Nikon Wednesday Pic 2010: #18

<p>Thank you all, whom commented my last week photo! There were so many and so great images at last week´s thread that it was almost breathtaking. <br>

At this week, my image is a bit moody and dark, hopefully it opens well in PN-pages. This was shot at last Saturday evening when dark clouds started gathering over a frozen bay where I was shooting photos. The wind gusts blew very heavily and it was even a little bit worrying when the trees moved violently because of the wind. Then the gusts settled for a moment and the veiled sun emerged through the thick roof of clouds. Well, then I had some busy moments with the camera.</p>

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<p>Some architectural photography from me this week...</p><div></div>

<p>Good WeDnEsDaY everybody!<br>

I was absent last week as I had to attend a meeting abroad and this week's contribution is the proof of that! I think these are the Alps but I was not able to check the exact location. Anyone who can help with that?<br>

D80 18-200vr@18mm f22 1/80 iso 200 shot in raw and processed in ps. Another good reminder was the double polarization in my images when I used the polarizing filter. It creates an interesting rainbow like effect, without the appeal of course. As far as I know it is due to double polarization form the plane window and the filter. Our pros can clarify that further I presume</p>

<p>And I want to thank those who commented on my little eggs in #16. And yes one of the eggs was hatching. It turned out to be a very small larvae. After a thousand shots with my primitive macro setup, I successfuly captured it but it wasnt worth posting here.</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks for the comments on my photo last week. I need to check back later on what gets posted here today.<br>

This week I had time to take shots, even though many of them remain unedited. I went to the fortress of Suomenlinna, a Unesco world heritage site, which is very crowded in summer but reasonably empty now. The place is not that easy to photograph, at least for me, but I took this shot of some backlit rocks. I like the graphic quality of it all and if you look carefully, you can see a group of islands in the distance.</p>

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<p>A waterworld image conjured from reflected and refracted light at water-air, air-glass and glass-water interfaces (D300s and 105mm f2.8 Micro AIS). hApPy wEdNEsDAy</p><div></div>

<p>Last Saturday Night, I photographed U.S. hip hop group Delinquent Habits at the KiFF club in Aarau, Switzerland. They gave out free tequila shots, and while this made for nice photos from the wings (with the crowd pushing forward) moving around in front row was nearly impossible (no barriers were set up) and I shot from the light desk most of the time.</p>

<p>Nikon D700 at ISO 3200, 70-200/2.8 VR, 1/125s @ f/2.8, RAW processed in Adobe Lightroom 2.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Wednesday!!!<br>

Hello Everyone, this is my first post. From now on, I will show some images from "Oriental World". Here is the panoramic view of a Guang Xi village below the poverty line, another side of so-called "Modern China".<br>

<img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4574706999_34aa65b1d2_o.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="125" /><br>

D90 Nikkor AF 28-70mm f/3.5-4.5D, by 8 shots</p>

<p>Hello Nikonians! This week my contribution is a tail-light cluster. Rendered as an abstract image. Happy Wednesday!</p><div></div>

<p>Barely awake and this thread is already in full flight.... Happy wednesday, and for those in the Netherlands: enjoy Liberation Day!</p>

<p>My shot made last weekend; the sun is already sometimes getting summer warm; at least this fountain learned to shield from direct rays:<br>

<img src="http://www.ww-web.nl/Images/wednesday/20100502_084.JPG" alt="" /><br>

D300, AiS 105mm f/2.5<br>

1/4000th, f/2.5 (yes, should have stopped down a bit more), ISO200<br>

Used only ViewNX rather crude capabilities for B&W.</p>

<p>This photo was taken with some of the best light I experienced on a recent visit to New Zealand. These are some of the Moeraki Boulders on New Zealands Sth Island at sunrise. I fluked it for both great clear skies and a low tide pre-dawn.</p>

<p>This photo was taken using a tri-pod and my ancient 16mm f/3.5 Nikkor fisheye. I used mirror up mode and had Active D-Lighting set to 'normal'</p><div></div>

<p>Snapped this (cropped) shot early this morning in Johannesburg to see if I really was going to sell trade my D80 & 18-135 lens for Canon cos I felt my images were too noisy and not sharp enough in low light.<br>

Guess this pic proves I can stay with my Nikon after all!</p><div></div>

<p>For those who wondered what Mr Lester looked like without the "Evil Eye"</p><div></div>

<p>Lots of great pictures so far. Some of my favorites:</p>

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<li>Keith Obye - touching portrait. The high-key aspect adds a nice touch.</li>

<li>Lil Judd - great macro. Seeing shots like yours inspires me to dust off my macro lens and head into my backyard.</li>

<li>Dieter Schaefer - really nice capture. Nice clean background and crisp subject.</li>

<li>Anish Mankuthel - wonderful vista. I love the scope of your shot.</li>

<li>Alpo Syvanen - very moody, almost sinister.</li>

<li>Dave Lee - reminds me of the look my cat gives me. Great colors.</li>

<li>Matthew Brennan - very cool shot. It's such a glorious thing when you catch the good light.</li>

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<p>For me, I did something I rarely do...got up at dawn and went out to shoot. I headed to one of my favorite beaches and happened to get there on a severe low tide, providing me with some great photo opportunities. This one, weirdly enough, is my favorite. I like the juxtaposition of the seaweed hanging from the rail (showing how high the water can get) and the two surfers casually walking along the beach that, at another time of day, wouldn't even be there.</p><div></div>

<p>painful process</p><div></div>

<p>I have just returned from a trip to Dorset. There is loads to photograph so I have come back with many rolls of film to develop. For these patterns of light and water I used the 45mm P on my FM3a (loaded with Fuji Reala). Developed and scanned at my local lab as usual.</p>

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<p>Jill in creative mood at the Botanic Gardens. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 zoom @ 1/160 f6.3 ISO200</p><div></div>

<p>Hi All,<br>

Lots of cool shots, as usual. Some comments: <br>

<strong>Matthew</strong>--perfect star burst<br>

<strong>Alpo</strong>--great mood<br>

<strong>Narayan</strong>--love the color and simplicity<br>

<strong>Grant</strong>--nice b&w<br>

My contribution this week was taken with a D700, 24-85mm AF-S @28mm, f/8, 1/250th, ISO 400.</p><div></div>

<p>D700, 24-70/2.8 at 26mm, ISO 200, f/9, 1/160sec, daylight WB. The model was lit with a single unmodified SB-800 just outside the left edge of the frame, on something like 1/8 power.</p><div></div>

<p>As we were getting out of a restaurant, there was this weeding going on. While the pro was setting up in front of them, I caught there attention for a few seconds... Happily ever after. Fountain Hills, Arizona</p><div></div>

<p>I've been busy and I've not had my camera out for a few weeks but I wanted to write to thank Doug, Wenshu and Jamie for their comments last week. Here's a photo from a couple of years ago near Skaftafell in Iceland, a dust storm at dusk blowing across the flat land close to the sea. My overriding visual recollections of Iceland, a beautiful but austere place, are the almost total absence of trees and the incessant wind: one would see touring cyclists, teeth gritted, cycling into 25 mph winds where ever one was.</p><div></div>

<p>I like this little guy's dignified pose. It reminds me of those old-time portraits where the subject stood with his hand resting on a faux marble column.<br>

D700, 70-200 f/2.8 + TC14E-II, polarizer, tripod, ISO 800, 1/100 @ f/5.6.</p><div></div>

<p>Hello all<br>

Thanks to Linda McLellan, Doug Rice, Andrew Jessup, Jamie Harre, Peter Rafle and Paul V. Gorky for your kind words on my last week pic<br>

Practicing macro with Live View Tripod mode. The buds are very small no more than 2 mm. <br />I used the ISO 3200 because of a windy evening 1/800<br>

Imported in PS4 via CR and reduced the noise with Noise Ninja<br /> <br />Nikon D300 + Tamron 90mm - 1/800 - f 5.6 - ISO 3200 - </p><div></div>

<p>My recent trip ....<br>

Thank you.</p><div></div>

<p>Some fabulous photos here - as usual.<br>

My offering reflects the "you never know" theme. It was taken a while ago, at a "living" industrial museum. When we visited, we were lucky enough to see pig-iron being wrought in the nineteenth century way, using a steam-driven jack-hammer. Despite some entirely proper nods to current health and safety legislation, the process itself is probably largely unchanged from that pioneered by Abraham Darby in the mid-1700s.</p><div></div>