Nikon Wednesday 2014: #32

[Matt Laur]

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<p>Hello Nikonistas, and sorry for the late start this morning! Once in a while, midnight just doesn't work out. Guess I was feeling a little too foggy, sort of like my focus on this cat. It's an out-take from a recent puppy portrait shoot. The breeder is also owned by a couple of sphinx cats (truly alien, but very gregarious creatures), and this one happily hopped on the shooting table while I was getting lights set up. Had on a fast 50, pretty much wide open. Hence the tiny sliver of DoF. Got anything a little less bokehlicious? Share!</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>A couple of bugs for me this week.</p><div></div>

[Kent Shafer]

<p>And this, much cropped because I didn't have a longer lens and was afraid to get any closer.</p><div></div>

[User_2019667]

<p>My Mr. Stripey heirloom tomatoes still in the green stage. </p><div></div>

[purplealien]

<p>I'm on holiday this week, so I get to be one of the first posters for once :-)</p>

<p>On Sunday we took my brother in law on one of our favorite walks across the South Downs to a pub in a nearby village.</p>

<p>On the way there:<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17829004-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="440" /><br>

On the way back:<br>

<img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17829005-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="382" /><br>

Both shots are HDRs with my Sigma 10-20mm</p>

<p>And lastly, another portrait of one of the kittens; also taken with the Sigma</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17829010-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="451" /></p>

<p>Happy Wednesday everybody :-)</p>

[r1a2d3ok]

<p>Got some late evening shots of this GBH last night. Nikon D3X, Nikon 300 2.8, Nikon TC-14E II, 1/250 sec, F/7.1, ISO 640</p><div></div>

[rich_johnson3]

<p>Spruce Grouse in the woods of Maine</p><div></div>

[Rick Helmke]

<p>An old D100 and an 80-200/4 MF lens.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>A couple of interior shots from a few weeks ago, both with D700 and Sigma 15mm fisheye.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>2</p><div></div>

[panayotis_papadopoulos]

<p>Hello dear Nikon friends, How's your week? Very interesting photos so far, good! keep them coming...anyone for billiard this week? Cheers! (Nikon D7000)</p><div></div>

[panayotis_papadopoulos]

<p>n2</p><div></div>

[panayotis_papadopoulos]

<p>n3</p><div></div>

[munim]

Pink hibiscus.<div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>Night view</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>My son's cat...</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>A different tennis player this week, one not nearly as well known as the one from last week.</p>

<p>Nikon D700 with 300mm @ f2.8. I like the shallow depth of field.</p><div></div>

[ShunCheung]

<p>Second image</p><div></div>

[john_harper9]

<p>Brought some Maryland weather out to California - hot, humid, and thunderstorms. By early afternoon, the lightning was crackling over our heads as we hiked.</p><div></div>

[Andy Murphy]

<p>Sunday at Summer Reading event at Ball Park</p><div></div>

[GlennS]

<p>The small town where I live celebrated 100 years of having fire fighter service this past weekend. The parade featured vintage and modern fire trucks from the area, my favorite from Victoria was this steam pump pulled by three Clydesdales.<br>

After the parade, horses were unhitched and the boiler fired for a demonstration. </p><div></div>

[GlennS]

<p>Number 2</p><div></div>

[GlennS]

<p>Number 3</p><div></div>

[lex_jenkins]

<p>Not sure how many more of these infrared photos I can shake out of the D2H. The glitch is increasing to the point that every second or third shot fails (yeh, that same glitch Nikon Japan offered an extended warranty to fix, but which Nikon USA refused to honor). Not sure I'd bother to pay to have this D2H fixed, but I might consider buying another just for the IR capability, presuming it's beyond the serial number range of those that had this glitch. Might be cheaper than having another camera converted to IR, and I do like the D2H viewfinder. And I have the AC power adapter, Pocket Wizard triggers, etc., which are handy for makeshift studio stuff indoors.</p>

<p>All with unconverted D2H, Tamron 24/2.5 Adaptall, and a clot of three or four Cokin and Tiffen filters for IR effect.</p>

<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17825294-md.jpg" alt="Matango!" width="450" height="680" border="0" /><br /><em>Blue 'shroom, I saw you standing alone</em>.<br />Yup, the dehydrated brown mushroom in a nearby field turns blue under sunlight in IR. Reminded me of that bizarre 1960s Japanese sci-fi flick, <em>Matango</em>, released in the US as <em>"Attack of the Mushroom People!"</em>.</p>

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<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17825859-md.jpg" alt="Non, je ne regrette infrarouge" width="680" height="450" border="0" /><br /><em>Non, je ne regrette infrarouge</em>.</p>

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<p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17827297-md.jpg" alt="Queen Noir" width="680" height="525" border="0" /><em><br />“I like a woman who knows what she wants.”</em><br /><em>Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.” </em><br /><em>? James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia</em><br /> <br />Yeah, I've been watching a lot of great old film noir classics on TV.</p>

[Mary Doo]

<p>I visited England, Scotland and Wales in May. Here are two bridges of London in night light:</p>

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<li>Westminster Bridge - <br />15s @ f/14 ISO 125, D800, Lens=24-70mm @ 28mm</li>

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