Nikon Wednesday 2014: #50

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<p>Hi Nikon folks, and a good 50th Wednesday of 2014 (is that possible, already?). More nerdly stuff from me this week. Art is going to have to wait!<br /><br />A couple of Wednesdays back (<a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00cyYg"><strong>right here</strong></a>) I posted a photo of one of my Nikon bodies on a spherical pano head, on location where I was shooting an overgrown product session for a regular customer. The idea was to get an interesting angle on the interior of a 37' race car hauling trailer, and to do so in a way that would support the rendering of a high-resolution, low-noise, 8-foot-tall print to be used as a backdrop in a trade show booth display. They keep their fancy vehicles out in a lot at the event in question, but inside the crowded convention center, they wanted to catch a few eyes walking past their 10x10 booth.<br /><br />So the final image involved stitching together 18 frames shot with a D600 using a Sigma 35/1.4. That lens has a workably flat field, and worked with the perspective I wanted. I used the Adobe Bridge/Photoshop/Photo Merge workflow to assemble the large composite file, but still had to do a little surgery since the subject matter was forest of converging, parallel lines. It would have been impossible without the spherical pano head to prevent frame-to-frame parallax shift both horizontally and vertically. So a good couple or three hours in front of the computer cleaning up, and then uploading a 450mb file to the special lab that produced the magnetic laminates and the supporting display rig. <br /><br />This first photo is of my hand, held up right against a section of the final print, about 7 feet up in the corner. Just wanted to show the quality of the results, even from <em>much </em>closer than the image's audience is ever intended to stand and stare at it. Looking forward to everyone's work this week - as busy as this month always is, hope there are some photos being made out there.</p><div></div>

<p>And a day before the client packed up to head to their trade show, we did a dry run letting two of their crew set up the display, and learn how to safely handle the laminates. This was the first time that I got feedback from a customer in the form of, "Hey, this thing is bad-a** !"<br /><br />So, a great opportunity to try something new to me, and produce something fun for them. And a first for me, working with a 19,200 x 19,200 pixel image file. Fun.</p><div></div>

<p>I looked at # 50 Matt & told myself - it's impossible, it's still November ;) I guess I better rethink that one ;)<br>

Can't wait to see what everyone has to share. I have two photos from yesterday. My daughter & I did a Mother/Daughter Day at Disneyland and here's two of the thousand some photos I took with my D800 & an old Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4 D<br>

Christmas Over Disneyland's Cinderella's Castle.... <strong>NIKON D800, f/4 @ 50 mm, 1/200, ISO 4000, manual mode</strong><br>

<strong><img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/s5/v117/p878827115-5.jpg" alt="" /></strong><br>

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And the second one is of my daughter & her boyfriend Mark who came by to see that his girlfriend was ok...<br>

Just Spending Time Together,<strong> </strong><strong>NIKON D800, f/4 @ 50 mm, 1/250, ISO 2500, </strong><strong>Flash, Manual Mode</strong> <br>

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<img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/s12/v176/p442479761-5.jpg" alt="" /></p>

 

<p>This is a shot of a Great Gray Owl taken about ten years ago in central Minnesota with my Nikon F3. The negative was recently scanned and converted to digital. For this image I cropped the original a bit. </p><div></div>

<p>Well, having missed last week owing to freezing weather and other issues, I'll start off tonight because for once I can almost be on topic, and besides, there's a blizzard out there and I think the power may go off any moment. Having recently splurged on an 85/2.8 PC lens, I have been experimenting with panoramas using that and the old 35/2.8 PC. Here is a shot combining two 3-shot shifted pans with a tripod move in the middle, which Microsoft ICE surprisingly put together straight. Since the original was over 16 megapixels wide, the reduction to 700 is unkind. The original was pretty sharp.</p>

<p>edit to add: D3200, ISO 100, and 85/2.8 PC-D lens...</p><div></div>

<p>oops, too late to edit. The original above was about 16 thousand, not mega - pixels wide, of course. </p>

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<p>Hawthorn berries</p><div></div>

<p>Small correction from my daughter - - It's Sleeping Beauty's Castle.... So important I guess ;) And Matthew Currie - I can see how sharp that shot must have been....</p>

<p><a name="00d05F"></a><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=6273589">Rich Johnson</a> - I like your great grey owl.<br>

Here are mine for week #50! Enjoy. Nikon Df w/ Nikon 300mm f4 lens w/ 2x tele.</p><div></div>

<p>#2</p><div></div>

<p>#3</p><div></div>

<p>Just before sunset calm reflections. Nikon D3X, Nikon 300 2.8, 1/500 sec, F/7, ISO 500</p><div></div>

<p>Popular food truck vendor recently opened a second store.</p><div></div>

<p>A small owl decided to pose for me on Sunday</p><div></div>

<p>second shot</p>

<p>the actual second shot</p><div></div>

<p>a picture of my favourite tiger</p><div></div>

<p>work, sometime sppl are cool and let you do stuff. then you can get images like this, not the rather boring usual couple-photos. it has been fun</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17920943-md.jpg" alt="" width="679" height="452" /></p>

<p>nikon d3, 24mm, f8, flash through octobox, spottet. only raw editing (contrast and sharpness)</p>

<p>Our daughter is fascinated by our Christmas tree. </p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17921932-lg.jpg" alt="DSC_4076small" width="467" height="700" border="0" /><br>

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<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17921933-md.jpg" alt="DSC_4079small" width="680" height="453" border="0" /><br>

D600 + 50/1.8D</p>

<p>A three generations shot of the girls in our family, after decorating for the holidays last Saturday</p><div></div>

<p>Amazing how innocent they can look -</p><div></div>

<p>A beam of sunlight shines on the trail.</p><div></div>

<p>Happy Holidays.</p><div></div>

<p>From my first day of playing with the D7100. Lupe and Carmella<br>

Nikon D7100, Nikon 24-85 f2.8-4 @70mm (105mm), ISO 250, 1/500, f5.6 </p><div></div>