David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly Getting Some Sodium/Salt From the Mud Near a Pond at the Sourland Mountain Reserve. Image taken with a Nikon D3s and 80-400 mm VR II lens (ISO 1000, 400 mm, f/11, 1/2000 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, Nik Define, and Photoshop CC.
Delaware River Flooding in Lambertville after Hurricane Irene. Image taken with a Nikon D700 camera and 18-200 mm VR lens (ISO 200, 36 mm, f/8, 1/640 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, and B&W conversion using NIK Silver Efex 2.
Beard or No Beard. My passport is valid for less than 6 months, and many countries will not let you enter with less than 6 months, so I need to have the passport renewed. I decided that I wouldn’t have the bushy beard on the passport photo so started cutting it off today. The battery on the electric razor ran out at this point. Should I take the rest off? Images taken with a Fuji X-T1 camera and 56 mm f/1.2 lens. I had to guess at the focus point, trying to get the eyes in focus as I moved from the camera on a tripod to standing in front of the “Tree of Life with Birds” sand painting from Bagan, Burma.
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Star Trails and Clouds Looking South. By early morning condensation on the lens made the center of the images blurry. Each image is a composite of 50 images taken with a Nikon D810a camera and 14-24 mm f/2.8 lens (ISO 200, 14 mm, f/4, 120 sec). Raw images processed with Capture One Pro and the composite created using Photoshop CC (statistics, maximum).
I have had this problem with condensation (and in the winter frost) with this lens in the past. I am looking into getting a flexible electric heater strap, just to heat the lens slightly to prevent the condensation. Other recommendations to solve this problem?
Bumblebee working a late summer Bearded Beggartick flower at the Sourland Mountain Preserve. Image taken with a Nikon D800 camera and 70-200 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 100, 200 mm, f/4, 1/1600 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC.
