Serge, you are the designated tourism expert on the thread! Always great to see overseas scenes through your Nikkor lenses!
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George, excellent detailed work and presentation. Once upon a time I did lots of fishing mostly in salt water, miss it. I still have the Garcia reels, made in Sweden.
Samy, great captures from the Florida Nature Center.
Went out to Meridian State Park for an astrophotography class. I ended up being the only one to show and had a good time. Although I did most of my work with the Z8 and 50/1.8S and 24-120S, I also brought out my Z6 and 28/2 AI-S for a few shots near the end Not too bad for a 40+ year old lens design (but I'm going to ignore the coma, there are of course better astro options).
This the CCC era refectory building ((well, the upper 70%, I didn't have a ladder and wasn't going to go trapesing through an area likely to have rattlesnakes to fit the whole thin) on with the summer Milky Way in the west. The ~70 acre park lake on Bee Creek is just behind this building. I've posted pictures from this park before over the years. It's one of my favorite places and fortunately the sky is still fairly dark, although the lights of the exurbs of the DFW metroplex and overall luminance from Central TX have definitely robbed this of 1-2 Bortle levels since the early 90's.
Yesterday I composed like everything was an impressionistic view. Have had two more eye treatments, yet my good eye is taking longer than the left to recover. I decided to embrace the blur. All images are the D850 with the 35mm f1.4 ais + the TC-16A. Drought has reached the acute stage in my area, The Grand river is completely dry in areas - something I have never seen before. Consequently, the trees are very stressed and already dropping their leaves, and turning color before any frost. The verdany green hides most the the drought damage so went they do turn there are spots od damage all over the leaves. This is a favorite roadd - Butterworth - In the first image an oak has gone brown on the right, and a young maple is yellow,
If it were not for my Photoshop actions that I wrote to automate processing photos - I doubt I would be as willing to image the photos I do take. Awhile back, I explored different profiles for my Nikon bodies. I loaded my select handful onto all of them. This B&W profile was to approximate Fuji's Neopan film. It is Film Noir-ish IMO
James,
Generating photoshop actions to process your images was a good forward thinking decision. I tend to think a lot of the camera jpegs look pretty good these days. @RoamingScott has made a few nice color profiles (thinking the Kodak Gold especially) that I use on some images. I definitely don’t have time to go spend hours in the digital darkroom which is something that I do enjoy. I only put heavy effort into the very best images in trying to get them ready for full printing, but I do try and at least get close enough on overall look for given sets to capture the look and feel of what I am going for.
I do suspect I will make similar moves in a few more years to mostly just use jpeg outputs using good recipes.
George, beautiful juxtaposition of the bright green fresh growth against the burned tree. that waterfall looks like a place that was well worth the hike for.
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If it were not for my Photoshop actions that I wrote to automate processing photos - I doubt I would be as willing to image the photos I do take. Awhile back, I explored different profiles for my Nikon bodies. I loaded my select handful onto all of them. This B&W profile was to approximate Fuji's Neopan film. It is Film Noir-ish IMO
Pup at the top is the star of the first photo, James. Throw him a biscuit.
It is warmer than the
Not too bad for a 40+ year old lens design (but I'm going to ignore the coma, there are of course better astro options).
