Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #22

<p>Hi all. Yesterday night, while preparing today`s pic this little guy jumped out from the window... I inmediately left my orthodox landscape and took the 105VR to play with my new friend. He was so kind, he kept still during all the photo session, I suspect he thought it was his only way to avoid been wolf down by me. After several shots I left him outside. Then he started to run.<br /> <br /> It was a fast shooting with a SB-800 with diffuser to which I also taped a loose A4 sheet of paper, literally over him. I was not expecting anything good from the 105VR at 1:1 and small apertures. In fact, from f22 on, the image quality is really bad. The bug is 10-15mm lenght. The image has been taken at f64, I choose this one for the deeper DoF. The camera, D700 @ 200ISO, 14bit RAW, 1/60 sec. (I wonder why I left this slow speed), tripod, cable release, the camera as commander and the SB-800 at its maximum power as the only light source. Lots of post-processing.<br /> <br /><strong><em> Please post your favourite pic if you like taken with Nikon gear, check your file size before posting, don`t forget to include gear info... as usual. Thanks.</em></strong></p>

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<b><i>Moderator's note:</b> Piggybacking onto Jose's post to add guidelines for benefit of our new participants. I'm seeing a few oversized photos, so here are a few tips:</i><p>

<p>Just a few rules and guidelines for the weekly Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC threads:</p>

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<li>Some sort of Nikon equipment </li>

<li>One photo per person</li>

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<li>In the caption, please specify the equipment used</li>

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<p>A few basic guidelines:</p>

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<li>Recent photos are encouraged but not required, since film photographers usually need more time to prepare. The goal is to encourage activity, but not mandate it. </li>

<li>We don't set themes (that would duplicate photo.net's excellent <a href="../no-words-forum">No Words Forum</a> ).</li>

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<p>Most of all, join in and have fun.</p>

 

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<p >Hello forum!</p>

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<p >Here we go all over again!</p>

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<p >Well, i miss my birds. This is a shot of a crested grebe. It is a large crop coz these guy are too shy.</p>

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<p >I hope this shot is good enough for todays thread since every week you guys raise the bar higher and higher!</p>

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<p >Let's have fun...... Cheers!</p>

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<p>Jose,</p>

<p>That's a great start to another Wed pic. Nice sharp detail, a very tangible image with plenty of depth.</p>

<p>Hi Rene, great still capture, not so easy to nail like this. Looking forward to another evening (Australian time) of Wed. photo viewing and reviewing.......</p>

<p>My contribution this week is something very simple, taken last week on a driving holiday. Taken with a wide angle lens and tripod at night for about 20 seconds. I've really taken a liking to this one.</p><div></div>

<p>Here's mine. Took this at a local festival. I was fascinated by these ceramic figurines for sale.</p><div></div>

<p>Hi everybody<br>

Jose, it was nice of the bug that it waited for you to set up all the gear, nice macro.<br>

Matthew, nice stars lighting the boats<br>

Fred, Dancing party</p>

<p>This week I will share one of my favourite portrets with you, I hope<br /> you like it.<br /> It's a picture of my father and my niece, I like the dreamy look in her eyes.<br /> She is a bit older already now, but this is still one of my favourite<br /> pictures of her.<br /> Taken with the D90, nikkor 80-200 AF 2.8 @ 80mm F8 1/80s iso 800<br /> Looking forward to seeing many more great pictures today.</p><div></div>

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<p>Nice pic Jose Angel. I will follow your path into the animal kingdom and present this elk that was walking outside the cabin on Saturday. This animals can be easely scare so I did not have time for a tripod. Instead I laid on the ground with my camera and 300 f4 lens lens over my arm and took this picture. It is about 23:30 on a cloudy "day" so light conditions were poor (but notice that I'm above the polar circle where the sun does not set in the summer) To compensate for camera shake and poor light I used ISO 640. All things I have learned from you guys. Hope you enjoy!<br />By the way, I did not have the time to comment pictures last wednesday. I liked the most Rodger Baker underwater (shark or?), Shamsaldin perspective of roofs and clouds, Keith and Sjoerd perspectives, Dieter seahorse, Nina’s portrait, and Mike and Elliot’s freezing moments</p>

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<p>Hello everyone...<br>

Hope you had a great weekend...<br>

Here's mine from a day trip at Dover.</p>

<p>Hello everyone...<br>

Hope you had a great weekend...<br>

Here's mine from a day trip at Dover.</p><div></div>

<p>YESSSSSS! It's wednesday again! Here is my contribution this week, in honour of the spring!<br>

D300, Micro-Nikkor 105/4, handheld!!</p><div></div>

<p>Well, I had problems with the size of my picute. I had to use a bad program to reseize it so I have lost part of the right margin. Better that than skipping work to go back home and rework it in PS. Cheers</p><div></div>

<p>Hi Guys & Gals<br /> Some great shots already!<br /> Jose, Great details! Good think he kept still.<br /> I like that shot Matthews, at first look it's just ok but the longer you look at it, the more you appreciate it.<br /> Didn't know Dover could have that exotic look Anish.<br /> Here's my contribution for this week;<br /> Shot with a D90 iso 200 1/500 (ish) and the 50mm at f8. <br /> I really love that lens and if you crop (a lot) you almost have a macro look :)<br /> Happy Shooting,<br /> Gert</p>

<p>Oh, it's Wednesday!<br /> Matthew, that dreamy starlit photo is simply great! (all others are very good, too, I think). Ton, the similarity between dog and owner is evident... ;-)<br /> Played a bit in Valencia with my new <strong>D700 - 24-85/2.8-4, f11 and automatic determination of appropriate time at ISO 200</strong> (sorry, don't recall the exact value... some 5 seconds, I think)<br /> <img src="http://www.abload.de/img/nightwatchmanqj4y.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>...the nightwatchman...</strong></p>

<p>Nice shots already - forum is true to form. :-)<br /> Jose - impressive at f/64 - excellent dof of that bug. Well done.<br /> Rene' - love the Crested Grebe - - we don't have those here.<br /> Matthew - love that shot.<br /> Fred - are those the traditional Turkish dancers?<br /> Sjoerd - that is one fine portrait to have<br /> Ton - what a great shot<br /> Anish - nice shot<br /> Per-Christian - Spring in the North for sure. Blue Bells..... Blåklockor - how sweet<br /> Hector - nice moose shot<br /> Gert - nice frontal of butterfly<br /> Monika - beautiful shot</p>

<p>OK mine - due to the loss of a pet Friday night I've been "off" & not myself. Yesterday I went with a friend to the Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens in the Pasadena area & this is one of the Infrared shots I came home with. Oh before I forget - - D70 (IR converted) with the 18-70mm at 50mm, ISO 200, f/8 1/250s EXIFs embedded & processed in CS3</p>

<p><img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p978680746-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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<p>Cool picture Jose :-)<br>

We drove 500km south at the weekend to do some mountaineering. This shot was taken at our camp on Saturday morning. Fortunately the cloud lifted later during our ascent.<br>

D300 with 12-24. ISO 200, f5.6, 1/400.</p>

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<p>Boat house, Swan River, Perth</p><div></div>

<p>Being unable to connect to the internet for two WedNesDays have to contribute with this pic from last week.</p><div></div>

<p>The quality of the photography here gets better by the week - and I really like what I have seen here already. So varied, but yet all interesting.</p>

<p>For my submission these flowers in some local woodland caught my eye. I used my FM3a and the 45mm P lans at f/5.6. Film was Kodacolor Plus 200.</p><div></div>

<p>Wednesday again! This week I´m posting a picture from Jazzclub Fasching here in Stockholm.<br>

Nikon F100 70-200/2.8 Kodak Tri-x at 1600 iso</p><div></div>

<p>Hamish - stunning view & shot.<br>

Martin - nice shot<br>

Jens - lovely shot of a stunning vista<br>

Ian - looks like a super lush woodland area<br>

Hasse - intense shot</p>

<p>Very good contributions so far. Here is one more from my dandelions series, with my son as a "model"...</p><div></div>

<p><img src="http://manbou.smugmug.com/photos/532004128_c69jH-L.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>D700, 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 60mm. ISO 100, f/16 @ 1/125. Post-processed in LR2.</strong></p>