Nikon Wednesday 2014: #35

<p>Noticed some cobwebs and dust in the bay window yesterday. Close-up shows a lot of detail!</p><div></div>

<p>Just have to do another portrait of my granddaughter, Iris, a year and a half old now.</p><div></div>

<p>Bogdan,<br>

I like that shot with the F6 and the Portra 800 film</p>

<p>Mt. Hood, as seen from Timothy Lake in Oregon.</p><div></div>

<p>Love the Eagle launch......like a missile leaving a silo!</p>

<p>Macro shot from my garden pond....A Green Bottle Fly.</p><div></div>

<p>Finally got around to doing some work on my car</p><div></div>

<p>Put a polarizer on my old 28/3.5 lens when I went out today.</p>

<p>It's 1:30 PM in Fair Haven Vermont. Time stands still here.</p><div></div>

<p>Weather rolling in. Gotta get the hay done NOW!</p><div></div>

<p>Ronja.</p><div></div>

<p>Ella.</p><div></div>

<p>Ronja.:</p>

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<p>My idea of a relaxing end to the day. The comfy armchair and a bit of strumming or fingerpicking on "Ole Faithfull". Wonderful tone!</p>

<p>Tech data: D800 with 105mm AF Micro-Nikkor + Speedlight in a softbox/brolly camera right and 42" silver reflector camera left. Softbox could have been placed a bit higher after viewing on computer, but can't be bothered to retake now. After all, this is about relaxing; right?</p>

<p>Okay, hopefully the picture will upload before the gateway times out this time!</p><div></div>

<p>Seeing how much glass I could stuff between my D7000 and a subject... This is from about 20 feet away, with a Canon 300 2.8 Fluorite FD lens attached to a Vivitar 2x Macro converter attached to an unbranded FD to Nikon F adapter. And yes, the adapter has another piece of glass in it. <br>

Maybe I should have listened when they said "Don't try this at home".</p><div></div>

<p>Hi everyone. Lovely photos as always.....</p>

<p>All my submissions this week are taken on the 85mm f/1.8G. The first shot is an HDR of Merlin our black lab in the rock pools at low tide</p>

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The second is an informal portrait of one of my daughter's friends by the sea wall</p>

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The last shows Mittens in her favourite place for sitting and observing what Merlin is doing</p>

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<p>Happy Wednesday :-)</p>

<p>Matt:<br>

If you got that clarity in that light with a shutter speed of 1/35 th. of a second with that beast of a lens then you are a better man that I am Gunga Din.</p>

<p>-O</p>

<p>Went out the other morning to try to get a sunrise shot, this one over the Potomac River. Tried to do an HDR in Photoshop but I have yet to do an HDR that I am happy with, just haven't gotten the hang of the tone mapping. This was done by combining layers with masks. </p><div></div>

<p>Back to low light: Some of us were doing this before 25,000 ISOs and VR</p>

<p>Here, from a moving vehicle, the Syntagma in Athens. Probably Hi-Speed Ektachrome in this case, with a Nikkormat EL and a 55mm f/1.2 lens.</p>

<p>Hey, it's not the art of it, but the technology FCS</p><div></div>

<p>I have been bitten by the gardening bug for almost two years now. I have planted a variety of berries, fruit trees, and flowers, of course. I was glad to catch these two fuchsia columbine blooms a few days ago as they peaked. Yes, the colors are real. :)</p><div></div>

<p>Owen: better than 1/35th, it was actually 1/13th! The VR in the lens helps, but it's really the fact that the FX-sized body (which had the grip and extra battery mounted) with that large lens mounted <em>and</em> with an SB-900 flash mounted (though it was not turned on for that exposure) is a pretty heavy rig. All of that mass helps to reduce the jitters, even at over 100mm with that long exposure.<br /><br />Nice Nikon Wednesday, everybody! Always good to see the weekly contributions. </p>

<p>Jon Eckman, I love classic sports cars, and yours is a special classic. It looks very nice in BRG.</p>

<p>The Exif reveals that you keep classic cameras around too. I was thinking that these days, digital cameras age faster than cars.</p>

<p> :)</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks David, it is in great shape for a 48 year old car and is a joy to drive. In my film days, I never considered the Nikomat FTn I used for decades to be a classic, yet you are right that the digital era has changed all that. </p>

<p>Seabrook, WA, Lemonade stand.<br>

Nikkormat FT3, AI 24/2.8, Panatomic-X in Diafine.<br>

The FT3, unlike earlier Nikkormats, uses AI lenses. Bought from Goodwill for a low price.</p><div></div>