Nikon Wednesday 2020: #17

[Matt Laur]

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Hope this Nikon Wednesday finds everyone safe and sound in these strange times - and that there's a spot in this group's brains for some photographic adventure and joy, or at least some comfort in a familiar pursuit. Despite the global challenge, it's pleasant to watch the season do what it does, and just wallow in it a bit. This afternoon, I noticed the light doing that spring light thing, and of course it was falling on the back yard blooms and buds. So: flowers! I know there will be more, so let's see 'em. These were with the D810 and a 24-70/2.8.

[ChrisSpeaker]

I've benn playing with water droplets myself. Nikon D500. Hope you enjoy.

 

 

 

 

[Bill J Boyd]

[tholte]

[mike_halliwell]

Nikon D500 + Nikon 200-500mm @ 410mm ISO 160 1/250th f10.

Edited April 22, 2020 by mike_halliwell

[mike_halliwell]

Nikon D850 + Nikon 200-500mm @ 400mm f10 ISO 640 1/1000

 

[Jon Eckman]

[rodeo_joe1]

My daily exercise walk takes me past, or into the local cemetery. Not joyful, but certainly contemplative.

F801s with 50mm f/1.8 AF-D. T-max 100 film in HC-110.

[JDMvW]

Sweden - Bosjökloster Castle

1st trip with my new Nikkormat FTn, PC-Nikkor 35mm f/2.8

[Sanford]

Church Parking Lot, D300, 50mm Nikkor

Edited April 22, 2020 by Sanford

[Rob Davies]

Z6 85mm f1.8S 1/1000th f2.2 iso 100

[Erik-Christensen]

[Miha]

D750, modified soviet lens.

 

 

[bgelfand]

Taken in Jack E. Hill Park, Elk Grove, CA 10 April 2020 @ 2:52 PM

Nikon D750 1/1250 sec, f/8, ISO 640 (Auto) Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A009N @ 200mm, Range: 11.89 meters

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[ShunCheung]

[mike_halliwell]

Shun, what kit and exposure are these wondrous flyers shot with?

 

Errr,... how come they don't have any landing gear?

[ShunCheung]

I captured those two Anna's hummingbird images two days ago, on April 20. Those two images were fractions of a second from each other, as I was using the D5 with the 500mm/f5.6 PF lens wide open at f5.6, 1/1250 sec and auto ISO 1400.

[bgelfand]

Taken in Jack E. Hill Park, Elk Grove, CA 16 April 2020 3:24 PM

Nikon D750 1/1250 sec, f/8, ISO 640 (Auto) Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD A009N @ 135mm Range: 4.73 Meters

California Poppies - the state flower

 

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[Prof-K]

D500 and 300PF

Edited April 23, 2020 by shakil_k.

[Nick D.]

 

Nikon D750 with 28-85/3.5-4.5 lens. This lens is about 20 years old , bought for few dollars in thrift store with F50, but I love them.

[bgelfand]

Errr,... how come they don't have any landing gear?

Retractable gear (no joke). If you look carefully at the bottom image, you can see just a very little bit of claw peaking out.

[bnelson]

Watching! Always watching!

[mike_halliwell]

Taken a while to process my Lyrid meteor shower pix from Tuesday night/Wednesday morning .... :)

 

Nikon D850 + Samyang 14mm f2.8 for 20 sec ISO 1000

 

About 1/9th of the whole frame......middle RH frame edge.:cool:

 

[Andrew Garrard]

I actually managed to shoot before Wednesday as well for once, but my Macbook had some issues with the processing, so I'm late again. Typical software engineer, blame the hardware.

 

Matt requested flowers. Normally I'd go to the bluebell woods where my mum's ashes are scattered this time of the year, but due to the lockdown I can't - so here are some local ones instead. (Not my finest effort, but the skies aren't blue enough today for a re-shoot.)

 

[Andrew Garrard]

That was a 14-24. These are with my Laowa 2.5-5x macro Christmas present. Turns out it's quite hard to hand-hold for flowers in the wild, especially if they're in a breeze and you're balancing the camera on finger tips because of the angle. I tried a focus stack, but the wobble is bad enough that rolling shutter (live view) gave differently-shaped and sized images, so a tidy depth of field it is. I think this first was 2.5x (full frame).

 

[Andrew Garrard]

And even worse at full 5x (full frame). I need to do some more practical macro shots at some point; these aren't really showing what the lens can do once zoomed in. (Btw, I tried looking for any residual Lyrids last night, but... nothing, at least under city lighting. I hope we can go photo hunting farther afield soon. Stay safe, all.)

 

[mike_halliwell]

That was a 14-24

That's some serious OOF smearing middle/top left!

 

....or is it tree movement? ;)

[Andrew Garrard]

That's some serious OOF smearing middle/top left!

 

....or is it tree movement? ;)

 

It was a little breezy, but I think it's depth of field. I was at f/7.1, which is my normal "try to reign in the field curvature without losing everything to diffraction" aperture - but I really wanted the foreground sharp. I'd love to say it was deliberate, but I was hoping it would be less visible at the size of this thread! I do have some at f/16, but the lighting had shifted and after a while spent maintaining a sit-up position for the macro shots, I wasn't doing a very good job of keeping a horizontal horizon at arm's length, hanging over some flowers without squashing them - so this was the least bad. I'll work on it for next year, when I'm allowed to spend longer in the park. If anyone would like to donate a 19mm T/S to me, I'll try to fix it properly...

[yardkat]

Two takes of an orchid. D750+Lensbaby Velvet 85 and 24-70. The first was for practice using textures, and for the second I was practicing focus stacking using QdslrDashboard.

[bgelfand]

The second image is outstanding. Which 24-70 and shooting data and how many stacked images, please?

[yardkat]

The second image is outstanding. Which 24-70 and shooting data and how many stacked images, please?

Hi bgelfand, thanks for your kind words.

 

I have the 24-70 F2.8 E ED IF VR AF-S. I had to look up all those letters, just to be sure. ;)

 

ISO 100, f8, 1/3 of a second. I think I stacked 10 pictures. But I think I took probably 70 pics trying to figure out the app...I found it not very intuitive, and placing the focus points (you place start and end points) was a bit finicky. Also I needed to learn where the best points to place them were. I had been thinking top to bottom, but when I went edge closest to me to very center it was best. I guess you figure that out from doing it enough. So, still learning. I think it's a good app if one practices more often. Also there are a couple of blurry blotches when you zoom in really tight where Photoshop didn't do such a great job, but I don't feel ready to download Helicon.

[bgelfand]

Hi bgelfand, thanks for your kind words.

 

I have the 24-70 F2.8 E ED IF VR AF-S. I had to look up all those letters, just to be sure. ;)

 

ISO 100, f8, 1/3 of a second. I think I stacked 10 pictures. But I think I took probably 70 pics trying to figure out the app...I found it not very intuitive, and placing the focus points (you place start and end points) was a bit finicky. Also I needed to learn where the best points to place them were. I had been thinking top to bottom, but when I went edge closest to me to very center it was best. I guess you figure that out from doing it enough. So, still learning. I think it's a good app if one practices more often. Also there are a couple of blurry blotches when you zoom in really tight where Photoshop didn't do such a great job, but I don't feel ready to download Helicon.

 

 

Thank you very much for the information.

[luis triguez]

Nikkor AF-S 35 G on D100 and D200