#Nikon Imaging Cloud

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Nueva Nikon Z 50II: domina el brillo en un toque con el control creativo de color

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[metropolitant]

NIKON Z6III: THE ULTIMATE FULL-FRAME MID-RANGE CAMERA

[thorsenmark]

Amazing Wildlife Explored in Katmai (Katmai National Park & Preserve) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I captured this image at the Falls Platform with a view looking to the southeast downstream of the Brooks River to some people fishing while observing brown bears in Katmai National Park. My thinking was to pull back a little on the focal length to include more of the surrounding forest. With that setting, it would capture more of the feeling of the landscape and wildlife in this part of the national park.

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Convection in Blue

Convection cells like these are all around us -- in the clouds, on the Sun, and in our pans -- but we rarely get to watch them in action.  (Video and image credit: W. Zhu; via Nikon Small World in Motion) Read the full article

[mutant-distraction]

"Wow! Absolutely biblical skies in Tasmania, Australia at 4am this morning. Huge solar storm and brilliant aurora. Here’s the image. I actually had to de-saturate the colours. Clouds glowing red. Insane. Shot on Nikon." from Sean O'Riordan.

[renderprism]

Large Magellanic Cloud, 26th Dec 2023

This is my first attempt at a properly tracked and stacked image of a deep space object (and one of the few easily photographed from my sheltered yard).

Shot with a Nikon 50mm f1.8 G lens adapted to mft for my Lumix G85. About 280x 15sec exposures went into this, stacked and processed with Siril (and a little bit of touch up and recomposing in GIMP).

[godtier]

***please don't repost these images, thank you! reblogs are fine, but don't save and repost!***

some photos i took during the eclipse, using my nikon DSLR! i live in what was the direct pathway of the event, so i thought i'd try to get some decent shots today. the last photo in the set is actually a still/screenshot of a video i took, but the video is huge and i don't want to rerender it rn to post to tumblr sobs

there was also a rly weird thing that happened and idk if anyone can tell me what it was... but in one of those shots there's like a double or triple image? i thought i messed up the shot, but when i looked up through my eclipse glasses, i saw the same weird double image... so i'm guessing it was a reflection off of the clouds nearby.

lastly, since someone may wonder or ask why the photos are pitch-black even before totality: that's because i had a very powerful solar/ND filter on my lens! i'll explain:

it's not something i see talked about often, but when you take pics of the sun, even during an eclipse (EXCEPT during totality), you will want to protect your camera's sensor with a solar lens filter. cameras can "go blind" just like people, where the sensor gets burned by the UV light and subsequent photos might be all distorted in spots where the sunlight was beaming brightest!

anyway, i hope y'all like the pics!

[allthingsfern]

Why I have not been taking many new photos

So, in about a couple of weeks, I will be getting my cataract surgery for my right eye. As it is now, my right eye is kinda clouded over. I can still bike ride and drive, for example, but when I was at the ophthalmologist's office the last two times, the young man who takes images of the inside of my eye could not capture the back of my right eye because the cataract is so thick, so he had to use some kind of ultrasound thing they do? Anyway, it is very difficult for me to take photographs through the viewfinder because the camera, like all cameras, is pretty much set up for right-handed use. I can look through my left eye, but it is uncomfortable for taking pictures, so I stopped a while back, unless I could take my time and take the pictures at home. And yes, I could take pictures using the screen on the back of the camera, but it is not very bright, and for most light conditions it's just not something I'm comfortable with.

I have not, however, stopped working on photography, since I have been going back through my files and reworking some photographs, as well as going through Tumblr and liking and sharing photos on Lux Lit. Plus, I never stop watching YouTube videos and/or reading online articles and I started reading Margaret Bourke-White's autobiography, so yeah, I am doing photography, just not taking pictures.

My second surgery, BTW, will be a few days before Christmas.

I am not very nervous about my upcoming surgeries, because, in great part, I trust my ophthalmologist. He takes the time to explain everything, and he has a sense of humor about the whole thing, which helps me immensely. Also, my sisters, well, my oldest sister (she is the second born, after me) and her best friend are coming to stay with me to help me through my first surgery. They will be here for five days. Then for my surgery on my left eye, a very close friend (coincidentally, the guy who sold me the used Nikon D50 that started me back on photography and a great photographer himself) and his wife volunteered to take me in at their place to make certain everything goes smoothly.

Why am I sharing this? Well, I remember several years ago, when my kit lens for my D50 broke (BTW, the only lens I owned for that camera), that someone who followed me back then mentioned they could not think of themselves not taking pictures often, if not daily. Back then I actually went about 2 months without taking pictures before I wound up buying a used lens that worked beautifully. Since then, I have learned to very calmly accept periods of not making pictures, in great part, because as I mentioned above, I still keep doing photography, which means reworking old images, looking at all y'alls photos on Tumblr and sharing some of them on Lux Lit, and learning about photography via articles and YouTube videos and such. Oh yeah, and every so often talking to photographers I know about our beloved art form. For me, not taking pictures, not making pictures is still a part of the creative process, if one where I don't necessarily "create stuff." I've learned to have a very Zen attitude towards it all.

Kinda like life.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Exploring Russia’s Krenitsyna Volcano

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photo of Onekotan Island while orbiting over the northwest Pacific Ocean. Onekotan is part of the Kuril Islands, an archipelago extending between the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia and Hokkaido in Japan. The photo shows Krenitsyna Volcano, located on the southern side of the island.

The low-oblique angle of the photograph accentuates the terrain, particularly cliffs, coastlines, and mountains. Note that the photo has been rotated (north is down) to minimize an optical illusion known as relief inversion.

The Tsar-Rusyr caldera is the crater-like depression visible in this image. Calderas form when the ground collapses into a partially emptied magma chamber during a large eruption. This caldera is surrounded by steep 300-meter (1000-foot) cliffs that cast shadows along the eastern interior of the volcano.

The caldera holds the blue waters of Kol’tsevoye Lake, which contrasts with the surrounding vegetated summer landscape. Reaching depths of up to 370 meters (1,200 feet), the lake is one of the deepest in Russia. Its surface reflects sunlight back to the camera, producing sunglint, and it also mirrors the clouds drifting above the central peak.

Situated at the center of the caldera is Krenitsyna Peak, which stands approximately 1,300 meters (4,200 feet) above sea level. The slopes of this stratovolcanic peak consist of dark-colored valleys and ridges, caused by volcanic flows and erosive processes, that reach the surface of Kol’tsevoye Lake. The last eruption of this complex occurred in November 1952 and was categorized as “moderate,” with a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 3.

West of the caldera, a mountain system is visible on the right side of the image. This rugged terrain contrasts with the opposite side of the caldera, where the landscape flattens out as it reaches the Pacific Ocean. Small patches of bright snow and ice remain in the valleys between the mountain and the coastline.

Astronaut photograph ISS069-E-71110 was acquired on August 19, 2023, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a focal length of 1,150 millimeters. It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 69 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Chloe Locke, JETS II Contract at NASA-JSC.

[eclipse89]

jupiter, at 3 different levels of magnification

firstly, a shot from my phone camera from last year- essentially no magnification. just looks like a bright star here.

second level: a shot from my nikon camera at 300mm with a telephoto lens. you can just barely see jupiter's moons here, the little dots in a line around it. no detail on jupiter yet, still too small.

and finally, two shots through my 8 inch dobsonian telescope (using phone camera), at 1200mm. pretty much equivalent to the longest telephoto lens you can get.

at this focal length detail like the larger/more prominent cloud bands and great red spot are visible (can't see the spot here since it was on the other side of jupiter when i took the photo), along with the moons being very easily visible if you expose for them (hence why there's two photos here)

soon i plan on getting a real planetary camera, and will probably get a 2x barlow along with it, letting me get far higher quality images at double the focal length (2400mm or so)

will reblog this and update it when that happens !! stay tuned

(edit: just realized jupiter won't be visible again until june at the earliest. unless i get it very very soon and get a shot before it goes away you may have to stay tuned for a little while)

[the-hikers-eye-photography]

Sunsets and Long Exposures

Before the recent storms I was able to head out to a spot along the local coast to do some exploring and set up a few compositions. I was most intetested in featuring the incoming storm clouds and the really cool rock formations that this location has to offer as foreground interest.

These clouds really do a great job of leading the eye into the frame as they function as leading lines due to how they just out into the water. This is important because it adds depth to the photo and tends to give the viewer the feeling they could possibly step right into the image and walk off into the distance.

I shot this on what is almost certainly my favorite camera I have ever owned, the Nikon D750 (I paired it with the Nikkor 16-35 mm f/4 wide angle lens). I've owned more compact and contemporaty set ups, higher resolution set ups, and setups that were far more suited for hybrid (an equal balance between photography and videography) run-and-gun style shooting, and while I do like other cameras more for their video features, the quality of the Nikon image files never fails to bring me joy.

I had briefly toyed with the idea of selling the camera some time back to balance out a little of the cost of a newer rig I was tempted to buy, I'm glad I didn't. I most definitely would have regretted it.

Dear Nikon D750,

You're the best.

Sincerely,

Me.

Let's go exploring.

[theforestlore]

Precipitation in Form, this image was taken in the foothills of the Border Ranges National Park in the early morning where cloud condenses on warm pockets of mixed sclerophyll forest and sub tropical rainforest. This area is known for its wide variety of ecologically important flora and fauna now protected it was once logged heavily up until the 1980s of its precious hard timber.

1/125sec / f/16 / iso250

Nikon 50mm

Open for full res.

[garyquayphotography]

“Overlooking Wishram, Washington, December 2023.”

©2023 Gary L. Quay

It was an interesting day for clouds. To the west was an "atmospheric river". To the east was sunbreaks flashing across the sky, sometimes illuminating the landscape on full or partial light. It was a good display of the rain shadow effect caused by the Cascade Mountains. It was a much better day to be in the semi arid east side of Oregon and Washington than in the drenched west.

This is a panorama made of two images. The 100mm Zeiss is perfect for this because it has no distortion.

Camera: Nikon D810

Lens: 100mm Zeiss Makro-Planar ZF2

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Heading Up to Denali from Talkeetna by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the northwest at a railroad crossing point along the bridge of the Talkeetna River. This is the railline that continues north from Talkeetna up to Denali. I had a chance during a break between the trains coming by to orient and compose this image with the tracks as a leading line, looking off into the distance.

[eopederson2]

Quartet of Snowy Volcanoes

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Today’s Image of the Day is part of a series highlighting wintertime photographs of Earth shot by astronauts on the International Space Station. View the full collection here.

The wintertime sky was mostly cloud-free on February 10, 2022, when the International Space Station passed over the Cascade Mountains. Four of the range’s prominent volcanoes—Rainier, St. Helens, Adams, and Hood—were on full display that day when an astronaut on the orbiting laboratory took this photograph.

A ridge of high pressure offshore brought drier-than-normal conditions to much of the U.S. West for the first half of the month. Such high-pressure systems can cause the air aloft to sink, eliminating high- and mid-level clouds. They can also lead to temperature inversions, when warm air above acts like a lid and traps cooler, denser air close to the surface. As a result, low level clouds and fog can form.

Over several days in February 2022, dense fog hung in the lowlands between the Cascade and Coast ranges in Washington and Oregon. Some of that fog is visible in the bottom-right corner of this image where it filled valleys along the west side of the Cascades. Note that north is oriented toward the bottom-left of this image.

The dry spell followed an especially wet autumn and early winter in 2021-2022, bringing ample snowfall to the Cascades and its eastern slopes. Snow still covered the higher elevations and eastern slopes at the time of this image.

Even in summer, the iconic volcanoes are still capped with white snow and glacial ice. Mount Rainier, the range’s tallest peak at 14,410 feet (4,393 meters), contains more than five times the glacier area of all the other Cascade volcanoes combined, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Mount Baker, a volcano located about 130 miles (210 kilometers) north of Mount Rainier and beyond the scope of this image, comes in second.

Astronaut photograph ISS066-E-140837 was acquired on February 10, 2022, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a focal length of 130 millimeters. It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 66 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

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Four of the range’s prominent volcanoes—Rainier, St. Helens, Adams, and Hood—were on full display in February 2022.

Image of the Day for December 25, 2022 Instrument:ISS — Digital CameraAppears in these Collections:Astronaut PhotographyWinter from the International Space Station"

Source: NASA Earth Observatory

[brianrope]

Perisher Cloud

This article first was published (with one extra paragraph not relevant here) in the October 2024 issue of The Printer, the online magazine of the Australian Photographic Society’s Print Group here. Perisher Cloud is a straightforward landscape image. The image was taken on a Nikon D700 with a Tamron AF 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD Aspherical IF Macro A20N lens. The focal length was 78mm.…