Even More Fun Pictures with Nikon

[Jorgen Udvang]

Thank you, Steen. Alas, the D2x is gone. Used within its limits (low-ISO and avoiding its abrupt highlight clipping) the files had subtle, exquisite colours and great presence. The latter probably due to a commendably weak AA-filter. I have wondered about rebuying this body...

Two more oldies from the D2x.

I like the stairs, Arne, and you did get those verticals straight Where? France?

 

[simonclivehughes]

Thanks for your kind comment, Lloyd. Here's a couple from earlier this year from an Alaska cruise using the D300.


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Cheers,

 

[Jorgen Udvang]

Thanks for your kind comment, Lloyd. Here's a couple from earlier this year from an Alaska cruise using the D300.


Cheers,

Beautiful photos, Simon, particularly the one with the boat. The ripples in the water are so perfect, it's almost unreal :thumbs:

 

[simonclivehughes]

Thanks Jorgen, they were actually taken the same day. The boat shot is a sunrise shot just outside of Ketchikan, AK, and the other during a (smaller) boat tour of the Misty Fiords NP. It was so calm the water was like a mirror in places. Hard to take a bad shot when Mother Nature is having such a stellar day.

Cheers,

 

[fultonpics]

simon

those are magical !!

 

[Lloyd]

Lloyd, that is simply megacool! :toocool:

Thanks, Jorgen.

 

[Lloyd]

Thanks for your kind comment, Lloyd. Here's a couple from earlier this year from an Alaska cruise using the D300.


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Cheers,

Wow. :bugeyes::bugeyes: Stunning images!!

 

[simonclivehughes]

Thanks Gents, that means a lot! The funny part is that when we left Vancouver, the weather, and the weather forecast were miserable for the entire 3-day voyage (Vancouver - Ketchikan - Seattle), but it turned out to be just incredible. Picture taking was just so easy as everywhere you turned presented such a magnificent tableau.

I used a couple of D300 bodies with the 12-24, the 16-85 and the 70-300 lenses.

Ciao,

 

[simonclivehughes]

Here's a few more from the same trip. As you can see, Nature was doing skies.

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Cheers,

 

[Arne Hvaring]

Those are wonderful shots. That flower just jumps off the screen. Best seen large to be fully appreciated.

Thank you Lloyd!

 

[Arne Hvaring]

Just ran across this one from last fall.

D300; 12-24 @ 14mm:

The play of light, shadow and shapes is just perfect, wonderful shot!

 

[TRSmith]

Here's a few more from the same trip. As you can see, Nature was doing skies.

Cheers,

The images are terrific! Although I have to say, the HDR hits me funny. HDR and Infrared always give me the willies, but I know there's a lot of folks who love both. I'm going out on a limb and saying that the shots would probably hold up even without the extreme processing. Regardless, well done!

 

[Arne Hvaring]

I like the stairs, Arne, and you did get those verticals straight Where? France?

Thank you Jorgen, yeah, it's the horizontals that have me floored
The stairs are near the Picasso museum in Antibes.

 

[TRSmith]

Lloyd: that's a very intense shot of the tree. I love how it curves in one direction and the shadow goes in another. Nice!

 

[simonclivehughes]

The images are terrific! Although I have to say, the HDR hits me funny. HDR and Infrared always give me the willies, but I know there's a lot of folks who love both. I'm going out on a limb and saying that the shots would probably hold up even without the extreme processing. Regardless, well done!

Thanks for the kudos. It's actually not HDR in the true sense of it, all are single exposures. I'm using Topaz Adjust with custom created presets. It may end up being a phase for me, but I quite like the look it allows you to get. For the B&W, I then post-processed in Silver EFXpro.

I used to spend a lot of time in the wet darkroom dodging and burning to get this kind of drama, so workflow now is just such a pleasure. I quite understand that some may not like the results, but at least I've provoked a reaction. I'm obviously not going for a natural look!

Cheers,

 

[Lloyd]

Here's a few more from the same trip. As you can see, Nature was doing skies.

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Cheers,

Scary good... really.

 

[Lloyd]

The play of light, shadow and shapes is just perfect, wonderful shot!

Thank you Arne, much appreciated.

 

[Lloyd]

Lloyd: that's a very intense shot of the tree. I love how it curves in one direction and the shadow goes in another. Nice!

Thanks, Tim. I wish I could say I saw this tree one day and planned to go back when the light was just right, etc., but the truth is I was with my brother-in-law and my three nephews Geocaching near Lethbridge, Alberta. I brought the camera along to take pix of the kids. We were walking back to the car, and I saw the shadow. "F8 and be there."

 

[Corlan F.]

Just ran across this one from last fall.

D300; 12-24 @ 14mm:

Simply one the best images seen here.

(i might vote for a tad less contrast processing, but my monitor can be incriminated)

 

[Corlan F.]

Simon - fantastic sceneries.
Seconding Tim though, i'm under the impression that the extra (somehow artificial?) processing might not serve some of these outstanding photos, the clouds in particular.