365.337 yesterday’s was better, methinks

Well, I intended to make another ghostwalker attempt this morning, but I got a late start (by ~2 minutes or less), so I decided to try this again.

I don’t know about you, but I think yesterday’s attempt was better. It’s not that I don’t like this one, and it’s closer to my vision, but it’s just not doing it for me.

Oh well. It’s already past my dinner time, and since I’m wiped out from a day of frustration at work and signing a lease on a new apartment and creeping through late afternoon neighborhood traffic, I’m not going to keep trying.

D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe). ISO100, 1/8th (AP mode), f/3.5. About 2 minutes of slider play in Aperture.

365.336 an ordinary tap

I think I got it… I may still try again, but this one’s close.

There could be a bit more separation between the stream and the arm behind it, and I could probably stand to minimize the bokeh balls that sort of distract from the stream at the bottom, but this is pretty close to what I was looking for, so GoGo Me.

D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron, maybe), in Macro Mode. ISO100, 1/200th (AP mode), f/3.5. About 5 minutes of slider play in Aperture (plus a strange hang on the computer from an unknown cause that I’ll investigate shortly) to get something really pretty and artistic going.

365.335 phone’d in

Apologies for not putting more effort into today’s pic. After working 9.5 hours, I went and viewed an apartment I’m thinking of moving to (probably will move to), then went to the grocery store, and by the time I got home, it was time to make dinner. I spotted this nice light on the entryway, and snapped a phone shot rather than fetching the big boy camera.

I like the colors, but that’s about it.

iPhone4. Built-In Camera, in hdr mode. Two shots combined in TrueHDR; emailed to the desktop; perspective corrected (poorly), and contrast/levels adjusted in PhotoShop; then a bit of slider play in Aperture.

365.334 ghostwalker 2

Well, it looks like the light colored pants worked better for this than black pants did (see 365.224), so I guess I’ll have to try again, maybe Friday, or maybe whatever day I decide to wear the silver pants. Hopefully there will be some nice clouds being blown across the sky while the trees remain relatively still… the wind was pretty wild this morning.

D7000. Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 ai, with a .6ND filter attached. ISO100, 30 seconds, f/8. About 15 minutes of slider play, after which I undid most of it, and went with a fairly simple 2 or 3 minute job.

The Tokina AT-X 35-200mm f/3.5-4.5, a review

Introduction

In early March, 2012, I pushed away from the desk to go make dinner, bumped the tripod, and knocked the D7000 and reverse-mounted Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 E-Series face first into the wooden apartment floor.

This fall had two effects: 1) it loosened a wire or something in the MD-D11 battery grip such that the connection between the grip and camera is now intermittent at best, thus rendering it largely useless, and ; 2) it broke the focus mechanism on the E-Series, leaving me without a telephoto solution (but providing me with the brilliant 75-150mm Zomb-E).

I intended to buy another 75-150—and I still might, because I love that lens—but decided instead to go for something with a  bit more reach.

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