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Nikon Wednesday 2021: #11


Matt Laur

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Back to a recent project this Nikon Wednesday, after plowing through more images documenting some specialty hardware. This image is going to get tortured into a false color pallet and used behind some text in a video title screen, but I kind of like it in its original colors/tones, and the way the glass element shows some of its custom etched laminations. I guess I'd better get outside and try to make some photos of things that grow, walk, fly or swim before I forget how!

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D810 with a Sigma 105/2.8 Macro under Aputure continuous video lights in octoboxes on Savage Storm Grey seamless.

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I was able to get out a couple of weeks ago and find some of the juvenile Bald Eagles that are wintering at Willard Bay State Park in Utah.

 

D3400 1/1000 f/8 ISO 200, Nikkor 80-300 at 300

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This one a bit more mature but much more skittish. 1/1000, f/8 at ISO 200. Nikkor 80-300 at 300.

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historical tid-bit

 

In olden times (read, pre-AI), Nikon made herculean efforts to keep a common filter mount size for a wide range of lenses.

Here a 20mm f/4, 35mm F/2.8 PC, 55mm f/1.2, and a 43-86mm zoom ALL taking a 52mm Ø filter size

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Similar efforts were made by other OEMs; but none, I think, so serious about it as Nippon Kogaku

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I have ridden motorcycles most of my life so I recently visited the titled exhibition 'The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire’ at the QAGOMA in Brisbane, Queensland. If you have seen the preceding one at the Guggenheim N.Y. in 1998, which I couldn't, you would be grateful for the experience of Co-curators Falco and Guilfoyle in presenting this in Australia. I was interested in all of it, but I have specifically followed the design, construction and develop of the John Britten V1000 racing motorcycle from New Zealand since the 1980s until now, and wanted to photograph it better, despite the unfortunate lighting in the exhibition and preventing the use of camera flash. Such as what it is.

 

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Nikon D3s with Nikkor PC-Micro 85mm f2.8, 1/80 @ f4.8 (I think) sitting on the floor.

This is just a resized .jpg but I do have a NEF copy, and I've just got my Capture One Pro 6 application running again. We'll see.

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I have ridden motorcycles most of my life so I recently visited the titled exhibition 'The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire’ at the QAGOMA in Brisbane, Queensland. If you have seen the preceding one at the Guggenheim N.Y. in 1998, which I couldn't, you would be grateful for the experience of Co-curators Falco and Guilfoyle in presenting this in Australia. I was interested in all of it, but I have specifically followed the design, construction and develop of the John Britten V1000 racing motorcycle from New Zealand since the 1980s until now, and wanted to photograph it better, despite the unfortunate lighting in the exhibition and preventing the use of camera flash. Such as what it is.

 

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Nikon D3s with Nikkor PC-Micro 85mm f2.8, 1/80 @ f4.8 (I think) sitting on the floor.

This is just a resized .jpg but I do have a NEF copy, and I've just got my Capture One Pro 6 application running again. We'll see.

Nice shot. Indeed one of the most impressive bikes ever. I saw the Art of the Motorcycle in Las Vegas in 2002. Rider here too. Been through about 45 countries over the course of 3 years or so...

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