Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #50

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>Good morning everyone.<br>

Thank you for the many comments from last week. Today my contribution is an image of a duck that nearly landed on my head. </p><div></div>

[dan park]

<p>I've always wanted a true macro lens so I did my homework and picked up a Nikkor 55mm f3.5 off fleebay the other day. It's supposed to be one of Nikons sharpest lenses corner to corner so I figured what the heck. So far it has not let me down. The main body I use is a Canon 5D only because it is a great platform for many different mounts and lenses. My next lens will probably be a Zeiss Flektogon (not sure which focal length yet). </p><div></div>

[tom_serio]

<p>Another Wednesday, another day of great photos by the Nikon enthusiasts on this forum.<br>

This shot of a ship's bell was taken at a show while on display. Used a telephoto lense and stepped back about 20 feet to capture the bell but not my reflection. Existing light from the hall highlights the edge and the lines on the bell are from the tent's frame.</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>What I woke up to this morning</p><div></div>

[bms]

<p>Thanks for last week goes to: Tiffany, Walter and James. Much appreciated!</p>

<p>This week I ventured out of my comfort zone. I attend a health care rally last night in Times Square, a friend from an organization I work with was speaking and I was going to capture some shots. About three people asked me if I was press ("You are from the NY Times?") that's what you get for a big camera hanging around you neck :)</p><div></div>

[wayne_wrights]

<p>Good morning all. My image this week is from Cades Cove, Tn. It was a really cold morning and foggy as well. I spotted this deer and hope that it would come closer, but that never happend. Nikon D300 with 200-400mm f4 with 1.4 TC. Shot at ISO 200 f5.6 @ 1/2000 second.</p><div></div>

[hanappa]

<p>Looking down in the Capitol in Austin, TX. Had a chance to take a tour up into the rotunda, outside and inside; thought the way the circles lined up made for an interesting pattern inside.</p><div></div>

[lawrence_ho]

<p>Been away for a couple of weeks. Back in the mix 8><br>

This one was a fluke, kind of. I was waiting to cross the junction and saw a pizza delivery bike approaching fast. I just pivoted the camera on my chest (did not have time to raise the camera) and panned. It just showed how capable modern cameras/lenses are.<br>

Shot with D700 + 24-70mm lens<br />ISO800; f3.2; 1/15s; focal length 24mm<br>

<img src="http://cameraface.smugmug.com/photos/736239783_3DdBv-X3-1.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>Delivery in a Hurry.</strong></p>

[Lou_Meluso]

<p>Portrait of Renee</p><div></div>

[doug_santo]

<p >Not much photography last week. I took my nephews to the rifle range. This is Alex during his first shot with a .300 magnum. He was about 6 inches high of bull’s-eye with a slight pull to the right at 100 yards. Not bad for his first shot especially considering the ballistics of this round. Turned out this was his best effort at this chambering. The 300 magnum can be intimidating! The rifle is a Remington 700. We were firing 150gr Nosler Partitions with a muzzle velocity of 3380 f/s. The range is Burro Canyon near Azusa, CA. A great time was had by all.</p>

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<p >D700, 24-70/2.8, 44mm, f/9, 1/320s, ISO 200, matrix metered, normal program.</p>

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<p >Thank you to those who commented on my photo last week. A special tip-of-the-hat to Jeannean who is very kind.</p><div></div>

[Matt Laur]

<p>A recent dark winter's night, comparing cell phone "features" (uh... games, actually) by the light of a single overhead lamp in the in-law's kitchen.<br /><br />In the dim light, I was shooting wide open and had only a sliver of in-focus depth with which to work. In the interests of getting his eyes and what he was doing both in focus, I stood up so that - in looking down at an angle - the camera's sensor was parallel to a plane that included his eyes and his right hand. That's why his out of focus <em>left</em> hand can actually be in between in-focus areas that are both closer to and farther from the photographer.</p><div></div>

[suriname]

<p>Holy Wednesday my dear colleagues, </p>

<p>I'm honored with your unbeatable words to my post Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #49 last week. I'm so glad as one of participant of this amazing forum. Thank you, thank you very much.</p>

<p>My special thanks to dear Uzay Kişi, Paul V. Gorky, Roberta Davidson, Tiffany Brook, Francesco Pessolano, Ken Yamamoto, Paul V. Gorky - again ,) , Thomas Burden, Wouter Willemse, Alejandro Held, Jeannean Buglady and Jana Hughes. I appreciated. </p>

<p>My photo taken during the yearly pilgrimage of Batavia, organized by Bisdom of Paramaribo. Young scout boy was helping to elder lady on large barge. You may found more photos as a slide show on my blog here : <a href="http://www.ertugrulkilic.com/blog/article/22/grand-pilgrimage-to-batavia" target="_blank">Grand pilgrimage to Batavia / Suriname - South America</a></p>

<p>Hope you like it and many cheers you to all. Regards,</p>

<p>Ertugrul</p>

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[p. wang]

<p >I went to Shoreline again early last Sunday morning. It was cold. I did not expect to get many shots that day. When I got there, I saw hundreds and hundreds of all kind of birds that were fishing at the estuary. They put on a great show. In the end, I took more than 400 pictures within an hour. I was amazed to watch Brown Pelicans fishing. They dive into the water from the sky and get mouths full of fish. I shot this one as he just came out of the water after catching a fish.</p><div></div>

[pge]

<p>Hi all, great that it is Wednesday. My contribution this week is a portrait I took of friends of mine who are a couple, I tried to do something a bit different.</p>

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[issac]

<p>Hello everybody,</p>

<p>Some great pictures this week. My picture for this week is this shot of a fish farm in Kerala, Southern India. Shot this last saturday.<br>

Nikon D700 with 300mm F/4 AFS, 1/200s @ F11.</p>

<p>Thanks for looking.<br>

Issac Sam</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Dieter, very nice interior image from Paris.</p>

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The black-browed albatross colony on the Steeple Jason Island in the Falklands (Melvinas) is the second largest albatross colony in the world with an estimated 220K pairs. The largest albatross (of any type) colony is in Midway Island. The black browded is a large bird with a adult wingspan around 220cm (over 7 feet).

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Nikon D700 @ ISO 400 with 70-200mm/f2.8 AF-S VR version 1 at 130mm, f4, 1/2000 sec.

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[cameranda]

<p>Alejandro - right place, right time, right subject.</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>Dieter: Now <em>that</em> is using HDR with a purpose and with skill. Very nice!</p>

[James Kazan]

<b><center>Modern Art<P><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/9721664-lg.jpg"><p>D3 - ISO4000, f6.3, 1/100 sec, 32mm.</b></center>

[hughes]

<p>Farmers Market 8-12-09</p><div></div>

[birdied]

<p>Another wonderful trip around the world today.<br>

Weather has been very bad, so I am posting a photo from several weeks ago. A friend asked me to take photos of her children. Never have done that before. Since I have no light set up, we went to the park hoping from some wonderful natural light. As luck would have it , it was very over cast with a lot of glare, but fun was had by all.<br>

The portrait photographers have nothing to worry about, but it was great fun and a learning experience.</p><div></div>

[Sanford]

<p>D300, Tokina 12-24mm zoom, ISO 1600</p><div></div>

[ofey_kalakar]

<p>Happy<br>

 

<h1>Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC #50</h1>

<p>Here is an old-school style from a few winters back. The image was taken on a walk about with an F100 equipped with Fuji Reala 100 film. The lens was an 18-35 mm Nikkor AFD @ 18 mm. The color saturation was that great as it was a grey overcast day, so I desaturated the color in Apperture. The film strip was scanned with a Dimage Elite 5400 using Silverfast Ai vs6 x.</p>

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[tri-x1]

<p>When I was a teenager I "bucked" hay and straw bales (loaded them on a wagon by hand) to make spending money. Modern bales like these weigh at least 500 pounds--a little more than most individuals can "buck." Nikon D300, 18-200mm Nikkor.<br>

<img src="http://swcornell.com/webphoto/bale.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<strong>"Unbuckable" bales </strong></p>

[orcama60]

<p>Happy Wednesday Everyone !!<br>

So far I do like the below pictures :<br>

1 - Hamish G : Greant contrast and composition.<br>

2 - Mikhail T : Great eye and perspective<br>

3 - Andres F : Great use of light<br>

4 - Dalls M : Well done. Sharp and great composition<br>

5 - Shun C : Very good capture and composition<br>

Here is mine for today. This man was cleaning the windows in the builduing where I do work and because I do keep my camera with me almost all the time, I had the chance to take this picture and I do hope you like it. This was taken with my D80. Have a happy shooting !!</p><div></div>