Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #51

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<p>Hi, a bit earlier this morning. Last sunday I was walking in a crowded plaza, this cartoonist and his model called my attention. She have had the same face during all the drawer`s work.</p>

<p>D700 @ 800ISO, 14bit RAW, 70-200VRII (130mm), 1/60 sec. - f5.6, VR on; slight crop, processed in NX2.</p>

<p>Please post your favourite pic if you like, taken with Nikon gear. <em>Thanks!</em></p><div></div>

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<p>"All my bags are packed I’m ready to go……."</p><p>Happy WeDNeSDaY to all and a happy WeDNeSDaY for me too….</p><p>I have spent 18 Xmas and 18 New Years in Japan and finally I will spend these holidays among people who know how to celebrate them….<br>

I can not believe it but I have lost that Xmas spirit myself… maybe I will recover it again…</p><p>I have four stops in my itinerary…. Florence, Vienna, Zurich and Prague. So for the next few weeks I will posting Xmas snap shots from all these places…. </p><p>OK! Back to the thread!</p><p>Thanks again to everyone who mentioned my shot in one way or another last week…. Thank you all for participating and sharing your work….</p><p>My shot this week…. a swan! Yeah! It's swan season again… These guys come from Russia every winter. This shot was taken in a little pond in the North of Niigata prefecture…. It's a small pond, maybe 200 square meters and according to the people who take care of the pond there are around 6,000 swans already…<br>

I know I took this shot with my AF-S 300 f/4 and a TC but I don't remember which TC. I have 2, Nikon TC17eII and Kenko TC 1.5x. What is confusing is that Capture tells me this shot was taken at 420 mm which doesn't make any sense… It should be 450 or 520 mm. Can anyone explain that? </p><p>300 Combo + TC - AP f/8 - 1/1250s - ISO 200 - EV -0.7<br>

Spot metering - AF Mode Continues - Focal length 420 mm?</p><p>Now, Let's see some pictures!!! Cheers!</p><p>PS. Did I mention I am flying first thing tomorrow morning? 16 hours from now! :)</p>

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<p>San Diego</p><div></div>

<p>Honest candid street shot Jose. I wish I had the pluck to photograph people in public......</p>

<p>I've had a great week processing my photographs from Lord Howe Island visit two weeks ago. This frame taken using a tri-pod, a set focus point and the cable shutter release to capture these sooty terns as they fly across the frame. This has been the best fun taking photos I've had in months!</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning everybody! Countdown to Christmas: 1 week+1 :-)</p>

<p>Thanks José, Hamish Gray, Gary McGhee, Jana Hughes, Tiffany Brook, Filip Lucin, Dan South, Benjamin Schaefer, Michael Axel, René Villela, and Alejandro Held for you positive feedback. Shows me I'm on the right path somewhere with crazy ideas I occasionally come up with.</p>

<p>Just noticed that I have given no feedback... oops. Will do right away! Shouldn't take too much work as an excuse not to say something positive.<br>

To mention a few: José Angel, Pascal Burel, James Kazan and Uzay Kisi - feels like being there! - Dieter: great cupola! - Tiffany Brook and Hamish Gray: I love the look on the kids' faces - Rodger Baker: perfect perspective! - Lawrence Ho: very trendy! Cool. - Ertugrul Kilic: love it! - Phil Evans: wonderfully sensual! Robert Premkumar: this is dreamland. -</p>

<p>I postprocessed some older images lately, and came across this one from a balloon ride:<br /> <img src="http://www.abload.de/img/ballooningy4wl.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Shot with D700 and 24-85 2.8-4, a lens which I did not really like, but I like this result.</p>

<p><img src="http://i619.photobucket.com/albums/tt271/jobseed/street-crossing700.jpg" alt="" /><br>

D300 shooting from the hip<br>

In Japan, bikes do not battle traffic!</p>

<p >Hello everyone..</p>

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<p >Thanks to Rene, Tiffany Brook & Michael Axel for their comments last week.</p>

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<p >A friend of mine was passing through London over the weekend and I was showing her around town. I carried my tripod & camera just incase I was able to find at interesting shot in the evening. Here’s a shot that I took of Buckingham palace. I find the blown highlights just above the palace troubling and was wondering if a ND grad filter would have countered that. Anyway, I look forward to the pictures this week. </p>

<p >Have a nice day!</p><div></div>

<p>The Peak of the Week again! I am so looking forward to this thread and our weekly stroll through the world. Thank you everybody for making this thread so popular!</p>

<p>This week I'll share a photo from a quite snowless winter here in Southern Norway. There are not many hours with daylight, and this lighthouse was bathed in the warm orange sunset on last Sunday, just before 1600Hrs.</p><div></div>

<p>Wednesday again & I wish to start by thanking Jon, Michael & Alejandro for commenting on my submission from last week. I didn't get around to commenting due to sever headache Sunday & Monday I spent most of the day on the phone with Apple trying to fix my husband's iPhone which went nuts over a software update.<br>

Anyhow, this week I have had to process a shot from a few weeks ago as I've not gone out for the last few weeks & have nothing brand new.... In order to get this shot the way I wanted it I've done some more work than normal in CS3 - there are just times the birds don't understand directions given them. ;-)<br>

<strong>D300, 300mm AF-S f/4, 1.4 TC Kenko, ISO 400, handheld </strong> (or rather lying flat on my stomach on a bridge trying to hold the lens)<strong> 1/3200s </strong> (to ensure steady shot)<strong> f/8, - 0.3 EV</strong><br>

Larger version can be seen & commented upon here<br>

http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/p1058180627/h12aec071#h12aec071<br>

I hope you will enjoy<br>

<img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v1/p313442417-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Hello All<br>

Again in San Telmo Antique Market in Buenos Aires, last Sunday. One of the things I enjoy to making photos there are the Siphon Soda Bottles. There are several stands selling only Soda bottles. When I was a kid I use to break several of this, now are sold between 15 to 60 US Dollars each.<br>

D300 + 18-200 VR @56mm - f 5 - 1/500 - ISO 250</p>

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<p>Wonderful photos so far and look forward to all the rest! My contribution this week had to be something with dew on it, since every morning has been foggy. This was taken Monday morning (the spider webs were especially spectacular) and this particular one reminded me of Christmas ornaments with the hibiscus refractions, so decided to post this. (D90/Sigma 150/diffused SB600 at 1/80, f10/ISO 200):<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/10352691-md.jpg" alt="" width="679" height="450" /><br>

<strong>Happy Holidays!</strong></p>

<p>Jeannean - that's just an amazing shot. You better make that a Christmas card.<br>

Wonderful & so playful :-)<br>

Lil :-)</p>

<p>Hello Everybody,<br>

first thank you Greg Kowalczewski and Jon Aymon for your very kind comments on my last photo. I really appreciate it. <br>

René, have a wonderful Christmas in Europe, especially in Prague, I am jealous, I've lost the Christmas spirit in Australia too, the Summer heat doesn't make me think of the festivities at all. Enjoy!<br>

I have rediscovered my prime lens this week, it is 85 mm f/1.8 and I am so excited about it, that I've decided to use mostly this lens to improve my composition. I shot this photo in a cafe in Forest Hill near Brisbane, Australia, it is a very small town, but really beautiful and I spent the whole day finding interesting things to photograph there. The cafe serves the best food I've had so far in Australia, by the way. <br>

I look forward to seeing the rest of this week's photos. <br>

Jana <br>

D700+85 mm F/1.8D, at ISO 3200 (no comment, obviously I forgot to lower it after my last shoot), F/2.2, 1/5000s</p><div></div>

<p>Alejandro and Jeannean, full marks from me, I love those kind of photos. Jana </p>

<p>D200, 50mm f/1.4. Very cool images so far. Jeannean, that is a glorious image. Matthew, that bird image is just extraordinary. Jose, and Rene, both your images crack me up. Jose: Yours because of the translation of a person into a caricature, and Rene, maybe the big "feet". Lil, I'm a sucker for a great bird shot. Fantastic start. It occurred to me last week, you could virtually turn this thread into a book, the images are so good.</p><div></div>

<p>Wow these first pics are all amazing. Lil your pic is very well composed and sharp. Jeannean this shot is sooo cool. The more I stare at it the more detail I see. Jose great street shot.I think it so funny. My shot was from one of the thousands I took over Thanksgiving. The Turkey Trot comes right in front of my house every year with 12,000 runners I get many photo opportunities. This guy was blowing away everyone. Nikon D3, VR 80-400mm, F/11, 1/320s, ISO 4,000.</p><div></div>

<p>This shot was taken on Sunday afternoon. After several weeks with no snow winter has finally come with avengeance. We went for a hike in the driving snow up our favourite hill.<br>

D300 with Tokina 28mm f2.8 Ai MF @ f4, ISO 200 1/40s.</p><div></div>

<p><strong>December Storm</strong><br /> <strong>Or How to turn a 4 hour trip into a 8 hour nightmare</strong></p>

<p>Went to the house in Vermont this weekend.. Sunday started out as a great sunny day. We normally leave VT around 7pm, and get back to NY by 11pm. It started to snow lightly around 1pm so we pushed up the departure time to 2:30 just in case.</p>

<p>By 3 PM it was a complete full blown storm. Our 4 hour trip turned into an 8 hour nightmare. Now I’ve been going to VT for 30 years and I am well prepared with 4 wheel drive SUVs and big meaty tires. The problem is that a SUV can get you going when others can’t, but they do nothing to help stop on ice. The snow changed over to freezing rain as we drove south... Nothing like spending 8 hours on the edge of your seat.</p>

<p>Here’s a shot from the road during the storm on Sunday. BTW this is a color shot, that’s how gray it was.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dpreview.com/previews/nikond300/">N<strong>ikon D300</strong></a><strong> </strong><a href="http://nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=5&productNr=2149"><strong>AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED</strong></a><strong> at 27mm<br /> Program AE, </strong>^{<strong>1</strong>}<strong>/125 sec, f/5.6, ISO 800</strong></p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/10345967-md.jpg" alt="December Storm - Wed 51" /></p>

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<p>Really strong photos so far - I have been looking forwards to seeing all your work.</p>

<p>My entry is of the hand-made ethnic goods in an almost secret shop. It is set in the woods and with the smell of incence and the brightly coloured wares for sale, it is a great place to lose oneself. I used my D50 and 75-150mm E.</p><div></div>

<p>My first post here. My compliments to all you great photographers out there!<br>

Slot (Castle) Loevestijn, near the pittoresque town of Woudrichem, The Netherlands.<br>

D700, Nikkor 135mm AI 2,8. <a href="mailto:1/800@F2.8">1/800@F2.8</a></p><div></div>

<p>Waiting for the race....</p><div></div>

<p>Good morning, my friends ! Wonderful pictures so far...Mine was taken with D300 + 10-24 at 10mm, 10s, F8, ASA 200 :</p><div></div>

<p>@Jeannean: Truly amazing shot! Wonderful! </p>

<p>Tried the bird shot. I thought my fingers would get frozen and fall.</p><div></div>

<p>Last Sunday in a bit of woods near Lansing, Michigan.</p><div></div>