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Holy crap, I have been using Nikon for almost 4 decades and I never even knew this lens existed! It is an ULTRA-Micro-Nikkor no less! None of that pedestrian regular Micro Nikkor crap. It is of course in M39 filter thread, so maybe I could get it and put it on my enlarger Nikon Ultra Micro...

I took this image of Shawna several years ago in one of the many cannon emplacements at FT Pickens at the western tip of our Pensacola Beach barrier island. It is a very old fort, built in the 1830's and was actually active all the way through WWII protecting our port from German U-boats. They...

If a Led Zeppelin song immediately comes to mind, you are an old fart like me! Although this may be considered by some here to be an act of heresy, first allow me to explain before passing judgment on me. If that does not do it, well then just break out the torches, axes and pitchforks and...

I love shooting with my 16mm f/2.8 Fisheye AIS Nikkor, it never seems to disappoint when it comes to interesting images. Below is a stock file photo I found on the web of the water tower at our beach water tower. It is painted to look, appropriately enough, like a beach ball. I stood at the...

This one goes waaaay back (around 1984). I was walking the beach on northern Whidbey Island, WA and saw this scene. What really caught my eye was the two barnacles on the carapace of the small crab. They are perfectly in the center and looked like eyes to me. The sharp angular lines of the crab...

Has anyone else experienced the rubber grips on their D700 starting to peel off? It appears to me that the double sided adhesive they used to attach them has lost its stickiness. I would rather try repairing it myself rather than spend the rather expensive (for what it is) amount for another set...

I work with someone who is starting her own modeling agency business. She called me and asked if I could do some headshots for someone. We met at her house and I set up a pretty rudimentary light setup; just a single strobe bounced into a white umbrella. Certainly not what I would have done had...

I have played tennis all of my life and even went to UNC on a tennis scholarship. That being said, I love to photograph tennis events. When I was living in Jacksonville, FL the tennis community at Amelia Island hosted a week long tournament each year sponsored by Bausch and Lomb. It was open to...

I really have not done a lot in the way of HDR, and Photoshop CS5's HDR really screws things up more than it enhances it. I wind up having to do post processing on the HDR post processing, which seems self defeating Are there any free HDR programs out there that are worth the effort? I use it...

One of the most challenging kinds of portraiture, for me at least, is what I call "black on black". In this case it was more like "black on black on black". We have an Asian woman with jet black hair, wearing a black corset against a black background. To break her away from the background I used...

Our bank downtown has some pretty unique architecture to it. One corner of the building comes to a very sharp point though the roof is still flat. I used a 20mm f/2.8 AI Nikkor on a D700 and shot pointing the camera up, wildly exaggerated the perspective and making it appear as though both the...

I still use it all the time with film, both in 35mm and 2¼ but find myself using it even with my D700 for general exposure as well. My Pentax Spotmeter V is still going strong after 30 years, though I do get some curious looks from some folks when I use it. I have actually been asked what kind...

I am new to this forum and I want to make sure I have clarification on one point in the posting guidelines. The guidelines stipulate no pornographic images, which should come as no surprise to anyone, but does that include all nudes? Can tasteful and artful nudes be included in one's portfolio?

I love closeup work, especially of insects. There are so many intricate structures on them that we would never othewise see with the naked eye. This one is my favorite. I am not really sure what kind fo fly it is, but it was small, perhaps 4mm long at most. I used a D700 and a 50mm f/1.4 AI...

I am originally from Raleigh, NC but have lived in Pensacola, FL, for the last 24 years. I am as far west in the Florida panhandle as you can go before being in Alabama. I have been using Nikon cameras and lenses sinces 1974. I started with an F2 Photomic and 50mm f/2 Auto Nikkor-H and over the...