bruni wrote:
That's interesting - yes, on the first two I was playing with a cross process preset which produces produces those extremes - dark blacks and high contrast, which look nothing like the original pic. It's not for everyone. I thought you'd flame me for posting more of these endless fountain pics.
And the cyclists were "German without a doubt" ? - ha ha - how could you have known that? I was sure Steve was going to say American.
ben
firstly - during summer months there are more Germans in France than in Germany
secondly - only German women can climb up the Lautaret by bike
thirdly - our latin women have more interesting things to do - especially during summer months...
leighton w wrote:
If you all have an hour to spare, this is well worth the look. I feel like I've just been to photography school.
Couldn't agree more Leighton.... I enjoyed the video immensely and it will change the way I look at composition... so thanks again!
Although I haven't posted much at all since returning to Canada, I've followed the thread religiously and have especially enjoyed the last week or so with the return of some old friends (making much use of the like button). I borrowed a friend's 55mm f3.5 Micro-Nikkor for a while as I couldn't bring as much photo equipment home with me as I'd like due to cabin baggage weight restrictions...I'm finding it hard to achieve critical focus with this lens mounted on a D800 I picked up recently, compared with my 55mm f1.2 SC back in Oz where the green indicator light in my D750 is spot on.
dhamments wrote:
Couldn't agree more Leighton.... I enjoyed the video immensely and it will change the way I look at composition... so thanks again!
Although I haven't posted much at all since returning to Canada, I've followed the thread religiously and have especially enjoyed the last week or so with the return of some old friends (making much use of the like button). I borrowed a friend's 55mm f3.5 Micro-Nikkor for a while as I couldn't bring as much photo equipment home with me as I'd like due to cabin baggage weight restrictions...I'm finding it hard to achieve critical focus with this lens mounted on a D800 I picked up recently, compared with my 55mm f1.2 SC back in Oz where the green indicator light in my D750 is spot on.
Very well done, this (these) shot(s) is amazing! Being in a tent in a thunderstorm is an insane experince. Same thing happened to me but not on such heights as you. We were on an island in the middle of big lake. The tent got blown down and soaked in water. Lucky I did'nt have any expensive camera equipment...
pburke wrote:
here's a big one - 5 frame pano on the D810 with 20mm f/3.5 AI
handheld early morning, following a 3am thunderstorm we spent in our tent right on TOP of a 10,500 ridge, just waiting to get turned into ashes by a huge lightning bolt aiming for all that metal camera gear in the tent. The tripod with metal "hit right here" ballhead set up next to the tent also wasn't a smart thing to do, but in the end, we lived, the storm stayed a few miles to our east, and then a strong west wind pushed all that monsoon moisture back to where it came from.
Miles of snow on the John Muir Trail below us - the trail crosses this range on the left side of the right orange glow gap. And this is one of the lowest passes on the route...
Thanks Kevin. I have a few more from that location taken at sunset that are quite a bit more dramatic, or so I hope. At least in first person viewing the light at sunset was far more interesting than the brief morning light moment captured above. I have to check if I have a manual focus pano ready to upload. A lot of the sunset view was better captured with the 24-85mm and I was really missing the 180, which I left in the car (as expected) upon backpack weight sanity check
Not a panorama, but pretty a wide view, taken the night after the sunrise above. This is with the 16mm f/3.5 AI on the "TrailPix" tripod gizmo sitting on 3 hiking pole rig. Self timer on the D810 used to trigger, because silly Nikon thinks you don't want to use a lightweight infrared remote on that body...
That you caught him at all with one leg raised is amazing, that he's positioned perfectly between the two windows is like the god's are smiling on you, and then there's the POV, this doesn't look like one of your from the hip shots, it looks like you're on the ground. The addicted to Lyon posters are the coup de grace.
You can't see but I'm putting my breakfast down to salute you.
ben
ps I love your pretence at three point deduction but you're not fooling anyone, you tipped your hand with number 2.
Glad you scooped up that Tuxedo baby. He's adorable.
James Markus wrote:
The feral cat in my backyard decided to abandon her one kitten. I watched it go from relatively healthy to listless within two days. It hadn't learned to eat solid food yet, and was refusing to eat anything. I spent the weekend feeding it Goat's milk with an eye dropper, and brought it to the vet Monday to check for feline leukemia, and aids (both negative) and treat it for worms. He has started to put on weight, and is far more active now. He is about 10 weeks old, but weighs only 14.8 ounces (13.8 ounces when I first got him) He literally fits in the palm of my hand.
James - thank you. They're all different presets. The last one has a bit of fade.
Peter - love those sky shots - both of them, but especially the night one. the car shots with the 180 are very dramatic.
George - I do love a bit of bike porn. You guys have much fancier bikes than I. Handmade german tyres? really? does the Df allow you to set the Neopan preset in camera?
Steve - I assume you're just switching bottles between the shots or are you drinking all those whiskeys - if you're drinking them, then congrats sir, I'm amazed you could keep focus by the last pic.
Ken, its indeed too bad photography isn't allowed inside Falling Water. I took that same shot as yours last August with the Df and 45 2.8 GN, and may have tried to stabilize it against that same tree you have on the left edge.
Steve, cool photo mags with the bottles!
James what a cute kitten and great work getting it up and going again!
George, love Noct shots always!
Peter, amazing scene!!!
David, welcome back! On the dot focus on that one. I have never had trouble with the green dot on the D800, Df and even the F6. Maybe the D800 you acquired had a rough moment with its previous user.
Ben and Philippe, terrific street work at wide to normal angle. That sure takes a lot of skill!
Leighton, superb composition of the train station. Still waiting for my film roll scan
Ektachrome EBII ISO 100 from March 1998, Luiz Antonio Ecological Station, Brazilian savannah.
FM2 + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 ais hand held.
Digital dupe by D7000 (ISO 100) + PK13 tube + Micro-Nikkor 55/3.5 ai @ f/8 + ES1 slide copying adapter. This combo reproduces a slight crop on the original slide.
