Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #37

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<p>Hi, this week has gone so fast! Here I am with a common view... it simply called my attention. Light conditions were really bad, almost no light but the D700 did the work, what a great camera.</p>

<p>Taken at Hi1.0 (12800ISO) with a 24/2.8AFD, 1/125 - f2.8, 14bit RAW, all camera tricks off, noise reduction not applied... in the opposite, I prefered the grainy look that unsharp masking provided on the full sized image! I have just increased a bit the overall contrast of the master, which was almost acceptable with no processing.</p>

<p>Please feel free to post your favourite pic of the week taken with Nikon gear... <em>Thanks</em>.</p><div></div>

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<p>Happy Wednesday, everybody. It's time again!<br>

<br />This week, I had some problems deciding which photo to post. As a very proud father, I wanted primarily to post a photo of my daughter in a dance competition on Saturday, which she won, and as a result, reached a higher quality class (with even more fierce competition). Of course we will not find those guys here on PN, but the web unfortunately is full of crazy people, who like to drool over pics of young girls in a tight dancing costume, so I decided to let that photo go (But now I have told you - he he).<br>

<br />Instead I post this picture, which I have called "opposite directions". I am really looking forward to see your photos today!</p>

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<p><img src="http://manbou.smugmug.com/photos/636582858_GTc7T-L.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="600" /></p>

<p>D700, 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 40mm and f/2.8, 1/400 sec, ISO 100.</p>

<p>A recent effort, shot with D300, 1/640 sec, ISO 200, 35mm AF-S at f/11.</p><div></div>

<p><strong>Happy WeDNeSDaY</strong> everybody!<br>

First of all thank you for the comments on my shot last week….<br>

Here is another image from my EUROPE SNAP SHOT series.<br>

This image was captured along the highway <strong>somewhere in Austria</strong>. Sorry but that's all the information I can give. All I know is that everywhere I looked there was potential for a great picture. The scenery was just fabulous.<br>

Thank you in advance for taking the time! Cheers! </p><div></div>

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<p>Good morning all<br>

I want to express my gratitude for the comments from last week. It means a great deal to me! Thank you all for the nice and positive comments.<br>

Me and my wife went to Bilbao, Spain, last July to visit the Guggenheim Museum. It is a very nice city and the museum is absolutely brilliant. The surroundings are also great, with lots of new architecture contrasting with the old buildings. Frank Gehry <em>rules</em>! =)<br>

This shot was made with a D700 and E-Series 28 f/2.8 on a very small plastic and flimsy tripod on a very shaky bridge. I was lucky enough to be able to prevent the tripod from wiggling around for the 8 second exposure @ f/16 and ISO400.<br>

For a bigger version on black, click <a href="http://petterpictures.blogspot.com/">here</a>.</p>

 

 

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<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2452/3897424123_4cde43a3a6.jpg" alt="" /><br>

 

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<p>See you next week!<br>

Cheers,<br>

Pedro.</p>

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<p>Back to the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. My father was puzzled why I was interested in photographing these cacti with the sun behind them.</p>

<p>Nikon D700, 24mm/f2.8 AF-D @ f11, 1/125 sec. Remember the 24mm/f2.8 does not handle backlit situations well? Even though the sun is not actually in the frame, the shallow lens hood was totally unhelpful. I had to use my left hand to shield the top of the lens.</p><div></div>

<p>Great shots already - I will comment tomorrow or so, after more people have posted. Looking great already. ;-)<br /> OK this week I'm ready. This was taken within the last few days of my sister's visit within the last few weeks. I'd forgotten this shot until I happened to review my shots. This is one my sister just fell in love with. This was taken during a walk with my sister & family within Downtown L.A. at Olivera Street. This is really old town Los Angeles when it comes to buildings, what's sold - - well it's not all that impressive....<br /> So this one is for my sister who just loves my IR shots. (It's not perfect & I know it....)<br /> Shot with the D70 (IR converted) the 10-24mm Nikkor at 15mm ISO 200 f/8 1/400s -1/3 EV - Post processed in between CS3 & NX2 with EXIFs embedded as always....<br>

Larger version can be seen here, if anyone would like to.... <br>

http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/p1058180627/h13f0972#h13f0972<br>

<img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v0/p20908402-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p >Hello everyone..</p>

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<p >Thanks to those of you who commented on my pic from last week. I've been busy the past week that I couldn't find the time to take any pictures and when I did have the opportunity to do so, I didn't have my camera!! Anyway, here’s another picture from last week’s Notting Hill Carnival. </p>

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<p >Rene: I think this is where one of those GPS units come in handy!</p>

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<p>Abandoned palm tree farm and dhow - Kuwait</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning everybody, and happy Wednesday!</p>

<p>Cool shot, José, and great light, although you said you had little light. I love that pic - the contradiction in it is simply great.<br>

Pedro, why is that picture so small?</p>

<p>Went hiking with my Dad to unknown places in the depths of the regional forests. If you don't know where to go, you'll never find them. Taken with<strong> D700 on ISO Low 1.0 and the universal 24-85 2.8-4</strong> , camera deposited on a rock, and stabilized with little branches... ("no, I won't need the tripod today...")</p>

<p><img src="http://www.abload.de/img/636835986_trips6hz7.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>This is my last picture for three weeks, as, alas, I will be going to explore the Mediterranean for some time. So, have fun! I shall be returning, hopefully, with plenty of images.</p>

<p>I have the intention of, <em>at least,</em> responding at the end of the day the questions some of you did to me on past thread... it`s funny... reading your comments looks like for some of us the past week gone so fast, too... :)<br /><strong> Lil</strong>, I like your IR pic, too.<br /><strong> Monika</strong>, enjoy the <em>mediterráneo</em>... I did so too on my holidays, three weeks ago... now the climate is way better, and no crowds of people, I think!</p>

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<p>Hello guys, it's wednesday, good picks everyone. Here mine for today, taken in Dominican, Fuji S3, 18-70.<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2431/3899926348_467277c953_o.jpg" alt="" /><br>

Tropical rain.</p>

 

<p><strong>Monika:</strong>I only saved my picture to 1000px wide and uploaded it to Flickr. Since photo.net imposes max 800x, I had to get the medium size link from Flickr, wich is only 500x wide...Sorry =)<br>

About your mediterranean trip, I envy you. =) Please do take many pictures and show them to us!! Wich countries are you going to visit?<br>

<strong>José: </strong>May I ask you why you used ISO12800 @ 1/125? You could have gone to ISO3200 easily and use 1/30" at that focal length =) Great picture nonetheless, and I actually like the graininess, it gives the picture this "retro" feel. Well done.</p>

 

<p>fearless 3 years old boy</p><div></div>

<p><strong><em>Pedro</em></strong>, your question is similar to what <strong>Tim Evans</strong> asked me past week... in my experience, the rule of minimum speed=focal lenght doesn`t have worked in many ocassions. My own rule for maximum sharpness <em>certainty</em> is to shoot, at least 2X the focal lenght.</p>

<p>Most of the times I shot at much longer speeds, sucessfully (1/30, 1/15, 1/8... with the 50AFS!), but I have found that sometimes the classic rule leave a little bit of (camera shake) blur on the pic. At the end it could be matter of luck.</p>

<p>As I shoot mostly with a 50mm prime, I`m used to to see 1/125 on the viewfinder... probably I saw this number and pressed the trigger promptly.</p>

<p><strong><em>to Tim Evans</em></strong>; last week`reason was different, there were differently illuminated areas in the same place, I set the aperture priority for the worst of them and start shooting. The bird was continuously changing his position, faster than my ability of re-calculating exposure... I leaved it and shot. That`s all.</p>

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<p>... in my experience, the rule of minimum speed=focal lenght doesn`t have worked in many ocassions. My own rule for maximum sharpness is at least 2X the focal lenght.<br>

Most of the times I shot at much longer speeds, sucessfully (1/30, 1/15, 1/8... with the 50AFS!), but I have found that sometimes the classic rule leave a little bit of (camera shake) blur on the pic.</p>

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<p>Signed and agreed. Me, too.</p>

<p>Pedro, José, I'll be going to Italy this time, a country I love but rarely visit for some unknown reason. Have lived in Spain before, maybe that's why. My heart lives there, still, and, with one foot, in Greece. That is strange, too. :-))) Aren't you living in Spain, José?</p>

<p>Looking very much forward to the forthcoming photos this week.</p>

<p>For my entry I show Willow the dog. His owner was chatting for what he thought was too long so off he went for a small explore (well, until his leash ran out anyway). I used my FM3a, 28mm f2.8 Ai-S and Fuji 200 film.</p><div></div>

<p>Another Wednesday, another photographic world tour. This is an absorbing thread, always something new to learn, every photo tells a story.</p><p>This is from last Friday, driving home from a long day's work, the low angled afternoon light was fabulous with rain fronts passing through regularly. This and late autumn are positively <em>the</em> best time of year here in S.E. Australia for landscape photographic light. This is a scene which I pass twice per week, it never ceases to grab my attention, often I stop just to check out the view. I think this images loses considerable impact when re-sized but at 700 pix wide I think it still speaks to me at least.....</p><div></div>

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<p>My daughter serving ...</p><div></div>

<p>Great start as usual! I promise to post something other than a bug next week, but finally found another Chrysoesthia drurella in a prettier patch of flowers, so couldn't resist because the lighting is so different (usually I only find these out in full sun) and it's got his breast plate all puffed out. They'll be gone soon, so I'll have to wait until next summer to find them again (D90/Sigma 150mm macro at 1:1 ratio/cropped):</p>

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<p>In the garden on Sunday. A small tortoiseshell and a bee apparently quite unconcerned by one another!<br>

D40, 18-55, f/5.6 at 1/400. Sunny, fill with built-in flash. Cropped from 1/3 area.</p>

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<p>This droplet was found by my friend Alice while we were visiting Nuuksio on Sunday.</p><div></div>