Nikon Wednesday 2011: #50

[ShunCheung]

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<p>We are well into Wednesday, and I noticed that we don't have a new thread yet. I am unable to get in touch with Matt at the moment (it is about 5am in his time zone), so I take liberty to start a new thread. I'll post an image myself later on. I know, I haven't posted one in a couple of weeks.</p>

[bogdan_nicolescu]

<p>Sharjah, UAE</p><div></div>

[bms]

<p>Thanks Shun, Happy Nikon Day. Hope Matt is OK (hey everyone is allowed ONE day off, right...). Getting cold up here in Maine (finally) - BTW, Richard, thanks for the comment last week.... I am up in Orono. This is from one of the last nights Pushaw lake was free of ice - and probably one of the last I could shoot without gloves one.</p><div></div>

[nicolaiecostel]

<p>I would like to thank all of those who commented on my image two weeks ago. This week's image is of a couple of wedding rings shot with a 85 1.8 and a nikon 30 mm extension tube.<br /> Cheers.</p>

<p>L.E. Great shot Ben, I would have cloned the reflections on the right side.</p><div></div>

[krisheylen]

<p>Thanks for opening the thread, Shun! I checked first thing in the morning (Central Europe Time) but it wasn't there yet. Matt must have been letting his dogs out :-)</p>

<p>Here's mine of a double session we did in my make-shift studio.</p>

<p>D90 with 55-200 and SB-80DX through 80x80cm softbox.</p>

<p><a title="Double session por Girona_Flashman, en Flickr" href=" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6507355441_6a415736a5_z.jpg" alt="Double session" width="640" height="425" /></a></p>

[Rene11664880918]

Nagoya, Japan<div></div>

[jose_rivera9]

<p>I didn't have a new project so this one comes from the wedding I did last Saturday. Thanks for all the mentions last week. Love the Nikon Wed. Pics. :)</p><div></div>

[r1a2d3ok]

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<h6 > This photo was taken one morning, Thanksgiving weekend in New Smyrna Beach Fl.Nikon D3, Nikon 80-400, 400mm, F/11 , 1/250 sec, 800 ISO</h6>

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[Matt Laur]

<p>My sincere thanks to Shun for pinch hitting. Very sorry to have been unconscious at midnight when I usually launch these threads - but a 48-hour crunch-time web project caught up with me, and I crashed out without performing my sacred Wednesday duties. Very sorry, folks - I almost made it three years without slipping up like that! Glad to see that my slacker ways haven't stopped photos from already flowing in. Great!<br /><br />Here's an outtake from the furniture shoot seen last week. The client's Chow/Golden mix stomped into the room (and onto my white seamless paper - bad dog!) to help us out. This one's a reminder why it's worth turning on at least one of the modeling lights when shooting dogs - otherwise their pupils are so dialated when the strobes go off that you don't get to see the color in their eyes. Note to self. Thanks again, Shun!</p><div></div>

[danielowen]

<p>Happy Nikon Wednesday everyone - really like the pictures so far, especially the first one from Bogdan. Mine was taken yesterday morning at 'Milk Market lane', Kinsale, Ireland.<br>

(D7000 with 18-70)<br>

<a title="Milk Market, Kinsale by Daniel & Sonja, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7172/6505353425_5b80446be7_z.jpg" alt="Milk Market, Kinsale" width="640" height="424" /></a></p>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Matt, you have been starting these Wednesday threads for almost two years (since January 2010) without ever missing a week. You certainly deserve some time off. IMO it is highly unfair to require someone to do this week after week, and I wish photo.net had some timer program to start these threads automatically. In any case, I was glad to receive e-mail back from Matt that he was fine; that was my primary concern.</p>

<p>Here is an image captured during a school performance: Nikon D700 with 300mm/f2.8 AF-S (no VR) wide open @ f2.8, ISO 1600 and 1/125 sec with the lens supported by a monopod. It is always a compromise between ISO and shutter speed choices. I find 1/125 sec sufficient to stop most of the motion on stage although her hands are a little blur.</p><div></div>

[John Di Leo]

<p><img src="http://jld2.smugmug.com/Holidays/Christmas/Nutcracker-2011/i-gMtQ9QN/0/M/Mariella-nutcracker-102-M.jpg" alt="" width="537" height="450" /><br>

The Nutcracker. D700 80-200 f4 MF Nikkor</p>

[ray_rg]

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

<p>Thanks Chris Speaker for commenting/liking my abstract from last week's submission.</p>

<p>Past Saturday went out to shoot Snowy Owl before sunrise. I did see the Owl :) could not capture it the way I like it. It was dark and with 70-200mm and 1.7x it was f/4.8 which was pretty slow on D90.</p>

<p>So, I have "Path to the Beach" on cold Saturday morning.</p>

<p><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/--yyBQSmxO1Q/Tuf_9MXEPUI/AAAAAAAACM0/Uj3djvO-hdw/s800/RG_20111210_DSC_9695_web.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>D700, 400mm f/2.8 AIS, ISO 200, 1/5,000 @ f/2.8. Processed with Topaz B&W Effects.</p><div></div>

[drjanson]

<p>I need some better weather to get out of the house and take some shots. Still indoors, here's a shot of one of my guitars.</p><div></div>

[lionel_linton]

<p>View from 401 and Hoggs Hollow</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>Good morning to all. Thanks to Shun for getting us rolling this AM and happy to see that Matt is still with us. :-)) My shot was taken in AZ. during our vacation a few weeks ago. It is the dam along the Salt River in the Tonto National Forest (yea, I know, not much of a forest but that's what they call it) and it is holding back Roosevelt Lake. </p><div></div>

[chriscourt]

<p>Here is a group of extremely happy redcoats, ready to capture some pirates at last month's Cayman Pirate's Week. Pity about the chainlink fence in the background, but we work with what we have available.</p><div></div>

[elliot1]

<p>Taken Thanksgiving just before nap time...</p><div></div>

[jeannean_.]

<p>So glad Matt was just sleeping! (thanks for the tip about the flash) Bogdan and Benjamin...super night shots! We *finally* got some much needed rain. I found this tiny bee waking up and drying out after the showers. (D90/Sigma 150mm macro@1/200, f/8, ISO 320) Thanks to those who commented on my blue heron/reflection photo last week. Much appreciated. :)</p>

<p><img src="http://jeannean.zenfolio.com/img/s11/v31/p982824581-4.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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[DawsonPointers]

<p>Greetings from the depths of northern Ontario.<br>

This was the scene out of my kitchen window Saturday morning. We had a much warmer than normal summer and fall, yet the lake is freezing over earlier than normal. This may be due to the abnormally calm weather we have been having. There has been snow to the north of us and a lot to the south. We have very little. I can't wait to get pictures of Harry and Hattie having their first good romp through deep snow with their short legs.</p><div></div>

[wayne_wrights]

<p>My image this week was taken with Nikon D300, Nikon 200-400mm lens using a Nikon TC. Hope you enjoy</p><div></div>

[dougrice]

<p>Hi All<br />I didn't capture the right moment - I arrived a little late on the scene -<br />but the Golden was really barking away at Santa. <br />Doug</p><div></div>

[ChrisSpeaker]

<p>Here are some berries for the week. Enjoy. Nikon D700 + Nikon 70-200mm VR I w/ 2x TC.</p><div></div>

[george_allred]

<p>Sunday morning wash day in Barcelona</p><div></div>