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Nikon Wednesday 2018: #1


Matt Laur

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Another year of Nikon Wednesdays begins! It's great to see many familiar names still stopping by to share an image every week or so, after these many years. This recurring thread now feels more like a secret club than a magnet to the Nikon forum, but we'll see if we can't keep it going for a while yet. On Tuesday, I was out out in some very cold, clear weather helping out one of my regular clients. In between things, I was climbing around shooting anything and everything to stay warm in that 18F air. And I decided that some perspectives shouldn't be corrected - because without the skewed lines, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

 

So Happy New Year, and share some photos!skewed_trailer.thumb.jpg.dd169f001cee3f47fc6734e645a21fa6.jpg

D810 at ISO 124 and 1/250th with a Nikon 14-25/2.8 at f/5.6 and 14mm.

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Do try to keep it going, Matt. It's only recently actually encouraged me to start doing anything with my photos!

 

That said, I've not been out this week, so I'm afraid all I have to offer is more birdies from my sister's feeder.

 

Another seasonal European robin, to start. 200-500 + TC14, D810. ISO 2500, f/10, 1/320s (overcast day). I envy the light available to whoever shot the Wikipedia image...

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From the end of 2017 to one of my first images in 2018. This Performing Arts Center has a beautifully decorated tree in front with plenty of holiday lights. I saw that there a few days ago. Unfortunately I went there early this morning and those lights were off. I'll try again in some evening, hopefully before they remove those lights, but then I need to worry about both pedestrian and vehicle traffic. This is a 25-second time exposure so that both the red and green traffic lights are on, and no, the light didn't go crazy.

 

Nikon D850 with the 18-35mm AF-S @ 25mm, f8, 25 seconds, ISO 64

 

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Sparrow in flight. Shun has my respect for his hummingbirds; again, Wikipedia's version makes me feel bad because they have sunlight..

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Andrew, lighting makes a huge difference, and you are also seeing the limitation from a slow, f5.6 long tele zoom. There are reasons that those f2.8 and f4 super teles cost as much as US$10K or more, and people are willing to deal with the bulk and the weight.

 

Moreover, you'll probably never see a hummingbird in the wild in the UK. Hummingbirds are only in the Americas outside of captivity.

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Andrew, lighting makes a huge difference.

 

Yes. Sadly, Christmas in Wales often coincides with several days of drizzle, briefly interrupted by merely being overcast. (A little unfair - we had a couple of hours of sunlight, but I spent them crashing a drone into a power line instead, because I'm incompetent. I have one Nikon shot of sunlit sheep to show for it.)

 

A big prime would certainly help, especially teleconverted - I've tried with a 500/4 AI-P, but manual focus tracking is painful with small birds. I may have to work on my technique - I needed a fairly small aperture for flight because of birds shooting off in random directions, but that may be my failure to make the best of the AF system. Donations to Andrew's 400/2.8 fund greatly appreciated.

 

I remember the first wild hummingbird I saw, at Griffith Observatory in LA. Freaked me out when I though it was a huge insect. I didn't manage to photograph it.

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