Nikon Wednesday Pic 2010: #41

[abib_b]

<p>Hello everyone. I bought Schewe and Fraser's book on Camera Raw and understood for the first time the real structure and logic of the post processing workflow. It's a great book. I've now gone back to some photos from the Summer to see what I could do with them. Here's one. not perfect, but no longer hopeless.</p><div></div>

[sunray1]

<p>Good Wednesday!<br>

Last weekend, 10-10-10, marked the official end of The Netherlands Antilles. To commemorate this, walking2gether.wordpress.com set up this artproject: 752 shoes that washed upon the shore of Curacao formed 376 pairs, symbolising 376 years of dutch presence in the Antillen. These shoes, that stood on the Pontjesbridge in Willemstad during the last elections ever in The Netherlands Antilles are now in The Hague, near the government buildings at the Binnenhof...symbolising the new era, the road that The Netherlands and these Caribian islands are going to walk together now...</p><div></div>

[jensvind]

<p>Hello all. The last colourful flowers of the year, outdoor anyway.</p><div></div>

[johnny_wooley]

<p>Waco Suspension Bridge, Built 1870 Waco, texas</p><div></div>

[hamish_gray]

<p>Taken yesterday while out on a walk. <br /><br />D3X with 24-70. ISO 100, 1/2 sec, f5.6.</p><div></div>

[tolga_anil]

<p>Crossed shadows</p><div></div>

[martin_z.]

<p>Happy Wednesday! There are so many good things here. Among my favorites so far: <strong>Adam, Jeff, Tiffany, Nicole, Sen...</strong></p>

<p>I realize the Amish don't like to be photographed, but the faces here are not recognizable, so that whole "graven images" thing doesn't apply.</p>

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[andy_chubb]

<p>A technical challenge this one....a friend of a friend got me media accreditation at an international ice-skating event so I could wander anywhere with my gear...fab. However, the national press were there with their 400+mm lenses and I 'only' had a 70-200 VRII. Learned a lot that afternoon, particularly that adding the TC1.4 wasn't always good - it lost 1 stop of exposure and so the ISO went up from 3200 to 6400 at times and made it mostly unusable. All the pix needed heavy noise reduction and work on the levels. I may just have to rent a 300 f2.8 next time unless the lottery ticket comes good......have a great Wednesday, lots of great pix there already.<br>

andyc</p><div></div>

[bogdan_nicolescu]

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[johnfarrar]

<p>A local spot I'll be revisiting when autumn colours peak....</p><div></div>

[pcnilssen]

<p>Is there a better way to celebrate my 50th birthday than with friends here at PN - Nikon Wedn. thread? :) :)</p>

<p>Here is my image this week: <br />Taking some days off work last week, and spending them at Lillehammer in Norway, the site of the winter Olympic Games in 1994. The autumn colors here are beautiful, and this day there was almost no wind at all, which made some beautiful reflections in the water.</p><div></div>

[Uhooru]

<p>A happy wedding party....D700 - 24-70 - Bright sun.... <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5049614865_343d32d125_o.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[tom_mann1]

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[riclan]

<p>Another great Wednesday. Walking by the river, I saw this tree fallen for years but still growing.</p><div></div>

[kemalriza]

<p>Hi all,<br>

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night...<br>

Here is my contribution to this Happy Wednesday.<br>

D300 and 70-200 VR II @ 120 mm, ISO 1600, f/2.8, 1/800</p><div></div>

[richbodiesgym]

<p>Great pics so far!!! My pic is from The National Zoo this past Sunday. This tiger was looking for his "dinner"!</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="../photo/11787072" alt="" /> This one was taken in a small park in Longueuil Quebec in the morning. The Fall colors there are almost at their peak. I enjoy the images at this forum very much and while they are all good here are few which i would like to mention;<br>

John farrar - love the streaks in the water.<br>

Barry Fisher - great action in that wedding party shot<br>

Dieter - wonderful and wish i was there<br>

Nicole - fabulous stop action<br>

Greg - Amazing cricket shot</p>

<p>I also have this image in my photo.net folder http://www.photo.net/photo/11787072</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>D700, 70-200 VR I @ 190mm, ISO 800, 1/1,000 @ f/5.6</p><div></div>

[slopoki]

<p>Greetings all,<br>

Some great captures up here again.<br>

Mine is a pair of snowy egrets thking in the early morning.</p><div></div>

[scott_pogorelc]

<p>More youth football: this young man cut back, made the safety whiff and then took it 60 yards to the house...</p>

<p>D700 + AF-S 300 VRI, ISO6400, 1/320s @ f/2.8</p>

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[bikealps]

<p>OK, first I gotta gloat about new glass. I just got the 70-200 f2.8 VR2. I spent Sunday at the velodrome photographing the juniors and am overjoyed with the results.<br />Compared to my older glass (300 f4 screwdrive, 105 micro screwdrive, 70-300 f4.5-5.6 AF-S), the 70-200 f2.8 VR2</p>

<ul>

<li>enables narrower depth of field to isolate riders from the background,</li>

<li>has a flexible zoom to let me compose what I want, and (most importantly)</li>

<li>focuses incredibly well (acquisition and tracking) giving me sharp images on virtually every exposure (barring incorrect placement of focus dot = pilot error or occasional focus system not recognizing contrast).</li>

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<p>As a result, my photos are better than I have ever achieved before and it is easier to get them. My work is nowhere near the calibre of Duncan Grove's recent Wimbledon images (wow!) but I'm not a pro, my work is improving, and I am enjoying this hobby a great deal.<br />At the track, we had a 1-lap (333-meter) individual time trial and I was able to get a "baseball card" style photo of every rider. I did a bit of cropping to fix composition (using gimp) and reduced file size with buggy ViewNX. Here is one of my favorites.<br />If you care to view the rest, they are at: <a href="http://www.pbase.com/bikealps/1lap_itt">http://www.pbase.com/bikealps/1lap_itt</a><br />Love my new lens!</p><div></div>

[bms]

<p>Happy Wednesday.<br>

Only one of my subjects cooperated with instructions ("Cry your lungs out!") :)</p><div></div>

[kevin_delson]

<p>The Wind-Up</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Nikon D700 with 28-300mm/f3.5-5.6 AF-S VR @ 112mm, f8, 1/320 sec and ISO 200.</p>

<p>At our local featival, they had this mobile rock climbing set up that attracted a lot of kids and also adults. It is hard to beat the flexability of the 28-300 as I got various close up and wide images showing the setting. The girl's face was in the shadows. I brightened that up in PhotoShop.</p><div></div>

[jeannean_.]

<p>Great pictures so far! Jeff, that is a very cool photo. Mine is from this past Saturday morning. We had some low ground fog and this was taken at dawn. Nikon D90/Sigma 150mm @ 1/1000, f/4.8, IS0 800.</p>

<p><img src="http://jeannean.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v15/p678831168-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>