Photo of the Day - October 2009

[pdxflint]

Try fredmiranda.com's Buy and Sell forum to pick up a great condition at several hundred dollars less than the usual retail price.

Thank you for the kind words . The D700 really is a remarkable camera, and I can't imagine not being satisfied with it for many years to come.

What's your lens collection look like right now?

Besides the Nikkor kit 18-55 and 55-200 G lenses (pretty much sitting in a drawer now,) I added a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Tokina 12-24 f/4, Nikkor 80-200 f/2.8 AF-D, and a Nikkor 300 f/4 AF. Still want to add a couple more fast primes, or a 24-70 f/2.8 eventually. Without the kit lenses, my gaps are from 24mm to 50mm, and from 50mm to 80mm. I have to consider future FX format, while still keeping the D300 as a DX body, most likely. For now, I'm also hanging onto my D50. Slowly...it's coming together...

Maybe when the D700s comes out (assuming they add video to the D700) I can pick up a D700. I don't need video, which is why I went for the D300 over the D90.

 

[BarryJ]

is that seriously 6.1mp? that looks quite bad :| unless you have massively downconverted it!

not a bad shot though

Hmmm... only processing was to use Aperture to bring it to 72 dpi for posting here. Hmmm it was a frosty fog. Maybe my lens was fogged and I didn't notice ?

 

[PhxTriode]

I usually warn clients that "spot color" is a fad, but they always ask for it anyway

Got to love L glass

 

[Phrasikleia]

 

[anubis]

Got to love L glass

While the L glass certainly helps, this particular picture would have been just as easy to execute with the nifty fifty.

 

[Designer Dale]

South of Olympia, Washington

Dale

 

[Phrasikleia]

South of Olympia, Washington

Dale

That's quite a sprinkler! I love the long arm of water coming off the very tip at the right. Is it me, or is this photo very contrasty? I'm not seeing any shadow detail.

 

[wixberry]

Thank you gkarris

I am trying to get my EOS 3 dialed with Ilford 3200, but am having trouble with the eye control and my contacts. The 5D with Silver Effects Pro post does a good job, but the Ilford is just amazing with 'L" glass.

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Pictures that is

I really loved the Pic, the color is so soft and subtle.... great capture ..keep them coming...

 

[Designer Dale]

That's quite a sprinkler! I love the long arm of water coming off the very tip at the right. Is it me, or is this photo very contrasty? I'm not seeing any shadow detail.

Thank you for the comment.

It could be. I tried to pull the greens up with levels. This is the unprocessed original. This was kind of into the sun.

Note: The first was edited on a 23 in monitor that is very bright and high contrast. My gamma was set to 1.8 and should be 2.2.

Dale

 

[Phrasikleia]

Thank you for the comment.

It could be. I tried to pull the greens up with levels. This is the unprocessed original. This was kind of into the sun.

Dale

I think the unprocessed one is better; you inadvertently crushed the shadows in altering the greens of your final version. Try using a "vibrancy" adjustment instead of the levels, and/or try bringing up the fill light/shadows. That might help. These kinds of high-contrast scenes are very challenging to process.

 

[Designer Dale]

I see old newspapers being tortured by bent rusty spikes. So, um, what are we looking at???

And thanks for the additional comments on my irrigation shot. It is from the jpg file. I have been shooting RAW+JPG but haven't had time to learn how to process the RAW files.

Dale

 

[Phrasikleia]

I see old newspapers being tortured by bent rusty spikes. So, um, what are we looking at???

Dale

This is a macro shot of a telephone pole that does double duty as a community billboard. So you're looking at a nail head, a bunch of rusty old staples, and layers upon layers of old flyer fragments.

 

[wixberry]

C&C Appreciated

 

[mikeschmeee]

Is this edited at all? It's nice but looks fake.

Just put a black border around the photo.
It's 100% real. So many of those butterflies at The Butterfly Gardens in Victoria, BC.

 

[feuerschlange]

Is it just me, who thinks about horror movies, pain and alike by the look of this photograph?

I truly have some respect about these automatic nail guns, that are used on construction jobs these days. I was horrified, how careless some Chinese workers lately handled them in the middle of a rush hour shopping street.

 

[feuerschlange]

I like these last two. I have often wanted to go back and get a simple camera with a great, fast normal lens, no autowind, fully manual... and do what you're doing. I used to push tri-x and hp5 to 3200 fairly regularly using T-max developer - worked quite well. I'd also push develop t-max 3200 another stop or two when needed - grainy and fairly contrasty... but combined with a fast lens one could literally shoot in the dark...handheld. Anyway, I envy you the M6. Nice little piece of mechanical technology.

Thanks pdxflint! I really dig the film shooting lately. My digital gear actually collects dust after I bought the old Leica and one lens!
I almost shot only Tri-X @ 3200 with this little camera that shoots only until 1/1000 - this is the full opposite of the all options 1000 menus digital world and seriously frees your mind ;-)

I have used my D3 only once since then - it felt awful with the tiny finder and obstructed low magnified view.

I can't see your images - wether the C h i n e s e F i r e w a l l or a broken link causes that.

 

[CK Williams]

Sunset

SOTC, taken at the Very Large Array in New Mexico (clickable)

 

[pdxflint]

Thanks pdxflint!

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I can't see your images - wether the C h i n e s e F i r e w a l l or a broken link causes that.

They're usually linked from picasaweb.com. Is anyone else unable to see my images? If so, please let me know and I'll try to link them from a different host. Thanks

 

[DoFoT9]

Hmmm... only processing was to use Aperture to bring it to 72 dpi for posting here. Hmmm it was a frosty fog. Maybe my lens was fogged and I didn't notice ?

hmm could have been but yea it just looks quite poor quality, could that possibly be because its a video recorder?

 

[grassland]

breeze

putting around the harbour

 

[luminosity]

D700+135/2 at 3200 ISO. Taken last night.

I added a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Tokina 12-24 f/4, Nikkor 80-200 f/2.8 AF-D, and a Nikkor 300 f/4 AF. Still want to add a couple more fast primes, or a 24-70 f/2.8 eventually.

Interesting lens selection. I had the 80-200 push-pull version, and I sold it. I now prefer using a 180/2.8, and just bought a used copy of it (I hope it's better than the new one I bought that I had to send back because it was defective). Do you use your 80-200 at several focal lengths, or just a couple? I've heard nothing but good things about the Tokina 12-24, and the 300/4 seems to have a good reputation if you can get past its slow autofocus. I don't think I'd want a 24-70 now, not least because it's very expensive. Have you thought about the 28-70? Can get a nice condition one for $1K or so if you know where to look.

Last night's game helped cement an 85/105/180 combination for me, I think, rather than something like the 85/135 or 85/180. Both for weight reasons and a preference for them in general, I pretty much use only primes now.

 

[BarryJ]

hmm could have been but yea it just looks quite poor quality, could that possibly be because its a video recorder?

I guess that's what you get when you try to make a swiss army knife out of a camcorder eh ? I sometimes use the "still camera" side to take photos in locations where I'm hesitant to take my Nikon. Thanks for the comments

 

[BarryJ]

On the water

Hand lining for cod, close to Bay Roberts NL, Canada

 

[grassland]

Hand lining for cod, close to Bay Roberts NL, Canada

very nice..

 

[wixberry]

dunno if its just me, seeing this picture reminds me of the SAW movie...

pretty scary