Matt Laur Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <blockquote> <p><strong><em>Important:</em></strong> please keep your image under 700 pixels on the longest side for in-line viewing, and <em><strong>please keep the FILE SIZE UNDER 300kb</strong></em>. Note that <strong>this includes photos hosted off-site</strong> (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc).<br /><br />Are you <strong>new to this thread?</strong> The general guidelines for these Wednesday threads are <strong><a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km" rel="nofollow">right here</a></strong>:<a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km" rel="nofollow">http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km</a>. This forum's moderators are allowing up to three images per week, so share some work!</p> </blockquote> <p>Hello Nikonistas. Hope everyone got through that arctic blast in good repair last week. Don't often see sub-zero (F!) temps here in our area, so that was exciting. No big snow dumps for us yet, but some visually interesting evenings here and there, with some big flakes coming down. Here's one from the other evening. I was standing in the parking lot outside our favorite Chinese restaurant, waiting for carry-out, and looked up through the snow to see a construction crane looming over some steel work in a back-lit haze of snow.<br /><br />Turns out it's more of an abstraction than it is a useful way to depict what I saw. But maybe that's for the best. Let's see some no-context oddness this week, if it suits you. Share!</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Image taken during yesterday's beachwalk (75 Fahrenheit on the South Coast), converted to an "oil painting" in photoshop.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSpeaker Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>A old logging mill for me this week. Nikon 1 V1 + Nikon 30-110mm lens. Enjoy.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSpeaker Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>#2</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisSpeaker Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>#3</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>That pesky "Get it right in the camera" dictum seems to keep turning up like gum on a shoe, on every photo forum I haunt and even among some social media contacts. For an experienced photographer, this is akin to requiring advanced amateur pianists to play scales for the judges before they can move on to the actual compositions. That's why the Olympics eliminated compulsories in figure skating. At that level of experience, it's a pointless waste of time.</p> <p>So, just to say I'd done it, I decided to try it the other evening on a familiar subject I've been exploring under various sky conditions. This time the sky was spotlessly clear, with only the natural dusk polarization for a gradient.</p> <p>I set the V1 to raw plus JPEG, as usual, with the V1 set to b&w, red filter effect, maximum contrast and brightness, with sharpness dialed back a bit to avoid oversharpening halos - those don't always show on prints, but do onscreen. I knew from previous experience with in-camera filter effects and post processing the naturally polarized sky would produce a natural gradient, dark in the upper right corner toward the south from the deepening blue, lighter toward the westward lower edge at the sky took on red, orange and salmon hues. I added the in-camera sepia effect, which is risky for online web display since some sites recompress JPEGs and made a mess of delicate gradients, introducing ghastly posterization and artifacts.</p> <p>On this setting, the in-camera red filter effect produces really grungy photos as noise is exaggerated, even at low to moderate ISOs. It's an interesting effect but not one I'd use often. Normally I use the in-camera orange filter, which has a similar effect, only slightly less dramatic, and without the exaggerated grunge in continuous tones and gradients.</p> <p>No cropping, straightening, etc., just resizing in Lightroom with a wartmurk copydon't added. I'm pretty sure I turned off output sharpening too, but don't recall.</p> <p>I didn't even use a tripod - they won't reach high enough. To get these particular compositions, without any background clutter, I have to lift the camera overhead. Usually takes two or three tries to get the composition just right, since I can barely see the LCD. Yup, my next camera will have an articulating screen. And thank goodness for image stabilization - without it these photos, at 1/10th and 1/30th second, would be blurs. Lovely, artistic blurs, but not what I wanted. Aperture priority, something I rarely use, but I wanted these one stop down from wide open for maximum resolution, with a little minus exposure comp to darken the skies for a silhouette effect.</p> <p>And now that I've "gotten it right in the camera", I'll never feel the need to repeat this technical exercise, since I could have accomplished the same thing in Lightroom in a minute or two with less grunge.</p> <hr /> <p>When I showed photos from "this place" on Facebook, one of my cousin's quipped "This is a 'place'? Looks like a bunch of sticks." So I've dubbed it the Stickplace Heath.<br /> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17652270-lg.jpg" alt="The Stickplace Archer (V1 straight JPEG)" width="679" height="1014" border="0" /><br /> <em>The Stickplace Archer</em><br /> V1, 10-30 VR at 30mm, ISO 400, f/6.4, 1/30th second, handheld<br /> *<br /> <a href="/photo/17652269&size=lg"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17652269-md.jpg" alt="Eye of Horus, straight from the V1" width="679" height="455" border="0" /></a><br /> <em>Wadjet's wink</em><br /> V1, 10-30 VR at 24.4mm, ISO 400, f/6.4, 1/10th second, handheld<em><br /></em></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathansanborn Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>It's been a bit since I've posted. Lately I've been making some very sexy photos of some absolutely lovely models.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathansanborn Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Another.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathansanborn Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>3rd</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pics Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>-</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_halliwell Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Our 2 year old rescue cat Lizzie in a far-away place!</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_halliwell Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>#2 Nice sharp lens, but pretty slow AF!</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnfarrar Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Dawn can be (is!) a cliché - but it's still a camera magnet. Pre-sunrise over the Carneddau, a few days ago.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka_nissila Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Winter finally came to Southern Finland. First, there was just cold with no snow; these icicles are in a rock face in Nuuksio National Park.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka_nissila Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Sunrise at Kallahdenniemi.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka_nissila Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Rocks were getting some snow cover, sheets of ice started to form, and there was some sea smoke.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Shafer Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>This may fit Matt's "no-context oddness" theme. D800E, 24-70, ISO 100, 1/200 @ f/5.6, White Lightning X800 with umbrella.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Last weekend, I stayed with a couple whom I have known since junior highschool. The husband and I were quite close when we were teenagers. They remodeled their house completely a few years ago, and the kitchen is beautiful.</p> <p>The Df is showing very respectable results at ISO 12800: Nikon 18-35mm/f3.5-4.5 AF-S lens @ 27mm, f4.5, and 1/40 sec hand held.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylebybee Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Recent trip to Pawnee Bill's Ranch in Pawnee, Ok.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylebybee Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>another from inside different building. These are very old buildings, log built and dirt floors</p> <CENTER> <IMG SRC="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00c/00cJOL-544866184.jpg"> </CENTER><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_2019667 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Experimenting with the silhouette setting.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_2019667 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Go away, don't bother me.....</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Murphy Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Out of context? Try inverting</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin mayo Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AAhPhaAW60o/TaDAqhkHWKI/AAAAAAAAAFs/1vkkTRXRUGc/s1600/web.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="531" />Nikon F4</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r1a2d3ok Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 <p>Shun great DOF on your high ISO kitchen. Great Egret heading off at sunset to roost. Nikon D3. Nikon 300 2.8, 1/1000sec, f/2.8, ISO 1250</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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