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Your Best Photo, Week Ending 27 May 2018


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nbanjogal

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Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 27 May 2018, post the best photo you have taken this week. Any subject, any style—just give us your best shot.

 

If you can, list your EXIF info and any special lighting setups you may have used.

 

 

P.S. Peter is running a fun single-lens challenge--everyone is welcome to play. Just look for the One Week, One Camera, One Lens thread in the mini-challenge forums.

 

P.P.S. The editing exercises are taking a break at the moment, but feel free to play around in the old exercises.



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Here is my exercise in photo stacking.

 

105mm Sigma macro lens

f/8.0

1/125 sec

280 ISO 

 

Full spectrum light from above

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I'll go with these two shots of a curious jackdaw.

 

42284443151_1c152be306_o.jpgPES_2018-05-22_12-07-47_300mm_A by merco_61, on Flickr

 

Model: NIKON D7200
Lens (mm): 300 (AF-S Nikkor 70-300 VR)
ISO: 5000
Aperture: 7.1
Shutter: 1/500
 

 

41563395034_88f7be5912_o.jpgPES_2018-05-22_12-08-20_240mm_A by merco_61, on Flickr

 

Model: NIKON D7200
Lens (mm): 240 (AF-S Nikkor 70-300 VR)
ISO: 1000
Aperture: 7.1
Shutter: 1/400
 



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snell - that photo makes me think I need to break out the fly fishing gear.  It's been a long time...

 

Peter - those are so sharp.  At ISO 1000 I get significantly more noise with either of my cameras.

 

Since I'm planning to go back to the track today and anything else I get will be similar to this, I'm posting one from yesterday's session.  Practicing my panning again.

 

500_5407-X2.jpg

D500, Tamron 150-600 @ 350mm, f/18, 1/125", ISO 100, on a monopod, shutter priority, midday sunlight.



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I would like to sneak one in at the last moment.  A yellow cactus flower

D750, Nikon 24-70. 70mm, iso 400, 1/2500 @ f8

 

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Mark, getting these noise levels is mostly a matter of nailing the exposure. When you underexpose at capture and have to tweak exposure in post, the noise will be magnified to a greater degree than the signal as the noise is weaker than the signal and the scale is logarithmic.

 

Another factor is that I use Nikon Capture NX-D for my raw conversions and the S/N ratio is higher than ACR for a given raw file. The difference in rendering is large enough that I put up with the quirky UI and less than stellar conversion speed.