Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #33

[sjoerd_leeuwenberg]

<p>Hi all,<br>

No birds yet? Just terrible stories about birds, I hope that will be better as soon as possible.<br>

Then I will post a happy picture of a bird, a BIG bird. And he was showing me just how big he is. I'll keep my story short this week to compensate. haha<br>

D90 + 80-200 @ 1/2000s F2.8 80mm<br>

to per-christian: sad story, great picture.<br>

ton, great character again<br>

oskar, funny picture<br>

Jose, I was too late to comment on the pictures from last week also, but they sure were all great</p><div></div>

[ceesmaas]

<p>Good morning everybody,<br>

The harvest this wednesday is again of great quality.<br>

Beautiful daugther, Per-Christian. I like your soft balanced colors, Dieter. Strong photograph, Mike C. Jens with his ultra-wide, brings in a good composed landscape and Wouter, I think your photo is beautiful silent, elegant and very well exposed.<br>

My contribution this week is a portrait study with natural light. I post it because the ISO is extremely high at 5000. In that sense it is an experiment.<br>

Good light everybody,<br>

Cees</p><div></div>

[chrisnielsen]

<p>Hi all</p>

<p>Some more wonderful photos from you all, as usual!!<br /> My photo was taken with my old Nikon F801S shortly before it suffered a sadly premature meltdown. Shot was handheld and holding my breath as I recall, due to a very low shutter speed. Seems to have turned out okay though.<br>

Edit: Oops, please ignore the caption on my photo.. Why did I put F5 in?? D'oh!</p><div></div>

[erik_christensen3]

<p>Per-Christian - extremely good photo and nice to see a natural Scandinavian look</p>

[wayne_wrights]

<p>Good morning all. I took this week's image "Mountain Sunset", in North Carolina. Equipment used was: Nikon D200 with Nikon 70-200 F2.8 VR lens, ISO 100, F11 @ 1/60 sec. Thanks for looking.</p><div></div>

[ray_rg]

<p>Good Morning WedNEsDAy :)</p>

<p>This picture is from zoo visit couple of weeks back.</p>

<p>Model: <em>NIKON D40</em> <br /> ISO: <em>800</em> <br /> Exposure: <em>1/320 sec</em> <br /> Aperture: <em>6.3</em> <br /> Focal Length: <em>200mm</em></p>

<p><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_v_Hx1NTKpoc/SnjPX_zjILI/AAAAAAAAAdw/1fhuJzEbwp0/s800/DSC_4507-2.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>I hope you all like it and looking forward for more pictures on WedNEsDAy.</p>

<p>Ray</p>

[paul_b.1]

<p>Taken with my D300 + 70-300VR , ISO 200, F9, 1/320 at 112 mm :</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>Still thinking about last week's beautiful sea and landscapes. Sadly, in my daily routine I almost never encounter an enchanted glade, an iceberg, or an osprey with a live fish in its mouth.</p>

<p>Here's a bit of scenery from my morning commute.</p>

<p>D300, 50mm f/1.4 AF-D, ISO 400, 1/640 @ f/7.1.</p><div></div>

[ken_i_h]

<p>Let me thank those who mentioned mine last week. I didn't do much photo activity this week due to heavy jet lag. So, I decided to post again one from the trip which caused this jet lag. At the airport lounge - the very beginning of the trip.<br>

I must say that this thread is getting better and better every week and they are all insiring to me! Very good place to learn. Thank you everyone!</p><div></div>

[pnance]

<p>Had to include a shot of new granddaughter, Jordan Rose.</p><div></div>

[Matt Laur]

<p>It's become hot, and some local cicadas have have surfaced, leaving tell-tale holes in the dirt near tree roots. They climb a few feet up the bark, latch on, and then split open the backs of their exo-skeletons. They leave it behind like last year's space suit, and those shed husks dot trees for weeks - often remarkably intact. This one has been in place for only a day or so. You can see right through the eye coverings, and note the soil it carried with it up the tree. It's only taken since this morning for a small spider to start decorating it. The cicada himself? He's joined the noisy chorus with his buddies and possible mates. Sounds like August in Maryland, now.<br /><br />This was shot with a D300 on a tripod at ISO 200, using spot metering at -1 EV to keep the strong backlight light under control. I didn't have a cable release handy, so I made the 3 second exposure using the self-timer. I was just over 4 inches from the subject, using a 60mm Nikkor Micro f/2.8-D at f/14. Cropped a bit in NX2.</p><div></div>

[aguinaldo_de_paula]

<p>This is to show you what the D700 is capable of.<br>

What a wonderful camera!!!<br>

Taken last saturday with default settings, auto everything and no PS (except for image size and black frame).<br>

Indoor kart competition.<br>

best regards</p><div></div>

[Rob Davies]

Annabelle

[ragc]

<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/3688722064_2f5c804dd1.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /><br>

Copenhagen 2009<br />Nikon D50 / Nikkor 24-120 3.5-5.6 AF VR</p>

[mikeoday]

<p >Thank you to all for your kind words on my image from last week – much appreciated. For those who expressed interest in the tilt/shift technique to produce images that look like models, I hope to add a tutorial (based on this weeks image) to my blog over the weekend. </p>

<p > </p>

<p >Well done to everyone for your images this week!</p>

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<p ><strong >Jose Angel:</strong> I really like the composition of your ‘rod fishing’ image. </p>

<p ><strong >Per-Christan:</strong> Lovely lively portrait. It has a feeling of energy and vitality.</p>

<p ><strong >Mike C:</strong> I like your perspective – it gives prominence to the aging truck.</p>

<p ><strong >Alejandro Held:</strong> I love your cactus macro - it’s a different take on an oft photographed plant. (The only distraction for me is the stray spike on the bottom right).</p>

<p ><strong >Ton Mestrom:</strong> Very nice portrait. I love the glasses.</p>

[bms]

<p>Experimenting, something a little different. Some bugs made a feast of this plant!</p>

<p>Most of you are probably East of me.....great work so far..... it is early here in Maine and I am about to go to work, so I take a closer look later.<br /> <br /> I took this shot this morning, originally I was out with a non-Nikon digital and captured this subject, but then went back in order to be able to post :)<br>

<br /> Wonderful golden light this morning, I actualy "cooled" it down a bit, it looked too cheesy!</p>

<p>Now I am late, gotta run.....</p><div></div>

[Rob Davies]

<p>Annabelle (again)</p><div></div>

[hamish_gray]

<p>It's not often one takes a portait shot with a shutter speed of 1/2 second, but sometimes you can get away with it :-)</p>

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[scott_pogorelc]

<p>For all of you 40 and 50-somethings:<br>

This past Saturday, the wife and I went with some of our geezing friends to see the B-52s in concert at a local venue. Despite their age, they act and sound the same as always. And we almost felt young again...</p>

<p>D700 + 85mm, IS0 2500, 1/250s @ f/4</p><div></div>

[elliot1]

<p>A lazy summer day...</p><div></div>

[jeff_keplinger]

<p>Good Wednesday to everyone. I took this shot of my neighbor's backyard last week. I was resting the camera on another neighbor's fence post.</p><div></div>

[sebastianmoran]

<p>One day, in a blinding glimpse of the obvious, I decided that my 50mm f/1.4 lens would be a great portrait lens on my DX camera. I started taking it everywhere, shooting available light portraits in restaurants, in homes, anywhere. Here is a portrait of a friend taken in a very atmospheric restaurant in Boston's North End. There was so little light, we couldn't read the menus. This image is further manipulated in Photoshop for a faux-painting look. <br>

<img src="http://2under.net/images/Karash-Byron-2797DBpr-Take2.jpg" alt="" /></p>

 

<h5>Restaurant Portrait, D70, 50mm f/1.4 1/30th @ f/1.4, ISO 1600, Faux-Painting Look</h5>

[palangat]

<p>Great Blue Heron<br /> Nikon D200, ISO100, Nikon 300mm (f4.0) EDIF AF + TC 301, f8.0, hand held. Thanks to all who commented on my image last week. Great images as usual! Will appreciate if you would visit my small and growing portfolio on PN. Comments and critiques are welcome.</p><div></div>

[chriscourt]

<p>At last, a more recent photo! This was taken at the Florida Keys Wild Bird Centre just a couple of weeks back. It's not a captive bird, but was obviously fairly used to human proximity.</p>

<p>I believe it's a White Heron, but not 100% certain. He looks like he swallowed an iPhone!!</p>

<p>This was shot with the D300, ISO 200 at 1/640 sec, with an 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D lens at 200mm and f/8.</p>

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[justinweiss]

<p>Smugmug was down for maintenance, so I am a little late in posting today. I really like the natural sunlight I got through a window for this shot. Also, you gotta love the D700's high-ISO performance; this is ISO 1250:<br>

<br /> <img src="http://manbou.smugmug.com/photos/614032877_2g865-M.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>D700, 50mm f.1.4 AF-D @f/5.6, 1/60 sec, ISO 1250. PP in Lightroom 2.0</p>