Tag: Nikon Df

I See the Moon

The other night I went out toward sunset – checked the electronic almanac called my phone – taking a beautiful old lens, the Vivitar Series 1 24-48mm, and the Df.  I set everything up manually and shot a number of pictures to make a panorama of the crescent moon and oak tree silhouetted against the remaining daylight.  I was in the golden hour, moving into the blue hour.  The first image below is the pano, uncropped but reduced in size, and the following are variations in cropping and post processing. Click on the pictures to see them full size. This lens is beautifully sharp.

I See the Moon - Uncropped (1 of 1)

I See the Moon (1 of 4)

I See the Moon (2 of 4)

I See the Moon (3 of 4)

A View from Second Beach

A View from Second Beach

The beaches along the Olympic Peninsula are nothing short of amazing. No camera can catch the mood perfectly, but software can help!

While we were there, the sky moved from a foggy opacity, to blue and cloudy, and back. I wanted to capture that in-between time when the sun was breaking through as the fog lightened.

For the Naiad

For the Naiad 1500 Signed (1 of 1)

I went to a local park after work today, just to play with a lens I haven’t used in awhile: Tamron 70-300 f4-5.6 Di. The purpose of the walk was to use the Df and the lens, handheld, to see how well the vibration reduction worked. To begin with, I shot at iso 100, just to see how well the vibration reduction worked – it’s okay, but the lens would benefit from stable subjects at this iso. At 400 iso, detail was lost, but longish exposures were not too horrible handheld. This shot was taken at iso 400, 140mm, f5.6, 1/30 sec. Overall, the combo of the lens and camera leaves sharpness a bit to be desired, but under the right circumstances, I rather like this lens.