Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #26

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<p>Hi, this week I`m on an incursion into still life... I visualized a very dark pic, wood, blur, and one of my favourite books (Bècquer and specially this editing style). Actually it is not exactly what I was looking for... I think I must have used a 35/1.4AiS, and a more extreme processing. I`m learning.<br /> D700 @ 200ISO, 14bit RAW, 50AFS, f1.4 - 1/15sec., all camera tricks off. NX2, Ps and Aperture.<br /> <br /> Please post your Nikon pic if you like as usual. <em>Thank you all.</em><br /></p><div></div>

<p>Good evening forum!</p>

<p>Here we are again, a new ALmOSt THuRSdaY PiC thread.</p>

<p>Finally I have almost caught up with my shots. This is an ever all view of the city of florence, some how it caught my eyes while going through all the shots. I am in love with this city and can't wait to go back.</p>

<p>I wonder how Xmas is around there! I'm sure it is much more fun than in Japan.</p>

<p>A few more shots if anyone would like to see: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=918859</p>

<p>Hope you guys like it.... Now let's see what you guys have been working on for the past 7 days! Cheers!</p>

<p>Jose.... I like the effect!</p>

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<p>Took this image a few weeks ago in the crypt of the Pantheon in Paris and finally found time to process. It's a crop of a fisheye image with the fisheye distortion removed through DxO and converted to B&W in PS. D200, 10.5mm, 1/10s, f/2.8, ISO200, hand held, spot-metered.<br /> Rene` - fantastic night shot<br /> Jose - maybe a tad darker?</p><div></div>

<p>Taken last week at Rosedal of Palermo, Buenos Aires<br>

D300 + 18-200 VR 1/200 - f5.6 - ISO 250 @200mm</p><div></div>

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<p>Hi,<br>

This is one of the first pictures I took a while ago with my D90 and I only had the 80-200 2.8 to play with. ;-)<br>

I came across these kissing mushrooms at my work. No shame at all!!<br>

D90, 80-200 @ F2.8 135mm 1/800s ISO 400</p>

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<p>Is the Wednesday Pic early today or am I just up late?</p>

<p>In any case we had a trip to Santa Fe, NM this weekend and I liked some shots I got of the St. Francis of Assisi Basilica around dusk one evening.</p><div></div>

<p>Took some real estate pictures on Monday. The owner had a retro style throughout the house.</p><div></div>

<p>Good WedNEsDAy, fellow Nikon shooters! Looking forward to see all your pics later on! Jose, Rene', Dieter, Alejandro, Ton & others you really have started out this thread with marvelous pics! Great wide angle shots, I really need to get a WA lens for myself. :)</p>

<p>This week I have been on the road, visiting relatives and old friends, and doing some renovation on the side. Of course I had my cameras with me and shot a great deal of flower macros among other pics on Midsummer Day. Had to use rather old computer to get this pic resized, and this bugger has only Paint in it, so sorry for the low quality of this pic. But here is a trail of flowers shot on a Midsummer Day.</p>

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<p>Hello all, good morning!<br>

It's been quite a busy week (or month, to that matter) and the past few days I wasn't able to take any pictures. So here's one from last month. It was taken in Lamego, a town in the north of Portugal. I thought that it was a rather intriguing door, with all the color layers.<br />D700, Series E 28mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6 and 1/25s, ISO200.<br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2452/3586431463_85bf4592a8_o.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="700" /></p>

<p>Hello, it's Wednesday again! Ton, that pic is just great! And Pedro, you've touched one of my nerves with that door... I seem to have found another doorseeker... (as a matter of fact, I'm always amazed about the quality of pictures stranding in this section!)<br>

<strong>Leaving the old town</strong> , in Luxemburg (yes, that's that tiny country in the heart of Europe) on a bleak and overcast day:<br>

<img src="http://www.abload.de/img/567521366__lburg43gat.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<em>D700 with 24-85/2.8-4, at f11</em></p>

<p>I like the juxtaposition and contrast Ton!</p>

<p>Here is a shot from Saturday. I've been experimenting with ufraw and a Velvia tone curve. D700 iso 200, Nikkor 50mm @ F4.</p><div></div>

<p><strong>To honor Kodachrome</strong><br /> Kodak discontinued Kodachrome this week. I shot 100's and 100's of rolls back in the 70s and 80's. The big decision was Kodachrome or Ektachrome. I've haven't shot it lately, but it was nice knowing it was there.<br /> Back to the files for this one.<br /> <br /> Nikkormat Ftn with 50mm 1.4 S Scanned on Nikon LX 4000 Kodachrome 64<br /> <br /> <img src="http://i715.photobucket.com/albums/ww160/jml0306/gaswirls.jpg?t=1245829399" alt="" width="640" height="368" /></p>

<p>Nikon D300 w/18-200mm Nikkor zoom</p><div></div>

<p>Nice door Pedro, I have a bit of a thing for decayed doors and windows too.</p>

<p>From one of my lunchtime wanders.<br>

D80 + 17-55mm f2.8 @ 20mm, f5.6, 1/400, iso100</p>

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<p>The Towering Flower of Power:<br>

<img src="http://manbou.smugmug.com/photos/527153898_Mb699-L.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><strong>D700 with 50mm f/1.4 AF-D @ ISO 100, f/8, 1/320 sec.</strong> PP in LR2</p>

<p>Aaah, away in a small meeting, and already 15 posts before me!! :)</p>

<p>This elk was disturbed eating his midsummer eve meal. For those who have followed the thread: "Ooooh, I'm sooooo pi***d :(" <a href="http://www.photo.net/casual-conversations-forum/00Tfoy">http://www.photo.net/casual-conversations-forum/00Tfoy</a> , I can happily say: <strong>"I got the sucker"</strong> ;) ;).<br>

<br />Nikon D300, Sigma 50-150mm @ 150mm, ISO 1100, f2.8, 1/200</p>

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<p>Hi All,<br>

Excellent images everyone. Was expermenting with the subject curves, here's what came out...</p><div></div>

<p>Per-christian - I see you used the NIkon this time :)</p>

<p >Hi All</p>

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<p >Whilst a wholehearted devotee of digital, I can not help feeling a slightly sad nostalgia over the loss of my 1^st love, Kodachorme.</p>

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<p >My first post to Nikon Wednesday then is an old Kodachrome image taken with a circa 1985 Nikon FA manual focus camera and 400mm zoom of unremembered (and probably unknown) heritage. The lens was gifted to me by my father and came attached to an ancient Practica camera. To fit this screw mount lens to my new Nikon I managed to locate a cheap screw-mount to F-mount converter that seemed to work reasonably well; albeit no doubt dreadfully soft by today’s standards.</p>

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<p >This B&W conversion is a part of my progressive effort to sort through and scan some of my old collection of slides and negatives. In this case, I thought the B&W conversion added to the impact of the composition, or perhaps more accurately, removed the distraction of the colourful patterns in the water and the deep rust colour of the wire rope against the pale grey of the concrete wharf.</p>

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<p >Tasmanian wharves can be cold places and this common Australian sea bird was taking the opportunity to warm itself in the sun whilst tucking one cold webbed foot up into a nice warm downy blanket.</p>

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<p >All the best,</p>

<p >Mike</p><div></div>

<p>Joseph, Yes that little P&S of the other brand is now confined to the cupboard, and will be released on parole only if it behaves... ;). </p>

<p>Only Nikon is good enough....</p>

<p>OH I am so @#&$@* - I had a full reply entered & then I try to post & photo.net messed up & loses it. I'm tired. :-( <br /> OK abbreviated version. This thread generates faster replies than any I know.<br /> Favorites so far -<br /> <strong>Rene</strong> 's night scape, <strong>Dieter</strong> 's crypt of the Pantheon, <strong>Ton</strong> 's street shot, <strong>Sjoerd</strong> 's kissing fungi, <strong>Glenn</strong> 's night time basilica, <strong>Hamish</strong> 's retro interior, <strong>Janne</strong> 's Midsummer flowers (boy do I recall those days), <strong>Pedro</strong> 's multi colored Portuguese door, <strong>Monika</strong> 's old European street, <strong>Dave</strong> 's girls in the landscape, <strong>Per-Christian</strong> 's young moose & <strong>Aaron</strong> 's curves.<br /> In order not to bore everyone stiff with my birds I am here yet again making a faint attempt towards landscapes. This is from our trip, as I'm still going through & pp'ing those photos.<br /> D700, 24-70mm f/2.8 at 26mm EXIFs embedded as always....<br /> Lil :-)<br /> <img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v4/p816269170-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

 

<p >This guy was looking for something to enhance his diet in my folks' flower garden. Hope he found something to his taste!!</p>

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<p >D200, handheld at ISO 100. 55mm f2.8 MF Macro lens, 1/160 sec at f5.6.</p>

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<p >Apologies to Ray Bradbury!</p>

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<p>That's a great capture <strong>Chris</strong><br>

Lil :-)</p>

<p>Lil, you are up late - there is an unfair time advantage since it's near midday in Europe. Very nice landscape, I always look forward to your posts.</p>

<p>Per-Christian - nice shot and it is good to be back in Norway.</p>