Nikon Wednesday 2018: #5

 

Since we just (an hour or so ago, as I write this) went through one of our republic's annual rituals, held in the capitol building, I spent a moment time-traveling back to 2010 (and to the D300) to dig out this casually taken shot from the center of the floor in the capitol rotunda. It really is quite a structure soaring overhead, and worth a tour if one can arrange for it. But be ready to part with your camera bag (they have a check service, but it gave me some heartburn!) should you want to visit either the house or senate chambers. Here's to the last Nikon Wednesday of January, and hoping you all share some photos. Go!

D300 at ISO 500 and 1/40th with a Sigma 10-20 HSM at f/4 and 10mm.

Sunset and Crane, Akashi-Okubo, Japan. Nikon D700, MF Nikon 35-135/3.5-4.5.

 

We recently adopted another retired racing greyhound, Louie. He's three. His color is referred to in greyhoundland as "white with black ticking."

D800E, 24-70 f/2.8 AF-S @ 70mm, ISO 2000, 1/1000 @ f/4

Andrew Garrard asked in last Wednesday's thread for images of the super blue blood moon taken place tonight (January 31) - and since I was up though totally unprepared for the event, I jumped outside and took a few.

 

First and second are taken in the same minute about 23 minutes before the start of totality, one exposed for the highlights, one for the shadows

 

And one right at the onset of the total eclipse - still handheld. Mid-eclipse is not for another half hour or thereabouts.

Texas State Capitol in Austin. Nikon D750 [ATTACH=full]1230518[/ATTACH]

Circle B Wildlife Preserve, Lakeland, Florida

Thanks, Dieter! I wouldn't normally do requests, but since I wasn't in the right time zone to sort it myself... (Annoyingly I was in Taipei last week - if I'd still been there, and the weather had been better, and I'd had more than an RX100 with me, I'd have fixed it myself.)

 

Right, off out to shoot briefly now the sun has come out.

Lamdong province, Vietnam

D810, 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/8, 1/180", ISO 400

 

Dieter Schaefer - where are you living, if I may ask?

A monkey ladder vine from Costa Rica

 

methinks a crocodile has passed this way..

 

There's one now....

 

 

D 7100, 16-85 for the vine, 55-300 for the crocs

Dieter Schaefer - where are you living, if I may ask?

Santa Barbara, Southern California.

Right, off out to shoot briefly now the sun has come out.

Exactly - here's one more shot taking as the moon is exiting the earth's penumbral shadow: super blue blood moon

Forgot to mention that the first and third super blue blood moon shots above are with identical exposure parameters to demonstrate the darkening as the moon fully enters the earth's umbra; the third image is at least 4 stops underexposed. Should have read this: How to Photograph a Lunar Eclipse prior to shooting to have a better idea of what the exposure challenges are.

Deborah - I've got to ask, where is that? It looks familiar, but it's been long enough now that I don't know whether it's just a place which looks a bit like a place I know...

Dieter: Yes, I always get irritatingly surprised by just how dark an eclipsed moon is (especially if I'm silly enough to try to shoot it hand-held). I've not had the chance to try since I got my (cheap) astro tracker. I'll have to experiment with it if I get a clear sky soon.

Bald eagles, D500 with 600mm lens

 

Edited January 31, 2018 by ShunCheung

While we really do not have what I would call a proper winter, we still have some snow and ice.

 

 

Nikon D800E, AF-S 70-200/2.8 VRII

speaking of "annual rituals," we have one down here, you may have heard about?

Nikon F, 28mm Nikkor, Fomapan200, Xtol/Rodinal.

In a classic example of not knowing what I was going to shoot, I stepped out of the office during a brief sunny spell with drizzle on either side. Figuring I didn't want just more geese (yes, I got geese anyway) and inspired by the sun on frost from earlier in the week that I didn't have time to shoot, I brought a macro with me. So I have some uninspiring shots of moss and slightly moth-eaten pansies.

 

However, I also noticed that they'd turned on the fountains. Since I was trying to deal with camera shake for hand-held macro shots, I happened to be in the 1/300s and above range, so my snaps froze some water in a way I'm going to deem interesting, by my standards. So here, with a completely inappropriate 150mm Sigma macro on my D810, are some waterworks.

 

First up, the statue/fountain combo. Apparently this is the "five swimmers" and not, as it appears, a representation of young people throwing up after a night of too much drinking (which would seem more appropriate to me, but what do I know?)

 

Edited February 1, 2018 by Andrew Garrard