Nikon Wednesday 2020: #24

[Matt Laur]

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I rarely have a reason to crank ISO up to 6400 on the D810 - it's not really meant for that kind of shooting. But when you turn on the back yard floodlight and the friendly neighborhood red fox is essentially posing for a snapshot, you do what you gotta do in poor light in the middle of the night. So let's hear it for grain and noise and marginal image quality when, let's face it, sometimes it's just entertaining to quickly get that unexpected shot. Happened to have an f/2.8 lens mounted, so that helped with the shutter speed for sure.

 

So let's see some "Hey, at least I got the shot!" kinda shots this week. Or anything! Just share some photos on this Nikon Wednesday.

[Tim Wilcox]

Still getting used to my Z7 & 24-70 f/2.8. Fortunately I have a couple of patient subjects who put up with it... (its now also the desktop wallpaper on my Mac).

[Rob Davies]

Z6 50mm f1.8S 1/3200th f1.8 iso 100

[Erik-Christensen]

Window-cleaner ought to have done a better job :)

 

[mike_halliwell]

D500 + 200-500mm @ 400mm ISO 3200 1/1600 f9 @ 5.1m.

 

Just this 1 of 24 was a modest keeper! Maybe f8 @ 1/2000 might have been better?

 

[Bill J Boyd]

[Sanford]

Egret, D80

[tholte]

D750 with a 24-120mm f4

[Jon Eckman]

Fortuitous sighting while driving - probably not the safest thing I've ever done.

[Sanford]

Jon, is that dinner or is that how they carry their young?

[JDMvW]

interior Eglise de la Sainte-Famille, Cahokia, IL 1786

Nikkormat FTn f/1.2 lens

[michaelfarley]

In the wild, Africa: Nikon D800e, Tamron 150-600mm @300mm, f8, 1/250 sec, ISO 560

[Prof-K]

D500, 300pf, from my balcony (Oakville, Canada)

[bnelson]

[bnelson]

Loving the Nikkor AFS 105mm 2.8

[mark45831]

D750 24-70 2.8 G Still one of my most favorite lens.

[Sandy Vongries]

D7200 Nikon 200-500 5.6

[Matthew Currie]

I've been trying with limited success to catch a dragonfly on the fly. So far I have not gotten past the "at least I got the shot" level, but at least.....

 

[chulster]

Tres hombres

[chulster]

D750 24-70 2.8 G Still one of my most favorite lens.

 

Is it a good set of screwdrivers? A lot of the reviewers on Amazon say the plastic grips spin without gripping the driver.

[mike_halliwell]

success to catch a dragonfly on the fly

This subject always reminds me of the Kennedy speech about going to the Moon,

 

"....not because they are easy, but because they are hard,

because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills...."

[mike_halliwell]

D500 + 200-500mm @ 500mm 1/1600 ISO 250 f6.3

 

The end of a just emerged Damsel Fly.

 

[mark45831]

Is it a good set of screwdrivers? A lot of the reviewers on Amazon say the plastic grips spin without gripping the driver.

Yes they tend to spin, other than that their pretty good. not plastic but rubber.

[chulster]

Yes they tend to spin, other than that their pretty good. not plastic but rubber.

So if you're gripping the rubber piece tightly while applying strong torque, does the piece slip and spin then? Or only when gripping lightly?

[mark45831]

So if you're gripping the rubber piece tightly while applying strong torque, does the piece slip and spin then? Or only when gripping lightly?

It spins, I just move it out of the way, thought about a little super glue but havent tried that yet, I have others that do not seat very well in the screw slots, these seem to do a much better job with a tighter fit.

[tom_kotzur]

It spins, I just move it out of the way, thought about a little super glue but havent tried that yet, I have others that do not seat very well in the screw slots, these seem to do a much better job with a tighter fit.

....I have a set of jeweler's screw drivers under the brand name of "General Tools" (check on Google) that work for me...they don't have a plastic or rubber grip....they work great for me...

[mike_halliwell]

A slightly failed stack..... the central portion pic was lost AKA ruined by the breeze..!

[lahuasteca]

Morning sky, South Padre Island, Texas, 6/2/2020. Nikon D700/24-120

[bgelfand]

Wild Fire Prevention Brigade. Elk Grove, CA 22 May 2020.1:05 PM

You may read about the "Brigade" here LINK: Grazing Management Program

 

These members were deployed along a dry creek bed near my home. The irregular terrain would have made using machinery to cut down the tall dry grass impractical and the machinery could strike a spark causing the wildfire the grass removal was trying to prevent.

 

Nikon D750 Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2 A032N

 

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[chulster]

These members were deployed along a dry creek bed near my home. The irregular terrain would have made using machinery to cut down the tall dry grass impractical and the machinery could strike a spark causing the wildfire the grass removal was trying to prevent.

 

Nikon D750 Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD G2 A032N

 

B, may I ask what the shooting params were for these two photos?

[luis triguez]

pepper

Micro-Nikkor-P 55 on D200

[luis triguez]

tomatoes

Micro-Nikkor-P 55 on D200

[bgelfand]

B, may I ask what the shooting params were for these two photos?

 

The top picture - the herd - 1/500, f/11, ISO 400, lens set to 24mm.

 

The bottom - the animals under the trees - 1/60, f11, ISO 400, lens set to 70mm.

 

Both were shot in aperture priority. The RAW files were processed in Lightroom 6.14 with minor adjustments - lens profile applied, camera profile applied, and minor sharpening. I create a camera profile for each of my lenses in Full Sun, Shadow, and Overcast using the Xrite ColorChecker Passport system.

[chulster]

The top picture - the herd - 1/500, f/11, ISO 400, lens set to 24mm.

 

The bottom - the animals under the trees - 1/60, f11, ISO 400, lens set to 70mm.

 

Both were shot in aperture priority. The RAW files were processed in Lightroom 6.14 with minor adjustments - lens profile applied, camera profile applied, and minor sharpening. I create a camera profile for each of my lenses in Full Sun, Shadow, and Overcast using the Xrite ColorChecker Passport system.

Thanks!