graytrekker wrote:
Wonderful, Peter!
There is just one problem with this photo - it reminds me that summer is such a long way away!!
Doug
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DeltaSigma wrote:
Amazing shot Peter!
Viewing it on my new 4k monitor (Black Friday deal I couldn't resist) so can see the scene in all its wonderfulness.
Colin
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Oosty wrote:
That is a "WOW" image - makes my efforts look so puny. Well done and thanks for sharing
Thanks for all the great comments. I felt this was one of my strongest images of the summer, if not the best one (got a few more to process). I'm glad it is getting attention here, because over on Flickr it just didn't trigger the expected response. Meanwhile, this was "interesting enough" for Flickr's AI to make Explore. I guess it isn't always the photographic merit that matters to get the extra exposure there
Oosty wrote:
From the archive - 2012 D200 + 105 2.5. The Drongo was sitting on a neighbours chimney cowl while there was a pretty good rain storm behind him.
I hung around downtown Raleigh after work today. Trying to get a feel for one of my old LTM lenses at 28mm focal length.
This shot is from the state capital building looking down Fayetteville St. Using the 2.8cm f/3.5 Nikkor LTM. 8 seconds @ f/16. Lens flare was controlled best at this aperture.
saph wrote:
George, what a night time scene with the 5cm f2 LTM!!
John, looks like you should hang on to some of the manual Nikkors at least. That's a superb pair of ferry-scapes.
Oh, the 600mm/5.6 ED-IF AI-S, 400/5.6 ED-AI, 300/4.5 ED AI and 16/3.5 AI-S are not going anywhere. Just clearing out some redundant or no longer used stuff since I no longer have a Nikon digital body.
I'd actually love to get a 800/5.6 ED-IF AI-S Nikkor at some point.
Ken is getting my spare 400/5.6 ED AI most likely. Don't need spare since my 100-400 Sony is just as good overall and gets mostly used, but the old 400/5.6 still is better in some areas, so one copy will be kept.
I was at a conference in Las Vegas this week and drove down to the Kelso Dunes at Mojave National Preserve. It was really foggy and caught someone walking at the distance with the 35mm f1.4 AIS.
The forecast was for sun today - never happened. I ventured out anyway to try and get to another set of waterfalls/cataracts here. It was so dark when I got there that I didn't need any ND filters for a long exposure on the water. The proper exposure was about 0.4 s which was plenty to give the water a nice flowing look. It was about an hour before sunset on a cloudy day in the woods - so light was limiting and pretty flat.
There was a section of the falls on the left that had frozen in our recent rounds of cold. However from my vantage point today, I really couldn't get a good view of it. The better composition is from the other side of the stream I think, but I didn't have the proper boots to cross. If we get a day with any sunshine/light and the trail is still passable, I will try again another time.
I have been learning the ins and outs of my 20mm f2.8 lens. As I become more familiar with it and when/how to use it, I am coming around to liking it quite a bit. One thing I am still struggling with is how much of the image you loose in PS when you correct for the perspective distortion. The other thing that keeps surprising me are the colors from the Df sensor. Most of the time they appear somewhat over saturated and I have to dial that back in post. Even with this image, taken on such a dark and gloomy day, the moss was rather over the top and I had to de-saturate it to make it look "believable". Practice, practice, practice.
