Photo-A-Day July 2015

S33kAr

A photo from our holiday on madeira:

Killerbob

Last wolf shot from me. This is Scrabby Dave who lives in Northern Lights Wolf Centre in Golden, British Columbia.



D810 | Nikon 80-400mm @ 400mm | 1/4000 | f/5.6 | ISO 400

proudgeek

D810 | 24-70 | 62mm | f/3.2 | 1/30s | ISO 1250

jimo

WestEndFoto

I Open My Heart to You

Vipmediastar_JZ

Coastalconn

jonnyapple

Eclipse photo from last October. It was only partial here in North America. Forgive me for taking it with a Canon—it's what was mounted on my department's telescope at the time.

CEBlueclouds

...been practicing my birds (not in flight) shots.....not any where close to Coastalconn's much envied level...but a bit closer to average

D800, 70-200 f/2.8 @ f/5.6

HipShot

The planes at Love Field in Dallas, TX, come in for landing over Bachman Lake and Park at the north end of the runway. My first go at this. Even though my shutter speed was fairly high, I discovered that a lack of accurate panning speed can screw up a lot of photos.

Flash800

Zions National Parks, Utah -- A great place to visit!

adamz

gene_mcgill

S33kAr

"Waterfall" in Rabacal, Madeira. I should have used the nikon 16-85 instead of the tamron 70-300

Rx4Photo

One more in B&W from this fellow.
Strobist info: SB-910 with Gary Fong light sphere as a kicker light about 10 feet behind subject to create separation from background. The light was mounted on a monopod which was gaff taped to the banister.
Triggered by Phottix Odin.

jimo

proudgeek

D810 | 24-70 | 70mm | f/5.6 | 1/400s | ISO 64 | +1/3 EV

Msmoto

@jonnyapple

The technical data on the scope, inch, effective f/stop, and exposure time......and, love your eclipse shot....also, was this taken with a Thousand Oaks Filter over the front element of the scope?

WestEndFoto

Have I Been Conned?

Flash800

Zions National Park

Msmoto

CEBlueclouds

...still with bnif shots

D800, 70-2-- f/2.8 (Vr1) @ f/5.6

jonnyapple

@msmoto, it's an 11" reflector. Based on field of view (appx. 0.4° × 0.6°) I'd estimate that makes it about a 2200 mm (88") f/8 lens. At that focal length on a crop sensor I stitched five images together to make this final one. Exposure was 1/640 s, and sensitivity ISO 640, which might seem stupid given how much light the sun puts out but I was shooting through a haze and the image was moving around quite a bit.

I did have a solar filter on it, which is something like a 16-stop neutral density filter. As an aside, I almost blinded myself with this scope taking photos during the transit of Venus. I had on my solar glasses watching the transit and the solar filter was on the telescope. Like a fool, I went to look through the smaller finder scope to get the thing pointed toward the sun. I saw a flash of light and instinctively pulled my face away, but the sun had burnt through the solar glasses and was just about to get started on my retina—ant and magnifying glass style!

gene_mcgill

S33kAr

On top of Pico Areeiro, Madeira: