Nikon Wednesday 2014: #49

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<p>nikon d3, 16-35 f4 g vr, iso 200, f5, 1/3200 @ 16mm</p>

<p>I watched a You Tube video yesterday on how to cast a fishing net, and it was not as effortless as this skillful fisherman in China made it appear to be.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photo/17914738" alt="" />Good morning - it is snowy here in Candiac Quebec. Some great shots so far:</p>

<p>Matt - Delicious<br /> Shun - Yuja - visually delicious and her playing is sonorously delightful<br /> 1947 caddy - Wow.<br /> Mary - fisherman - astounding!<br>

Daniel - love the sky<br /> <br /> Mine was taken yesterday in Laprairie</p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photo/17917083" alt="" />Another ice shot in laPrairie Quebec. I underexposed by one stop.</p><div></div>

<p>For the last several weeks, I have been experimenting old Canon FD lenses on Nikon body. To begin with, I ordered a Canon FD to Nikon 1 adapter to use on a Nikon V1. It is a cheap adapter, yet it does the job quite well, IMO. Putting a 35mm lens on a small sensor ILC like the Nikon V1 undoubtedly limits its angle of view. With a crop factor of 2.7, almost all lenses would become tele or macro depending on how you call it.</p>

<p>Here are a few samples, taken with a 200mm f/4, a 100mm f/2.8 or a 35mm f/3.5.<br>

I like the image quality and color rendering of these old but very capable glasses.</p>

 

<p>No. 2</p><div></div>

<p>No. 3</p><div></div>

<p>Re-upload Photo No.1</p><div></div>

<p>I got some candid portraits at our family Thanksgiving last week.</p><div></div>

<p>My son, Nick</p><div></div>

<p>Granddaughter Iris</p><div></div>

<p>It's not a competitor for the Stollens, but a Shrimp Po' Boy at a 1950's style restaurant is a neat treat.</p><div></div>

<p>This morning in my backyard....</p><div></div>

<p>Sundown with rather great light, a few weeks ago....</p><div></div>

<p>It has just come over me again after so many years, vision in Black & White. Where it may be easy for some to click back and forth between color, and B+W, I somehow have sold myself to immerse in one, or the other, or at least keep an expanced view of what works, and what does not. I think mostly for street work, its going to be B+W for me again. Browsing, whether in books, or in Photographic galleries, I've always been enthralled with the Black & White image like many of you. The fusion of the unreal, Black & White, and the reality of the subject conveyed, has an interplay, or mystique that can't be equalled.<br>

This image in a Restaurant in Carmel Ca, to date, but it somehow conveyes timelessness.</p><div></div>

<p>Holding court.</p><div></div>

<p>err..700 pixels is MAX @ either axis. 900 is definitely bigger than 700!</p>

<p>It's also showing as a landscape??</p>

<p>Hi Guys. Been a few years since I last posted, so he we are again. Always found foxes to be fascinating and beautiful animals, and probably one of the most elusive to photograph. Here's an attempt from a couple of weeks ago here in the UK. D700, iso 3200, 1/640sec, Tamron 500mm mirror lens.<br>

<img src="http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr327/eurocypria/DSC_3088.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>A Shaded Smile</p><div></div>

<p>An old snag in the local woods. I keep waiting for it to come down, it's taken on a bit more list over the past couple weeks.</p><div></div>

<p>This was shot at a pro hockey game Friday night - the team is the columbus cottonmouths, the Goalie is Shannon Szabados.<br>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Szabados</p>

<p>nikon d3, 80-200/2.8 - exif data preserved</p><div></div>

<p>Still trying to get used to this newfangled 24mp camera<br>

Nikon D7100, Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 (127mm), f8, 1/500, ISO 100</p><div></div>

<p>Nikon D7100, Nikkor 85mm f1.8 (127mm), 1/640, f8, ISO100</p><div></div>