It’s been a while, but I was able to head out and get some shots at the gardens over the past few days. Here are my fav 6.
Springtime at the Gardens
recent anoles
The past two times I’ve been out to the gardens have included several nice anole pictures, as well as a couple of other random shots. Here’s a wrap-up of some of the shots.
Custom White Balance Video Tutorial
habitat – 2 feburary
Today was groundbreaking at our Habitat for Humanity house. We went from a concrete slab to having the trusses put on the roof in a single day. Gallery full of pictures is available here.
Where have all the flowers gone?
So over the past few weeks while I’ve been not posting, I had a few opportunities to take the camera out and snap some pictures… Here’s a brief sampling of the flowers you can still see in early January in College Station.
More pictures from the break to come later…
udvar-hazy
Some shots from the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy complex at Dulles. Full gallery available here
dc, part 1
Got a chance to head out and take some pictures today. Here are 6 that I liked a bit. Hopefully more picturage in the next few days.
Some additional D300 images
I promise I’ve been doing things other than taking pictures, but the D300 has been quite fun to play with. A few additional shots…
Additional Nikon D300 Sample Images
Since my first post about the D300 is generating some traffic, I thought I’d post some additional pictures here. If you want to see full resolution shots of any of these images, please feel free to contact me.
nikon d300 – test shots and first thoughts
Got my D300 yesterday and had an opportunity to go and take some shots with it. Let me say from the first that I am rather impressed. I wasn’t sure how much of a step it would be over the D200, but results so far are rather impressive.
High noise levels are, so far, fairly impressive. One shot taken yesterday:
This image was taken @ ISO 1600, F11, 1/250. Here is a 1:1 crop:
Obviously, noise levels are fairly well controlled.
An example @ ISO 3200:
This sample is particularly interesting as it contains both deep shadows and strong highlights. Even in the transition and highlight->shadow gradients, the results are very impressive.
A third example, this time from 6400:
These results from 6400 are likewise encouraging, but my initial tests containing deep shadows on 6400 aren’t quite so nice. There does seem to be a good bit of chroma noise in the darkest of shadows, but I’m going to hold off on making a definite statement on that until I’ve had a chance to shoot with it some more.
At the end of the day, though, the D300 seems to do very well in the noise department, though we’ll see how that stacks up in general use.
Some more general shots from the day, as well as a full gallery:
