Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #24: Old Thread, June 10

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>I guess many like to sing in the shower .... well, I ... umm.</p><div></div>

[david_love2]

<p>Wednesday is now almost as much fun as the weekend!!!</p><div></div>

[jannekaakinen]

<p>Hi everyone! My favorite PN-day is here again! Great pics in both threads, again too many favorites to list. :)</p>

<p>Inspired by pics in few previous WedNEsDAy Pic-threads, I loaned a macro-lens from my work this week and shot my first pics ever with dedicated macro lens. Oh what fun I had with it! Just wandered around our home and shot everything in sight up close - well, you know how it goes when you get a new toy. :) Wonderful experience, opened up completely new world for me! The way you can control that tiny DOF was really just so exhilarating! However for this week's pic I chose non-macro-shot, taken with the same lens, I need to practice my macro-skills a bit more...</p><div></div>

[freddy.tu]

<p>I was out last week attending an exposition in Los Angeles. My hotel was in Downtown LA so there was not much going around after 7PM. I went out for some pictures and walk by the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It is such a nice building. So the picture was shot handheld and I used NoiseNinja to remove some of the noise. Not bad? What do you think?</p>

<p align="center"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3392/3613397092_5c24252b9e.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></p>

<p align="center"><strong>Walt Disney Concert Hall<br /> </strong></p>

<p align="center"><strong>[D90, 16-85mm@16mm , Manual 1/6 f/3.5</strong> ,<strong>ISO 2000</strong> <strong>]</strong></p>

[petter1]

<p>Lately I've been reading David Hobby's blog and have become fascinated with what can be achieved with a simple strobe/flash unit. So much so that I've borrowed a friend's SB800 last week and built myself a little DIY softbox out of a small tupperware, kitchen aluminum foil and a blank sheet of A4 paper. Then I turned my cat, Fuji, into the most patient model around =)<br /> Here's one of the first attempts at flash photography.<br /> D700, 50 f/1.4 AF-D, 1/500s, f/11, SB800 @ 1.4 power through DIY softbox, camera right.<br>

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2422/3613619551_0dd5cfe0a1_o.jpg" alt="" width="466" height="700" /></p>

[neelphoto]

<p>This is the first photo I'm posting on photo.net. It was shot a long time back but I scanned it last week. The camera in use was FM3A. The lens was 80-200 f2.8 AF-S. The film was Velvia 50.</p>

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[phil_burt]

<p>I had 2 pics to choose from and I picked this one. The other was a flower. I just got this Sigma 10-20mm and have been out trying to learn it. I really do like this lens and can see where I will have a lot of fun with it. I also done what most people have done and that is stand back and get a big landscape for the first shot. Out of all that I tried today I thought this one was the best.<br>

The shot, part of my back yard, was hand held,using a Nikon D90, Sigma 10-20mm(@10mm), F22, 1/200, WB auto. I did also use some post processing (hope that that is OK by the rules), using Nikon Capture NX2 what I am also trying to learn.<br>

Thank you to Kent for passing this piece of glass along to me.</p>

<p>phil b<br>

benton, ky</p><div></div>

[riggin]

<p>Grabbed this yesterday evening ...</p><div></div>

[Nick D.]

<p>Hello everyone, looks like our tread back in business.<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3331/3612274071_be814d489e_o.jpg" alt="" width="492" height="700" /><br>

D300, Sigma 28-70/2.8</p>

[hamish_gray]

<p>Lil, thanks! And once again your shot is beautiful!<br>

René, I love your shot. We had some Roe deer just 500m from our front door last winter. They're such beautiful animals. Well done!<br>

Bernie, thanks so much for the support!! I'll let you know when the seal is broken :-) Actually it's a gift that's due to be handed over this weekend to a good friend of mine. I'm actually more a Laphroaig guy myself. This particular bottle of Lagavulin is a special edition 56.4%. I don't know if I dare partake when it is opened ;-)</p>

 

[Dieter Schaefer]

<p>Weird with the two threads. Had been waiting last night for the thread to open but went to bed before it did. Now, there are already lots of images to admire:<br>

Jose Angel - highly concentrated<br>

Jens Frederiksen - wonderful B&W conversion<br>

Rene' - did you have to wipe smudges of the lens afterwards?<br>

Matthew Brennan - beautiful landscape and capture<br>

Lil - just so cute<br>

Aaron Bonnici - dramatic sky - just love the shot<br>

Mike Metcalfe - great action<br>

Doug Santo - nice heron<br>

Chris Court - nice POV and excellent B&W conversion<br>

Gary Salo - strange lightning<br>

Richard - beautiful loon. Wouldn't dare taking my equipment into a kayak...<br>

Susan Wolfe - excellent<br>

Well, I had planned on posting another shot but went out this morning and got lucky with this juvenile red-tailed hawk: D300, 80-400 at 210mm, ISO 320, 1/800s, f/5.3, +1 2/3EV exposure compensation, matrix-metering, VR ON</p>

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[alex_foto]

<p>..goofed up..</p>

[alex_foto]

<p>Great photos, as always!<br />Here is my contribution. It is from this past Saturday's wedding anniversary shoot out.</p><div></div>

[Nick D.]

<p>To Pedro Cardoso.<br>

Nice pic Pedro and I like name of your cat.</p>

[hank_parker]

<p>Does this count as my submission.. it's a picture of me, that should count. ..taken by my wife. D90 80-200mm Auto exp</p><div></div>

[pcnilssen]

<p>@Susan Wolfe: This is a crop from a much larger image. In these competition approx 15 dancers compete at the same time on a space much smaller than a ice hockey rink. Many dancers to look at, they move extremely fast, and the dance has a duration of 75 sec. But I understand your comment, in this crop the other dancers do not look at her... ;)</p>

<p>@Mikhail: Thank you so much</p>

[tsypkin]

<p>@ <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=3915224">David Love</a>: A very good shot, I love the mood.</p>

[dynoflyer]

<p>High school senior prom, my daughter gives me "the look". Taken with a D70, kit lens and SB-400 for fill. <img src="http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p7/dynoflyer/Photo%20Net/Prmzla.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[bill_force]

<p>Colombian Caribbeam Coast<br>

S2 Pro Nikkor 24-50 F3.3</p>

[parszab]

<p>Not the moon, but my djembe!</p><div></div>

[georg_s1]

<p>

<p >Hi everyone!</p>

<p >It's great to see so many interesting pictures again. Some of my favourites so far:</p>

<p > - Jose, your careful operating Torero reminds me of myself - I've tried to „unplug“ a tick this morning - parts of the beast are still in my calf.</p>

<p > - Alejandro - love the use of colors and curves in your picture.</p>

<p > - Nina & David - your night time street photographs are transporting a lot of the mood of the city.</p>

<p > - Ton - love the composition. </p>

<p > - Matthew - your picture makes me want to visit New Zealand - impossible for now, I'm afraid...</p>

<p > - Aaron - my personal pick this week so far. Lately I'm playing with some old medium-format-cameras again and your picture is pure inspiration for me - thanks!</p>

<p > - Doug & Dieter - wonderful captures!</p>

<p > - Khoa & Alex & Susan - beautiful portraits</p>

<p > - Gary - wow! I have an 64x ND somewhere - your shot will speed up the search for it:-)</p>

<p >There are so many other great photographs all over the threads - too many to name more than the ones above.</p>

<p > </p>

<p >My contribution this week is one of my first trys at HDR. If I have the time I try to capture some personal pictures during or after assignments. The charcoal-pile (they make tar in it if memory serves) was smoking like hell and more than once my eyes were filled with tears. My lungs are a used to smoke but this kind of fume was something special. I've quickly set up a Leitz-table-top-tripod with the large Leitz-head and managed to shoot some bracketed sequences. The veerable winds were blowing the smoke in another direction every minute or so and a lot of sequences are useless for HDR because the smoke was all over the place. Yesterday evening I've found the time to inspect the pictures further and finally found a useable sequence.</p>

<p >Being a HDR-novice I've had a hard time not to get a typical oversaturated result. I've fiddled with the sliders and finally like the result.</p>

<p >Nikon D700, AiS 20/3.5 @ f8, five exposures @ ISO 200</p>

<p >georg</p>

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[shirkwolfe]

<p>Georg, that's a wonderful HRD picture. Very natural and moody. Great composition.</p>

[shamsaldin_hama_hama]

<p>Central Park in Lancaster PA . Nikon D300 & Nikkor 18-200 , F/9 , 1/320s , iso 200 .</p><div></div>

[eric_arnold]

<p>great shots, as usual. i'm stunned speechless and at a loss for words over the amazing display of visual goodness.</p>

<p>posted in the other thread but i'll do it here too, in case anyone missed it</p><div></div>

[chris_vicino]

<p>Here is a dragonfly I took a pic of in my backyard. Shot with my Nikon D60<br /> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/9294758-md.jpg" alt="" /></p>