Sometime before midnight (whatever time zone you are in) this Sunday, 14 September, post the best photo you have taken this week. Any subject, any style--just give us your best shot.
PS: If you can, list your EXIF info and any special lighting setups you may have used.
PPS: Don't forget to try out the editing mini-challenge!
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What the heck?!!
Wish I hadn't looked at that--now I can't go to bed… got the heebie jeebies! (Really cool shot though;) )
What the heck?!!
Wish I hadn't looked at that--now I can't go to bed… got the heebie jeebies! (Really cool shot though;) )
The first pic is of a female Big Horn Mountain Sheep that I took this week, the second is a male Big Horned Mountain Sheep I took last spring. I took this shot of a Female Mountain Sheep this last week and here all year I was thinking it was a goat, and so I was thinking I wanted a goat head shot. I made the mistake in idenity because I have never seen them in the same herd as the male Big Horned Mountain Sheep and so never tied them together as both being sheep in my mind. And so I wanted a head shot of this animal all year and after I finally got one this week, I read a sign later that day or evening on the side of the highway stating that these were female mountain sheep and realized that it wasn't a goat and that later in the fall they and the young ones would be reunited again with the male Big Horn Sheep which is shown in the second pic. The second picture is of a male Big Horn Mountain sheep I took this last spring. I posted it so you can understand that the male horns are considerably larger and also there body size is larger, so its easy to make the mistake in identity and after reading the sign I felt like a NOOB. I have only been into wildlife photography for a year now and it shows, I'm still learning about the different names and types of wildlife.
The settings for the first pic: f/9 120mm 1/3200 ISO 1000
The settings for the second pic: f/9 310mm 1/3200 ISO 1250
Camera used: Nikon D800E
Lens: Nikon 80-400mm
Both shots are hand held and no tripod used and all VR settings turned off.
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Nikon D4
Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G AF-S ED-IF VR
f/14
1/60s
ISO 8000
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I love those Thumper - I so want the 105mm lens. Puts my spider shots from last week to shame. I have a strange liking for the insect world and think once i'm properly kitted out, I shall spend a lot of time lifting up and rocks. Love the lighting and colour.
Thumper,
You are not helping by producing great images with that 105! Mostly because I can't buy one right now and you keep reminding me of that! Nice photos anyway !
Very nice job and great lighting.
I love those Thumper - I so want the 105mm lens. Puts my spider shots from last week to shame. I have a strange liking for the insect world and think once i'm properly kitted out, I shall spend a lot of time lifting up and rocks. Love the lighting and colour.
Thumper,
You are not helping by producing great images with that 105! Mostly because I can't buy one right now and you keep reminding me of that! Nice photos anyway
Very nice job and great lighting.
Thanks, y'all!! That little devil has been hanging out under the light on my back porch for the last few nights. When the light is on, the bugs swarm to it, so the spider builds its web there, and as a result, it eats very well. The lighting is the porch light, and the spider is really close to it.
I LOVE the 105mm. I rented one from BorrowLenses.com earlier this year, and I absolutely fell in love with it. It is easily my favorite lens now. I think that I have only had it off of my camera once since I bought it a few weeks ago. It really is a versatile lens, too. It is not limited to macro/micro shots, not by any means. If/when y'all get one, you will be just as in love with it as I am with mine.
Thanks!!
It was wrapping up a freshly caught meal in that last one. (When it went to pounce on that soon-to-be meal, I was really close to it trying to get a particular angle. Then BLAM, it shot across the web, and I almost did a double back flip off of the porch. I had to stop laughing at myself in order to get the shot of it wrapping up its prey). 
I need to work on getting better shots of the web. Here are a couple that I took of just the web.
I took them more as reference shots for when the spider returned, but I started playing with the shots and came up with these. Not entirely pleased with them, so I am going to work on getting better shots.
Another shot from this last week, of Castle Mountain in Alberta, Canada. I used a tripod and stitched 4 photo's together with photoshop. After all was said and done I was left with a 322 MB Tiff file and after I reduced the image size to accommodate online posting what remained was a 4.1 jpeg file. I used a tripod for this shot.
My focal point was the mountains so the fore ground is not as sharp.
Camera used: Nikon D7100
Lens used: Stalk or kit lens, Nikon 18-105mm
30mm f/14 1/600 ISO320
I went out tonight to see if my little buddy was back, and sure enough, he was. But tonight, he had a little friend with him. This one was hanging out just inside of the porch light. This one is much smaller than the other one.
Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G AF-S ED-IF VR
f/14
1/500s
ISO 1600
This week, I will show what the D700 can do in low light...
Body: D700
Lens: Tamron 28-75 @ 36 mm
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 1/100
ISO:25600
Profile: D2X Mode3
Noise reduced with Dfine, conversion to monochrome in Silver Efex Pro, PanF curve.
The subject is the oldest achromatic telescope in the world, exhibited in Museum Gustavianum here in Uppsala.
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Nikon D600
AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105mm
ISO 250
f4 @ 1.3 sec
Not sure why my images are coming out so small on here.
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