Nikon Wednesday 2021: #48

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A good Nikon Wednesday to all. Working on some video editing this weekend, and grabbed a frame shot with Nikon glass (85mm macro) on a Sony video body. You can tell from the composition that this is just one layer of what will become a more complex video composite in post. Lots of motion graphics and other elements - but good old fashioned practical lighting and real live humans doing things still anchor the project, animated pieces or no. What's everyone else been up to? Let's see!

 

D3 14-24 f2.8G @ 24mm 1/25th f4.5 iso 1600

 

D850 + 70-200mm 2.8 Fl @ 200mm. 1/1000 ISO 800 f4. Snowy Owl.

 

D850 + 300mm f4 PF. 1/1000 ISO 800 f5. Tawny Owl.

 

Some mornings there is about ten or fifteen minutes when the sun rises above the mountains but hasn't disappeared into the overcast yet where everything looks like it has been lit by a spotlight. D300, 50mm Nikkor

 

one flower from the sunflower state

Nikkormat FTn

 

Z7 24-70 f4 Food shack in the Illinois State Fairgrounds.

 

Long ago, when a local farmer still delivered our milk in the morning, my mom met him at the top of the path, remarking what a beautiful sight the icy woods presented, to which he replied, "Yup, it's just one goddam fairyland." A stock expression in our family ever since.

 

I'd better be careful. I think my computer has a bug.

 

D500, 200-500
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron

Yellow-Crowned Night Heron

Yellow-Crowned Night Heron

 

Local Spiderman

 

Nikkor AF-D 50 on D100


Nikkor AF-S 35 G on D2X


Nikkor AF-S 35 G on D100​

 

Brand new Z5. Couldn't resist the $997 sale price.

 

Helping Hands

 

Sunset with the Z6ii and zooms at 70mm

 

A few pockets of color left along White Rock Creek Trail, with the D780 and 24-120mm f4 AFS-G Nikkor.

 

Hmmm. That scenery looks very familiar. Great place for all kinds of photography.