Nikon Wednesday 2016: #47

<p>A little stop at a resort in Puerto Rico, to take a vacation from the vacation....</p><div></div>

<p>More shooting from recent Africa trip. This is a weaver, interesting bird, nesting in the grass at water's edge. At St Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. D7200 with Nikkor 300 f/4 PF. Regards to all!<br>

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<img src="http://2under.net/images/161031-Weaver-D727807.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Taken a month ago when the fall color was so beautiful.</p>

<p>Let me resize that and try again. Sorry!</p><div></div>

<p>Pine trees all in a row.</p><div></div>

<p><img src="/photo/18313396" alt="" />Taken a month ago in parc Tremblant Quebec - Fall reflections in the river.</p><div></div>

<p>Hiking with puppy</p><div></div>

<p>Still life done with "Pinhole" lens cap. But I had forgotten to change my non-CPU lens info in the menu.<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18313712-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="534" /></p>

<p>Cool shots, everyone. Matt - I'd meant to ask with my earlier posts: how did you frame that image, or was it luck?<br />

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Marcel: Pinholes always scare me with DSLRs because I hate sensor dust, but then I have a house full of cat hair. Nice, anyway.</p>

<blockquote>how did you frame that image, or was it luck?</blockquote>

<p>Sorry, I realised that sounded insulting. What I meant to say was "how did you get a live feed of your image framing back from the drone, or did you eyeball it from the ground?" Were you in live view using the HDMI stream, or some such - or did you have a separate live video camera? Just curious - I've used a cheap drone with a camera but no feedback and found that pointing it anywhere specific is extremely frustrating, although the lack of gimbal doesn't help. I may think to invest in a Mavic Pro at some point, but anything big enough to carry a DSLR is probably beyond my enthusiasm. :-)</p>

<p>@Bill Nelson, great shot of the two sandhill cranes in synchronized formation.</p>

<p>Andrew: every rig I use has some means by which to let me monitor the airborne camera's output from the ground. The gimbal holding the camera is also under pan/tilt control so I can get it where I want it while hovering. This particular system uses a small 5.8GHz transmitter that talks to a receiver on the ground, hooked up to a small HD display. Some other platforms use mixed data for return telemetry and video, and the output is displayed on a tablet like an iPad. Very workable, once you get things rigged up!</p>

<p>Sanhill cranes, Nikon D500 with 200-500mm/f5.6 AF-S VR @ 500mm, f5.6</p><div></div>

<p>Thanks, Matt! Good to know how the pros do it. :-) (I should get into drone photography before the idiots cause enough legislation that I'm not allowed to do it at all... I already have associative guilt for owning some moderately high-powered lasers, even though I'm not dumb or psychopathic enough to point them at anyone.)</p>