Nikon WedNEsDAy PiC 2010: #10

[danielowen]

<p>There's a pub near where I live with an interesting history. Noel Phair's was owned by a well-off family in the late 1800's. They brought the bailiffs in to evict a widow from one of their tenant cottages. Justifiably upset she pronounced a curse on the premises, saying a time would come when grass would be seen growing in the door. To stop the grass, the owners had a metal plate set in the threshold. As you can see from the photo the metal plate is still there. </p><div></div>

[gwen_klaus]

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone. Last week we went to a family funeral in St. Joseph, MI. While it was a sad occassion, we had a lovely visit with friends and family we haven't seen in years. Also took advantage of the beautiful sunny weather to explore the park and beach on Lake Michigan. My contribution this morning is of the two St. Joseph lighthouses taken with my Nikon D300 70-200mm f/2.8 lens at 125mm f/8.</p><div></div>

[david_love2]

<p>Taken last Sunday on an early morning walk...nice to see the snow gone!</p><div></div>

[ray_rg]

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

<p>My contribution this week is from a cemetery I visited past sunday with one of my friend while returning from a model photo shoot. I was trying to capture the patterns but was unable to find the composition I like. I do have few pictures which are of 4,5,6 frames pano (I need to work on that, may be next week).</p>

<p>This one is taken with D90 and 70-300mm VR, lesson learned try to carry all the gears possible. I left my wide angle zoom (17-50) home and result I was missing wide angle shot :(</p>

<p>ISO: <em>400</em> <br /> Exposure: <em>1/60 sec</em> <br /> Aperture: <em>8.0</em> <br /> Focal Length: <em>80mm</em><br>

<img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_v_Hx1NTKpoc/S5bVlvL9C9I/AAAAAAAABQs/K73mZsvKBmY/s800/DSC_3472_1.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Thanks,<br>

Ray G</p>

[greg_jones1]

<p>Posting in something of a hurry this week...gotta catch a plane, places to go, people to see...Happy Nikon Wednesday to all! This image is from Garden of the Gods in Colorado.</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>This is my take on two Detroit buildings developed by the Book brothers, who liked to name their buildings after themselves.</p>

<p>The front one is the Book-Cadillac Hotel, which when it opened in 1924 was the tallest building in Detroit and the tallest hotel in the world (31 stories). It had its ups and downs, finally closing in 1986 and staying closed for more than 20 years. It has now been beautifully renovated by the Westin folks. It reopened in the fall of 2008 as the Westin Book-Cadillac.</p>

<p>The creepy looking one with the green roof is the Book Tower, an office building that opened in 1926. Its last tenant, a tavern, moved out on January 5, 2009.</p><div></div>

[marc_henry1]

<p>Lovely work as ever this week.<br>

My favourites this week are :<br>

<strong>Lil Judd</strong> - well found, it is nice to finally see some green now that spring is arriving<br>

<strong>Greg Kowalczewski</strong> - well controlled exposure<br>

<strong>Arthur Richardson</strong> - beautiful texture<br>

<strong>Rick Moran</strong> - nice colours with good timing<br>

<strong>Anguinaldo de Paula</strong> - great shape, well done on keeping the details in the wings<br>

My contribution was taken on a wintry morning recently on the Kent coastline. Enjoy,<br>

Marc</p><div></div>

[Rob Davies]

<p>Annabelle</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>Lil, great bug pic. I think the reason your 1.2 gives greater magnification than the 1.4 must be that the 1.2's construction is such that, when reversed, its focal point (hope that's the correct term) is farther from the sensor plane than the 1.4's is when it's reversed. In effect, you're using a longer extension tube with the 1.2.</p>

<p>What does your mentor say are the advantages of using this difficult procedure for shooting handheld macros rather than one of your macro lenses with an automatic diaphragm?</p>

[george_allred]

<p>good morning. This was taken at the local camera club outing. Hope it works. D80 Tokina 12-24</p>

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[Apurva Madia]

<p>Three months old photo reprocessed to selective BW this week in Capture NX 2</p><div></div>

[graksi]

<p>Street animal, Samobor, Croatia</p><div></div>

[ashim]

<p>Hi all,</p>

<p>Thanks for appreciating my pic of last week.<br /><br />I was taking pics of my daughter Ahana, when her best friend, Utkarsh, tried to peep into the lens. I was having the 60mm micro AF-S on the camera and could quickly refocus on his eyes. That is the advantage of a macro lens for general photography – this lens can focus down to about 5cm from the front element. <br /><br />Here are the big, expressive eyes that this handsome kid has. I have given a slightly soft look to the image to go with the subject and mood.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4419217462_9ed80531d5_o.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p><strong>D700 + Micro Nikkor 60mm f/2.8 AF-S</strong></p>

[wayne_wrights]

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone. My image this week came from an old antique/junk yard. I saw this old Plymouth car just rusting away. I found this hood ornament to very interesting . Don't know what year the Plymouth car was. Nikon D200 with Nikon 105mm VR lens. Shot at f16 @1/90 second ISO 200.</p><div></div>

[dave_wilson1]

This shot is from last summer, I was cleaning up the front garden and this guy's crawling around, so being that we seldom see these around too much I decided it worth stopping and getting a few shots. Tripod, D200 w a little fill flash -2/3 I think, old Manual Tamron 90mm with 2x matching converter. I here present to you Felix. Happy Wednesday all!<div></div>

[riclan]

<p>It feel great to be part of the Nikonian community. I wonder what she is thinking</p><div></div>

[tholte]

<p>Winter is melting away here in Milwaukee and I will miss it to a certain degree.</p>

[dan park]

<p>HDR using 3 images.</p><div></div>

[tholte]

Winter is melting away here in Milwaukee and I will miss it to a certain degree.

 

<p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4422460476_5a8848c14f_o.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[jmack]

<p>Nikonfm2</p><div></div>

[mvihava]

<p>Another pic from Myllykoski, Oulanka National Park, Kuusamo, Finland. Minus 22 Celsius again!</p><div></div>

[3sh]

<p>Brick Wall</p><div></div>

[nishnishant]

<p>Taken last week at a local reading fair for kids.</p><div></div>

[michael_burnett]

<p>McCallister<br>

My daughter's Jack Russel. To quickly both grow up!!!<br>

Nikon D1 24-120 f3.5</p>

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[Jon Eckman]

<p>More CT snow - bring on Spring!</p><div></div>