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Nikon Wednesday 2017: #48


Matt Laur

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A Nikon Wednesday to everyone. I'm going to guess I wasn't the only person pointing a long lens at this year's only "super" moon this month, as the moon was both full and at its closest to us. Happily, we also had some clear, still air for a change. Didn't have to get off my front porch for this one, as the moon rose at a civilized hour just over the trees to the east. Popped the D810 on a tripod-mounted Nikon 200-500 with a 1.7x TC. This makes for an 850mm that I used at f/14 and 1/400th and ISO 500. Pretty casual arrangement, actually, but it worked fairly well. Anybody else? Share some photos!super_moon.thumb.jpg.db1a383685187265723b91c5c3f10486.jpg

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Good Wednesday, everybody! Not much time for photography these days. (I missed the full moon sitting in front of the computer.) So here are a couple of photos from the old days. This one was taken in London, in July 2008, with my D50 and Nikon 18-200mm: "A face in the crowd." Just standing in front of the Covent Garden Tube station. 20080727DSC_0736.jpg.35ae5bcc24253f9d60df29456766f1f1.jpg
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For the last year I've been photographing industrial tubes, rusted and coated, at Mare Island, CA in a series I've called "Horizontals." This photo is a continuation of the series, showing the underside of some of the rusted tubes.

 

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Last week I learned about Eyes in the Sky (EITS, eyesinthesky.org) , a Santa Barbara Audubon’s key wildlife education program since 2000. It features seven birds of prey that serve as education ambassadors. All were rescued and rehabilitated but, due to permanent disabilities, can no longer survive in the wild.

 

Kachina - female American Kestrel, Nikon D500, 300/4E PF VR, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 140

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Kanati - male American Kestrel, Nikon D500, 300/4E PF VR, 1/800, f/5.6, ISO 140

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Kisa - female Peregrine Falcon, D500, 300/4E PF VR, 1/800, f/8, ISO 1600

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Kachina and Kanati are hit-by-car victims, Kisa was found with a bullet in her shoulder.

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Sorry to be late to this, especially since I already had some photos of the moon posted this week. I have some interesting experiments that I ran out of time to try, so I'll follow Matt's theme instead. Like his, this is with a 200-500. I only have a TC-14, not a 17, and I couldn't be bothered to set up a tripod, so I'm not going to compete on reach - both these are without the teleconverter. This is 1:1 (hot tip: the moon is about the right size with the 200-500, cropped 1:1 from a D810, to fit the 1000px limit - how will I cope when I eventually get a D850?) but unlike the shots on the other thread, processed with DxO then Photoshop rather than out-of-camera JPEGs; hopefully they're a bit sharper, although something about crater rims makes DxO try to invent colour.

 

I was clouded out on the weekend, so this is a slightly hazy shot from Friday. I can't claim this was my idea (I don't recall whether I saw it in Astronomy Photographer of the Year in the UK or on APOD), but here's the moon with a heavy saturation boost (and a bit of blurring in the A and B channels to get rid of false colour fringes). Arguably this is the colour of the moon's rocks... only a bit easier to see. (I'd claim you'd see this if the moon wasn't against a black background, but since I basically can't see colour if I fill the eyepiece of a telescope with the moon, I'm going to say that theory is rubbish.)

 

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