sjoerd_leeuwenberg

September 15, 2009

I have the G7 and am pretty happy with it to supplement the D90. But I wish I could use the SB-600 with CLS on the compact. The G11 also sounds amazing.

And about your nikon compact search, maybe this is what you are waiting for:

Well, wanted to post a link to a rumor site, but you will have to search for yourself or wait

September 15, 2009

The DOF (Depth Of Field) determines how much of the image will be sharp.

When you have a small DOF and focus on an object in close proximity (like the flowers), the objects in the distance will be unsharp (some people even like this effect).

I see that the fuji camera has a very small sensor compared to the D90.

An aperture setting on a smaller sensor will have a much larger DOF than on a larger sensor like the D90. Also check out <a href="http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00URJn">http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00URJn</a>

Or search on the net for DOF

Maybe this was part of your problem, Good luck

September 13, 2009

Jose, What contrast in that picture, and to comment on your focal length reply, maybe we can open a topic that maybe nikon can add an extension to the auto iso that takes focal length into account, or 2x ;) Per-christian, great timing Chris, very nice ... thing Rene, i like the layers of colors in the landscape Pedro, nice lights Shun, don't trip and fall down around these guys Lil, Great IR, Make a very interesting scene, a market with tourists and items for sale, interesting trees and an ominous sky. What are you missing that makes it not-perfect? Monika, nice forest, I always have the feeling these picture never come out as great as it looked. Too bad to hear about your trip, haha Robert, love the colors Erik, that must have hurt Matthew, wauw, great view Jeannean, the lighting is nice indeed, great bug too Ilkka, looks like a huge droplet, nice lighting Leo, nice droplet too, I like the reflexion (a building?) Aguinaldo, wauw, great colors, is that taken with three polarisers on top of eachother? Jim, nice smile William, Nice catch, i like the third animal in the picture. Carey, great lighting and composition Tim, great portrait of the animal Dieter, the fog in the distance is great, the bird finishes it Matt, great lighting Mike, your picture has something, It is on a stage right? Any group we could know? Charles, they look like they are flying into eachother Dan, sweet Thomas, interesting colors on the wall James, nice building Phil, that looks like a vertical panorama Filip, nice reflexion on the ferry Tony, nice landscape Mikhail, great picture ertugrul, great contrast Joseph and Ian thanks for the comments

September 11, 2009

Took me a minute to turn this feature off a few weeks ago (one exposure of 30 secs),

but it made me miss a nice lightning shot.

Does anyone know if the camera off-on trick saves the original image without NR safely?

September 9, 2009

Rene, tim, Jeannean, Lil and Alejandro, thanks for the nice comments last week. This week I have a picture from two weekends ago. I went to germany to see my brother and family. We went karting in the Michael schumacher karting center. Besides the obvious karting pictures I also took some other pictures. I was shooting the kitchen of the restaurant where there was some nice steam. While I was shooting, a lady came in and started shaking one of the pans. This resulted in a nice bowl of fire. I think she almost burned her hand. The picture is not as sharp as I was hoping for but I like it anyway. I wasn't able to comment last week, but the level of pictures was amazing again, well done everybody.

And to comment on janne's critique idea, I would also like to see a bit more of creative ideas about pictures,

because I think a lot of us are also here to learn. But it should not get out of control. Picture is taken with the D90 & 80-200mm @ F6.7 80mm 1/90s iso 200 (I wish a put the iso on auto +/-800)<div></div>

September 8, 2009

TAKE IT APART, TAKE PICTURES, PUT PICTURES ON THE THREAD!!! would love to see what a brother of my D90 looks like from the inside.

September 2, 2009

Hi all, Last week I promised a fish picture to Alejandro. Mine has less nice lighting, but I like the shape of the water surface. There were many fish and some just swam down, but you can still see the shape of their scales in the water. The picture was taken in a local zoo. Taken with the D90 & 80-200mm @ 80mm F2.8 1/1500s<div>

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August 31, 2009

Shun,

I said wednesdayS, so I still have some time to post those, haha. ;-)

August 31, 2009

I was visiting germany this weekend, just took like a 1000 pictures for next wednesdays, so my comments are late again. It was another impressive week, but I will just mention my personal favourites:

Bernard, I like the angle you took on this much photographed building. Chris, interesting picture, really makes you look back a few times to try and discover what it is. Tim, makes me think of meeting mine, haven't seen her since januari Joseph, great fog picture, very mysterious Matthew, fantastic moon Jeannean, great macro, I'm glad all your efforts got a nice reward. It is really amazing how many 'macro' opportunities there are everywhere around us. William, great composition, great moment Lester, my personal favourite this week, 3D in 2D Jens, nice colors Janne, interesting characters there Aaron, very nice B/w, they seem to be very close. Steve, Nice portrait, cannot decide if i like the B/W or color more Paula, Looks like a dracula frog Adam, how was the concert? Josh, nice couple John Kent, very strong look Dave, what a view Louis, nice picture of very ordinary items Juan, nice rainbow Tony, Interesting architecture Pedro, these cheeses look like they are in good hands sergio, great night shot, good timing with the light in the tent John, nice colors Ryan, great shot

Joseph, Jeannean, Lil, thanx for the comment

August 26, 2009

to Lester,

wauw, your image really jumps of the screen.

I think that is what they call a 3D-image.

Great moment too.

The image really shows the qualities of that 85mm F1.4 lens and the guy behind it of course.

I will put that lens on my 'want but cannot afford' list. haha

August 26, 2009

Hi, so many great pictures already, again!

Alejandro, your picture reminds me of one I took in the zoo some weeks ago, maybe I will post it next week. I like the light in yours.

I will comment on the rest in the 'commenting phase'.

My picture this week is a portrait I took of a friend of the family.

I took it to demonstrate to him the sharpness of the lens, but it turned out to be a nice portrait I think.

Taken with the D90 and 50mm F1.4 @ 50mm (duh) F4.0 1/350s iso 200

Have a nice day everybody<div></div>

August 24, 2009

to Lil, 'I just happened to have the camera in my hands......' You know that that excuse doesn't work here!! I'm glad she found someone else and is happy in the end.

August 24, 2009

To bernard,

About the 'commenting phase', I agree with you about that.

For me I like to wait until most pictures are added so I can take my time evaluating them and commenting. But usually I only have time for that over the weekend. I have been late with commenting some weeks and was even the last one for some weeks. However I am uncertain how many people will read them. And I think most people will not read the old post once the new week has started. You really have to go look for the older wednesday thread. It is also closed by then, so any re-comments can only appaer in the next one.

Maybe we should have a saturday commenting day. haha

August 23, 2009

Jose Angel, looks like a nice place, too bad the door was closed Ton, Is that a coffin on the boat? I am also confused if it encourages or is against violence, nice picture anyway Mike C, nice highway, just the roadkill is missing Eric, very true, good find Chris, nice island, makes you wanna take a run and jump into the water Michael, interesting clouds Per-Christian, It's great how the sea is just melting with the sky Jeannean and Rick, nice lunch Leo, you are right, sometimes on the computer you think, if only, well, next time Ian, great lighting on that cathedral Roy, how did you get level with that plane? Matthew, wauw, the colours James, nice architecture Alejandro and Wayne, did you organize to post those leaves? amazing coincidence Kent, nice engine, do the tennisballs fly up? Erik, a public building with colours? never, I think you are messing with us Alastair, do you think he noticed the flash? haha, ooops just see you didn't use it. Ray, I see the dog, but would have passed by not noticing too matt, nice shoes, is nice to see the bricks going on almost until infinity Walter, nice bottle Paula, I like all the small bird watching the show John Kent, Are girls taking over blue from us now??? Kim, nice beard Waldemar, what a story, you really went to a lot of trouble to get that picture and it shows, great shot, a dragonfly orgy, haha Amy, great view Eric Angelo, I think you have a dead pixel under that moon, haha, nice shot Dave, wauw the colors are amazing Ivan, creepy Lil, great that they found eachother, they look happy together. What are they looking at? The sunglasses are great. And thanks for all the comments, again. Janne, great shadow, looks like a fine lens Dieter, the sunset is great, the tree too, and i like the tiny people on the bench Adam, I see the elephant, funny Charles, nice view

August 19, 2009

@per-christian, haha, yes that could have been him.

your link didn't work for me and my norwegian is not that great, but I quess this is the same troll: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theodor_Kittelsen_-_Skogtroll,_1906_(Forest_Troll).jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Theodor_Kittelsen_-_Skogtroll,_1906_(Forest_Troll).jpg</a>

I need to post my replies faster, but thanx for checking it out. ;-)

sjoerd

August 19, 2009

Great pictures already this week, I was also amazed by the fantastic pictures last week and so many great comments. I missed the comments of the troll, but the reactions were interesting. I left a big comment on that and on some pictures (at the end of the thread, again!), so if any of you are interested. I was just in time, because shun closed the thread just 16 minutes later.

Now for this week, I made a visit to a park that is close to my parents house and made some pictures. Taken with the D90 and Nikon 18-200 @ 62mm F9.5 1/180s<div></div>

August 17, 2009

Hey, did we have a troll on the wednesday thread? Interesting. Did anybody take a picture of him, I've never seen a troll with a camera. He must have a camera with iso 100000, they live in the complete dark don't they? I really enjoyed that there were soo many 'nice' comments this week. A while ago there was a comment that people shouldn't criticise any pictures or so. And since then there were not always that many comments. I really enjoy getting comments, reading other people's comments and commenting on pictures myself. It is a big part of the enjoying and learning for me. Some people might not like giving comments because that would mean some are better than others. And I do agree some pictures are better than others, but that is not the point. I enjoy the diversity of the pictures, cultures and stories. Not commenting on all is normally more a question of time and what kind of picture speaks to the commenter. Especially Lil and for example Jeannean, Richard and Benjamin should be thanked for their kind efforts each week. I won't comment on all, because then I won't be done for the next wednesday, but just on the ones that jump out for me. Mike C, Where is the grill of the car? nice shed Alejandro, Jeannean, Tony and Kim interesting plants Mike O'Day, Looks a bit like the model train picture from a few weeks ago Bogdan and Ertugrul, nice culture Darko, very nice double portrait, too bad about the bar close to her head, or was that on purpose? Matthew and wayne, Nice tree Dieter, great character Pedro, I think I already saw that one some time ago Monika, Great moment Chris Nielsen, nice light Matt, My favourite this week, fantastic Jeff, great moon Chris Court, iPhone, haha, Funny Sasa, great beach Louis, Scary Curt, Do you always let her carry everything? Ralph, nice kitty Tim, great colors Jesse, I like bridges like that, good capture Paul, looks great, to bad it is so small Steve, nice wheather Ray, nice mountain Matt, interesting Sean, the colors of these buildings are amazing Waldemar, looks like an old postcard Tiffany, That must be something like an AOI (Automatic Optical Inspection) machine that is inspecting a chip-wafer, there is a macro camera looking very closely with surrounding lights. Thangavelu, nice waterdrops Geee, there is more Uzay, VERY nice Barry, geee, the muscles and veins are impressive Aaron, nice, did he collide? Jam, he must have been on a break Toni, nice classic Ryan, amazing colors, 50MB!!! And all newcomers and other posters (except the troll) WELL DONE!!!

August 12, 2009

Hi all,

No birds yet? Just terrible stories about birds, I hope that will be better as soon as possible.

Then I will post a happy picture of a bird, a BIG bird. And he was showing me just how big he is. I'll keep my story short this week to compensate. haha

D90 + 80-200 @ 1/2000s F2.8 80mm

to per-christian: sad story, great picture.

ton, great character again

oskar, funny picture

Jose, I was too late to comment on the pictures from last week also, but they sure were all great<div></div>

August 5, 2009

Hi all, This week I have a landscape picture. It was one of those picture taking events that you have planned to do for a while. The idea was to take some pictures and panoramas from the roof of a building. My parents happen to have a nice house next to a river close to amsterdam in holland. It's a pretty high house and with a flat roof. Sounded like a promising idea. I wasn't allowed to go on the top of the 10 levels high apartment building where I

lived in eindhoven. grrr. My parents just had the roof rebuilt and made it higher and

I had to enter the roof from a small window in the ceiling. So first there was the

problem of getting some ladder that was big enough, but not too big. And then I had to

make some supports on the ceiling beams, because I wanted to make sure I was going to

be able to see the pictures later. Ok, that fixed, I was going on the roof, heavy

backback with lenses and an old gitzo tripod and some small levels. Up there it was

pretty windy and sometimes sunny sometimes cloudy, so the temperature changed a lot

and I had to stay away from the edges. The view up there was really nice, a whole

different viewpoint on everything, you can look to the horizon without a lot in the

way. I experimented a lot with the polarisation filter and some panorama shots, that

didn't really work out great because the 50mm and the 80-200 were not wide enough and

the 18-200 has a bit much distortion at those angles. The plan was to make the

panorama at different levels, like two rows high, but that didn't really work out

because the software kept distorting the stitches, trying to flatten everything. The

panorama with the polariser was also difficult, because of the wide angle and the

changing direction. In the end some came out ok, but a bit flat for what I wanted, maybe I need a wider

angle. I also took a lot of normal pictures and for me one stood out. The polariser

made the clouds look nice and I also liked the view on amsterdam. I converted the raw

file with lightroom. I changed the white balance just a fraction and I used the

graduated filter to brighten the land a bit. I increased the exposure 1.6 stops in the

lower part. The distortion of the lens is still there. But I still like the picture. Nikon D90, 18-200mm @ 18mm F8, 1/350s B&W polariser. I hope you will like the picture and the (longer) story. I'm sure there will be many great pictures this wednesday.

Geee, I just checked the hunderds of pictures there already. Christmas came early. Chris, is this revenge for my complaints about the double dragonfly???<div></div>

August 3, 2009

Some comments on the pictures this week: Chris, another wonderful dragonfly, but I am also looking forward to seeing other great (macro) pictures from you Per-christian, too much to drink last night? Shun, nice timing and shade Lil, nice IR (AGAIN), did you darken the sky? Alejandro & amy, Very strong look Susan, very close Dieter, lovely pose, great title Gary, she is looking at you with all those eyes, a real show off Waldemar, nice backyard Wayne, Nice selfportret, you make me think of an idea I had that maybe one week, everybody could send a selfportret or better a picture of themself 'at work' so to say, taking pictures. Ray & homer, nice catch Tim, interesting Robert, both hdr pictures shot at 1/100th? Phil, funny flying car Aguinaldo, the character fits the picture perfectly George, good timing, nice light Nick, is that the one that hit the titanic? or better, the other way around ken, interesting building Chanh, Nice contrast with the green, city, the mountains and the people walking Randy, wauw Rodger, how big is that one anyway? Ray yeager, nice shot william, lunch again Mikhail, fitting colors for the scene Hector, what a view, great shot Erik, what a great face for portraits jens, one of the most interesting bird shots, WITHOUT A BIRD Cees, Hi, I live in holland too, I like your picture, the sky is nice, but what I do see in your picture and in many of my own is that holland makes it hard to make nice landscape pictures, because a lot of the land (well, all of it) is soo flat, so you need to get a bit higher to get interesting land on it. just my view. And many great others, is an amazing collection, so diverse. Thanks for the following for commenting on mine: george; homer yep it is; richard very kind; lil thanx for commenting on so many pictures, I'm sure everybody must appreciate that a lot, I know I do.

July 30, 2009

I don't know, but it is very annoying, i had to convert my 105mm F2.5 to AI myself to be able to use it on my D90. It is just 'leaving out' some plastic on the camera to make it fit.

Are you still up, shun?

July 30, 2009

Cannot believe I beat shun with an answer, but only by a few seconds, haha.

And your answers is also a lot more elaborate.

July 30, 2009

I think that is the button that lets the camera know that the lens is at it's narrowest aperture. Only for non-G (no aperture ring) lenses. This is needed so the camera can have the full range of apertures available.

July 29, 2009

hi,

@chis and jose rivera: superglue!!

At our trip to the zoo, there were many cute animals, this was one of them. haha

She was having a lot of fun.

D90 + 80-200 @ 200mm F2.8 1/3000s ISO200

I bet this will be another great wednesday<div></div>

July 28, 2009

late again, as usual, have been busy with the house still. Wanted to comment on some older pictures too:

My favourites from previous week 28: bogdan, nice find, arash, great bridge, bruce, that portret really shows the power of the 18-200. rob shooter is that sky real? thanx to benjamin, filip, mikhail and lil.

My favourites from previous week 29: lil, great ir, ton, great portret, bruce's schip thanx to richard, gary, Arun s and lil.

Now for this week, or is it last week already:

durukan, very unusual expression for a baby kemal, show-off wayne, jf zhang, nice lunch ray, Ilkka it's amazing what they can do with that sand thangavelu, beautiful portret James, interesting curves doug, his neck looks like a photoshop color selection tool. brian, nice landscape Chris, my favourite this week. Amazing closeup.

thanx to benjamin (No need for ton to run, he must have picked up plenty of colorful people at the pride in amsterdam, I missed it this year), lil.

see you all next week, well .... tomorrow

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