Nikon D200
Nikkor 50mm f1.4 AF D
PK-13 extension tube
ISO 100
F16, 1/60 second
Brentwood, CA
An orchid
June 14, 2006
June 13, 2006
Fujifilm Finepix S2 Pro
EL-Nikkor 63mm f3.5
ISO 800
F8, 1/6 second
Modified Vivitar 285HV
Brentwood, CA
A plant in ultraviolet.
June 12, 2006
Nikon D2x
Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 AFS VR
ISO 200
F8, 1/160 second
Brentwood, CA
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
This guy was easy to shoot. He was just floating in the breeze moving pretty slowly. I do need a longer reach. I used high speed crop mode, and I still cropped the picture significantly in photoshop.
June 11, 2006
Fujifilm finepix S2 Pro
EL-Nikkor 63mm f3.5
PK-13 extension tubes
ISO 200
F16, 15 seconds
B+H 403
Brentwood, CA
My first ultraviolet flower shot
June 10, 2006
June 9, 2006
Nikon D200
Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 AFS VR
Nikkor TC-17EII 1.7x Teleconverter
ISO 320
F11, 1/640 second
Brentwood, CA
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
That’s either a really small owl or a really big lamp post.
June 8, 2006
June 7, 2006
Nikon D200
Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 AFS VR
Nikkor TC-17EII 1.7x Teleconverter
ISO 220
F5.6, 1/200 second
Brentwood, CA
Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia)
June 6, 2006
Nikon D200
Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 AFS VR
ISO 100
F5.6, 1/90 second
Brentwood, CA
I went out looking for a new birding spot. This doesn’t seem to be a very good one.
June 5, 2006
Nikon D200
Nikkor 28-70 f2.8 AFS
ISO 200, F4
7 shot HDR image
Brentwood, CA
I finally got the adapter to mount the 63mm on my Nikon, but I ran into a slight problem. The lens goes back too far into the camera, and it’s focusing past infinity. That, and it’s so far back that the mirror would hit the lens. (No mirrors were damaged in the discovery of that fact) I need to space it forward a half inch or so. So the Ultraviolet images will have to wait another couple weeks while I find some parts to make it work.
I also found that I like photoshops HDR better than photomatix. It doesn’t look fake or plasticy. But I do need to give it a try on a shot that has a wide difference between the highlights and the shadows.
June 4, 2006
Nikon D200
Holga 60mm f8
ISO 500
F8, 1/90 second
Brentwood, CA
Not a great shot, but I was playing around with putting a holga lens on my D200. I need to shrink the size of my vignetter. I should probably crop these down to square to make them look more like hogla shots. Not a very good shot, but at least I found that it’ll work.
June 3, 2006
Nikon D200
Nikkor 70-200 f2.8 AFS VR
Nikkor TC-17EII 1.7x Teleconverter
ISO 400
F16, 1/60 second
Brentwood, CA
There’s a wasp in the bathroom.
June 2, 2006
Nikon D200
Sigma 30mm f1.4
ISO 400
F2.8, 1/250 second
Brentwood, CA
I got my flash today, but I ran into a few problems with it. It won’t fire with a remote cord or with my SU-4. I have to buy a special pc to vivitar cable to be able to fire it off the camera. This little project I’m doing is nickel and dimeing me to death.
I also need to figure out how to take it apart. I have some moding to do with this flash.
