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fire
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waltny wrote: fireuseman wrote: Jumping into the New Year!!
What do you shoot with? The lens looks like it gets great shallow depth of field, on an action shot with the focus staying sharp on the move.
I'm using a Nikon D200 with a Nikkor ED 400mm lens. |
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waltny
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Location: Hill AFB, UT
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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fireuseman wrote: waltny wrote: fireuseman wrote: Jumping into the New Year!!
What do you shoot with? The lens looks like it gets great shallow depth of field, on an action shot with the focus staying sharp on the move.
I'm using a Nikon D200 with a Nikkor ED 400mm lens.
Damn... :hail2thechief: :hail2thechief:
IM a Nikon guy also, but Im still shooting with a D70s and cheap lens. I just got the 50mm 1.8 lens today. |
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fire
Joined: 17 Nov 2007
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Location: Bryce Canyon
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waltny wrote: fireuseman wrote: waltny wrote: fireuseman wrote: Jumping into the New Year!!
What do you shoot with? The lens looks like it gets great shallow depth of field, on an action shot with the focus staying sharp on the move.
I'm using a Nikon D200 with a Nikkor ED 400mm lens.
Damn... :hail2thechief: :hail2thechief:
IM a Nikon guy also, but Im still shooting with a D70s and cheap lens. I just got the 50mm 1.8 lens today.
The 400 is from my slide film days, I gave myself the D200 for Christmas so I could use this lens. The camera is awesome and well worth the money. |
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waltny
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fireuseman wrote: waltny wrote: fireuseman wrote: waltny wrote: fireuseman wrote: Jumping into the New Year!!
What do you shoot with? The lens looks like it gets great shallow depth of field, on an action shot with the focus staying sharp on the move.
I'm using a Nikon D200 with a Nikkor ED 400mm lens.
Damn... :hail2thechief: :hail2thechief:
IM a Nikon guy also, but Im still shooting with a D70s and cheap lens. I just got the 50mm 1.8 lens today.
The 400 is from my slide film days, I gave myself the D200 for Christmas so I could use this lens. The camera is awesome and well worth the money.
Oh I know what the D200 can do, even with the low level glass. I got the chance to play with one back in April and my buddy from work just got one. The best I can hope for is for one to literally fall in my lap at this point in my life, maybe later in the year or next year will be a better year for worldly possesions I covet.... |
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hallkc
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Not the ultra-sharp photo I was hoping for, but I'm satisfied with it considering my experience level. :ne_nau:
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hallkc
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I know this pic is not ultra-sharp, but I'm doing what I can with what I've got... |
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Joe Gardner
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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hallkc wrote: I know this pic is not ultra-sharp, but I'm doing what I can with what I've got...
Farmington Bay? Was this taken this year? |
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CarpeyBiggs
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Location: Fairbanks, AK
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| Wow, Hall, nice stuff. Where are these at? |
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hallkc
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hallkc wrote:
Quote: Yep. Both were shot here; http://greatsaltlakenaturecenter.org/homepage.html on Sunday and Monday Jan 6 & 7th. They tell me that more and more eagles will arrive between now and the middle of February. I wanna get back out there, so if anyone else wants to head out that way, let me know. I'd love some photography lessons from some of you pros...
Check out the shootout fourm here!!! http://uutah.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9952 |
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waltny
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hallkc wrote: Not the ultra-sharp photo I was hoping for, but I'm satisfied with it considering my experience level. :ne_nau:
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Unsharp mask(or smart sharpen), lab sharpening and some layer work might have touched this up a bit. Also you loose some of that sharpness when you compress to jpeg along with the added artifact |
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fire
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| It snowed last weekend at Bryce Canyon and this guy was a bit stunned. It is a Townsend Solitaire. Nikon D200, 200 mm lens, 8' away. |
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CarpeyBiggs
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This is from tonight. The big storm pushed down an enormous herd of elk down pretty low on the mountains. After work, I hiked up about a half mile, trying not to stir any of them up. This is from about 150-200? yards away, uncropped. 40D, 1.4x, 600mm lens, 5.6, ISO1600. The light was fading quick.
Biggest elk I've ever photographed that wasn't domesticated or interacting with humans in some form. I was excited to get the chance. In all, I estimate the herd at 150 head. It was HUGE. |
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Summit42
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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CarpeyBiggs wrote:
This is from tonight. The big storm pushed down an enormous herd of elk down pretty low on the mountains. After work, I hiked up about a half mile, trying not to stir any of them up.
where did you hike up? |
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CarpeyBiggs
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Summit42 wrote: where did you hike up?
Up from Alaska Lane on the border of Provo and Springville. |
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hallkc
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Carpey,
That shot of the Elk is great!
Does anyone know why I can't get crisper images at max focal length... I have a Nikon 55-200 kit lens with V/R, shooting w/ D200. Sometimes I use a 2x teleconverter... do you think it's because of my cheap lens, or maybe because the shutter is wide open? Maybe something else I'm doing wrong...? Anyway, I know this isn't a photography class forum, I was just curious because I'm not "school trained" in photography.
Any advice is appreciated. |
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