Nikon Wednesday 2014: #35

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<p>A good Nikon Wednesday to everyone, and here's hoping you're not spending it wondering if there's soon going to be a phantom D750 body available. I haven't managed to destroy my D600 yet, so that's fine. Just go make some photographs!<br /><br />After a long day of wading through a swamp of entrepreneurial paperwork, it's midnight and I've just nuked a cold cup of coffee that I hope will get me through one of my annual indulgences. Sitting on my desk, unopened for three weeks, has been the August issue of Communication Arts - it's their Photography Annual, and it's as compelling as always. Some great editorial work, PJ exploits, portraiture, adventures in post-production, nature in its glory and fright, product photography - all terrific examples of communication by photo. Sure it costs what a pizza costs. But I've never regretted picking up a copy yet. Finally, I get to paw through it. What have you been doing, finally? Share a photo of it!</p><div></div>

<p>Earlier this month we rode the Canadian No.1, first class all the way. What a trip! Below photo, train stops for supplies and fresh crew in Jasper AB. <br>

Nikon D7100, 17-55mm, f2.8 1/30s ISO 4000. </p>

<p>Kent in SD</p><div></div>

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<p>Here is an artistic looking scene that I spied in the 大芬油画村 (Dafen Oil Painting Village) in Shenzhen, China. This is the place where thousands of artists make reproduction oil paintings --- and where you can take your own photographs to have them turned into oil paintings. In addition to the many technically qualified artists doing reproductions, there are also creative artists who are located there.</p><div></div>

<p>More flowers from Deep Cut Gardens here in NJ. Nikon D800 + Voigtlander 28mm. Enjoy.</p><div></div>

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<p>Visited some friends in Gladwin, Michigan last week and paid a visit to the Whitetails Live, Petting zoo, and Archery Shop where our friend Rhonda volunteers by taking care of the fawns and adult deer.</p><div></div>

<p>Long bus rides Monday, decided to try the V1's smart photo selector mode for passing scenes. It seems to favor higher shutter speeds (at cost of forcing higher ISO), which helps minimize motion blur. The larger bracket aids quickly composing passing scenes too. Never really gave this feature a serious try before but it's handy for some situations.<br /> The late afternoon light reflected onto this wall from the passing bus and nearby buildings caught my eye.<br /> <a href="/photo/17846239&size=lg"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17846239-md.jpg" alt="Transient graffiti" width="680" height="425" border="0" /></a><br /> <br /><a href="/photo/17846238&size=lg"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17846238-md.jpg" alt="Transient graffiti" width="680" height="425" border="0" /></a><br /> <em>Both with Nikon V1, 10-30 VR kit zoom, set to "action" VR mode. Both 1/500th @ f/4, ISO 1000-1100.<br />High ISO noise hardly matters with scenes like this.<br />I seem to use the 13mm setting quite a bit - wish Nikon would make a fast 13mm prime, 35mm equivalent</em>.</p>

<p>I did some very minor vertical straightening in Lightroom. A bit more adjustment was needed than LR4's default for correcting distortion - the default left some obvious barrel distortion that was a bit distracting in subjects like this with lots of straight and parallel lines.</p>

<p>Sometimes they stop in the prefect light and take a quick look at my equipment:) Nikon D3X, Nikon 300 2.8, 1/3200 sec, F/4.5, ISO 400</p><div></div>

<p>Nikon D800 w/16-35</p><div></div>

<p>With time before an appointment I stopped for a chai at a local coffee house. These flowers were beckoning from behind a rain barrel. The new D3300 kit was in the car, so I tried out a couple of in-camera NEF variations for these shots.</p><div></div>

<p>Another one</p><div></div>

<p>Field outside of Stratford PEI. Here on vacation.. beautiful spot.</p><div></div>

<p>Winspear Opera House in Dallas where I saw <em><strong>The Phantom of the Opera. </strong></em></p><div></div>

<p>Big Cat</p><div></div>

<p>Another one ...</p><div></div>

<p>and the summer flower </p><div></div>

<p>Finally got around to repurposing the old Gra Lab as a kitchen timer. (When those hard cooked eggs are done, we <em>know</em> it, and probably our neighbors do too.)</p><div></div>

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<p>D1X, 80-400</p><div></div>

<p>This morning, Cwm Clyd</p><div></div>

<p>... and Tryfan (even 3 stops of ND grad weren't enough)</p><div></div>

<p>Not much new and imaginative this week, still staying close to home. </p><div></div>

<p>Couple nights ago there were amazing storm clouds over the city. I went to a lookout point over the Mississippi and caught a couple taking pictures of the clouds.</p><div></div>