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Shot taken yesterday at Longwood Gardens. Ornamental black pepper with yellow flower background.
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Just picked up a Nikon D300s last week, still haven't had time to play around with it enough to begin to get my settings the way I want them but it seems like an interesting. Should be a nice addition to my D7000 for sports shooting :D
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things faster, or did. I know the D200, D300 and D700 are really nice-feeling cameras in the hand. And I have a D7000, and I would STILL like to have even a D300 just to shoot with and maybe keep. Whether it was S or not. Shot a festival over the weekend and for a change, got the outdoor light advantage. Its scary how often I do not shoot in daylight. I am pretty sure these 3 are all Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 ED manual- focus lens shots. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psd0a96d79.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps60102c51.jpg |
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Wild band here, I mean they were the good kind of loud and distorted.
http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9d62da21.jpg The cat playing bass was TALL....The 24mm Nikkor 2.8 AI exaggerates the features top and bottom, but all they do is get the full HEIGHT in. So yep, he's that tall. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...pse19e0129.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps77fc2bbe.jpg |
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The deeper buffer is going to be very helpful with burst shots which is probably 80% of my bike racing shooting. The extra FPS isn't too shabby either. The 7000 will be much better for low light but I think I can pull it off with either one with the right lens
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If I had it to do over, I might have oeted for the D300s instead of the D7000, but I had been lusting after a newer
crop body that could hang in the dark where a camera I use has to be comfy. But the brutal speed of those heavy Nikons is tough to beat, especially when they pair that wicked autofocus with the burst rate. First time you ever shoot with one you notice it immediately and you never want to go back. I guess my impression, having never shot a D300 or an S, is that it is a crop-body D700 for all intents and purposes. No matter how many cameras I shoot with, the D700 just keeps on proving out as the better machine. I do like the D600, but I try not to shoot with it much. Only when I need the resolution, I guess. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2d45b84d.jpg |
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This is NOT Rick from The Walking Dead........but DAMN it looked like him.
STILL, I saw NO zombies at this event, so..... http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...psaaf58ff9.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...pseda5951f.jpg |
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The dangers of the acquisition impulse.
As you know if you are always in this thread, going back years, I have a case of the I-wants something fierce for Nikon camera gear. But I have champagne tastes and a beer budget, so I made sure to always buy a camera body that had a motor inside of it so I could buy old lenses for less money and try my best to get the best acuity and quality and QUALITIES I could get. The same qualities I could get in "L Glass" in the Canon parlance' or just "the expensive 5hit" is what its called in Nikon I guess. You LOSE coating advancements and corrective optics, in the newest sense of the word anyway. but in some cases, like the Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 ED AI manual focus lens, you have a HUGE ED glass element right up front and its a reasonably-priced, older design. But blabalbla, I have legendary lenses like the Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 AI-s, and the 85mm f/2 and the 180 above and several other monster lenses. I researched endlessly and BOUGHT everything I wanted, and kept it or sold it based on how it fit into what I thought I needed. But I guess I grew impatient in a way, I wanted to keep SHOPPING for stuff and playing with it. But the only thing left to really explore were the really old, pre-AI, Nippon Kogaku, moon-rocket-era lenses that were perfectly good for the time, but can damage most modern digital Nikons. Advances and improvements to it's legendary F-mount have PUT THINGS IN THE WAY that can get torn out by snapping on one of these old lenses. And here is where the story finally gets going....haha, sorry. I ACTUALLY found myself justifying, today, upgrading my Nikon D40, which can accept ALL THE F-mount lenses every made without damaging anything, to a Nikon D3200 or D5100, so that not only could I go back and use all of these OLD classic lenses, but I could do it in high enough resolution to make it worth DOING AT ALL, since I try to make a living shooting print-worthy photos that I can sell. I HAVE all these other lenses in their "MODERN" manual focus equivalents, and some are even duplicated in auto-focus primes as well. On top of that I have high resolution bodies that accept ALL of my lenses. And I HAVE THE NERVE to even CONTEMPLATE spending MORE MONEY on a new "cheap" body (either one of which will also accept any F-mounte lens without damage) so that I can spend EVEN MORE MONEY on "dangerous" (lol) lenses I already have better copies of to use on my excellent range of bodies. WHAT THE _ _ _ _ ? Thank goodness at the end of every day, I kind of just dump all of it out and keep the plastic in my pants. Ironic how all of the things that can take all your money and leave you broke all start because you couldn't keep things safely there? But all that said, I was shooting a girl the other day singing at a festival, and I caught her in profile, and I was shooting with I THINK a 105mm f/2.5, and I swear it looked like an old Playboy shot. And its the LENSES. So exploring these really old versions, ehh, its not THAT expensive of a habit, and you get to look at an awfully large range of rendering characteristics while you have fun and experiment. Provided you have a nice new used Nikon D5100, lol. Seriously that is what its been about. My D40, which is not even part of what I shoot with, it is something I am actively trying to sell, ACCEPTS the lenses, but the photo output is at 6MP, which is NICE to print from, but not always adequate for my business of selling prints. Couple that with the miserable ISO range and youc an SEE that I NEED this upgraded tool on two fronts. You know, so I can spend more money on lenses I don't need to shoot shots I can get with a D700 or a D600 or a D7000 or even a D100, D70s (or the aforementioned D40, lolololol.) |
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Two weekends in a row for the Memphis Zoo. Sunday morning, just as it was for Walmart in Meridian, MS,
is the time to get OUT and do things in Memphis. JUST so fewer idiots walking around on the street. Church has em for the hour. Unless they go to Sunday School too, and I can get well over an hour away from em. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7d5aa344.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps765711c0.jpg |
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That lion looks as though he just had a nice bath and shampoo. Wonder whose job that is?!
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Lion looks like he's ready for a date!
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Dang, Ron, thanks for the Mom shot. Well worth scrolling to the end. :)
Likely no one cares, but I will share that these are combo of a Nikon D600 (for the resolution) and a Nikkor 300mm f4.5 AI, and a D7000 with a Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 ED AI, both manual focus lenses. The 300mm has chromatic aberration issues, but I am learning to avoid the hot spots that bring it on. Luckily both these lenses meter fine on those bodies. I just have to dial in the Exposure Compensation to keep the 300mm in check. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4ac2221b.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps23c8c71e.jpg This lady is such a good model....but she quits too early and takes naps. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps58c7c279.jpg This little guy is such a star. Pretty soft shot, but cute, so I included it. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3ba6ae82.jpg |
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Got back from a wedding in Arizona over the weekend, wish I had a good camera to take better pictures of the view from the clubhouse the reception was at. Guess I'll have to settle for cell pictures and memories :tu
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I sell real estate so thats pretty much all I take pics of haha!
Here are a couple of my most recent sale. https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/...79&oe=54C57356 https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...5cf716c63b90b2 https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...a3558cb018edeb https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...a3dbdabe0aae70 |
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I was trying to convince a friend that the D200 he bought from me was NOT a 5hi++y camera, and that all it
needed was a decent lens on it to shine. I sell DSLRs with a starter lens to keep the costs down and make sure that they can start shooting right from the post office. And some people have even upgraded to a better lens at the time of purchase. I told him that while he was right, the D200 struggles at high ISOs owing to it's age, at no time should he ever believe his camera sucks. He wanted to do like me, shoot in bars at night. But by the time he was ready to buy, all my D90s were sold, my D80, a few D50s, some D70s. I had a D40 and a D200....that was his choice. I warned him that I was not selling him a 5hi++y camera, but that I was selling him the best model I had LEFT. The price was right, so he didn't really argue until he couldn't get a decent shot off inside a bar. I can only imagine what was going through his head then. SO I took out the oldest thing I had, which happened to be a D100 I traded with Shark for, and put a nice vintage Nikkor 50mm on it. I was confident it would do fine, and it did. But its easy to forget now that everything has passed this model by, what a great sensor the early Nikons had. SO LARGE. SO FEW PIXELS. (really should have performed better in low light, lol.) The lens really helped the photo appear to be higher resolution. Everyone should know that you USE bodies and INVEST in lenses. This should make that clear. The pics are just testing shots, but I was happy with the sharpness. The color and contrast could use a bump, but I did not want to edit these. http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4b258e2e.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0c136bca.jpg http://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7c4bab2b.jpg |
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Looks like I was there, Ron....this year however, I am going with a plan to have all the trees RETAIN
their leaves over the winter, then on one day in February, all the leaves can blow away at one time in a far more organized manner. I might not even have to rake if it blows hard enough. Everyone knows I love a cheap camera, but I recently found out the literal interpretation of a concept I had read several times before and never grasped. I was shooting in yet another dark bar over the weekend, and I had my ISO set to 5000, too high, but I needed the gain badly. I just bought a friend a Nikon D3200 because he wanted badly to be able to shoot the same kinds of things that I am into these days. I told him that was the best he was going to do for now, High ISO is expensive in current-gen cameras. He lucked into this one for $225. But he only had a D200, which might as well be blind at night. Great camera, feature-packed, but incapable of high ISO settings. I had read Ken Rockwell saying dozens of times "this entry-level camera does not allow you to adjust ISO in 1/2 or 1/3 stops." Ehh, whatever.....I don't even know what that MEANS to be perfectly honest. So as my friend was struggling in this bar light, I told him to just go to ISO 5000 and his camera would be fine. He said "I don't HAVE a 5000" I said "Sure you do..." and took it from him and only then, after years of reading the same thing on all these cheaper Nikons, did I see what that meant. He did not have 4000, 5000, none of my staple settings for difficult light. He had 3200 and 6400, and I knew that 6400 was going to be a noise-fest. 3200 and 6400.....not enough and too much. Thanks a lot. So I told him to hold at 3200 and be VERY STILL when you shoot a pic. I realize now that was probably bad advice. But a man needs to suffer a few bad nights to understand what his camera will do and what it will not. Never having really BOUGHT a "cheap Nikon", I had no idea that all cameras did not have half and 1/3 stops where mine did. That was a funny moment Friday night, when I finally saw the meaning of it all. |
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Also, an interesting cactus inside of a conservatory:
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Colonel Mustard, with The Cactus, in the Conservatory?
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What would be your first Clue? :r
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I realized I had put this in the bucket but not used it......good morning animal lovers.
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What's WRONG with the TREES?!!??!
They're all turning colors, the LEAVES are falling off. How are they gonna survive without LEAVES!!!!!!!!! |
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It's nice to have a nice color show before the dark, gray days of winter, though!
Let's add some water: https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3956/...63fb8aeb_b.jpg |
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My newest listing. I didn't have my camera on me so I was just gonna shoot it with my iPhone 6 and come back the next day for a better exterior shot, but I think it turned out pretty damned good.
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Mule deer from this morning in Wyoming
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Those are both very interesting for different reasons, Azar, nice to see you out shooting.
If you ever get a bit more of a drop on something, try shooting at 200mm for the sharpness and crop to get the tighter shot. Easy to say if I didn't think this might be a D50. Its 6MP are beautiful, but they don't give you much to crop from. But most 300mm zoom lenses aren't showing you their best at 300mm. All that said, shooting wildlife is hit and miss to begin with. Hard to get a drop on anything in the wild. I love the bounding buck, that's killer. I also like the horses way in the background of that wide shot. |
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Cool I will try it at 200m this time.
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