Nikon Wednesday Pic 2010: #46

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<p>Happy Wednesday, Nikon Posse. It was a wet, gray afternoon ... and you know what that means: get caught up on some studio time.<br /><br />My main rig is tied up for a run of product shots that I don't want to disturb, but I needed to whip out a quick atmosphere image for someone in the living history accoutrements business. So I grabbed the ol' D200 and the 18-200 that stays on it for casual stuff. A single B800 used hard with a standard reflector, and a bit of fill from a second, bouncing from the wall behind me. Lit a couple of matches for that wisp of backlit smoke. Quick! Somebody post something non-contrived so I can relax again.</p><div></div>

<p>One of the girls watching while I repair their water tank last Friday. I take my camera everywhere....even out on the farm repair jobs.</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Hello Nikon Users</strong>...Here is another in my pelican series from White Rock Lake in Dallas, texas. The pelicans stay until March and I am there on most days.</p><div></div>

<p>There was no more tickets available for the bus !!</p><div></div>

<p>my friend Dan at his halloween party</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/11962111-lg.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="435" />D300 - Sigma 50-500mm</p><div></div>

<p>Flag ceremony during funeral at Arlington National Cemetery last week. It was one of those low sun clear sky kind of days that photographers dread. Depending on direction the light is spectacular and dramatic or yech if you need to shoot into it. Difficult light also means the chance for something special. Nikon D3 with 24-70 at ISO 800 f9 and 1/400 second.<br>

One of the things I love about the D3 is the ability to program the buttons for things that are important and work for me with most of my types of photography. For example I use the front program button to turn my flash on and off for alternating between lighting styles. I also have programmed the AE-L button to allow me to switch to spot metering which is great for shooting in backlit or difficult lighing situations. Wonderful camera.<br>

Matt I love your photo, great textures, clean colors and lighting.<br>

Don Harper</p><div></div>

<p>Macdonald Ondara, winner of the 2010 Big Sur Half Marathon which runs through Monterey and Pacific Grove and has nothing to do with Big Sur.</p><div></div>

<p>Kuwait</p><div></div>

<p>Hello Everybody,<br>

thank you for the comments on my photo last week, I really appreciate it. <br>

This week a portrait from a photo session I did on Saturday. <br>

Taken with Nikon D700, 24-70 f/2.8@ISO 200, f/9, 1/125s<br>

Have a lovely week.<br>

Jana </p><div></div>

<p>Am using this older one today as a tribute to this lovely little airline, Eurocypria Airlines, that was forced to close last week leaving crews without work suddenly. This is one of my most memorable because one Sunday morning my pilot friend texts me saying I’m bringing ‘Bravo Zulu’ in from Birmingham this evening, get a few shots as we’re landing at Larnaca. So I grabs a few shots not noticing the piece of paper stuck by the co-pilot’s window. On downloading the photo and zooming in, I noticed “Hi, Hello Andrew !” scrawled on the paper. I thought that was hilarious.<br>

<img src="http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/rr327/eurocypria/DSC_1452.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="465" /></p>

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone, great pics so far. This is a Monday morning fog & back yard shot.<br>

Jana - Love the Feathers shot!</p><div></div>

<p>Bride and groom from a recent wedding.</p><div></div>

<p>This is one from a while back, Nikon D90 captured in the wild</p><div></div>

<p>D7000 + 500mm/f4 AF-S @ ISO 100, f4.5, and 1/640 sec.</p>

<p>As part of my effort to test the D7000, I spent some time to capture bird images at a local refuge. I am quite impressed by the new Mutil-CAM 4800 AF module; it performs almost as well as the earlier Multi-CAM 3500 on the D300, D700, and D3 family camera, although I do miss the extra 6 cross-type AF points. However, for capturing action shots, the RAW buffer on the D7000 is not deep enough.</p><div></div>

<p>Great Wednesday, everyone!<br>

Thank you, <a href="../photodb/user?user_id=5860108">Allan Armstrong</a>, for mentioning my photo last week.<br>

I haven't had a chance to photograph (except for people, and I don't post these) in the last several weeks. So here is one more shot taken in Kings Canyon National Park last month.</p>

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<p>Hi. This is from my recent trip to Mexico. </p>

<p>Hi. This is from my recent trip to Mexico.</p>

<p>Hello everyone...<br /><br />Continuing with my series of fireworks from last wednesday, here's another one from the Lord Mayor's show last sunday.</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning!</p><div></div>

<p>this is from a trip to Mexico</p><div></div>

<p>During the first few weeks of each winter, before there's too much snow, we go ice-skating on a small lake 15 minutes from home. This year the ice is perfect, almost like glass, with just a few wind-blown snow patches. My son spends hours at a time on the ice and never seems to get bored.<br>

This one is taken on saturday. D3X and 24-70 @ 70mm.</p><div></div>

<p>We don't get a lot of clouds in the Phoenix area, but I love to capture them when I can! Late afternoon in October.</p><div></div>

<p>Hi. Beautiful images, several breathtaking in fact. Quick aside to Shun: since you've been testing and briefly commenting on the D7000 -- my monitor is showing faint magenta/purple streaks running down the image vertically in the upper left quadrant, from the top. Is is just my monitor, or what's up with that?</p>

<p>Okay onto my image for the week. I was immersed in B&W film and rangefinder cameras for most of the past two weeks but I did take some test shots one evening of a Sicilian plate that hangs near my desk. i was testing the AF 50/1.4D, the AF 50/1.8D, the AF 28-70/3.5-4.5D @ 50mm, the AFS 18-70/3.5-4.5 @ 50mm and the AF 28-80G @ 50mm. All shots were taken at f/5.0 and then I also compared the 1.4 nd the 1.8 at f/2.8, and f/1.8.</p>

<p>Anyway performance proved to be in the order I printed them above: 50/1.4 best, and the AF 28-80G the worst. </p>

<p>This is the winning shot from the 50/1.4, topping everything the 50/1.8 could throw at it.</p><div></div>

<p>This shot was taken on a sunny day in a tea plantation in southern India.</p><div></div>