For those interested.... referring to my shot earlier from the HS Ektachrome, most of these have only a bit of dye left in the transparency. No blacks, the greens are gone and red, who knows where. They look like the original was about two stops over.... So, the one above was scanned on a Nikon LS5000 ED, then processed in Aperture, finally reprocessed in Lightroom 3. The final image here is approximate as the monitor I have at present has not been balanced. And it seems the colors are usually either supersaturated or faded as there is not a heck of a lot of dynamic range to work with. But the really nice part is the scene itself does not change. I will drag out a couple taken with the 300mm f/4.5 Nikkor..... back when we manually focused as we shot, moving from nose to about three inches out, then back as we had to actually move the film forward in those days. Some folks had the "new" motor drives, I did not.
PHOTO-A-DAY: January 2012
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D5000, 105 F2.8 VR @ F9, 1/60 with SB400 flash
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Nikon D90 - 6 second exposure @ 35mm and f/9 (Nikkor 35mm f/1.8)
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D700 • PC-E 45mm @ f14 • 2x tele • 1/640 • ISO 400 • +1,+2,+4 diopter • SB-700
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spraynpray: yes, camera in one hand and flash in the other. As you say, focus is manual by swaying back and forth. The working distance is around 28 cm but the hood and flash gets closer than that. To be honest I wouldn't mind a shorter working distance. When you get to a certain point and if you give te critters some time to get used to youm they pretty much ignore you.
NSXType-R, the flash is connected via a SC-28 cable, which goes on the hotshoe. The flash is the only thing I don't control manually.
El_Pickerel, thanks.
SquamishPhoto, what magnification does tat setup get you? I've been planning on getting a set of extension tubes when the bugs start coming out again but lately I've added so many things for my portrait work on my to buy list that it might have to wait. So I might have to stick to 1:1 for another year.
I'm running out of my best shots from last year but there's still a few I can dig out for you, like this hungry bee.
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Delaware Water Gap visitor center... I think I braced this by sandwiching my camera between me and a tree.
D7000 - AF-S 24mm f/1.4G - f/6.3 - ISO 100 - 8 seconds
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Thanks again for the kind words.
I post this one for Abinhav... Vertical banding on the D700 and 14-24 2.8, ISO6400. First time I've seen it; I guess conditions were 'right' for it.
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Glade Creek up at Lolo Pass on the Montana-Idaho border. A great day outing on cross-country skiis.
D700, 20mm F2.8D
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need to resize, back soon
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For everyone up north. It was a beautiful day in Tampa, FL., with blue skies and temps in the low 70s. Today was Gasparilla, a celebration of Jose Gaspar, a pirate who attempted to take Tampa, in the 1800s, quite unsucessfully, so the city throws a major party and parade each January to celebrate. This picture shows the Jose Gaspar Pirate Ship, which had just docked at the convention center, and the Mayor of Tampa had just handed over the keys to the city to the pirates. The pirate ship is accompanied to port by hundreds of revelers in boats.
D5100 18-200mm VRII 52mm 1/320 f9 ISO100
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Bees seem to have been popular lately, so here's an old shot of mine.
Nikon E3700 point and shoot. Obviously it had trouble stopping motion but I'm quite happy with the results.
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D700 - ISO 800 - 50 mm f/1.4 AI-S @f/2.8
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D5000, 105 F2.8 VR @ F9, 1/60 w/ SB400
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D7000 - 24mm f/1.4 - f/8 - ISO 100 - 1/160sec
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finally finished a new batch :) i need keep my batch size down so I can run through these faster!
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Rifqi said:
SquamishPhoto, what magnification does tat setup get you? I've been planning on getting a set of extension tubes when the bugs start coming out again but lately I've added so many things for my portrait work on my to buy list that it might have to wait. So I might have to stick to 1:1 for another year.I don't know what the magnification ratio is, but its well beyond what I used to get out of a D300 and a 105VR.
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Today's adventure was to the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. This picture is of Nakita, a Barred Owl, who was hit by a car and the car that hit the owl fled, but the car behind rescued the owl and took her to the zoo, where her left wing had to be amputated. The owl is beyond friendly and has bonded with her trainer in a manner not characteristic of the breed. There's just something about her eye's that melt me......
D5100 18-200 VRII 44mm 125s ISO 200 @f5.6
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Cool story, rbrylawski. I see what you mean about the eyes.
D7000 • PC-E 45mm @ f14 • 2x tele• 1/640 • ISO 400 • +1,+2,+4 diopter • SB-700
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Thanks Squamish....you and Rifqi take the absolute coolest bug shots ever!!
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My FIRST Photo of the Day entry!! Why haven't I done this sooner??
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