Nikon Wednesday 2018: #36

 

A good Nikon Wednesday to all - first one in September! Can't believe how fast the time goes. But September or not, it's still incredibly hot and swampy out, here. Perfect for catching up with some indoor product photography work. Anyone else stick to the macro lens and the table-top lighting this week? No? Anything else will do just fine - share some photos!

 

Shot with a D810 and a 105mm macro.

Nam Du Islands, Vietnam

 

As fall approaches, reflexion of the old tree. D810, 24-120

 

R eflexion from the quiet river.

Going Whale Watching, D300, 50mm

Moment of Impact.

D 7200 75-300 4.5-5.6 You can't see the wings even at 1/1000

Like Sandy, I will post photo of an insect. This one was not as lucky, it got killed by a Fiat 500 and was wedged in between the radiator grille and the bonnet.

Nikon D800E, PC-E 85/2.8D

Going Whale Watching, D300, 50mm

 

Sanford - have you been following me? :-)

Soccer (football) dance

Andrew, my whale watching photography attempts have all been complete failures. Grey, out of focus lumps. Where were your's taken?

Just got back from a little jaunt to Polynesia. The Marquesans have a nice way of saying hello.

 

It rains a lot, but it's warm.

But if you like hibiscus (and who doesn't), this is the place. It's wild and there are more varieties than you can count.

 

Continuing the night of the arts in Helsinki images; the Human Net included 40 performers hanging from a new lifted by a crane in Senate Square. D5, 105/1.4E, f/1.4, 1/320s, ISO 400.

 

 

D5, 105/1.4E, f/1.4, 1/500s, ISO 1600.

 

 

Finally some warmer colours.

 

Edited September 5, 2018 by ilkka_nissila

Sept 2 hike to a bunch of lakes. D750+24-85vr.

Andrew, my whale watching photography attempts have all been complete failures. Grey, out of focus lumps. Where were your's taken?

 

This time it was from Vancouver (technically the boat went from Steveston, home, I discovered, of Once Upon A Time) with Vancouver Whale Watch - they helpfully have a "if you don't see a whale, come back for free" policy, so I did it near the start of my holiday just in case. I've had luck from Victoria on Vancouver Island, too. There are some resident orcas in this area, along with some transient pods. Apparently they have humpbacks too, but the only time I've seen them was from Perth in Australia - and before I learned about telephoto lenses (it was a contributing factor). A 500mm help with the orcas around Vancouver, and the boats try to stay a distance away, but they do sometime approach the boats (causing an emergency stop). Quite cool to see, although they're obviously behaving fairly naturally and just swimming around, so no massive SeaWorld-esque leaps (one did swim past upside down at one point, though). They emerge for air then dive after a couple of seconds, so I suspect some compacts would struggle to lock on in time - the boats tend to sway a bit as well, which doesn't help framing. Better luck with your next attempt!

 

Since we've been talking aquatics, here's something I couldn't have done with a Z7: three consecutive frames at 9fps with the viewfinder for composition. I don't normally waste my Wednesday budget on sequences, but there's a first time for everything.

 

(Captive) sea otter, just after being fed in Vancouver Aquarium. It did this several times - I hope this weird inverse diving (it's not quite breaching like a whale) was either about cleaning or the otter had made a game for itself; I hope it's not a sign of the kind of mental issues some animals in captivity have (although these otters aren't suitable for release anyway), but Vancouver Aquarium normally seems to be on top of wellfare.

 

D850, grip, ISO 900, 1/4000s, 70-200 f/2.8FL at f/4.

 

Peak arch. ISO 1000 (hear that Z7? 9fps metering...) and otherwise the same, since I was in manual and auto-ISO.

 

And the sploosh of re-entry. This picture of a headless otter wouldn't make much sense without the previous two... Same settings as the previous frame.

 

Hot mid-day contrasty plants at the end of summer