Picture of the Day

[MarkM]

De Havilland DHC-8-400 (taken on the ground in Boise, Idaho)

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Camera: Nikon D200
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/800 sec
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 10.5mm
Exposure Bias: 0
Lens: Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G Fisheye

[Weevil]

Great shot Mark

[MarkM]

Goaltender Justin Peters of the AHL Albany River Rats (playing against Worcester Sharks in Worcester MA)



Camera: Nikon D3
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 160mm
Exposure Bias: 0
Lens: Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8G VR

[MarkM]

"In Summation" about to win the 2009 El Conejo Handicap (Grade III) (Santa Anita Park, Arcadia CA)

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Camera: Nikon D3
ISO: 1250
Shutter: 1/8000 sec
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 280mm
Exposure Bias: 0
Lens: Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8G VR with TC-14E II teleconverter (1.4X)

[[XC] leviathan18]

What a beautiful animal

[RADCOM]

great shot Mark, how are you fiding the tele converter with the70-200mm? I think I should get one;-)

[MarkM]

great shot Mark, how are you fiding the tele converter with the70-200mm? I think I should get one;-)

The Nikkor TC-14E II teleconverter is superb. It causes almost no distortion, has very little softness, and has very little impact on auto focusing. It's a lot of money to spend (about US $500) if you have a cheaper telephoto or zoom telephoto, but if you have some nice Nikkor glass it's a great investment.

I also have the Nikkor 1.7X teleconverter and I'm less impressed with that. It causes noticeable softness, though not extreme, and really slows down auto focusing in marginal light, though in bright daylight it works well. Perhaps a back-handed way of judging the 1.7X teleconverter is to note that I rarely ever use it. I end up using the 1.4X when I use a teleconverter.

[MarkM]

Tanner Pearson at the Los Angeles Kings Development Camp on July 7, 2012 (Toyota Sports Center, El Segundo CA). He was the LA Kings first round pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. This was the first day I was using a new lens, a 400mm f/2.8 telephoto. Shooting on a monopod, some pictures turned out great, some not so good, which is to be expected as I learn how to best use this lens.

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Camera: Nikon D4
ISO: 8000
Shutter: 1/640 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 400mm
Exposure Bias: -1/3 stop (compensated when post-processing)
Lens: Nikkor 400mm f/2.8G VR

[nex_73]

Some great new shots in here

Been testing out a new toy (lens) for me (DA 55-300)

Moon 9/7-12 by NeXur, on Flickr

Osprey by NeXur, on Flickr

[Malik]

[kwscore]

[[XC] leviathan18]

Malik the first shots tricked me I thought it was a real plane

[Malik]

Malik the first shots tricked me I thought it was a real plane

This was real plane

Wysyłane z mojego GT-S5830 za pomocą Tapatalk 2

[GeorgeStorm]

Took a couple more in the garden today


Orange Lily by George.Yoda, on Flickr


Foxglove by George.Yoda, on Flickr


Foxglove 2 by George.Yoda, on Flickr

Such intense colours!

[Andrea deluxe]

fantastic place.....

[Darakian]

_MG_6341-2 by Darakian, on Flickr
Little guy I met the other day.

[MarkM]

Anze Kopitar kissing the Stanley Cup (June 11, 2012, at Staples Center, Los Angeles CA).
Sometimes it's not possible to capture a perfect shot, but you don't care, you just do the best you can. As a long time LA Kings season ticket holder, who has seen an incredible number of less than stellar years, seeing the Kings win the Stanley Cup was a memory that will stay with me a lifetime. Even though I was more than 150 feet away from where the players were lifting the Stanley Cup over their heads, and with just a zoom point-and-shoot camera, I wanted to capture some memories. Earlier in the game I was trying to use the camera's video feature but when the Kings scored the first goal of the game right in front of me I started jumping up and down and screaming like a teenage girl and totally spoiled the video. At that moment I decided, 'screw any photos or video - I'm watching this game', and I ended up taking very few actual game action shots. Afterwards I texted to all my friends, Greatest! Game! Ever!

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Camera: Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: equivalent to 560mm on a full frame 35mm camera
Exposure Bias: -1 (compensated in post processing)
Lens: Built-in 20X zoom (equivalent to 28mm-560mm on a full frame 35mm camera)
Note: Heavy use of noise reduction (Nik Software DFine) and sharpening (Nik Software Sharpener Pro) software.

[theoldtimer]

This is an evening shot of some sort of Tiger moth feeding from the flower while in flight.

[kwscore]

hours 2:30 sticks her head out the window and i see

[dernettemann]

Awesome Pics Guys

[MarkM]

Intermission hockey (DCU Center in Worcester MA) - one of my favorite hockey photos.

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Camera: Nikon D3
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/1000 sec
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 170mm
Exposure Bias: 0
Lens: Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G VR

[GeorgeStorm]

Beauty in Death by George.Yoda, on Flickr


Wet leaf by George.Yoda, on Flickr

[Malik]

[MarkM]

Like water off the back of a duck (mallard). I went to my local botanic garden this morning and did some testing to see how my new 400mm lens pairs up with a Nikon 1 camera. The magnification was so great that it often was difficult to find the target image in the viewfinder.

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Camera: Nikon 1 (J1)
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/5000 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 1080mm
Exposure Bias: 0 (overall no change but opened up shadows about one stop)
Lens: Nikkor 400mm f/2.8G VR with FT-1 Adapter (gives 2.7X focal length improvement)

[MarkM]

This is an evening shot of some sort of Tiger moth feeding from the flower while in flight.

Nice shot. I think that is a Sphinx moth, more specifically, White-lined sphinx (Hyles lineata).