Nikon Wednesday 2011: #51

[purplealien]

<p>Happy Wednesday everyone. Great pictures as usual. My favorites this week:<br>

Paula's Tango<br>

Glenn's dinghy<br>

Louis's tree<br>

Per-Christian's dancers<br>

Kent wrapping his presents<br>

Nicholaie's angel</p>

<p>Took my eleven year old and some friends ice skating for her birthday. My first time on the ice! I was enjoying myself so much I forgot about the camera. When they called 5 mins left I rushed in, collected the D90 from the cloakroom and got back out in time to capture a few frames. I don't think this will win any awards, but I love the colours and the reflections on the ice....</p><div></div>

[upriver]

<p>Happy Holidays All! I just received this Nikon 16mm fisheye lens as an early Christmas present which just arrived today. This is the first shot out of the box. I have a lot to learn in regard to the proper use and application. </p><div></div>

[alex.held]

<p>A fountain in London near the Thames<br>

Nikon D300 + 18-200 VR @170 mm<br /><br>

ISO 2000 - f 5.6 - 1/25 sec</p><div></div>

[sadanand]

<p>Hello everyone</p>

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[sam_winsor]

<p>Nikon D700, Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8</p><div></div>

[thadley]

<p><img src="../photo/14817655" alt="" />Mine is an interior shot of St.Georges Anglican Church (1101 Stanley st) - Place du Canada in Montreal. This is their yearly Christmas Carols by Candlelight service. This represents a 5 image HDR using the Photoshop CS5 HDR option to use one image to minimize people movement. The camera was on a manfrotto tripod on CHigh speed shutter setting and 5 image auto-bracket 1 stop apart. I will specify the shutter speed in the title but it changes with each of the 5 shots.</p><div></div>

[marklcooper]

<p>Merry Christmas to all. Great and inspirational photos.</p>

<p>Angel, welcome to Nikon Wednesday.</p>

<p>One of my clients has a pond out their back door. Every time I get a new lens I have to shoot some pics of the pond. I recently purchased a Tokina 11 - 16 f/2.8. Here's sunrise over the pond.</p><div></div>

[mtmixon]

<p>Getting in under the wire. Lots of festive photos this week. My contribution is a shot I took while taking my son to a nearby park. There were leaves everywhere, and I liked how the light caught this particular leaf, stranded on the basketball court blacktop.</p><div></div>

[jannekaakinen]

<p>Happy Holidays to everyone! I had a way too busy week, didn't have time to shoot any, so here's a shot from couple weeks back.</p>

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[ted262]

<p><img src="http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/7449/dsc1325version2.jpg" alt="" /><br>

D90 / Nikkor 35mm f/1.8</p>

 

[Kent Shafer]

<p>Diane, your picture looks reasonably sharp on my monitor. I can't explain the difference between how it looks to you in CS5 vs. posted on photo.net, but here are some things you might consider on the general subject of sharpnes:</p>

<ul>

<li>Your picture was captured with an 18mm lens at f/16. At that small aperture, diffraction likely detracted from the sharpness your lens is capable of at a more moderate setting. Using f/8 probably would still have provided ample depth of field with a sharper image overall.</li>

<li>Many people use a three-stage sharpening workflow, as described in <a href="http://www.creativepro.com/article/out-of-gamut-thoughts-on-a-sharpening-workflow">this classic article</a>.</li>

<li>While CS5 provides great sharpening tools for those with the knowledge and experience to use them properly, the rest of us often do better using the <a href="http://www.pixelgenius.com/sharpener2/index.html">PhotoKit Sharpener 2.0</a> plug-in. Well worth the hundreds bucks IMHO.</li>

</ul>

<p>PPI is meaningless in the context of images for display on-screen. It only comes into play in printing (or scanning). For on-screen display, only actual pixel dimensions matter.</p>

[chriscourt]

<p>Lovely shot Michael Mixon, but taken with an S95? Hmmmmm</p>

[wmervine]

<p>Staying with the holiday theme this is another take from a session in the studio recently, where we had fun with Christmas lights. I did cheat a little and used a torch to help define her face a bit.<br>

Seasons greetings to all!</p><div></div>

[pcnilssen]

<p>John Farrar, Chris Wick: Thank you for your nice words.<br>

MERRY CHRISTMAS, everybody!</p>

 

[p_watson]

<p>Happy Christmas all!<br>

No pic to post for a while, but have enjoyed following this thread all year.<br>

Favourites this week: <strong>Per-Christian Nilssen's</strong> Dancers, J<strong>ennifer Meighan's</strong> Portrait- really like your portrait shots--do you do much PP??<br>

Favourite festive fun shots: <strong>Rick Sands</strong> Cat rescue to remind everyone that the emergency services are even more busy at thsi time of year, <strong>Jeanneans </strong>rare moorhen--I still have to tick this one off my list. The last one I chased dipped out. <strong>Dennis Brabender's</strong> Christmas card and <strong>Kent Shafer's</strong>-wonderful!</p>

[jared_youtsey]

<p>This gal was a natural. The second she saw the camera she started striking poses. D7000 with Tamron 18-270 and SB 800.</p><div></div>

[mtmixon]

<p>Chris - you caught me! I am so used to taking photographs with my Nikon D90, that it didn't even occur to me that my new Canon (which I use when I can't lug my D90 around) didn't also count as a Nikon. :-)</p>

[joe_cormier]

<p>Thanks to all who helped me figure out how to upload photos. Really liked Don Harpers wedding photo.</p><div></div>

[Matt Laur]

<p>A great week everybody. Welcome Joe - glad you got into the fray, finally, and I like those textures. Kent, you've perfectly captured my general seasonal state of being!<br /><br />Happy Holidays, all, and looking forward to next week's final Wednesday of the year.</p>

[Rene11664880918]

<p>Well, it's Christmas eve here in Japan...... Almost time to start opening yellow boxes......<br>

As always, excellent work this week!<br>

I just wanted to wish everybody Merry Christmas! Please stay safe....... Cheers!</p>

[pcnilssen]

<p>P. Watson: Thank you.</p>

<p>And to you all: I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year, filled with lots of joy and photo opportunities!</p>

[alex_braman]

<p>Just a nice portrait shot in the snow. </p><div></div>