Nikon Wednesday 2016: #44

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<p><strong><em>Important:</em></strong> please keep your image under 1000 pixels on the longest side for in-line viewing, and <em><strong>please keep the FILE SIZE UNDER 300kb</strong></em>. Note that <strong>this includes photos hosted off-site</strong> (at Flickr, Photobucket, your own site, etc).<br /><br />Are you <strong>new to this thread?</strong> The general guidelines for these Wednesday threads are <strong><a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km" rel="nofollow">right here</a></strong>:<a href="/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km" rel="nofollow">http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00W7km</a>. This forum's moderators are allowing up to three images per week, so share some work!</p>

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<p>Hello Nikon folks, and welcome to a fresh new world! No, the elections aren't until next week. But THIS week we have the ability to post images that can be 1000 pixels on the long side, instead of only 700. Those 300 more pixels really make a difference, so I'm looking forward to a prettier Nikon Wednesday from here on out. This week, it's an exercise in non-HDR-process in dynamic range. Always a challenge when I shoot these commercial vehicles to get the interior's more cave-like conditions to work well in a daylight setting - especially when the shot precludes lighting gear in-frame. It all comes down to waiting for the right time of day (which is usually when you're just about too tired to do any more work!). Enjoy our new pixel real estate, and share some photos!</p><div></div>

<p><a title="Santa Barbara Breakwater" href=" data-flickr-embed="true"><img src="https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5323/29916463574_ee5d0128bc_b.jpg" alt="Santa Barbara Breakwater" width="1024" height="683" /></a><br>

D700, 24-70/2.8 at 24mm, f/8, 1/400s, ISO 200</p>

<p>Fall weddings are beautiful ! Autumn leaves add bright vibrant colors to background . </p><div></div>

<p>...and another one :</p>

<p>...and third :</p><div></div>

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<p>A couple of new-width pet images</p><div></div>

<p>This new format is terrific!</p><div></div>

<p>Entrance to Texas History Museum in Austin.</p><div></div>

<p>Something a little bigger than usual showed up at the birdbath. </p><div></div>

<p>Boo Halloween is over</p><div></div>

<p>Brooklyn Bridge</p><div></div>

<p>Brooklyn Bridge 2</p><div></div>

<p>BOO-gheera! Happy Halloween past, everyone!</p>

<p><img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/Communion/i-5NxHJPx/0/X2/D8H_0334-X2.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><strong>Nikon D800</strong></p>

<p>Lingering fall colors at sunset, last night</p><div></div>

<p>Fall</p><div></div>

<p>What do we remember?</p><div></div>

<p>More fall</p><div></div>

<p>What happens to pumpkins the day after Halloween.</p><div></div>

<p>Well I dare say those 300 extra pixels are being put to very good use! Carry on, everybody.</p>

<p>Very nice everyone, as usual.<br>

Dynamic range, Matt? I'd got to Lower Antelope (late, but not as late as they were digging out the sand after the rainstorm the night before), so here's my sequence of how to ignore the advice not to include the sky in the shot. As ever, I wish I could include more, but I need to learn how to edit...</p><div></div>

<p>The eagle has landed.</p><div></div>

<p>Amazing it's possible to walk through here, really. Cool place, worth the queue - we only got half an hour rather than the planned hour, but I was nearly cramping up from the heat anyway, so I'm a happy camper.</p><div></div>

<p>I continue my historical romp around the world with my Nikkormat FTn and a PC Nikkor 35mm, a Nikkor-S 55mm f/1.2, and other kit.<br>

Here from early in the year in Kenya at the Treetops Lodge seeing the sunrise on Mount Kenya. </p><div></div>

<p>I finally did get my visa for Nigeria from the Nigerian High Commission in Nairobi - at the time the only place a US or British citizen could do so. (After effects from the Nigerian Civil War)<br>

I was doing archaeological and anthropological work in Nupe country, around Bida, Nigeria.<br>

While I was at it, I also observed pottery making of a sort that goes back millennia in Nigeria.</p><div></div>