Nikon Wednesday 2016: #47

[Matt Laur]

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<p>Hello all, and a good Nikon Wednesday to you. A busy week here, and digging through some work from back in September. Here's a drone-based shot from a real estate project in rural Virginia - a lovely home sitting amid the crops on an oxbow of the Shenandoah. Location, location, location (if you like to get away from the 'burbs!). This flying robot was up about 225 feet and carrying a modest beater Nikon D3200 with a lowly (but lightweight!) kit lens - and did just what I needed it to do. What's everyone been up to? Share some photos!</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>Last round of Fall shooting around here (St. Paul, MN). It is now snowing finally this evening. Last week I got out on my bike ride in the woods for a few more shots.</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>Another one of the shoreline of the Mississippi after a summer of high water, bringing a lot of dead wood to the beach.</p><div></div>

[sjmurray]

<p>In a backwater area near the Mississippi.</p><div></div>

[User_6502147]

<p>Dragged this out of archives....from a larger <em>drone</em>.</p><div></div>

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>Christmas Street opening on Sunday.</p><div></div>

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>Weather wasn't particularly good, but still there were quite a lot of people to see the show. (Image cropped)</p><div></div>

[ilkka_nissila]

<p>Interestingly, most of the congestion was in one place, whereas on the opposite side of the block, on the return journey there was much more space to see the procession.</p><div></div>

[peteraitch]

<p>Nothing new this week, but I found one from the Summer.</p>

<p>A view of the Abbess's stairs at Laycock Abbey, Wiltshire. This was subsequently the home of the photographic pioneer Henry Fox-Talbot.</p><div></div>

[archaeoImages]

<p>Not new but been doing some B&W conversions... Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire.</p><div></div>

[Bill J Boyd]

<p>Rowing in Austin</p><div></div>

[Andrew Garrard]

<p>Well, current it isn't, but in my defence my camera is off getting de-sanded by Nikon. (Actually, I think I got away with it having used a rain cover the whole time, although my tripod is now a bit crunchy.) Upper Antelope, pushing the dynamic range of even a D810 a bit far...</p><div></div>

[Andrew Garrard]

<p>The classic images are all a bit fake, with people throwing sand into light beams with shovels. There were a couple of cases of sand actually naturally blowing around, but now I can't distinguish them. There was a cry of "shoot" as the guides ran out of the way (and we had the canyon blocked with a wall of tripods, briefly); I exposed for the highlights, and although none of these are multi-shot HDR, I span the shutter dial across multiple shots in the hope of getting the right exposure - or right enough. Heavily post-processed in DxO - I actually have some banding at ISO64 because of how far I'm pushing it in some cases. In this particular one, I gave up and let the highlight blow - it looks more natural than the alternative.</p><div></div>

[Andrew Garrard]

<p>I was hoping there'd be a chance to walk through the canyon after the staged shots (without the tripod), but officially there wasn't; I risked swapping in a fish-eye while in the canyon, with my fingers crossed that I wouldn't trash the camera with sand. Fortunately I think I got away with it, but I didn't have time for any particularly interesting pictures - so here's a rush of people capturing a light beam instead (in the interests of <em>one</em> of these not being exactly the same as everyone else's shots of Antelope...)</p><div></div>

[Jon Eckman]

<p>From the parking lot of a local grocery store last night</p><div></div>

[ronald_duren]

<p>The foliage was just past peak in NYC.</p><div></div>

[ronald_duren]

<p>More changing leaves.</p><div></div>

[DawsonPointers]

<p>Memories of Friday before Sunday's snowstorm. The reds were enhanced by smoke from burning brush piles from land clearing.</p><div></div>

[DawsonPointers]

<p>The geese were heading north to spend the night in the fields. Maybe they had some marshmallows to toast on the burning brush piles.</p><div></div>

[ronald_duren]

<p>Duck on Abstract Pond.</p><div></div>

[DawsonPointers]

<p>The water was warmer than the cold air draining onto the lake.</p><div></div>

[bnelson]

<p>No snow yet in this part of California. (As in Never) The wildlife preserves have been good this year</p><div></div>

[bnelson]

<p>Pintail Preening</p><div></div>

[JDMvW]

<p>My past life as a Nikonista<br>

Now up to 1977<br>

Peru first, near Cuzco</p><div></div>

[JDMvW]

<p>Then to Venezuela - Caracas - Nikkormat EL</p><div></div>