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Moderator note: Sorry for the inconvenience folks, looks like the thread is temporarily locked up as of 11/18/09, 5:47 pm my time, 2347 UTC. It's been reported to admin, hopefully will be fixed later. -- LJ<br>

Thread fixed, many thanks to Jin, who apparently never sleeps. For some reason I picture Jin as "Pilot" from the sci-fi show <i>Farscape.</i> I picture myself more as Stanley Tweedle from <i>Lexx</i>. -- LJ<br>

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<p><em><strong>Important notice:</strong></em> please keep your pics under 700 pixels width for inline posting <strong>and even more important</strong>, <strong><em>please keep the FILE SIZES UNDER 300Kb</em></strong>. Notice that <strong>this includes photos hosted off-site</strong> (Flickr, Photobucket, others). As a reference, notice that my pic is near 100Kb.<br /><br /><strong>The general guidelines for this WedNEsDAy PiC threads, </strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00T/00TXZt-140227584.jpg" target="<mce:script type=">are here</a>.</p>

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<p>Hi all,<br /> I think digital is better for almost everything, the D700 is a wonder of a camera, post processing digital archives (specially RAWs) are spectacularly easy and satisfaying. Sharpness on final prints seem to me the best ever on a Nikon camera and lenses, but...<br /> The magic of film is still there... ok, it has dust, scratches, difficult exposure control, no instant feedback (=some bad exposures), etc. etc. but I love it. Perhaps too many digital shots (thousands and thousands per year!).<br /> It`s funny, but when I take the F3 I feel it like my camera, when I take the D700 I feel it like loaned, or something like my computer, a temporarily tool that I`m currently using. And nothing like a well exposed film with that lovely grain... I`m sorry, I must recognize that I`m still on the film era.</p>

<p>The pic below has been scanned with a V750 Pro @ 1200ppi, processed in NX2 (unsharp masking), Ps (letters) and Aperture2 (framing). Please notice that there is a typo, it has been taken at <em>1/1000sec.- f16</em>, instead of 1/250sec. - f8. Too late for editing the pic.</p>

<p>Please feel free to post your pic if you like, taken with Nikon gear. <em>Thank you all.</em><br /> <em>______<br /></em><br /> <em>-Shun, thank you very, very much. I really appreciate it. My gratitude for Lex and Josh, too.-</em></p><div>00V2PC-191845684.thumb.jpg.bd4ed09f7a8190aa2b2a2df49cfd2c57.jpg</div>

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<p >Hello everyone..</p>

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<p >There were a lot of things happening this weekend that I thought I’d have quite a lot of opportunities to take some pictures. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t the best on Saturday. The Lord Mayor of the City of London had a procession around the City of London, which is a small area in Greater London, and not to be mistaken for London city. This procession has been going on for the past 800 years I’ve read with fireworks in the evening. Due to the heavy rains and strong winds, the fireworks were cancelled – which was a disappointment but a good idea nonetheless. </p>

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<p >Here’s a picture from the procession before it started to pour.</p><div>00V2PG-191847684.jpg.e6c6d7f5cd83553069569fdd9f88eafb.jpg</div>

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<p>This week has been the photographically most unproductive for me in a long time if we count the number of photos taken, for which I blame the weather (I did however spend some time doing editing work). There was one night with snowfall, so I snapped this pic while on the way to work.</p><div>00V2PL-191849584.jpg.ce0507a9aec172c997dcd4c7128b945f.jpg</div>
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<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2562/4113822979_c33671ee28_o.jpg" alt="" width="650" height="435" /> <br /> I had fun posting and commenting on everyone's photos for my first week last week, and look forward to getting to know all of you! I'm slowly crawling through my library of 12,000 unprocessed photos and came across a lovely summer tradition in Seattle – Seafair.<br>

Nikon D80, 55-200mm ED @ 125mm, ISO 250, f/10, 1/640 sec.</p>

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<p>Happy WeDNeSDaY everyone!</p>

<p>Thank you for the comments on my last week's image! I appreciate them!</p>

<p>SO? Another avian image! I really enjoy shooting all these feather guys! This was just a "Common Coot" but now I made him a World famous Coot!<br>

No much to tell about it just shooting these birds I broke my TC. Lucky me that Jose Angel is paying to fix it! Hopefully the check is already on the mail!</p>

<p>So let's have fun and see the products of this past week!</p>

<p>Cheers!</p>

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<p><strong>Duttons Farm, A Different type of Fall Color</strong></p>

<p>There’s more color in fall other than trees and bushes changing color. There’s this great farm stand in Newfane Vermont call Duttons. All year round they have great fruits and vegetables but always highlight what’s in season. They always have plenty from their own farm or local growers. They also bake on premises. Being fall, with the apple harvest you can only imagine the sweet smells of apple pie that fill the place. Its one of my favorite places in VT.</p>

<p>Being fall, there are plenty of Pumpkins.(more pies) Squashes and Gourds that are locally grown. Just walking thru their rear room where they have them all pilled up for sale, I came upon this setup. This one’s from last year, but its one of my favorite fall photos.<br /> Thank you for the comments on my last week's image! I appreciate them and they mean a lot</p>

<p><strong>Taken on Film and scanned from a print.</strong><br /> <strong>Nikon F3HP with MD4, 50mm 1.4 AI Nikkor. Available light on Kodak Porta NC</strong><br /> <strong> </strong><br /> <strong>I still love to shoot with film and manual focus cameras occasionally.</strong></p>

<p><strong><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/10198212-md.jpg" alt="At Duttons farm Wed 48" /> </strong></p>

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<p>This picture is actully from earlier this year, but I recently rediscovered it and gave it new life in post processing.</p>

<p>D700 with my favourite lens, the legendary AF-S 17-35mm f/2.8. Nikon circular polarizer.</p>

<p>ISO 200, f/8, 1/125s, EV -0.7, 14 bit RAW. Processed in Capture NX2.</p><div>00V2Pd-191853584.thumb.jpg.a15cc4431cd2fb1b95323f5512c1e22c.jpg</div>

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<p>First I'd like to thank Tiffany, Dan South, Bernard, Paul Gorky and Lil for the kind words last week. <br /> Just a snapshot this week, taken on Sunday. Ice skating on the lake in the afternoon sunshine. D300 and 35mm AFS (quite heavily cropped). ISO 800, 1/640, f2.8.</p><div>00V2Pg-191855584.jpg.437f6e0524648a4c46e2f72c55531b77.jpg</div>
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<p>Happy HuMpDAy everyone! Thanks for the comments last week. I really appreciate the high quality of images everyone is posting every week. I hope Nikon is taking note. It sets the bar very high.</p>

<p>This week's submission is for a book project I am working on. Shot with a D200, 50mm f/1.4 AIS (seems like a theme this week). Taken last week on a walk with my dog, Calvin. We don't get a lot of rain here on the High Desert of Oregon, so we were pretty thrilled to have some visible atmosphere to work with, and the very last of the fall leaves were clinging for dear death on the wet pavement.</p><div>00V2Q2-191859584.jpg.981c3f38edd90504513a123588e4fb3d.jpg</div>

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<p>Jose Angel: Obviously all camera systems have their own personality when it comes to the look. However, the Tri-X has something special that gives me a nice experience. It's a pretty funky pump!</p>

<p>Alejandro Held: Nice close-up.</p>

<p>Arish Mankuthel: Sorry about the fireworks. Hope you enjoyed the brass band. Nice clear shot of the procession.</p>

<p>Oskar Ojala: Brrr, here comes winter again. Nice colours contrasting agains the white sky and snow.</p>

<p>Jens Frederiksen: Like your composition.</p>

<p>Bogdan Nicolescu: Makes me wonder what it is. A camel?</p>

<p>James Hart: Nice diagonals.</p>

<p>Rene' Villela: Beautiful low saturated colours and sharpness. The interesting position of the wings works great in your composition.</p>

<p>Joseph Leotta: Beautiful colours and nice composition. I also enjoyed your brief background. I also want pie.</p>

<p>Hamish Gray: Really enjoy the reflections!</p>

<p>Matthew Brennan: Nice colour and sharpness. How was the bird lit?</p>

<p>Michael Axen: Highly aesthetic. Like how you worked with the light.</p>

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<p>I'm really enjoying the photos posted so far. Nice work and looking forward to the rest. I got a Nikon 70-300mmVR this past week, so was finally able to get a closer shot of one of the snowy egrets that hangs out in the canal behind my house early yesterday morning. The water is really ugly, so tried my hand at doing something different in post-processing. Not entirely successful, but at least it's a little more subdued than it was. This week has made me realize how little I know. (Thank you Roberta for the PS tutorial link. :) Anyway, I liked the pose, the lighting on the egret, and the still and patient waiting the bird was displaying. (Nikon D90/70-300mmVR)</p>

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<p>Hello Everybody,<br>

I like the photos so far, Matthew, you will never stop surprising me with the incredible sharpness of your photos. How do you do it? <br>

Dan and Lil, thank you very much for your kind words on my last week's photo.<br>

I am sending an experimental pictures this week, I took some photos of my friend's daughter and followed a tutorial from a Photoshop Creative magazine on fantasy photos. This is the result. <br>

Nikon D700, 70-200mm f/2.8, ISO 1600, 1/100s, f/2.8</p><div>00V2Qr-191875584.jpg.0e3456df7bea404bef9606d73406c45f.jpg</div>

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<p>Good morning to all. This is the dash board of a 55 Chevy thats had a complete off frame restoration. My friend has about 15 of these old beauties. The detail on them is amazing. Shot yesterday Nikon D3, Nikkor VR 24-120mm, 70mm, F/5.6, 1/10s, hand held iso 800</p><div>00V2Qy-191881584.jpg.db84c9f7a2bc9e0610325d2feacef437.jpg</div>
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<p>Good day everyone. This was taken last year while flying from Atlanta to Bogotá. I didn't know the young woman sitting next to me but she was more than willing to pose for the pictures :) I only cropped a bit, no color correction.</p>

 

 

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<strong>Sunset in a Plane</strong></p>

<p>Nikon D80 1/40 f/8.0 18-135 kit lens @ 18mm</p>

 

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