WedNEsDAy PiC #14

[matters410]

<p>My co-workers adorable daughter, 1 year old. Taken with a D300, 105mm Micro VR, wide open, 1 /250th, ISO 800.</p><div></div>

[ian_rose]

<p>This weeks photo is of my dog Draco he had avisit to the vet on monday for surgery to his sholder this was taken monday evening when we brought him home</p><div></div>

[evilsivan]

<p>Wow lots of cool pics this week! This photo illustrates for me the magic of Nikon metering. Its so sharp and clean its almost... scientific.<br>

-Ofer</p><div></div>

[eric_arnold]

<p>bruce, that ferris wheel shot is awesome!</p>

<p>my contribution this week is a shot of tom morello and boots riley during morello's show in san francisco last week. converted to monotone b/c the stage lights were nasty.</p><div></div>

[doug_santo]

<p>Many good shots this week. Four caught my eye.<br>

Dieter Schaefer's Snowy Egret - a difficult shot well executed.<br>

Adam Neinstein's Philadelphia's 30th Street Station - composition, mood, lighting.<br>

Anish Mankuthel's National Opera House of Vienna - lighting on the building, it almost glows.<br>

Georg S's cylinder block - a difficult shot, that is one big cylinder block!</p>

[Rene11664880918]

<p>SIMON.... Don't worry about it! I think that shot is funny and your reaction was just normal! <br>

HAMISH.... I didn't know you had the Tokina 11-16. I love mine!<br>

GARY.... Thanks! <br>

JOSE.... I don't know what's going on. For the past few weeks I can't see your shots at first. Then after I visit the thread several times it shows.<br>

HECTOR.... Thanks! Jiroh was the middle kid in the family so it hit us pretty hard! The lens I put it on hold. I wanted to take it with me on my trip in April but I will fly on 6 different planes and I think it is too big to carry. <br>

Great shots all around! Cheers!</p>

[ianhoke]

<p>Sam, Bruce, Robert, Wayne, Bogden, Doug, Gary, Ray, Ofer - I really enjoyed all of your photos this week! Lots of other good ones, as well, but these really stood out to me. Georg, I think yours is the best of the bunch. Interesting, unusual, technically sound. Of course, each photo here is as good as my offering, and most better! I'm late, but the China time zone thing usually throws me off.<br>

I think my size is OK here, 150kb? I may be wrong, not uber techy...<br>

D80, 50mm, 1/100 @ f. 4.5 - The Twin Towers - Great Wall of China, Shanxi Province, & China Mobile.<br>

<img src="http://www.ianhokephotography.com/photoblog/images/20090322122420_20090315_5627shanxi_best.jpg" alt="" width="592" height="852" /></p>

[pisq]

<p>cat against a wall</p><div></div>

[pisq]

<p>Sorry to hear about your loss Rene'</p>

[alex_foto]

<p>Another WedNEsDAy PiC - another inspiring photo works. Hi all, good to hear from you all, again.<br /> Rene, I am sorry to hear about your dog! May God rest his soul in peace!<br /> Here is my post for this week. It was another experiment photo time - a photo of my 18-month-old-daughter taken at our temporarily studio-converted living room.<br /> I am quite happy about the outcome.</p><div></div>

[liljuddakalilknyttphotogra]

<p>As usual a great thread everybody.<br>

Jose - seems we worked on similar things this week. Interesting shot.<br>

Shawn - beautiful landscape<br>

Pedro - a lovely portrait<br>

Hamish - you've yet again brought me back home to Sweden - this time I think of Åre & skiing with my father & sister as a child.<br>

Bruce - neat shot Dennis - lovely portrait<br>

jf Zhang - beautiful landscape - - love the colors.<br>

Rene' - any time I'll forgive you - I understand. Sweet shot of a beautiful friend.<br>

Wayne - nice shot<br>

Bogdan - makes me think of trips to Tunisia & Morocco as a child.<br>

Hideyuki - not only do I like the colors & the reflection - I also love the perspective & lines your angle has created for you. My husband agrees & he's a professional cameraman in film & television here in Los Angeles. Well done. :-)<br>

Bernie - nice play on perspective<br>

Doug - neat shot, well done on the whites & getting the insect.<br>

Dieter - great snowy in flight.<br>

Gary - beautiful landscape<br>

Mikhail - very Mordor, but I agree with other about darkening the sky if that's the effect you want to go for. Nice shot.<br>

Adam - love the colors<br>

Hasse - lovely portrait<br>

Paul - lovely shot<br>

Andy - nice shot<br>

Stuart - love the colors<br>

Jonathan - beautiful portrait<br>

Ofer - such a sweet portrait<br>

Alex - my favorite portrait this week</p>

<p>OK - so to my contribution..... As always I ponder my choice. This time I've decided to share a D700 shot taken over the weekend. I ended up buying a Lensbaby & I was trying it out on the D700. Here is one of the shots - not for everyone I'm sure but I did have fun playing with it. It's shot at f/4 EXIFs embedded. OH I've since learned that the Lensbaby is a 50mm lens. I got it used off a forum to play with a little...<br>

<img src="http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/img/v7/p853786130-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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[dan_south]

<p>Ah, to be in Princeton for the holidays, my trusty D700 at my side!</p>

<p>Scrunched down to 199k.</p>

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[rjm photo]

<p>Just a nice postcard shot with D200 and 35mm F1.4 AIS Nikkor - only adjustment was exposure in RAW Capture NX (after I forgot to manually change Non CPU lens setting in camera from 400mm F3.5 to 35mm F1.4). This combination of camera and lens capable of nice colors and excellent definition, again no sharpening out of camera or color adjustment.</p><div></div>

[tsypkin]

<p>Dieter, Lil Judd,<br /> Thank you for your advice. I think this photograph demonstrates (at least, for me) the gap between what we perceive and what the camera records. The Great Falls park in Virginia seemed to me such a peaceful, restful place. But the camera doesn't hear the birds singing, the water splashing, doesn't smell the air so fresh after that in Washington, D. C. (both literally and figuratively). The result: a snapshot of Mordor. I tried to darken the sky the best I could with Capture NX 2, and sharpened with with Photoshop Elements. Here is what it looks like now.</p><div></div>

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>I probably shouldn't be posting this - but this is my vision of Mordor Mikhail:</p>

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[trevor_newman1]

<p>Wonderful contributions this week everybody as usual.<br>

Kent awesome old school drag racing...gotta love those little GTOs...<br>

Gary what a gorgeous image<br>

Doug what an outstanding capture<br>

Simon I took a similar picture of my old N90s...sure they are "tools" but they sure are works of art in and of themselves<br>

rob that's where I work! Sactown love<br>

Gosh I wish I could comment on everyones' images like Lil they are all wonderfull and they are all an inspiration to me to keep gettin out and shooting even when I feel like I don't have the time. Thank you all and happy shooting.</p>

<p>I call this one...Bird on a Wire</p><div></div>

[johannes_sigl_r]

<p>At play...</p>

<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3641/3387429379_2c776335f0_o.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="425" /></p>

[hamish_gray]

<p>GEORG S. and LIL: so glad I can take you back to your childhoods. Actually Lil, I'm only 1,5 hours from Åre. I used to ski a lot there too, but now I find I prefer to trek through snow-covered forests on crosscountry skis as opposed to downhill. <br /><br />RENÉ: I'm sorry to have to say that was one of the last shots I took with the 11-16. Unfortunately I had to return it due to problems with auto focusing on close objects (it kept focusing 1m behind the motiv or to infinity), while manual focus worked fine. Actually there was a <a href="../nikon-camera-forum/00S5dl">thread</a> in January by Bill Keane where he described the exact same problem. Seems like some have it and some don't. Apparently Tokina were aware of it too and were going to fix the problem. Anyway I didn't have time to wait for a repair so I just swapped to Nikon. <br /><br />Great pictures again everyone!</p>

[nina_myers]

<p>Great lighting on the 1911 Nathan :)<br>

maybe i'll take some pics of my guns ;)</p>

[alex_foto]

<p>Thanks a lot for the encouragement, Lil Judd! I feel Honored! You got a very beautiful photo yourself!</p>

[tsypkin]

<p>Dieter,<br>

Yes, it does look more like Mordor. It would mbe beyond my Photoshop/other software skills, I am afraid. </p>

[shawn_mcfarlane]

<p>Lil Judd - I really like that lensbaby shot, it really keeps drawing your eyes in as you look at it</p>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>The images that especially caught my fancy this week:</p>

 

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<li>Jose, I really like the striking 3D effect.</li>

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<li>Pedro's and Hasse's portraits are beautiful.</li>

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<li>Hamish's images are always gorgeous - even his "snapshots."</li>

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<li>I like the cropping on Bruce's ferris wheel. There's a sense of speed and power. It looks like a buzz saw ready to chew through the left edge of its confining frame.</li>

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<li>I think Shuo's cropping is also very dynamic - as if we were fortunate to have just caught the geese as they were on their way out.</li>

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[hamish_gray]

<p>Kent, thank you for your generous compliment!</p>

[munim]

Masjid Zahir in Alor Setar. I wish I had PS to correct the perspective.

 

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