I did not use any flash for this picture, just a rather pale winter sun.</p>

<p>Ahhhhhh I so love the Wednesday "Trip around the World" Photos that caught my eye this week are:<br>

Rene- I love night shots and have found a panoramic crop works well in so many situations. It certainly works here for you.<br>

Hamish- Fun shot and I'm sure a cherished memory. I can never get used to the temperatures that you are always talking about. I have experienced some of that but never for so long as you indicate.<br>

Dan - Beautiful skyline shot. Love the crispness and colors.<br>

Oskar - Lovely and delicate.<br>

Neven- Love the perspective. By far my favorite for the week.<br>

Peter - Great use of B&W. It has such an old time feel to it. Of course the wooden canoe, for me, sure pulls it back in time.<br>

Tiffany - The mask really brings out your models beautiful eyes and smile. A fun and intriguing photo. I find the tat a little incongruous though w/ the image.</p>

<p>Some very, very good pictures in that lot, enjoyed looking!</p>

<p>Steve, Tony, Peter, Dallas, Paula, Paul -- thank you for your kind comments! Much appreciated.</p>

<p>Beautiful photos so far...</p>

<p>D300s with 17-55mm @ 45mm f/6.3 1/125th sec with ISO200</p>

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P.S. Sorry! I forgot to include the credit and date - 01.02.2010

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