Photo-A-Day March 2020

CEBlueclouds

dissent

Finally (!!!) getting around to downloading and processing some images. This is at the Living Desert Zoo near Palm Desert, California.

donaldejose

fitness instructor

gene_mcgill

CEBlueclouds

enjoying the 500pf...

MrFotoFool

@dissent I recognized it as The Living Desert even before I read your caption. I love it there - one of my top five zoos (and I have been to more than a hundred).

HipShot

Tiny flowers placed into an upside down red oak acorn cap. D610, 60mm Nikon macro lens, five focus-stacked images.

dissent

@MrFotoFool - Agreed

Moar giraffes!

CEBlueclouds

dissent

Tongue

donaldejose

Jonquil in front of my house shot today just for PAD as an example. D700 body + 24-85 f3.5-4.5 G lens set at f8. The D700 can be purchased for about $300 and the 24-85 lens for about $250 on e-bay. Total cost $550 for quite a versatile combo from landscapes to macro to portraits as long as 12 mp is enough for your purpose. If I had taken this shot with a D850 most of the megapixels would just be thrown away anyway.

GPDen

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh.....just love my D700 - great to see folks still shooting with it, nice shot donaldejose. A rare bird shot from me, our garden Robin watching on as we enjoyed the continued good weather here in the UK (hope it lasts)...

CEBlueclouds

donaldejose

Only an idiot would do this: use the completely wrong equipment. This is a Nikon 1 J4 body with a 10mm lens for BIF (birds in flight).

Searcy

Testing out the 35mm Z mount 1.8 with a little Social Distance.




Nikon Z 6
NIKKOR Z 35mm f/1.8 S
ƒ/2.0
35.0 mm
1/8000
ISO 100

dissent

Here kitty, kitty ...

A cheetah at the Living Desert Zoo

MrFotoFool

@Searcy Perhaps one positive in the current crisis - the only time we will have empty parking lots to use as portrait studios!

@dissent I love The Living Desert because of their cat collection (my favorites like this cheetah) and because the exhibits are very natural and photo friendly.

MrFotoFool

Wild western diamondback in a garden at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (which ironically also has displays of captive rattlesnakes). Taken last day they were open before coronavirus shutdown. Nikon D850 with 70-200 f2.8E and 1.4iii teleconverter.

Capt_Spaulding

Ran across some old photos the other night. My memory of this is that it was better than it is, but for archival purposes I like it. It's my late father, my (now 36yo son, and myself in the Ca. desert checking out comet Hale-Bopp in the winter of 1996-97. It was a feeble first attempt at off camera lighting. I set up my SRT 101 (50mm [email protected]) on a tripod and set a small olympus point and shoot on a lawn chair nearby. Got my dad and son on a berm across the road from the SRT, opened the shutter on the srt, set the P&S on a 10sec delay and ran across the road in the dark to join the other two.

We're out of focus (dof) and star trails, but I'm really glad I tried it.

Ton14

Nikon Z6 - 70-200mm f/4G VR. ISO 100 - f/5.6 - 1/1000s.

After testing a couple of days, the Nikon Z6 is the best camera for my kind BIF photography.
I use short bursts from 5 - 9 shots each time quick behind each other,
That is why my biggest (luxury) problem is that I have too many sharp photo's to choose from, which add to much time behind the computer. I have 49 photo's from this "swan flight and landing" 44 sharp.

spraynpray

Only 44 out of 49? I call that plain sloppy!

Ton14

Yeah fun .... now you know.

CEBlueclouds

dissent

Moar cat

Photobug