Nikon Wednesday 2017: #48

I noticed tonight that I actually had a partly clear sky again (properly clear, unlike the high haze from Friday, although not for the whole sky). The moon was a bit lower on the horizon when I was out, so there's some atmosphere in the way, but now there's a bit more moon side-on to the sun - so the craters are a bit more visible. Here's another 1:1, with natural colours this time. I did have a stab at hand-holding a shot of the Orion Nebula too... but the results aren't worth sharing. I'll try to come up with something interesting for next week.

 

Dieter, nice images of (captive) birds of prey. While those are not pixel-peeping images, the 300mm/f4 PF can certainly produce very sharp images, especially at f5.6.

 

While I grew up in Hong Kong and was already very much into photography as a teenager, I never captured any night image of the

Hong Kong Harbour, among my favorite, until a trip back there 5 years ago. I could have used the base ISO 64 for the image below. The challenge is that the Star Ferry on the left side was floating around. Any multiple-second time exposure would certainly lead to a blurry ferry.

 

Nikon D850 with 24-70mm/f2.8 E AF-S VR lens at 34mm, f5.6, 1/8 sec and ISO 1600, with tripod. VR is not of much help in this case.

 

Am I allowed to be amused that, at the time of writing, several people have liked my traditional moon snap, but nobody likes the colour boosted version? I know the colour boost wasn't original despite being a little more unusual, but it was way more processing effort to get the effect to look half decent (and yes, it's still not perfect) - the other moon was just a sharpened snap with a minor curve tweak.

 

It goes to show that getting the right subject in good lighting trumps clever post-processing efforts. Which is a lesson I should learn in photography in general. :-)

A little late this week! Here's my granddaughter playing with hair styles in the bath tub. She is 4 1/2 years old, and has a flair for the dramatic. Shot with a D7100 and 18-105

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