Nikon Wednesday 2014: #19

<p>Here is a miniature dachshund, just adopted by a friend</p><div></div>

<p>And this half Malamute, half wolf -- very friendly and dignified</p><div></div>

<p>And a beautiful sky serving as a background for a local Macdonald's:)</p><div></div>

<p>The water tower painting is finishing with the painting of the town's name.</p><div></div>

<p>We saw this airplane pulling a banner last weekend. It circled around and around for several tims.</p>

<p>The 80-400mm AF-S VR came in handy. I captured the top image at 80mm since the banner was quite a bit behind the plane. I then zoomed in at 400mm for the message.</p>

<p>This is one case that I have an almost uniform blue sky in the background, and you can see some vignetting from the 80-400mm @ 400mm, f5.6, 1/500 sec and ISO 100 on the D4S.</p>

<p><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=2344388">Matt Laur</a>, glad you didn't take the picture of the coffee cup with your iPhone. :-)</p><div></div>

<p>This is a crop of the previous image. The workers have a stencil sheet held onto the tower with magnets. One worker is tracing the letters on the stencil with a marking pen. I presume that the ink will penetrate the stencil sheet and leave an outline on the base surface below. (I'm frequently surprised an the 70-200/4+D800e combo for resolution when only a portion of the image is used. F9.5 at 1/3000 hand held).</p><div></div>

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<p>I'm frequently surprised an the 70-200/4+D800e combo for resolution when only a portion of the image is used. F9.5 at 1/3000 hand held.</p>

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<p>John, the 70-200mm/f4 AF-S VR and its bigger brother the f2.8 VR II are both excellent. When you stop it down to f9.5, I am not surprised at all that it is really sharp.</p>

<p>EXIF shows the ISO was set to 800. If you can use the base ISO 100 and perhaps f5.6 for even less diffraction, you may be able to get slightly better results. That lens also has excellent VR. You can get away with a shutter speed much slower than 1/3000 sec.</p>

<p>Happy wednesday!<br>

Here's one from the local zoo:<br>

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A Carrion Crow (eastern variant - hope that's right) parading in front of a polar-bear, always looking for something edible ;-) <br /><br /> Nikon D7000 - Ais 400/3.5 IF-ED at f/4 from a monopod</p>

<p>For me, bugs, birds and flowers say spring is here . Here a just a few of the little ones enjoying the first flowers of spring.<br>

Hope you enjoy.</p>

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<p>This has no secret message. Just an old abandoned nuclear power plant. Didn't see any apocalyptic zombies roaming around.</p><div></div>

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<p>Didn't see any apocalyptic zombies roaming around</p>

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<p>Hah! They've fooled you! Obviously they've acquired invisibility as well as undead status. Now we're in for it.</p>

<p>Spring (May 6) - Newtown Pennsylvania</p><div></div>

<p>Spring (May 6) - Newtown Pennsylvania</p><div></div>

<p>Hello everyone, running a bit late today! Here is one from my oldest son's soccer game this past weekend.</p><div></div>

<p>Here are some trees in the woods behind the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, photographed with my new 45mm Ai-P lens. </p><div></div>

<p>And a bust of Einstein from inside the Institute.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone. Here's a few from my weekend out and about with the family.</p>

<p>Firstly, one taken at Brighton Children's parade. </p><div></div>

<p>Jet skiers off Brighton beach - taken from the pier</p><div></div>

<p>My daughter enjoying a slide.....</p><div></div>

<p>Here's the first recent image I came across made with a Nikon.</p><div></div>

<p>Hmmm, would it be a retail <em>faux pas</em> to associate your hamburger stand with a burro?</p><div></div>

<p>Well, it is spring, so the Ground Squirrels are raising their voices in song</p><div></div>

<p>The Tigers are playing in the pond</p><div></div>

<p>and the Ducks are wondering what all the ruckus is about</p><div></div>

<p>I took the opportunity to be a puppy photographer.</p><div></div>