Important notice: please keep your pics under 700 pixels width for inline posting and even more important, please keep the FILE SIZES UNDER 300Kb. Notice that this includes photos hosted off-site (Flickr, Photobucket, others). As a reference, notice that my pic is near 100Kb. The general guidelines for this WedNEsDAy PiC threads,.Another ' two spontaneous subjects that meet' street shot. I found this T-shirted ' bye' man having a break over the bronze luggage sculpture. I had my camera hanged and took some shots. 'I will see later what I can get from this shots.
Well, I see that not so much. D700 @ 800ISO, 14bit RAW, 50AFS (f4 - 1/250sec.). All camera tricks off.
Processed as usual in NX2 (top rigth corner burning), framed in Aperture. Please feel free to post your favourite pic if you like, taken with Nikon gear. Good WedNEsDAy morning to everyone! My pic for this week was taken in work on last Thursday, and it is actually a poster background for a music video workshop organized by the project I'm leading at work. The small pic in the viewfinder of the video camera is a photo taken few years back with my first D50, and we actually used a different one in the real poster.
So this one is a demo-version of the actual poster without any other informative texts, only the title of the workshop. Nikon D80 + Nikon 24-85 f/2.8-4.0 D + SB-28 (& Nikon D50 + Nikon 18-55 f/3.5-5.6) You can also leave critique for this photo to. The doorbell just rang (I'm at home, got a flu, but not THE flu luckily) and I received the Nikon F5 I won at an auction couple weeks back! New York City Marathon – Nov 1 2009 40,000 Runners. Yes that’s 40 Thousand Runners running over 26 miles thru the streets of all 5 boros of New York City. Quite the event.
They cross 2 major bridges and run thru every type of neighborhood that the city has. The greatest and most popular marathon in the world. I found a spot right on a concrete barrier at the edge of the course right where it comes into the Bronx from Manhattan. Photo Ops that you can only dream about.
(I never shot runners before) Here are more marathon shots This was a difficult choice, Not only did I shoot over 600 shots at the marathon; I had 2 other shoots that went great this week. I also still have quite a few great foliage color shots. At least I’m set for a few Wednesdays to come. Nikon D700 at 260mm Program AE, 1/1,000 sec, f/10, ISO 1600.
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Good morning everybody! I didn't get to writing any comment on last week's thread, but it was absolutely fabulous and made me ache to go out and enjoy the world through a viewfinder. Which, fortunately, was very possible last weekend. So after a few weeks of rather little and uninspiring photography, I at least had a chance to make something good out of it. Whether it succeeded is another thing of course. Nikon D300 with Tokina 12-24 f/4, at 12mm, f/11, 1/500th, ISO200. Minor postprocessing in CNX2.
Hello all, good morning A coupe of weeks ago, my wife went to Lisbon and got me this beatiful Swatch. I couldn't resist but to photograph it. This time I didn't take a picture of the setup, but for the strobist curious: The watch was held on films canisters on each end of the bracelet and had a SB28 @ 1/32 on a translucent umbrella, camera right, roughly 1 foot from the watch, and 2 feet above. Camera front, below watch, is a white paper reflector. Black craft paper as background. Triggered by Cactus V4. Camera info: D700 Nikon 60 f/2.8 AF-D Micro Tripod For a bigger version, click.
Have a great week, everyone! Great beginning of the thread as always. I feel so bad, I've not been able to comment over the last few weeks. I've been very busy with my ill horse & though he's improving - I still spend a lot of time icing his leg & giving him meds. So please - thank you to those who were kind enough to comment on my Snowy Egret last week & no - I did not see the bird catch anything this time. But it must work as I know of several people who've seen that behavior.
My husband took over caring for my horse one day over the weekend so that I would be able to get out & photograph a little. So I spent the day visiting a location I've located earlier this year.
I happened to locate this Black-crowned Night Heron hiding in the shadows within a tree as it was fishing from a high advantage point. The water reflected these amazing plays of light over the bird's chest & this is one of the shots I got from that.
Processed in between NX2 & CS3. Shot with the D300 & the 300AF-S f/4, Sport Metering -1.0 EV, 1/250s f/8 EXIFs embedded. Hi, It is quite a study. Using Lightroom or ACR and the curves of Photoshop I'm trying various B&W conversions this week.
My aim is to go further in B&W and develop an own continuous style. It is difficult. But aren't all things that are really worthwhile difficult in the beginning?
About a year ago I had an expositon in an art galery, everyone was enthousiastic and I sold quite a few prints. But If I look at those images now, I am not happy with them. To say the least. This one is taken underneath a long bridge in Holland (for the Dutch people here: De Zeelandbrug). I've been envious of twilight and night shots posted here, so I decided to try one.
This is at the entrance to the Boston Public Garden, and the statue is George Washington. I was hoping for an urban version of Alpenglow on the buildings, and a colored twilight sky. I was envisioning an HDR merge, and I bracketed exposures on a steady tripod. The light moved from one area to the next as we moved into twilight. This is a composite of several images.
Photoshop, 'Load images into stack' and 'Auto-Align.' D200, 18-70 kit lens, big Manfroto tripod. Hooray, it's Wednesday again. This time from a recent dance competition. My daughter has now reached the 'master' level, and the competition is fiercer and the demands higher. Being a 'master' also means that the girls are allowed to use feathers and stones as part of the dance costumes, so that is the goal of many of the small girls starting in this sport. In Norway, many are hit by the swine flu, so our family has decided to stop training and competition until we all are vaccinated in about 3 weeks time.
Thats most hard for my daughter, but her father (me) thinks that is OK - now he can do something else that driving her to training 3-4 times a week! Looking forward to all the other photos this week! Try again Terrific images everyone. I am particularly thrilled at the Halloween posts.
Aguinaldo.just amazing, again. Your attention to shadows and detail is perfect. I see no noise.just still and beauty. Eric.THAT'S what I'm talking about.thank you! Hope it was great! Sanford.Wonderful portrait of an artist at work. Great use of light.
Alejandro.Wonderful, telling image. I am always envious of the photogs that can use the obstacles (guard rails. Etc.)to their advantage. Hamish.Beautiful, simple, effective. Tremendous colors. Sometimes, that extra glass works really well. Lil.lovely.you always seem to find that sweet spot and keep it still and unspoiled.
Jonas.Well done. Subtle and beautiful.
Great use of HDR. Justin.Very sweet. Looks like the feeling is mutual. Jeannean.Thank you! More of these!
Richard.Great shot. A charming witch, indeed!
Scott.Love the artistry. Lovely light. William.Great shot. I love the Halloween pix.
Kevin.Great shot. It looks like a fun evening. Too bad Halloween is only once a year. JF.gorgeous Greg.What an amazing shot!
What kind of birds are they? What do you think they are doing?
Epp.I will classify that as a Halloween shot. Beautiful, haunting. Phil.Love it! I hope your kids enjoyed it as much as you enjoyed making it. Long live the classics.
Brandon.Great shot. Wonderful capture.
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I really love the hands. Darrell.Hooray.kindred spirits! Here is my contribution. We really love Halloween. We won 2nd in a contest. That's me as you know who (8. Wow, great stuff!
Very nice and interesting point of views! These images caught my eyes the most: Luis: Nice reflection! Alejandro: Love the view Ian: Awesome!
Would like to try this one day! Pedro: That is one nice watch Jonas: You make seaweeds yummy to look at Louis: The expression is great Cees: Love the perspective and I'd like to find my style too Brian: I really like how you process this image Greg: Were those birds staged? Phil: Creative!
Doug: That's one nice house! Matt: This is great but I have to say last week's expression was the best of these two Brandon: That's a nice clear shot of Bruce Issac: Delish! Lovely crisp shot! L Roth: Gorgeous horses! Richard: Somehow I love that old man. My simple photo. I need to start photographing other things/people besides my little M.
D300, 50mm f/1.8. My settings: f/2.8 ISO 320 1/80. Hector Andrade. Is that Tromsdalstinden?
I took my 7 year old son up there this summer. We walked up from the fjord (sea level) and spent 9 hours on the 1200m ascent and 16km round trip, and when we got to the top low cloud came in and destroyed our view!! I would love to have been on the summit the day you took this. It's such a beautiful area with the fjords and the jagged Lyng Alps stretching out as far as the eye can see. Matthew, nice lightning shot!
Is that your garden? It looks like a paradise for macros.
Lil, Great detail. Fantastic shot. Just wondering what 'sport' metering is though.? Can't find the button on my D300. (just kidding - I couldn't resist ) Matt, excellent as usual. Ilkka, beautiful shot.
Very tranquil. Tiffany thank you for your kind comment. You just have to smile when you see the happy faces in your picture. Great shots as usual.
I started out jotting down a comment or two on the pictures that stood out for me.but ended up with way too many to actually comment. So, I repeat, great shots every one. It is cold and rainy here in SE Ohio today, I was cooped up inside working the last week, so my submission is from several weeks ago. Looking out towards the back 40 of our farm where some of our sheep were grazing.
This is my first ever cropped picture that I've posted on PN. I don't usually get to view WedNEsDAy PiC on Wednesday because of my work schedule. But, I always check it out the first chance I get when I do get broadband access at work (dial-up only at home). I am always impressed with the vision and the variety of the submissions. Every Wednesday is truly a world tour. Being quite European, the Halloween atmosphere is fun to see - it's a festivity that hardly rings any bells for me, but one that clearly inspires a lot of creativity.
All the colours of fall: it is just a great season for photography. Seeing all these pictures with all the colours also makes me miss cold, wet and fall-coloured Netherlands.a bit. Where I live now, I have to do without these colours - it stays green and sunny. There are - as always - a lot of great photos to adore, and choosing a 'week's best' is hard: Matt's dog (recurring theme), Brandon Wu (you were there for work, or did they allow a massive lens in the 'normal' crowd?), Cees, beautiful and original view of the Zeelandbrug, Lill's Heron, Aguinaldo's truly awesome nightsky and Greg's playing birds (is it telling the other bird to shut up?) - all photos that stood out for me.
Quality work. But this week for me started with a bang and a benchmark. Jose's Au Revoir picture just really grabbed me. It has a very nice melancholy over it, and to me, it's like a story-telling picture. Adorable photo, great catch.
Monika, Thanks for the kind comment - I feel honoured, especially considering the extraordinary technical and artistic quality of the photos making up this thread. I wouldn't presume to pass judgement on most of them, but Aguinaldo's I feel I can comment on (as an amateur astronomer). In a word, AWESOME. Thank you very much for posting this wonderfully balanced image.
(I'd love dark skies and an unobstructed view around here, but the UK is horribly light-polluted and essentially too populated to properly escape it.). Well, although every Wednesday the pictures are better and better, the following ones have catched my eyes this week: Aguinaldo de Paula & again the fusion processes in the sky (I can't help, I just love Astronomy) Ian Rance & the well bokehed mushroom Kevin Cassar & the well illuminated (and posed) Halloween Alex foto & the ghost Eric Christensen & the Borneo colors Isaac Sam &. Well, my stomach votes here Phil Burt & the popcorn James Kazan & the slow waters Robert Davis & the bw reflections Jeff Lipsman & the Italy speed John DiLeo & the lovely 3D way My favourite this week is the one from Jeff Lipsman, taken in Italy.
The picture gathers at the same time a colorful country full of art, the freedom of textures and the behavior of people in their “vespas” (motorcycles). Everything is arranged in a “street-photo” style that, I must confess, I’m devoted to. This thread just keeps getting better and better. To Everyone: Thank you for sharing your wonderful photo for this week! I liked all of them very much and appreciate the comments on my attempt at something different (for me). To Matt: You have a new title, 'Dog Photographer Extraordinaire' in my book. I think you're a Dog Whisperer or something magical like that to capture them SO well.
I see big bucks amongst those fleas in your future. I adore your puppy/dog shots. Please keep them coming.or put them in a book and I'll buy it. From the photos I've managed to see, there are some wonderful contributions as usual, but it takes many refreshes and openings of the page before I can see most of them. Alexandro H, lovely waterfall shot, James K, super river shot. However, I have to pass comment on certain aspects of this thread. Its bad enough that half way through wednesday there are already a couple of hundred entries and so many are at the starting gate waiting for the go, but I have noticed a trend where many people seem to be posting almost identical shots as their previous weeks, just for the sake of posting a photo.
This is grossly unfair on those others trying to post something new and its hoarding the bandwidth and space of this thread. Not nameing any names, but I have noticed photos of the same girls at the same cafe, but with a different body position or expression from last week. I've noticed buskers with the guitar in a different position from what it was the previous week, etc, and I'm sure there are many more that I haven't noticed. If there's nothing new or different lets not post just for the sake of posting and getting our names on the forum, its infair on the others and causes unnecessary delay in downloading. Also, another trend I have noticed is for vertical photos to be as big as possible, to be noticed more, and you are scrolling up and down to see part of the photo.
I cite one example on todays page, of a rock singer, that is 1050 pixels high and 750kb (what happened to the 300 kb limit???). If there's a 700 pixel width limit, there should be one for the height also. I'm sure my comments won't agree with everyone, but what do our moderators have to say about this? You are right!
Some people won't agree with everything you said and some will. I FIRMLY agree with people posting extremely large files when they use the portrait mode. YES, there should be a 700 pixel limit on hight too. That is the way I do it. I export my files not to exceed this size. Also the files should be less than 300 kb as stipulated many times before.
What I don't agree is why it bothers you about those people who post first? I live in Japan and I am ahead in time of almost everyone else. I think 90% of the time, my shot is on the first 5. I just didn't know someone would be upset about it. When in Japan, I usually posted before leaving my company.
Which means I was always done with my work and killing time on the net so YEAH! I get to be first. Now I don't have a job so I have nothing better to do and when Jose posts it's 5 pm here and I'm home drinking a beer.
When in Europe, I am just waking up and the first thing I do is read the threads so again, I am one of the first. Do you think I should wait until Friday to post? Just give me a good reason and I will! People posting similar pictures doesn't bother me either. If the picture is different and taken with Nikon gear it should be welcome. And I am sorry about people with a slow internet connection.
With mine a get like 8 MB/s and the thread downloads within 5 seconds. Some times I am on the road and because I wanna see the thread I use my mobile internet connection which is VERY slow. But I just wanna see the thread so I don't mind reloading the thread many many times until I see it all.
What I mean is that we all have options. Let's just stay within the few rules already stipulated! Thank you everyone for participating and sharing your work! Rene', I'm not upset by people posting first, you misunderstand me. The point I'm making is that there is already so much traffic, so to speak, that clogging it up with unnecessary traffic is unfair to others, regardless of slow or fast connections. And its not just 'similar' pictures, its practically the same pictures. The same photo as the week before, but the person is looking elsewhere, in this case.
As to vertical pictures, they should be within most monitors' vertical confines ie, about 800 pixels top to bottom, not ginormous 'look at me' 1000-plus pixels. That one picture of the guitar playing rocker is the size and file size of three othors roughly, I don't think thats fair on everyone else participating. Andrew - A lot of people like this thread the way it is.
People will post an arc of photos over a few week. Its enjoyable. It's very simple - If you don't like the way this thread runs, don't visit it, The large majority are very happy with it and don't wish to see it changed. We went thru this last month in a heated discussion This thread has evolved into the best recurring thread on photonet for a reason.
If its not broke. Don't fix it.
Its not broke because you don't like people posting similar photos each week. And as far as the similar photos go - I like seeing the next evolution. Great work everyone, another wonderful Wednesday collection. As usual, I'll mention the images that particularly caught my attention: @Anish, the fall colors at Reigate Hill @Aguinaldo, another winning sky and stars @Pedro, that's a really fine macro shot of the watch @Lil, the night heron @Louis, your portrait of Lotus @Richard, a fabulous Halloween kid picture @John, homework with the cat @JF Zhang, you've really hit this one just right, blue sky, fall foliage, and the lake @Epp, the green silos are really funny. @Ofey, nice shot, I thought it was a prison @Phil, it's a great image on your mocked-up Cosmo cover @Alex, great ghost shot @Matt, I'm really enjoying the dog portraits @Brandon, fab shot of Springsteen. You did have a photographer's pass, right? @Isaac, the seafood image is very nice.
@Evan, your boxer is a great shot @Chauncey, great shot of your son @James, nice fall waterfall @Miles, I really like the vineyard shot @Peter Heritage, great shot in the sewing shop As for the comments. This thread is great as is. Ain't broke, don't fix it. I do like the idea of changing the rule to '700 pixels on the longest edge' so that verticals fit on one screen. My best to all! @Jonas Fjellstedt 'There are clear rules on how to post pictures in this thread. Sorry, but I follow those, not your rules.'
Ok, putting the 'similar pictures' issue to the side, the rules of this thread clearly state pictures under 300 kb, and I clearly make reference to oversize vertical pictures in general and specifically to one example that is 750 kb file size on the current page. By what logic do you deduce that it is ' my rules'??
Its the threads' own rules. Its at the top of the page, read it. I simply pointed out the infraction in fairness to everyone, with good intention, and I'm being abused for it instead the of perpetraters. I didn't realise that stating some opinion I would ruffle so many feathers in the process. At 1092 pixels height, the tallest photo on todays thread, I can understand why Joseph is upset by my comments.
Don't worry Jonas, you'll still get your weekly pat on the back. Subject closed as far as I'm concerned. Monika, thank you so much for your mention. Being mentioned does encourage me to go out every weekend to get better at this hobby. Certainly, even without any mention, I will strive, needless to say No mention means not good enough, I understand. My top 10 favorite this week - Anish, Monika, Dan South, JF Zhang, Richard Karash, James Kazan - I wish I could do the autumn color and depth of the scene like you.
Aguinaldo - I never get tired of your night starly night photo. I would LOVE to be able to take such photo. Luis - I feel like I am sucked into the engine hood of the car!
Alejandro - Lonely? I know how it feels. Joseph - I was foolishly thinking (and waiting) that the start would be the Central Park:-( Yours tells the feeling of the 'race'. Wouter - Man, I always admire such sky landscape. Lil - I am always amazed by the photos of birds you take. Jonus F - Very nicely done HDR. Justin - are you becoming oya baka (fool parent?
Cees Maas - beautiful angle and perspective architectural photo. Greg, and Paul Wang - You captured the moment! Matt - As everyone said. The master of dog photos! Deep vishy - I like that, too.
Well, a bit more than 10, but couldn't limit to 10. Many others I like, too, but sorry couldn't mention all. Nice weather this weekend I am now in the process of selection for the next Wednesday photo. See you again in a few days!
Important notice: please keep your pics under 700 pixels width for inline posting and even more important, please keep the FILE SIZES UNDER 300Kb. Notice that this includes photos hosted off-site (Flickr, Photobucket, others). As a reference, notice that my pic is near 100Kb. The general guidelines for this WedNEsDAy PiC threads,.Hi all. Don`t know what to say. I was planning to post a pic with somekind of trick to show that we can post lighter images (smaller filesizes) in order to make the thread downloading faster, but I will leave it for the next week.
I need a representative one. The pic I`m posting is 56Kb (not representative as it doesn`t need to be bigger given its characteristics). My contri today is for those of you who like to see my fashion, here it is a 'see-nothing classic reflection photographer self-portrait'. Check that I also belong to the 'chinese policeman look' group, commented in a previous post. No gold solid Rolex or smoking, I`m afraid. Seriously speaking, I took this photo while walking in front of a hairdressing salon. No Photoshopping or double images.
Processed in NX2 and framed in Ps. Taken with a D700 @ 1600ISO, 50AFS (1/15sec. f5.6), matrix metering with exposure compensation -0.7EV, all camera tricks off.
Please post your favourite pic taken with Nikon gear, as usual. The thread is alive! Thank you all. I had some time on Monday night and decided to play a bit with some flowers that my wife had bought at the market last Saturday. Strobist info: Cactus KF36 at 1/16th, camera right, above subject through a DIY mini softbox. Lumiquest Tabletop reflector camera left. Background was done with an SB800 @ 1/8th and zoomed to 105mm and gridded with a Coroplast DIY snoot, half gelled red and half gelled red hitting some wine glasses on a shoebox.
Both triggered via Cactus V4 For the setup shot, click. Camera: D700 and Micro 60 AF-D, 1/30, f/10 and ISO200 on tripod. My photo this week was taken on Sunday.
As I mentioned last week, winter has come to my corner of the globe and continues to pound the already weather-beaten landscape. Saturday night was no exception. We were out camping in a nearby forest and from the comfort of our tent we listened to the wind howling through the trees all night. And with the howling in mind, this picture is for me reminiscent of mother-nature baring her teeth.
With regard to the comments last week, thank you to all who took the time. I didn’t get a chance to reply before the thread was closed. D300 with 35mm AFS @ f4, ISO 200, 1/2000s. Lets go Wide Each week in the Wednesday thread, there’s always very creative use of perspective. I wanted to draw inspiration from this and decided that using an extreme wide angle would help get me there. I took the 17-35 out on the full frame D700 and went to the NY Botanical Gardens on Sunday.
I was planning to try a close-up of something floral with an exaggerated background. Only I can go to the Botanical Gardens and come back with a picture of a building. The Haupt Conservatory is a beautiful art deco green house on the grounds. Here’s the main entrance.
Nikon D700 at 17mm Program AE, 1/250 sec, f/8, ISO 400. Good morning everyone! I'm still enjoying the beauty of Prague. This shot was taken at Charles Bridge.
Is the oldest preserved Prague bridge that still serves its original purposes. It was finished in 1402. This is one of the watch towers (Malostranska Bridge Tower). We were walking away from it but when I looked back I really loved the reflection on the brick road and even though the shot looks a bit busy with the main tower, a smaller tower on the left and a cathedral on the back I thought it was a nice composition. This is one of many shots I took but my friend really likes this one.
I hope it meets the standards! Well, its time for a new pic with Nikon gear. I took this one two days ago with my new D700. As you can see, the ashtray seems at first the subject of the picture.
However it isn’t. The main subject is the three women in the background, but they are defocused.
Is this a fault of the D700’s focusing system? Absolutely no! This is a compositional trick that I love to use: Let the main subject defocused and focus the camera in a secondary element (maybe my best known photo using this technique is this one: where the main subject is the couple in the background) About technical details, it has been taken with a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AF-D at f/2.8. Not sure about ISO, maybe 800 or 1250.
Processed in Lightroom. Well until everything is settled, I will go with what has been working. Shot yesterday morning, a rising sun behind a great blue heron purched atop a cluster of young trees. These trees were home to many birds just a few months ago, now just a few still hang out regularly. I believe this is still the immature heron that has been there all these months. His nest was there just a few weeks ago, not sure he digs change much.
Neither do the anhingas that are still partying just below him out of sight. This week I submit the picture I talked about last week. It is a picture I wanted to take for some time and finally got the perfect moment for it. It is one of the biggest and most photographed object ever. And I know it isn't the best moon picture but it was just something I wanted to try.
I played with the colors a bit in lightroom to make it a more unusual picture and I like the results, I hope you do too. I took it two weekends ago at my parents house. I saw the nice half (well quarter actually) moon and ran to get the biggest lens we have, an ancient Novoflex 600mm F5.6 I think (One single lens element and a beautiful aperture). I went to the top floor and placed the long lens (+/-600mm) on a chair (I didn't have any tripod there) and lifted the front with a small pillow. I was hell trying to focus right because that is done with a gunlike grip. But the liveview helped. It was also fantastic to see the liveview, zoom in and see the moon moving across the screen in a minute or so.
I made a video too;-) Taken with the D90 + 600mm Novoflex @ F8 or F11. I hope this wonderful thread lives on. Good Morning WdNEsDAy ) This week's picture is 'tweaked' from two images merged in PS using picture move, gradient tool etc. And also I learned how to add borders in PS Both were taken on Monday while on a walking trail nearby, wanted to capture beautiful image of a sunset in a 'golden hour' but I saw this house and a sun set clouds. Thought of using PS to merge two different image and obviously 'googling' helped me.
Model: NIKON D40 ISO: 400 Exposure: 1/30 sec Aperture: 13.0 Focal Length: 200mm File Size: 261kb I hope you like it. This is by no means an aesthetic wonder. But I may point out that every digital image one sees today is to the credit of this device in the Alcatel-Lucent foyer museum in Murray Hill, NJ. George Smith who lives in a quaint bayside town about 2 miles from where I reside, just won a Nobel Prize as did his collaborator. I shot this photo last spring in Murray Hill while there giving an instructional class on Alarm System installation. Clueless at the time one of these dudes was practically my neighbor.
Hello to all. It will be interesting to see the shape of this weeks thread. The discussion on accessibility over the past few days was quite interesting, but not nearly as interesting as today's wonderful posts. We had a proliferation of chipmunks in our neighborhood this year for some unknown reason.the result a proliferation of chipmunk predators. This one is a young Cooper's Hawk that I spotted resting on a tree limb in our backyard the other day.
D3 70-200 f/2.8 shot at ISO 800 f/4.5 1/80 file size 136 Kb. Good Morning all and Happy Wednesday!
For those who were participating in yesterdays discussion, wow it sure was a lively one. Sure does point to the popularity of this thread.
My pic for this week was shot a few weeks ago while on a sailing trip in Maine. While it captures a spectacular sunset (although a bit noisy due to high iso) it doesn't capture the excitement of losing ones engine in 25-30 knot winds and having to sail back into a harbor, up-wind.
One final totally useless point of information, the boat on the left belongs to Martha Stewart. I'll be back later to add a few comments on the ones that catch my eye.
Mount Washington, New Hampshire Thanks for all the nice comments on my train shot last week. Here is another different kind of train, utilizing a cog system on the track.
The railway ascends the mountain beginning at an elevation of approximately 2,700 feet above sea level and ending at the summit of Mt. Washington at an elevation of 6,288 feet. It is the second steepest rack railway in the world with an average grade of over 25% and a maximum grade of 37.41%. While going up, the passengers in front are 14 ft higher than the passengers in the back at the steepest point. Taken with a Nikon D70 18-70mm lens, f22 @ 1/6 second ISO 200. Wow, seemingly more wonderful than usual work submitted today. I am breaking with two nagging personal guidelines for posting here.
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One, I did not want to post anything that was not shot within the previous week and more recently, not posting again until I too could take the time to reply so kindly as many others have done. A very busy schedule has precluded both. Shot on a recent vacation in Florida. D40x 18-200 135mm at 1/200 f5 converted to Agfa APX 100 in Silver Efex. Thanks again to all that make this baby fly.
I hope to follow up later on the great photos submitted. Hello all, Great day-Great posting. I would like to, first, thank Jeannea R, Roberta D, and Joseph Leotta for their kind words and complements on my last WedNEsDAy's posting.
Lil Judd - I hope you are feeling better. I hate headaches - I am actually feeling it now.
I like you IR converted-shots! Jose A - Fantastic work! Hamish G - Wonderful caption for a wonderful image! Rene' V - I like the PP work! Eric A - I like your choice of photo-tone to make your photo meaningful - you nailed it!
Rick D & Richard A - your photos look similar and they both are amazing! Cees M - I like the shot! David L - Perfect lilly you got right there!
Mark G - Great one! My contribution this week is from a wedding I did the second week of last month and it was shot with- D300s Sigma 24-70mm/f2.8 @ f/5.6 34mm at 1/125sec with ISO400 flash on a hot-shoe SB900 or SB800 - not sure hand-held this image has been rendered in photoshop CS. The Nikon forum has had a few recent threads discussing optical triggering of off-camera CLS speedlights using the camera body's pop-up flash, outdoors in daylight, as a commander. I spent a few minutes yesterday reminding myself how well the SB-800's IR sensor, buried in a shoot-through umbrella on a stand near the subject, can take direction from the camera's position. In this case, the SB-800 is being told to fire at 1/4 power, and the pop-up is set to no power.
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Used a D300 at ISO 200 and 1/250th, with the Sigma 30/1.4 at f/3.2. Happy Wednesday! I read in the 'other post' that there is some debate on requiring images created this week. I can understand the sentiment, and I strive to post only my most recent work. This week, though, please allow me to present a different viewpoint, along with my 'old' image from a few weeks ago.
This week my husband's grandmother fell and broke her hip (surgery today - and my little family is her only family), an uncle fell and gave himself a concussion (he's fine, but home resting for several days), work is an absolute madhouse, my two grad school classes are going into finals week, I had my second professional photo shoot, a doctor's visit to discuss another surgery to remove the ganglion cyst that has returned with a vengeance, and I still have the usual joys of life like raising my 4-year-old. Needless to say, I have images backed up in the D300 that I simply haven't had time to process. This thread, and the people who participate, are truly a high point of my week. Especially this week.
I so desperately want to participate (and remain a part of this wonderful little community that's sprouted up within Photo.net), that I'm pulling one of my images from several weeks ago. I apologize for 'cheating,' but desperate times call for desperate measures! I guess I'm asking that a little slack be cut when life gets in the way of creating photographs. Thank you to everyone here.you all give me the most grand escape from my worries and I so appreciate that! Hello to all of you! Plenty of good photos again.
As for that other thread, I did read it as well, but it's not nearly interesting as this one. My pics are always under 150K, and so is this one. And about photo, it was taken last Saturday on a biking trip I had with friends from local photo club. Since days are increasingly shorter, it was last bigger bicycle trip (almost 100km) I'll undertake this year. This photo was taken on place where Mura river flows into Drava river. It's near Croatian-Hungarian border, so it's Hungary you see on the other side.
If some of you use Google Earth, and are interested in where the heck is this, here are the coordinates: 46°17'51.08'N 16°53'4.60'E Just paste them in search box. Thank you all that take your time to comment everyone's photos. I don't mind. If you have the will, just go for it! And finally the photo.
This week, from New England. Fall Foliage, what else? I wanted to shoot an image that captured the personal experience of being in this color, on a beautiful lake. I also wanted to document the condition of the lake shore since there are issues in the community as homeowners cut a bit to improve their views.
D200 on a tripod on a little point sticking out into the lake. I had 180+ degree view. Shoot and stitch with PTGui. I used a little digital Velvia (vibrance). The image posted here is a small section of a much wider pano. Click on the image to explore the whole pano using Zoomify (Photoshop.
This way, you look at any portion of the 70MPx image with reasonable performance. Overall, the condition of the shoreline looks quite good to me.
There are homes all along the shoreline, but how many houses can you find? Eastman Lake N, E, and SE shores, D200, Part of a Wider Pano, Click on Image to Explore. After opening up Photo.net I almost didn't want to put my photo on today.
I looked at Jose's, which is superb and every thing after is just as wonderful. But I decided to do it anyway. I say 'Thank You' to all that helped me make a choice of Ball heads, I choose the AcraTech Ultimate and after using it just once (today for these shots) I can see why you need to pay more and get the right stuff the first time. A special thanks to Kent Staubus who has steered me in the right direction more than once.
Phil b benton, ky. Holly Wednesday to everyone. I'm late for this week's worship too. I appreciated to Jeannean Ryman, Paul V.
Gorky, Roberta Davidson, Joseph Leotta, and Lil Judd for their great words to my post last week. Dear Joseph Leotta, my post at last week was not a cropped one. Personally I dislike manipulated even cropped photos. I captured my photo last month. Young fisherman was filling their storage with ice before leaving for next hunt. Converted from NEF using Capture NX2. Many cheers you to all.
Friendly Regards, Ertugrul. I took this one last month during a wedding practice, but it looked like a fitting picture to add. I wasn't sure how to make this image much smaller without losing the detail in my daughter's eyes, plus I'm still not very good with PS. This image was taken with a Nikon D40, 55 - 200 lens @ 82mm, SB600 flash at 1/8(?) inside a church. It's been slightly cropped to knock down the image size, but the crop is one I'm happy with. Now if only I could afford off-camera flash, I'd get rid of that harsh shadow.
Well, not so organised today, wee small hours of Thursday now. What an amazingly broad range of images, think we have almost every theme covered! Early morning expedition two weekends ago to try photograph a Sea Eagle which has set up home at a local nature reserve, sadly no joy but plenty of other subject matter. These seals were resting on the beach, then along the beach comes a guy joggingso a quick dash forward along the dunes to try get the pack before they vanished into the North Sea. 500mm ISO 1600, F/6.3 @ 1/320s just what Auto had to offer, had to move quick. A lot of striking pictures this week.
Quite a few stood out, but I'm too tired,sorry, to leave any comments right now( it's two o'clock in the mornign here in Sweden and I've just home from work) so I'll just mention them: Pedro, Lil, Monika, Matthew, Benjamin, Carey, Thangavelu, William, Mark, Jim, Adam, Uzay, Ton and Jeff. I also did like most of the macros, if not all. My contribution this weekwill give you lensflare but at least I find the pic. Somewhat dramatic as well. D700, Nikkor 50 at f2.5 and 1/2500 s. Location: Stabby, Uppsala.
Jeanneann, very cool butterfly shot. Looks like he's posing for you. Hang in there. Evan, that shot has a feel to it of tradition and a nice balance between vibrancy and understatement.
Epp, nice live shot.i'm always amazed at what you pull out of your D40. Waldemar, now THAT's bokeh. Ton, what's the story behind that pic? Voodoo priest?
Reptilian cleric? Carnival reveler?
Lex, nothing like a well-worn pair of boots. Freddy, very moving shot. Could be in a CEO's office, posterized. Matt, two nice models. Adam, it looks like the icky mess spilled from the latte cup. Cool capture. Wayne, looks like a cartoon train.
Jon, very abstract. Robert, quite the golden angel. William, awesome IR. Elliot, the caption says it all. Bernard, dig the translucence. Cees, your picture is alive as well.
Aaron, that's cherubic for sure. Justin, amazing detail. Lots of other standouts, but those were the ones which spoke the loudest to me.
Thanks to those who commented on my pic and everyone else who contributed, especially newcomers. Well that's it. Short and sweet. I like them all. The pics I like the most so far: Lil Judd: Your IR photos always give me the “wow”. I like the IR effect. I will give it a try someday.
May be not a converted camera, but an IR filter. Per-Christian Nilssen: Did you combine three different photos in to one? Rene’s Villela: I like the lighting, the towers and the dark blue sky. Matthew Brenna: Sharp.
All most like a painting. William Nickens: Nice.
I like the IR filter effect. Very dreamlike and mysterious. Brandon Wu: Very nice close-up shot. I like the colors. Dave Greenidge: It’s a poster material.
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Richard Karash: The color of Fall. Jeff Lipsman: Beautiful sunrise. Like the sun shining through the morning fog. Freddy Tu: It’s so quiet/peaceful. I like your composition. Lex Jenkins: It’s a classic.
Now if only I could afford off-camera flash, I'd get rid of that harsh shadow To Josh Sauer: You have a very nice subject, and you already have a good SB-600 flash. I would attach a bounce card on the flash to soften the harsh shadows from frontal direct flash. Additionally, your EXIF data show that you are using 1/500 sec.
If you change that to something like 1/30 sec, you'll get more ambient light contribution to brighten up the background. Hope you can try those and show us some new images in the following weeks. Ian: Very nice, I especially like the reflection and the colors of the cows and grass - I think I have 40+ rolls of Superia 200 in the freezer. Jeff: The layers in your Tuscany shot are fabulous. Hamish: Thank you, I hope you will one day be able to climb Denali (I prefer the name to McKinley also). It is an incredible sight, it is so massive. I was awe struck the first time I saw it a few years ago.
My photo was taken 38 miles away from the summit. Paula: Thank you, I've wanted a picture of Denali to print large and give to my wife, I'm hoping it's the one. For my part, the ones that have strongly catched my eye are the following: Bogdan Nicolescu and the summr heat Wouter Willemse and the cloudy moon Kemal Riza and the Swiss lake (Lucern?) Aguinaldo de Paula and the night party Matthew Brennan and the grass that can be smelled Kan Yakamoto and the shouting stone Tom Pernal and the documentation of Nobel compositions Carey Moulton and the lovely hair Shane Srogi and the Velvia Canyons Ryan Solti and the new life Evan Browling and that romantic bandoneon Jeannean Ryman and the 100F macro Nice pictures everybody! So instead of making a list of the ones that stand out for me - since that list always tends to be rather long - I'll just select 'my favourite of the week' instead. That of course does not mean that's the only picture I like, in fact the standard is again very high, and inspiration just breathes throughout the thread.
Many lovely quiet landscapes, great portraits, a great f/0.75 (wow!) shot. So much different point of views, subjects and so much talented photographers, it cannot stop to amaze. A big thanks to all!
So, my favourite of the pictures so far, after lots and lots of scrolling, is Adam Neinstein's polluted water. How something filthy and sad can still be beautiful. Luis, Thanks for the compliment, but it is in fact a cloudy sun. Another wonderful thread! I think it is really amazing how everyone's eyes see things in a different way!
I hope this is not too long! You made me take a look at the file one more time to see what PP I had done. I use Capture NX2 and what I did to it was sharpening and I used 1 color control point on the roof of the main tower to brighten it up so it can be visible against the dark sky. Hamish Gray Thank you! I love it here to. I was telling my friend that prague looks like a giant Disneyland!
Too bad 2 weeks is not long enough but I'll be back in December! Paula Wang Thank you for mentioning my shot!
I think all the images are beautiful in its own way. I will just named those that caught my eyes Jose Angel, Pedro Cardoso, Lil Judd, Monika Epsefass, Per-Christian, Chries Nielsen, Kevin Cassar, Aaron Bonnici, Cees Maas, Matthew Brennan, Ray Gosalia, Paul V.
Gorky, Doug Santo, Jens Frederiksen, Dave Greenidge, Shane Srogi, Richard Karash, Darrell Styner, Anish Mankuthel and Lex. Everyone else. Congratulations for such a great work! See you next week! Thanks to everyone for another great trip around the world! And welcome to those new comers who are just joining the group.
Pictures that caught my eye this week are: Jose- Typical self portrait, that looks so atypical. Alejandro- I love the whimsy of your shot. Makes me smile Pedro- Beautiful shot and thanks so much for all of the details on the shoot. Also the link to a shot of your set-up was a good idea. Per- I'm glad we were finally able to see the castle. It looks like a fun location to be shooting!
Rene'- You have my vote for the best shot this week. I love the perspective and the 'pop' of yellow in the middle tower. Kemal- Well done. Strong subject and good title. Tim- I love this shot. Nice perspective.
It took me a moment to figure out that the background wall is a waterfall. William- Beautiful shot of the tower. Looks surreal! Doug- Anytime someone gets a shot of a hummingbird, that clear and sharp, that is good shooting! Sanford- Is the pic taken at a mission or is the woman on a mission? Either way very nice and aptly titled. Paula- Lovely shot and I love the water background.
Brandon- Welcome and good job!! I love the pastel coloring. Amy- IMO you have one of the most unusual perspectives of the arch that I have seen!! Zoltan- Nice skyline shot. Try cropping out some of the sky and maybe a little of the water and I think you will have a stronger photo. Richard-I love New England and I love FALL and you have done a nice capture of both. Kudos on imbedding the scrolling feature!!!
Lex-The noise makes the photo look as old as the boots. Jeannean- Once again you nailed the macro shot. Nice colors and sharpness. Until next Wednesday.
“Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” -Aaron Siskind. No photo from me this week. Thanks to all for the positive comments on last weeks shot. Wanted to send kudo's to Pedro Cardoso, Oskar Ojala, Matthew Brennan, Bernard Mills, Wayne Wrights, Shane Srogi, Keith Gierman, Jeff Lipsman & Raaj K - I found your photo's most inspiring this week.
In light of the discussion in another thread about file size and loading speed, etc, I did want to mention to Keith Gierman that (at least on my screen) it appears we've lost some of the detail in the steam on the left side. The edge has some banding instead of a smooth transition. I think this might be caused by trying to get smaller file size? Not a criticism, but hopefully a helpful comment that perhaps with this subject a little less jpeg compression might have been called for. I love the way you held all the detail in the black parts of the locomotive. I’ve thought about this very carefully after what has been said.
I wanted this week to be business as usual., but a short break was needed. This thread has worked nicely for quite a while; People put a lot of work into getting images ready for the Wednesday thread. For some this is the only place that they share their work, The comments made on their photos have been a source of encouragement and satisfaction to many. It’s like the icing on the cake.
It’s a learning experience to see what others comment on. There’s a lot of passion here and that’s a good thing. This thread is very unique to photo net and takes you on a wonderful tour around the world and show many very creative ideas. This week is no exception and there are many tremendous photo s and it show that a lot of effort and pride went into them. Every single person who posted here should be proud of what they produced.
Back to normal next week. Please insert your own name into the blank space – - you did a great job, excellent photo, be proud of it. I shoot about 85% of my photos in the vertical and sometimes I hold my camera the way Jose does in his photo. It depends on how much stabilization I need, what I want to see around my camera's eyepiece, and what just feels right to me at the time. Just because most of the time everyone else does it the other way doesn't mean there is anything wrong with this grip, it just means whenever we do it this way, assuming we know what we are doing and our own strength, we have done what will work best at that particular time.
Lots of folks find the right-hand-under technique more stable and secure. You can see how Jose has both elbows tucked into his chest.
Excellent technique for handheld shooting. When done properly, to both support the camera and trigger the shutter, the left hand is free to quickly adjust focus or aperture as needed, a real plus with manual-everything cameras. My teachers tried to get me to use this hold. It felt unnatural to me.
And after injuring my right wrist it was also uncomfortable. So I use the right-hand-over hold for verticals. It's not as stable and secure, but for me it's comfortable.
And since almost everything is controlled with the right hand - shutter speed via the thumb, aperture via the forefinger, autofocus, etc. it's just as quick with auto-everything cameras.
The best solution I've found? Those nifty vertical grips with the shutter release.
Very comfy, natural hold and stable. Wish they didn't add so much bulk and weight, but can't have everything. I want to be extremely brief. I`m surprised some (many!) of you liked my post. I thought it was going to be another typical&boring see-nothing self portrait. Thank you very much for you comments. About the right-hand-under holding technique: To be sincere I don`t have a 'perfect' technique for 'portrait' shots.
This time I was specially hesitant. I shot in both ways (right hand under and over). The right-hand-under pic is perfectly sharp (the posted one), the right-hand-over pics are all blurred. All at 1/15sec. This technique works for me. I spent more time looking at Monika`s pic with the wonderful Renaissance atmosphere, Eric`s birthday party, Ian`s contryside calm, Doug`s hummingbird, Matt`s perfectionist portrait of elegant woman and dog, Waldemar`s bug, Tom`s reencarnation of Hugo Chaves. But my favourite this week is certainly the rock group of Epp B.
With that great funny singer at a second plane! I wish next week we all have returned into normality. I`m missing some things. See you on week #42! I've always believed that there is a 'proper' way to hold a camera, and that is for the left hand to 'cup' the lens from underneath, thus, not only focusing and zooming, but supporting the weight of the camera in the palm of your hand, whether it be in the horizontal or vertical mode, leaving the right hand to operate the shutter, preferably in the overcamera position which also gives you more freedom of movement. The Jose position ( I call it this just for reference and not in any derogarory way on Jose), is supporting the weight of the camera on his thumb or fingertips of his shutterhand, is probably easier to drop the camera, and generally seems unstable and uncomfortable.
I've never seen a pro hold a camera like that. Lex, I like the vertical grip also, but the annoying thing with that is that when you turn the camera vertical and try to use the shutter button on the grip, the damn camera strap falls bang across the eyepiece, and I end up using the normal shutter button just so the strap falls across my raised wrist, if you get what I mean.
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Ok, so first, I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I can't find the answer I'm looking for. Ok Nikon users.need help! Recently got my new hands on a D300 (beautiful, beast, love,etc) What I'm looking for is help on nikon picture control. With my old canon I embraced canon picture styles and more over, Kevin Wang piture styles I could download them and put them on my camera. I know this is possible with Nikon and I've already downloaded a few, but I looking for interesting, artistic and fun picture control profiles to download, especially from Kevin Wang, if possible.
All help would be greatly appreciated. First, thanks for your answers. Second, I didn't realize I posted in the wrong forum area, will transfer it after this entry.
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Thirdly, I know it is possible to make my own style through capture nx (free w/camera) and then to picture control utility. I can definately and will take a stab at creating my own, but I know there are people out there much more capable and precise to make a style which reflects a particular style or film. Example: cross process / lomo / 300 / etc. Before anyone says anything, I know this is all possible in photoshop and will probably give a better result. But I like being able to have a tool to use rather than just applying an effect afterwards. Besides, the problem with photoshop is control. It's very easy to get a bit carried away and then it looks, well, 'photoshopped'.
Plus I like teh time saver of out of the camera fun.