Nikon Wednesday 2018: #19

 

A good Nikon Wednesday to all, this 19th week of 2018. Though spring is in full swing here, I'm reaching for a quick indoor shot done in support of my favorite local jewelry maker. Didn't have time to set up proper product lighting - sometimes you just have to bounce a speedlight off the ceiling, and use some white mat board to control things a bit. Any quick work thrust upon you this past week? Share!

 

 

D810 at ISO 500, 1/100th and a Sigma 35/1.5 ART at f/13. Bounced Nikon Speedlight, reflectors.

D500 with AF-S 80-400 at 90mm, f/20, 1/13s, ISO 100

 

D500 with AF-S 300/4E VR, f/11, 1/200s, ISO 100

 

D500 with AF-S 200-500/%.6E VR at 500mm, f/8, 1/3200s, ISO 560

The Dead Roots

Nikon D810. Nikkor 28mm 1.8G , Exposure time 1/500 sec ,f 1.8, ISO 64.

From Texas Hill Country (Stonewall, Texas)

Skiff, D300, 50mm

Had to quickly find a way to support a piece being glued on. The result

D 7200 24-85 3.5-4.5 G

Both images with 105mm/f2.8 AF-S VR macro lens @ f11, FX body

 

 

Edited May 9, 2018 by ShunCheung

Allen's hummingbird, D500 with 600mm lens

 

Or "in your dreams Deere"

Haven't shot much lately, but my students had a potluck so I shot some rare (for me) people pictures. Nikon D750+24-85vr.

In the work thrust upon department, not much photogenic, but my excavator broke a track, so I ordered a new pair, and spent the morning and a little of this afternoon replacing them. Here's the happy result, all but the cleanup and the tensioning done.

 

Otherwise, not too much last week, but we did get out a litte. Here's a nice little pattern of swirling water at Frog Hollow:

 

as usual, error message, will try on edit.....

And here's the remains of an old mill, now just a picturesque frame for the water....

 

All shots here D7100, 16-85 lens....

 

This from my original DSLR, the D50. That is long gone but the work comes back every spring.

Greylag geese

 

 

Nikon D800E, AF-S 300/2.8VR, TC-20EIII

proper product lighting

... proper is what works; .... and it does....very well.

Had to quickly find a way to support a piece being glued on. The result[ATTACH=full]1244781[/ATTACH]

A Lotus Elan!!! I had one, a 1967, BRG, of course. Gluing the fiberglass bumper on, priceless. The whole thing is fiberglass. You do NOT want to be in an accident with one (DAMHIK).

Edited May 9, 2018 by John Di Leo

It's First Communion time of year

D810 35mm/2 nikkor

 

 

Again another Spider-Man appearance. Nikon F2, 50 1.8 shot on Foma 100 in bright ev 15 light.

 

The Blind Pig Pub. Same camera and lens.

As promised last week (and nothing to do with the theme of this week), it's bluebell season in the UK; my mother's ashes are scattered in a bluebell wood, so each year I o out and take photos.

 

The D850 got wheeled out, but this happens to be with my D810 and a 300 f/4:

Bluebells normally come in quantities of a few more, although only for a couple of weeks. :-) D810 and 14-24 (deliberate sun flare, because there's way too much purple not to break it up with something). Bluebells drive me nuts - not only do they have a weird spectral response, they're also very reflective, and I absolutely cannot persuade Nikon meters to preserve highlights in changeable lighting.

 

Finally a different view, the D850 with the flip-out screen for composition, with a hand-held Mitakon 20mm macro and fast shutter bursts hoping to get the focal plane somewhere useful. This is the whole frame - at 1:1 it's not remotely sharp, but this probably isn't how you're supposed to use it. (Also, weird triangular aperture...) I'll give it a fairer test sometime soon.