Hey thanks Lieutenant Z, Nikt and Bruce_T. Bruce, your food shot is making me hungry again and I just had mouthfull of tuna for breakfast. Nice shots from you and everybody! Cheers and have fung!
Your one of the ones I always look for your post as I know the color will be outstanding.
I'm not sure if it's the camera or NX2 that's responisble for its colour characteristics but I have noticed the later version of NX2 gave better rendition i.e. better aliasing of the edges, which gave the impression of higher mpix and the colours are more acute. The colours are within it's gamut as well and I'm still using Adobe98 for both in camera and NX2 colour space - and the prints look very close to the ones on the monitor, so I'm happy. I remember once I posted here that after cleaning the CCD filter with a Zeiss wipes, somehow a viel was removed and the image rendition was clearer and I was being sincere at that time. The good thing is, it still is.
ReyGay -- Awesome shots! I love the 300mm stuff, and was very surprised by the 18-35 on the D1X! Your work inspired to purchase a nice used 18-35 off ebay to try on my D1X and D7000. Looks like fun! I would need a more serious reason to get that gorgeous 300, but it certainly performs. Thanks so much for you stunning shots.
nikt wrote:
There's been a lot of talk and discussion around theories and rumours lately, so to help lighten it up, it might be interesting to have a thread for shots taken with a Nikon, with just average equipement, to share and learn. Can I suggest recording some insight and settings used. Keeping it to 1 or 2 shots max is the challenge.
I'll start.
The shots not art or even very different. Its been done a billion or so times before, but its still my favourite because its the very photo that got me really excitied about photography. I waited two hours for the sun to set that day.... and it didn't let me down.
1 sec exp.
f8
taken in 1994 with a Nikon F601 with a standard boring 35-70/f3.3-4.5
Plain old Kodak 100 Gold.
Thanks Gunzorro and Bruce_T. I wouldn't put all the credits on the lens or the camera and it's also best to invest on quality filters. What makes colours pop without pp are polarisers, if used properly. I find that Lee colour saturation booster filters are way better than doing it artificially on pp. I always avoid pp as it will always look photoshoped. Using quality colour correction filters imo is way better than doing it in-camera or in raw. Just dial in the camera to default daylight settings, just like film biased to daylight, then use filters if necessary. $1k for a set of Lee filters, it's worth it tho.
Nice shots from you and everybody! Cheers and have fung!
