Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #24: Old Thread, June 10

[Matthew Brennan]

<p>Lil, your image is 580 pixels wide according to the data........(doh......!) - pitty as 700 pixels is hardly enough!</p>

[Matthew Brennan]

<p>Jens Frederiksen - Lovely textural image........</p>

[jose_angel]

<p><strong>Lil</strong>, I was sure you know what my subject is doing... :)<br /> I`m also not fond of bullfighting. I belong to a northern dairy breed area, usually uncompatible with this shows... but all <em>outside the bullring</em> is wonderful. Bulls, horses, dry pastures, hot climate, southern people, hospitality, tradition... sadly all this charm dies inside the bullring.</p>

 

[sjoerd_leeuwenberg]

<p>Hi everybody,<br /> It is wednesday again, time flies. I am a bit late with my comments from last week so I will post them here since I am sure everybody will watch again this week. I hope that's ok.<br /> My favourites were Anish, Joseph, Dieter, Monika, Tom, Matthew, Kris, Nina, Darko, Joe, Darren, Paul B, Wayne and Ray. Lil's picture is my top favourite, please do more landscapes lil. (not that the birds are not nice)<br /> Richard, gert, Eric, justin and Chris thanks for the nice comments.<br /> <br /> And now for this week. I have something new for a change. This saturday I had a party with some friends and we went to the zoo. And that gives a problem: Which picture to choose, haha. There were soo many great photo opportunities, so it was great to practise. In the end I choose this one of a big bird that was posing for me. Taken with the D90 + old 80-200 F2.8 @ 200mm F2.8 1/3000s iso 200 some cropping. Hoping to see many great pictures today, aaaah, who am I kidding, they will all be, I'm sure. I will post comments for this week a bit later.</p><div></div>

[liljuddakalilknyttphotogra]

<p><strong>Jens & Matthew</strong> ,<br>

what am I doing wrong. I've gone in to CS3 & told CS3 to resize it to 700 pixels wide - OK I see what's happened. I resized it to 700 pixels & then Zenfolio resized it again. :-( Grrrrrr Too late to fix. Ah well....<br>

<strong>Jens</strong> - if you read my comment you'll see that it's the fact that these birds are protected & counted. Each nest/female gets a number. They even capture the raptors in the area & lock them up for a few months during nesting season to help the terns raise their chicks. This is done by a protection agency from a wildlife conservancy in cooperation with Fish & Game.<br>

OK - slightly larger version can be seen on my Zenfolio site here.... <br>

http://lilknytt.zenfolio.com/p1058180627/h1cf797ca#h1cf797ca<br>

Lil :-)</p>

[aaron bonnici]

<p>Hi Everybody,<br>

I am a newcomer here altough I have been watching this thread religiously for the past month or so. The standards of the photos shown here is astounding, well done to all of you.<br>

Today I decided to make my first humble post. The weather was getting bad but the fisherman belittled by the advancing weather stood his ground and continued fishing. This was shot with my D200, 18-55mm, at f11. Coverted to B&W in CS3, and a little dodging and burning. Any comments wouold be appreciated.<br>

Aaron<br>

<a href="http://www.aaronbonnici.com">www.aaronbonnici.com</a> </p><div></div>

[bogdan_nicolescu]

<p>Street performers</p><div></div>

[shawn_mcfarlane]

<p>I was away on a cyling tour with my wife for a week. We cycled the length of Ireland with some rather mixed weather so not many shots. This was probably the best taken in West Cork near Bantry</p>

<p>D80 + 17-55mm @f7.1, 1/250, iso100</p>

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[justinweiss]

<p>One man's garbage is another man's art. Or vice-versa:</p>

<p><img src="http://manbou.smugmug.com/photos/516759736_9w8Lz-L-1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><strong>D700, 105mm f/2.8 VR micro. ISO 1400, f/8 @ 1/80 sec. PP in LR2</strong></p>

[Sanford]

<p>Nikon D80, Tokina 12-24mm zoom</p><div></div>

[darko_vrsic]

<p>Thread is stucked, so I'm trying little trick!</p><div></div>

[michaelmiles]

<p>Wonderful shots as always! You all inspire me to want to take my camera with me everywhere I go, to create reasons for photo trips, and to photograph things - and in ways - I would have never considered before.</p>

<p>Well, after missing the last two weeks, I was out at the annual air show with my wife and kids this last weekend and was able to get about 1600 photos. The only problem with this is that I have had to go through so many just to find one to post on this thread ... Maybe I'll save others for when I am not able to get out in a week.</p>

<p>After much consideration, it was either one I really liked of the Blue Angels, or this one. I actually chose this one because I love the idea of this bird and the technology it represents, and was an avionics tech with Marine Helicopter Squadron 1 (HMX-1 - USMC) when we were supposed to get the one that splashed into the Potomac River in 92 - that sucked! Anyway, I also thought this was something that was less photographed and was pleased with the way it turned out. It has been cropped some to allow larger size of subject while staying within the size requirements for the thread.</p><div></div>

[khoa]

<p><a title="Tsubasa and Koharu-3386 by siks.shooter, on Flickr" href=" title="Tsubasa and Koharu-3386 by siks.shooter, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3308/3598688268_990a2e463a_o.jpg" alt="Tsubasa and Koharu-3386" width="460" height="688" /> </a></p>

<p>D300 - Nikkor 50mm</p>

[matters410]

<p>Hello all.<br>

Great photos! <strong>Chris</strong> - Very haunting image. <strong>Matt</strong> - You should see if any newspapers in the area are interested in that picture, it really tells a story. Nicely done. <strong>Eric</strong> - caption made me laugh. <strong>Dennis</strong> - Cool ship, but where are the beads and the women? (I hope you follow up on that) <strong>Doug</strong> - Nice bird, Nice Bokeh! <strong>Gary</strong> - I love that effect, must get me one of them grad NDs someday. <em>(all my comments go with the other thread, I was posting during the thread change)</em><br>

It was a rainy weekend so I tried my hand in some water droplet photos in my darkened kitchen. I had my SB-900 off camera bounced off a colorful background which reflected off the water in a cookie sheet. I used a 60 ml syringe attached to a clamp on my tripod with a valve mounted on it to drip at a predictable rate. After focus is set its just a matter of switching the backgrounds out and firing away! The pics make good desktop backgrounds. Have a lovely week everyone.</p><div></div>

[tri-x1]

<p>Nikon D200, 20mm f2.8 Nikkor D<br>

<img src="http://swcornell.com/webphoto/ally.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[bernie moore]

Hamish: the seal is not broken. You know we are all here to help. Aaron, I swear I thought I was looking at a modern day Ben Franklin; nice shot. I'm back after a few weeks of lurking.<div></div>

[john_ashby2]

<p>Nikon D90, 18-200mm Nikkor near the 200mm end to blur the background. F8 I believe.</p>

<p>It's at the Arboritum at a local college. I was there shooting some portraits and saw the flower begging to be photographed.</p><div></div>

[anand_dhupkar]

<p>Once again - one of my Spring shots ...</p><div></div>

[tsypkin]

<p>Great photographs, everyone, again. Some I especially like:
<br /> @ Rene' Villela: It's incredible how close you had to get to that deer!
<br /> @ Alejandro Held: A very moving portrait of a dog.
<br /> @ Per-Christian Nilssen: a terrific capture of motion.
<br /> @ Matthew Brennan: A wonderful landscape, makes me regret I've never been to New Zealand!
<br /> @ Jens Frederiksen: An unusual vision of the Merced River.
<br /> @ Lil Judd: I love the color of their beaks!
<br /> @ Aaron Bonnici: Very good clouds, they really make the image!
<br /> @ Wayne Cornell: I find these back alleys of the industrial world to be very appealing for a photographer -- I don't know why.
<br /> My today's submission was photographed in Moss Landing, CA, last week -- just another sunset.</p><div></div>

[jeff_keplinger]

<p>D80, 50mm, 1/60, 1.8, iso1600</p><div></div>

[Matt Laur]

<p>A local landmark in Maryland, slated for re-development while preserving its Victorian-era architecture, just burned down. The Chestnut Lodge building was a several-story structure that started life as a hotel/resort outside of DC, and then became a famous psychiatric hospital for many decades. It's been empty for some years, and had develeoped a high Creepiness Factor. Alas, it has gone up in a blaze during the night, and I photographed the fire crew knocking down some dangerously unstable chimney masonry over top of the still-smoking ruins.<br /><img src="http://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00T/00TcEp-142775684.jpg" alt="" /><br />D300, 70-200/2.8 at 70mm, f/3.5, 1/800, ISO 400.</p>

[mike_metcalfe1]

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<p>Hello all - First time contribution - Shot a few weeks ago on beautiful Lake Austin.<br>

Details :<br>

nikon D300/mbd10<br>

AFS/VR 70-200 G<br>

Exposure:<br>

1/1250 f3.5 at 102mm<br>

ISO800<br>

Shot in Jpg fine, DX2 mode #2, no camera tricks other than picture control<br>

no post processing other than resize, and Lightroom Sharpen for screen on export. </p>

 

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[paul_b.1]

I try to post my picture this morning but it was impossible ! let's try again...

 

Usually I don't photograph birds, but the three little guys were making a lot of noise, and I decided to take my chance.... It was taken with the D300 + 70-300 VR :<div></div>

[doug_santo]

<p>Posted this at the alternate thread. Thought I would repost here. Thank you to those who commented on my photo.</p>

<p>Black-Crowned Night-Heron. Los Angeles County Arboretum, Arcadia, CA. D200 with Nikon 300/2.8, 1/250s, f/2.8, ISO 280, matrix metered.</p><div></div>

[James Kazan]

D3<br>

ISO 200<br>

f20 1.3sec<br>

80mm

 

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