Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #23 - Old Thread, June 3 2009

<p>Hi all, I have worked on many versions from this pic trying to catch the sensation of a humid, hot end of the day, as I experienced at the moment of the capture. Actually, photography is a difficult task. I`m not convinced of having achieved it. Anyway, here it is.</p>

<p>Taken with my dusty D700 @ 200ISO, 14bit RAW, 50AFS, f4 - 1/2000sec. All camera tricks off. Slightly desaturated on NX2, unsharp mask applied, all the rest in Ps. I have another Aperture versions, more eloquent but also less pleasant. I find Aperture to be a more demanding software.</p>

<p>As usual, feel free to post if you like your wEeKly PiC, taken with Nikon gear. <em>Thank you all.</em></p>

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<p >Hello All</p>

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<p >Another brand new week :)</p>

<p >I managed to try out my new 80-400mm over the weekend. Thought I’d go to the Zoo and take a few shots. I must say, Richard Armstrong’s shots with his 80-400mm inspired me to try something similar. I am satisfied with the lens for now and if used within its limits, it can produce some decent shots. But we’ll leave that discussion for another time. </p><div></div>

<p>Heres mine for this week<br>

D700, 28-200 AF-D at 28mm<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/8934227-md.jpg" alt="" width="679" height="452" /></p>

<p><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/CONFIG~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Another Day at the Races<br /> Taken last April at Hipodromo de San Isidro, Buenos Aires.<br /> My favourite horse for the race, the Number 4 called Riff Raff, crossing the winning post...in the 14th place! :(</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/9265943-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" /><br>

<strong> Nikon D300 + 18-200 f3.5-5.6 ISO 200 f18 1/100</strong></p>

 

<p>That's a bit odd - the picture looks a bit different here than on my screen. Maybe I'll have to configure my display.</p>

<p>Barely Wednesday here in California. Fairly gray and foggy here lately (May Gray just became June Gloom) - saw this scene and had to find a good spot to shoot from. Finally found one, pulled over and shot of few images. Looking west from Santa Barbara Airport, up the Gaviota Coast and Santa Ynez Mountains. D300, 80-400 VR at 250 mm (yes, it can be used for landscape too), 1/50 s, f/40, ISO 200 - not really sure how that happened.<br>

Saw this thread come up - and before I could finish my post, there were already a few in front of me. Already looks like a great thread again.</p><div></div>

<p>Jose - you start us off so well each time... what a lovely scene. And Dieter, what amazing tones. Hi to the rest of you, with a wish that you all have a good Wednesday - and I can't wait to see your work.</p>

<p>My contribution this week is of a wonderful little tap that I walk past at almost every day at work and could not resist taking an image of recently.</p><div></div>

<p>Around 30 degrees this sunday around Barcelona, so we went to the <em>playa </em> of one of the surrounding smaller cities to take a walk, with a fresh breeze being our company. This is my favorite moment, when the sun is close to the horizon, when the shadows are getting very long, and when people prepare for their way home and the beach is getting empty. By the way, the sunset was magic, but we were trapped in a traffic jam at returning :-(<br>

PS: seems that people are so eager to post - the response counter of the previous wednesday pic just increased from 198 to 200<br>

PPS: J.-A. - to me it seems that you captured the hot humid summer atmosphere</p><div></div>

<p>Yeah, it's Wednesday again!<br /> Anish, that bird is fabulous! And Jose: serene, and a bit of tristesse! Dieter: love that light.<br /> Welcome to the show: <strong>Nikon D700 with a 50/1.4 at ISO 1600 and 1/200.</strong> Artists are leaving the circus stage after a really fantastic evening.<br /> <img src="http://www.abload.de/img/flicflac16dxtd.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>I chased this guy around my garden on Sunday. After a while he finally settled long enough for me to get off five or six shots.</p><div></div>

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<p>Here we go again. This time a picture captured on my way home from the member's night watch duty at our marina. Even the ducks are on patrol! ;)</p><div></div>

<p>No fancy techniques here, just shooting through the glass at some jellyfish in a local aquarium:<br>

<br /> <img src="http://manbou.smugmug.com/photos/529011947_mKKAN-M.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /> <br /> <strong></strong><br>

<strong>D700, 50mm f/1.4 AF-D. ISO 6400, f/8, 1/80 sec. PP in LR2.</strong></p>

<p>Hi Guys & Girls,<br>

Already heaps of posts today! Tried to be quick but missed the initial post by a few minutes and bang, already a dozen of posts...<br /> Just proves how much everybody likes the wednesday threads.<br>

Hamish, Great shot! Love the detailed shadow on that bee. <br /> Also quite like the shot of anish, alejandro, dieter, bernard, monika and hamish.<br>

This itsy bitsy spider was shot in a hurry in the back yard. It has that "take us to your leader" look alhough it wasn't really that big :)<br>

Happy shooting,<br /> Gert</p><div></div>

<p>Sorry, nothing more than boats and glassy water from me again - the morning after last week's nightime reflections.</p>

<p>Dieter Schaefer, your image is truly beautiful.</p><div></div>

<p>Wednesdays are fun! More music from me this week. Saturday night at club Debaser in Stockholm.</p><div></div>

<p>Justin, this is really stunning!!!!!! And I like Monika's one with light playing around the<strong> </strong> silhouettes - magnificent "Romero-Style"!<strong><a href="http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&p=thMx..&search=silhouette"><strong><br /> </strong> </a> </strong></p>

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<p>Hi all, good morning (or good evening)</p>

<p>Wow, Dieter. What an amazing image. I love everything about it. Congratulations. You clearly have a winner here! =)<br>

This weekend we went out of town to get a break from work and try to rest a bit. Not easy to drive under 40ºC sun all day, but it were 350km of great, twisty, beatiful mountain B-roads by the river Douro - Portugal.</p>

 

<p>One of the places we visited had this church on the top of the hill and we had to climb several levels of stairs (<a href="http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1648910-Bottom_of_the_Double_Staircase-Lamego.jpg">check it out!</a>)</p>

 

<p>and on the final level, there was this lonely rose peeping out of the bush.</p>

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<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2465/3587239334_a3f93a7bd1_o.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>gelled sb900 right with 28mm/3.5 on my d700 this afternoon with my brother</p><div></div>

<p>Another great WedNesDay.<br>

D700 <a href="mailto:70-200@200mm">70-200@200mm</a> f/8 1/60s ISO400 </p><div></div>

<p>Matthew, you make me want to hop right into that lake....</p>

<p>Thanks Bernard, Monika (perfectly captured atmosphere), Gert (is it just me not counting right or does that spider have only seven legs?), Matthew (sure calm waters there), and Pedro (love the composition) for the compliments.</p>

<p>WOW - the thread has not been going for even an hour & look at the result.<br /> <strong>Dieter</strong> - you have so perfectly managed to capture the look of the light & scenery we're dealing with these days. That hazy light which seems to just not translate correctly -- but you got it. :-) Stunning...<br /> But J<strong>oseph, Hamish, Ton & Matthew</strong> - love your shots.<br /> My <em>largest problem</em> is always to <strong>pick a shot</strong> . It's always such a hassle to figure out which to pick....... Most of what I shot last week was IR, but since I posted IR last week......<br /> OK - this is it. Help..... OK I'm not a landscape photographer, but on our recent trip up to Washington state I got a chance to practice (on the run) some landscape photography. I was looking for primeval forest settings..... I am so far behind in pp'ing all my work so sorry - this is a few weeks old.... Too much going on...<br /> D700, 24-70mm f/2.8 at 1/25s f/8 ISO 200 at 24mm hand held<br /> <img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p1034746134-5.jpg" alt="" width="566" height="850" /></p>

<p>A vendor at the Tuan Giao Market i northern Vietnam</p><div></div>

<p>Old Hansa in Tallinn.</p><div></div>