Photo-A-DAY: DECEMBER 2014

Rx4Photo

Outstanding work everyone. Agreed, @jimo, great shot!! @spraynpray, nothing less than amazing!!

calengor

Suspension Bridge for Pedestrians
D7100 | 35mm f/1.8 | f/2.2 | 1/800 sec | ISO 100

nitro4me

Shot with the tamron 150-600, so far it has been an excellent.

Photobug

Here's a properly dark night shot with the D7100 at ISO 12800 (wow!)
It was so cold my tripod legs were white with frost!

Sweet. I checked the details and saw 15 seconds at F4 at 24mm. Really nice.

Photobug

Birds love the sun.

|D7100|70-200 F2.8 at 180mm|1/640 @6.3|ISO 200|

Nikonsince1974

Great shot!.
Some #8 lead shot in the 12 ga. and it is duck for dinner time!

You must be joking - number 5 is the smallest for mallard. Number 8's are for snipe and clays!

I have used #8 lead on ducks for 20 years and it works just fine with 3" 12 ga shells

kanuck

The Red Umbrella:

Braving a cold winter's night storm in Seoul with a bit of fashion

Msmoto

OK, this one has been seen here before... but a different version....

Nikonsince1974

Brown Heron. D700 and 300mm f/2.8 ED-IF AIS

This image was published in the Audubon Society magazine

Nikonsince1974

OK, this one has been seen here before... but a different version....

That looks like the golf ball size grain we used to get with Tri-X at ASA 1250 using Acufine! Great shot, sometimes grain CAN enhance an image!

Msmoto

@Nikonsince1974

Actually, this image comes from scanning a Plus-X negative...the original shot at ASA 80, developed in D76 1:1 for 80% of normal developing time. On a Nikon F body....built in mid 1960's. I am guessing this was taken in 1967.....

Negative scanned on a Nikon Super COOLSCAN 5000 ED

Here is another version:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fantinesfotos/15207981098/sizes/l

The one I have posted today is a lot of processing in LR5.7....

jimo

Vipmediastar_JZ

Wife and Kid several months ago

Rx4Photo

Beautiful Mark! Wow, 8 hours ... truly professional.

This'll probably be the last drop in from Maliya. Got lots but time to move on.
During this beach session we were approached by an entire family; Mom, Dad, Granddad, Grandma, sisters, and brothers. Granddad spoke up saying they were watching us for 30 minutes and wanted to know if I was hiring assistants. Funny! Then asked if he could have ONE picture taken with Maliya - at which point all the cellphones came out and everybody got pics of granddad with her. Maliya was loving it, cracking up by then. He then asked if his two grandsons (probably age 14 or 15) could get a pic with her. I could tell these boys were in heaven by then. I got pics but won't post them for obvious reasons. It gave all of us something fun to remember.


D800 | Sigma 50mm f/1.4Art @ f/1.8 | 1/3200 | ISO 100

Nikonsince1974

@Nikonsince1974

Actually, this image comes from scanning a Plus-X negative...the original shot at ASA 80, developed in D76 1:1 for 80% of normal developing time. On a Nikon F body....built in mid 1960's. I am guessing this was taken in 1967.....

Negative scanned on a Nikon Super COOLSCAN 5000 ED

Here is another version:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fantinesfotos/15207981098/sizes/l

The one I have posted today is a lot of processing in LR5.7....

I always used to shoot PX @ ASA 64 and develop in Microdol-X 1:3. It used to produce some beautiful negatives. I even shot Tech-Pan and processed in Technidol, those results were stunning but it lacked dynamic range. I shoot TX @ ASA 200 and develop in D-76 1:1 when I want a little extra grain.

That is the thing about so many of the "digital generation" who have never processed and printed film either color or black and white, they seem to have this almost irrational aversion to grain. Grain is a part of the true photographic process. Sometimes it can MAKE the image. And when it comes to black and white digital falls woefully short of a medium format negative printed on high end paper like Oriental Seagull, which is all I use. Most of the film I shoot now is on the Hasselblad. I have CZ lenses from 40mm to 250mm but I will go to 35mm when I don't have an equivalent Carl Zeiss lens. I have a Nikon Super CoolScan LS-8000 to do any scanning work I need. The thing is huge but it produces amazing scans from both 35mm and 2¼.

hoodoo

Ah man. I knew I'd mess it up


Nikon D700 14-24@14mm 1/60 f4 iso 3200

billythecounselor

proudgeek

Shot early this fall.

D800 | 24-70 | 32mm | f/8 | 25s | ISO 400

Nikonsince1974

Shot early this fall.

D800 | 24-70 | 32mm | f/8 | 25s | ISO 400

Simply gor-gee-yus!

Lambda

Hello all. Sorry for being away / radio silent, I have been studying my masters and sort of lost touch.
Anywho, I am currently in Durham in England. Ill try and post during the holidays and show a bit of the town.

-Durham Cathedral, night time

Photobug

One more from the series from Pensacola, Florida.

|D7100|70-200 @202mm|1/400 @F6.3| ISO 200|

bland

Golf007sd

D7000 Nikon 50 1.4G 1/60 ISO 800 @ f/4.0

nitro4me

Another shot from my backyard with the tamron 150-600mm.

ggbutcher

Anxiously awaiting my D7000, reminiscing the good times with the D50. From a wine cruise we took in 2012, a Bordeaux winery. Lots of nice light in these places...