Many of the images below were shot during the Kingcombe Camera Course outing on the second afternoon. We were lucky with the weather on our visit to Portland Bill, a local church and a Hardy monument in Dorset. I continued to use the D300 centre weighted exposure system mainly with minus half a stop exposure compensation. This is proving an accurate method of exposure when there is a fair bit of contrast with highlights which might be washed out. Clicking on many of the images below will bring up a larger version.
Nikon 18-200 VR 18mm (27mm) 400 iso 1800 f14
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Nikon 18-200 VR 18mm (27mm) 400 iso 1800 f14
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Nikon 70-300VR 185mm ( 275mm) 1/5000 f5.6 320iso -.5ev
Nikon 70-300VR 165mm ( 247mm) 1/3200 f5 320iso -.5ev
Nikon 20mm with 3x ND filters 1/5s f22 100 iso hand held -2.0 ev
Nikon 20mm with 3x ND filters 1/8s f22 100 iso hand held +1.0 ev
Nikon 20mm with 3 x ND filters 1/5s f22 100 iso
hand held -2.0 ev
Nikon 20mm with 3 x ND filters 1/13s f8 100 iso
hand held +1.0 ev
Nikon 105mm with x3 ND 1/6sec f10 320 iso +1 ev
Three exposures on D300. combined using
Nikon 18-200mm VR
The above images were produced in Photoshop . Each image is comprised of three exposures lined up using auto-align layers and then one channel is taken from each one and the final image is composed of the three individual red green and blue channels
Nikon 18-200 VR 48mm ( 72mm) 1/400 f10
Post production zoom blur in Photoshop
Sigma 12-24mm 15mm (22mm) 1/500 f11 200iso -.5ev
Sigma 12-24mm 13mm (20mm) 1/640 f13 250iso -.5ev
Sigma 12-24mm 15mm (22mm) 1/320 f9 250iso -.5ev
Sigma 12-24mm 15mm (22mm) 1/250 f8 250iso -.5ev background put out of focus in PS
Sigma 12-24mm 18mm (27mm) 1/640 f13 200iso -.5ev
Sigma 12-24mm 18mm (27mm) 1/500 f11 250iso -.5ev
Sigma 12-24mm 24mm (36mm) 1/2500 f25 250iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200 VR 35mm ( 52mm) 1/320 f9 250 ev -.5ev
Nikon 18-200 VR 200mm ( 300mm) 1/250 f8 250iso-.5ev
Nikon 18-200 VR 22mm ( 33mm) 1/400 f10 250iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200 VR 27mm ( 40mm) 1/400 f10 250iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200 VR 18mm ( 27mm) 1/320 f10 250iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200 VR 20mm ( 30mm) 1/400 f10 250iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200 VR 70mm (105mm) 1/100 f5 320iso -.5ev
effect using Fractalius plug-in from Redfield
Effect using Virtual Painter
effect using Fractalius plug-in from Redfield
Nikon 18-200mmVR 150mm (225mm) 1/15 f36 100iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200mmVR 75mm (115mm) 1/320 f9 400iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200mmVR 18mm (27mm) 1/400 f10 200iso -.5ev
View from Hardy monument - 9 images stitched together in Panorama Factory
View out to sea from Portland, Dorset - 16 vertical images stitched together in Panorama Factory
Nikon 18-200 mm VR 105mm (157mm) 1/640 f8 250iso -.5ev
Nikon 18-200 mm VR 105mm (157mm) 1/640 f8 250iso -.5ev
The original images (above left) was shot in indifferent light. In photoshop the tree silhouette was selected using Color range . The tree selection was copied to a new image and a mask made. These two were then loaded into Vue D'Esprit as a 'plane' and a computer generated sky was used as a background.
Nikon 55mm 1000 iso 1/40 f32 flash
Hearing on the news one April morning that there had been an incident on the nearby M6 motorway I dashed out with the Nikon and got some pictures of the giant queue of traffic going south - slowly!
