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[krag96]

Anytime before midnight March 6 please submit your motion photos.  It can be anything in motion, either the thing in motion needs to show motion blur, or it can be frozen and the stationary scene can be blurred, either will show motion.  Shoot from a moving car, train, bike, horse, whatever.  Or shoot stationary at a moving thing, person, or animal, you can also pan your shot, moving your camera along with what is in motion and shooting.  This could be a good opportunity to kick in that C-Hi setting.  Have fun, be creative!

[g4aaw pete]

A sudden flurry of sleet.

 

Sleet in the afternoon by Pete Miller, on Flickr

[krag96]

Very good, I was beginning to think you folks on the British Isle had sprung into Spring already.  I'm here with frozen ground and ice clumps in the back yard, and I think they're calling for snow squalls today.

[fallout666]

you want motion got motion. person in photo got double shot dead center on go pro. also guy that shot him had CCM paintball gun should not double feed paintball gun. both of them are in paintball group i am in. also year before this shot i was look at guy with go pro saw it get hit dead center and broke it. wife heard it i showed blurry photo and she got mad and told next go pro you get can not go on filed unless put plastic case on. 

 

[krag96]

Well done, looks like the Go-Pro does a pretty good job.

[fallout666]

Well done, looks like the Go-Pro does a pretty good job.

if you say shot from year before go pro got broken. was not for hard case this time it stayed alive. 

 

 

[krag96]

I don't know much about Go-Pro's other than reviews and ads I've read, seems they aren't as sturdy as they claim them to be and people seem to have some problems with them, but that was some time ago.  They may have better versions now, seems they take a good photo though.

[fallout666]

I don't know much about Go-Pro's other than reviews and ads I've read, seems they aren't as sturdy as they claim them to be and people seem to have some problems with them, but that was some time ago.  They may have better versions now, seems they take a good photo though.

all go pro need hard case to keep them from breaking. also they really have not done anything new to make better and other companies step up to plate and made better stuff. they need to get new model and up game or will be going on way side

[Merco_61]

Camera on a tripod, a speedlight with the reflector set to 135 mm and rear curtain sync to partially freeze some of the droplets in the centre of the frame.

 

Camera: Nikon Z6II

Lens: Nikkor Z 35/1.8 S

Lens (mm): 35
ISO: 100
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/15
Exp. Comp.: -0.7

[g4aaw pete]

Another cracker Peter.

[Merco_61]

Thanks, Pete! 
The problem with running water is keeping it interesting instead of just turning it into a milky mess  by using a too long exposure. Today, the weather cooperated nicely by still being calm when the sun got to the right angle for what I wanted to do.

[g4aaw pete]

Thanks, Pete! 
The problem with running water is keeping it interesting instead of just turning it into a milky mess  by using a too long exposure. Today, the weather cooperated nicely by still being calm when the sun got to the right angle for what I wanted to do.

 

Agreed - you can have too many foaming waterfalls.

Yours is just right.

[krag96]

I burned up a lot of card space in two cameras shooting CH in both, I ran the D750 for 52 shots and one of the D700's for 38.  What I got was 22 good shots with the D750 and 27 good shots with the D700.  I attribute the D700 with more good shots due to it's faster continuous shutter speed 8fps vs. 6.5fps for the D750 and the back button focus button is much handier on the D700.  Both menus are set up for NEF RAW 14 bit, probably because the D750's larger files, 24mp vs. 12mp of the D700, the D750 takes much longer to clear it's buffer.  A good many shots I dropped from the D750 were due to my thumb slipping off the back button focus in action and getting out of focus pictures.  That didn't happen with the D700, I got good focus and more uninteresting shots.  All the shots I took in this series were camera from the waist, kick the ball and hit bbf then the shutter button.  Most times I had the camera firing just as the ball and dog met down range. 

 

 

Nikon D700  Nikkor 24-120mm f4  1/125  f20  M 6400 + .07

 

The ball is obviously moving faster than the dog.

 

 

Nikon D750  Nikkor 24-120mm f4   120mm 1/80 f11  M100  The ball just went behind the bush about 30'' in front of dog.

 

[g4aaw pete]

The ball & dog were definitely moving!

Interesting that the D700 fared better than the D750 for this task.

What a lot of time & effort we put into getting these shots!

[krag96]

Nobody makes a perfect camera model, it seems there's always some give and take with each model no matter who made it.  I love the D700, but have to admit it is lacking in a few areas.  The reason I bought a D750, (and I agonized about it for over a year) is it's low light capabilities, it's about two full points better in low light that the D700 which is something relevant to me as I do shoot after the sun goes down and it's MP isn't so high as to slow down the buffer or my computer too much. 

 

When I shot the dog playing ball I pressed the Back Button Focus button at waist level, kicked the ball, raised the camera to eye level and took the shots just as the dog and ball met, (for the most part-kinda like fast draw with a camera instead of a gun, and your thumb BETTER be on that BBF button before you trip the shutter).  The D700 has a dedicated BBF within easy reach and will focus with either the BBF or shutter button.  The D750, I had to assign BBF to the AE-L/AF-L button which works well on still subjects, but it's farther away than the BBF on the D700 and not as well designed causing my thumb to slip off at times resulting in out of focus shots.  For action the D700 is both faster and easier even though it's larger and heavier. 

 

Speed was not of the essence for this shot showing the motion of the car, (below and beside the mirror).

 

D750 24-120mm f4 lens, (same as above) 1/125  f18 Auto ISO-720  FL-70mm