Nikon Wednesday 2017: #13

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Hello Nikon folks, and welcome to week 13. A little experiment on my part this time around, as I had no idea what to expect in the way of exposure sensitivity/time when trying to catch the subtle green glow of these three dots of tritium-doped paint on this Glock's after-market night sights in a dim range environment. As it turns out, at ISO 200 and f/10, it took 13 seconds. Our eyes are amazing things, though, as even slightly night-adjusted vision can spot these glowing little markers plainly on the fly. Shot anything radioactive recently? Share!

Carrizo Plain National Monument

D810, 16-35/4 VR at 16mm, 1/250s, f/10, ISO450

My wife, the nuclear physicist.

Matt, you should try some light painting on the down-range target for the full effect. Or, maybe, stack the exposures? Some focus stacking might be in order as well. Still, I like the image, and knowing I'm not the only one who shoots more than just cameras.

Matt, you should try some light painting on the down-range target for the full effect. Or, maybe, stack the exposures? Some focus stacking might be in order as well. Still, I like the image, and knowing I'm not the only one who shoots more than just cameras.

 

Yeah, if I get serious about some more attempts, I'll see about a number of tricks with the downrange part of the image. I deliberately de-emphasized that B-29 profile target in this case, so that people who know what they're seeing would know, but without being too provocative. That said, I've run into quite a few shooting sports and related discipline/enthusiast types here and throughout the photography world. I think the DNA that appreciates a fine camera and lens can also appreciate the design and workmanship of a fine firearm, and the related skills that go with using them. They also make for lots of interesting photographic opportunities if the audience is right. Thanks for commenting!

Nikon N90s with Portra 160

Here are some "radioactive" bioluminescent mushrooms

 

Pups at play at the dog park.

 

 

 

Nikon D7000

It's spring, and thoughts turn to...propagation!

 

D3200., 85/2.8

Not radioactive... Hope you'll like it anyway.

Nikon D750, 85mm f/1.4 lens, macro extension ring, wide open

Another one.

Nikon D750, Sigma 105mm macro + diopter, wide open at f/2.8

Recent Birding trip to Hungary, Bee-Eater with Clear-Wing HawkMoth snack.

 

Nikon D7200 + Nikon 200-500mm

Recent Birding trip to Hungary, Egret at Dusk

D7200 + Nikon 200-500mm

Recent Birding trip to Hungary, Bee-Eaters Relaxing

World Championships in Figure Skating are in Helsinki this year. Ladies short program, Emmi Peltonen. D5, VR 200/2G II, f/2, 1/1600s, ISO 1250.

 

Evgenia Medvedeva finished in the first place after the Short Program.

Edited March 29, 2017 by ilkka_nissila

Elizabet Tursynbaeva was quite remarkable. She fell twice in her warmup but the actual competition performance was perfect. D5, VR 300/4E PF, f/4, 1/1250s, ISO 5000.

A Great Horned Owl has nested at Lady Bird Wildflower Center in Austin for 8 consecutive years. Baby owlet made its first appearance a couple of days ago.

Radioactive-like (with a little post processing help)

I captured this image on Christmas Day 2015 (a bit more than a year ago) in Santa Cruz, California. Apparently it was a warm day during winter. Nikon D750 with the 80-400mm AF-S VR @ 400mm, f5.6.

 

It has been a while since I had anything to post at all - too little time unfortunately. But this weekend spring decided to show up so time to get a bit more active again. The city of Den Bosch, in the Netherlands, D700 with AiS 50mm f/1.2 at f/2.8.

 

Allen's hummingbird with a 600mm lens at f4.5 and Nikon D500, 1/1000 sec.

 

Here are three that may not be the most aesthetic of images, but highlight the potential "dangers" of hiking to Bukit Timah summit. I never did see a monkey, despite the warnings, but saw a Malayan Colugo, a few Common Goldenbacks, several Straw-Headed Bulbuls, the Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo, the Little Spiderhunter, and a Peninsular Rock Gecko, among others. Still working on those images, though they may be for MiN...

 

 

Soon, perhaps even this week, I will be reporting on what was the start of the last generation of AF, film cameras for Nikon -- the F90 (aka N90 in USA).

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• Winter, having ended once here, decides to have another go at it (Pilgrim Winter?)

  
  

Snow Leopard at the Santa Barbara Zoo

D800, AF-S 80-400 at 400mm, f/5.6, 1/640s, ISO 125. Cropped from 36MP to about 11MP. Still more pixels than I would have gotten with the D300 (there would be more with a D500 or D7200 though).