Renee Shipley

I just ordered the Tokina 100mm; it shall arrive Wednesday. Just in time for me to have no chance of using it until Saturday...!

One caveat about the Tokina. It is a "D" type lens; it needs the screwdriver drive in the camera body to autofocus. This is not a problem with the D750 but may be with other camera bodies.

 

I am good there !

Wow. Thanks for the information! I just looked up the tokina lens...it gets rave reviews!?

Hi everyone. Been a while since I've posted! I'm looking to expand my horizons with the addition of macro work. Looking for opinions on dedicated macro lenses vs using extension tubes. I'm open to both. Looking to do flowers, grasses, etc as well as detail shots for weddings. I've been looking at sigma 105 vs nikon 105 vs tamron 90; does anyone have any wisdom?

Thanks Ed - have the Giottos blower in my shopping cart now. ThinkTank does make some nice bags as well. Will check out the RRS strap options. I want to be able to carry my camera on the way conveniently and comfortably.

Thanks, Dieter! Funny you should mention mindshiftgear as I already had my eye on this one. But I am going to look at those Streetwalker ones as well to see what they have. I appreciate the other suggestions as well. I believe I have looked at Peak Design before as well.

In a not related comment, I have to express my regret that with the 'new' pn platform, I miss being able to sign in from a forum post and remain in that thread...I'm sure I am not the first to lament this.

Hello,

 

I need three things and rather than make three posts, I'll just list them . Your recommendations are appreciated!

 

1. Sensor cleaning kit or supplies? There are a lot of choices; is one kit better than another?

 

2. I need a new backpack as mine is 10 years old. The zippers are not zipping too well. I would like to have the style that you can flip around in front of you, lay it forward like a table and get your gear that way..I think. Do any of you use that style? I think not having to set it on the ground would be a nice thing especially since waterfall locations never have a nice level place for your bag to sit.

 

3. A neck strap or shoulder strap or harness with a reliable attachment to the camera...for when you want to have your camera accessible while walking in the woods.

 

I appreciate any advice - thanks!

 

Renee

Rennee sent me the original file and the pic below is a RAW conversion to highlight any 'funny stuff' that's otherwise barely visible.

 

[ATTACH=full]1202075[/ATTACH] It is not meant to be a example of how to make a nice conversion....;)

 

Apparently there was no lens hood, so the slight radialness of the 'rays', and the sun star (?)... maybe weird flare? There is some tone-banding, but that's only because the sky contrast has been overly emphasized and then JPEGGed.

 

There's a couple of dust bunnies, but again, the excessive contrast has made them look HUGE!

 

There's also some natural darkening of the left-hand sky that seems entirely normal.

 

If it seems all I need really is a sensor cleaning then I am good with it! Thank you all and Mike for your time!

Sorry Renee, ...apologies for name typo...:oops:

 

It's all good; it's been misspelled much more disastrously than that. And I have also been called worse things. haha

I actually took this one not quite a month ago.

PS.

 

Apart from the RAW conversion and the subsequent resizing and compression for online submission to Photo.net........

 

I guess if you could post a link to the original RAW.... I could get to see what you actually took, to see if it's a hardware or software issue

 

 

True!

 

I'm going to see if this works...uploading the original NEF...

 

I see we can't upload that file type. wonder if i can message it to you.

I don't suppose that you have a polarizer filter In front of the lens do you?

 

Nope, no filter.

 

 

A Zoned Gradient is a pretty sure sign of false JPEG creation.

 

What does 'false JPEG creation' mean? Have I done or set something wrong to cause this?

Just because I can - here is another example of this "gradient" or coloration I have experienced. You can see those lines in this photo as well, but coming from the opposite direction.

If the gradient is in the camera's shutter, it should be the same no matter what lens and what focal length you use. If you aim at the sky with the lens at 24, and see the gradient, you should see the same thing if you zoom it. Try something safely in the middle, like 60. Is it the same? If it's different, I'd doubt it's the shutter.

 

If it's a shutter issue, I'd have thought it would behave differently between very low and very high shutter speeds, since the shutter operates quite differently when below and above sync speed. Duplicating the conditions that give you the problem, what happens if you vary the shutter speed only. You can set Auto ISO and S priority, and try a very slow and a very fast speed.

 

I will try this and see what I come up with. Thank you!

 

Zooming in on the left top corner i still see "strange patterns" which do not show up on the remainder of the picture, so : was the sensor of the camera "wet cleaned" possibly leaving some "residu streaks" ?

 

YES! I didn't want to mention that because I really thought I was seeing things. There are definitely strange lines showing up in both the original and Mary's edit. You can see them if you look at the left edge of the photo where the hill meets the sky - there are lines that sweep on a curve from that point up toward the middle top edge of the photo. I have never cleaned this camera's sensor and I have less than 1k photos taken. Perhaps the sensor NEEDS a cleaning..

Spent no more than 5 minutes in LR from beginning to finish - using the Shadow and Dark sliders and bgelfand's suggested "vignette" feature in Lens Correction, played with Curve to add contrast. Is it better?

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I do think it is better. Thank you for the assistance! Lots to learn about this new camera - the good thing about that is, I just get to shoot more in order to do that!

And I would say that my d750 underexposes as compared to my d7000.

Can you explain what you meant by "gradient" in this photo?

 

If you are referring to the slightly darker upper left hand corner of your image, it might be lens vignette.

 

 

Yes - that is what I meant. I have never seen that before. Is this common?

 

I will try using the lens correction in Lightroom - I'm on the trial version before I sign up for the subscription but I believe I saw that in the develop module.

 

Thanks all!

Thanks for responding. I do shoot RAW so that's out as a possible culprit. Sandy, I use matrix metering but I will see if there was any exposure compensation accidentally set.

No filter on the lens. No hood. No post whatsoever.

 

I bought the camera last fall, and then a family member's illness took my time/attention. Just getting to really seriously start using the camera this month. This is the second time I have noticed this sort of naturally occurring gradient in my photos. Does anyone else notice what I am noticing? Kit 24-120 lens, on as you can see a very sunny day on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, NC last week. I checked my serial number as I thought maybe my unit is part of the shutter recall, though I'm not really sure what results people are seeing with that condition - mine is not recalled. I did just last night update the firmware - I was actually one update behind already so I went from 1.10 to 1.12.

 

 

The first time I noticed this, I thought maybe I was imagining things. Any thoughts?

 

thank you!

Being a lifelong dog person, just had to share these. Hope you enjoy them.

 

Kennel Club’s dog photographer of the year awards | Daily Mail Online (Link)

 

love these!

Hi Renee,

 

By chance, is that Cole Run Falls in Somerset County, PA?

 

Gene

Yes it is!

Here is another one from that same spot near my house. Same body and lens but this time with an ND filter. d750, 24-120 f/4 lens @32mm, f/14 iso 100. 30sec exposure.

No alien equipment here. d750 with 24-120mm kit lens, sorry.

Good morning, everyone. I finally have something to post. I haven't shot much since I purchased my d750 last fall. It's an upgrade from my d7000 and to me, full-frame is much different than crop sensor. I believe I was at f8 for this photo - I should have stopped down some more but i was in a hurry to try to get the sun before it dropped below the hill. This is my neighbor's field on Sunday. It's quite the magical place. As I write this, I can see out my front window that the field is covered in fog; the field has something to offer every season. Please let me know what else I could have done with this image - i did adjust clarity and played with some of the colors just a little bit in PS. There's nothing I can do about that wire, though...