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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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Was doing a photo shoot for the University of Alabama Student Veteran's Group today and came up with a photo that I think will be a killer shot. I single solder standing in the middle of a student square in front of a fountain with 100s of student milling about. The solder is perfectly still and I shoot from tripod at a very slow shutter speed. Somewhere in the 5 to 15 second range. Figured out today that is impossible at mid-day.

Just ordered a 77mm 3.0 ND MRC Filter. Is supposed to give me 10 stops. That should do what I want and then some. Can't wait to try it for all sorts of special shots. I got the 77mm so it will fit my 11-16 and then a step up adapter so I can use it on my 67mm 18-140 zoom to.

I love new toys.
 
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Don Kuykendall said:
Was doing a photo shoot for the University of Alabama Student Veteran's Group today and came up with a photo that I think will be a killer shot. I single solder standing in the middle of a student square in front of a fountain with 100s of student milling about. The solder is perfectly still and I shoot from tripod at a very slow shutter speed. Somewhere in the 5 to 15 second range. Figured out today that is impossible at mid-day.

Just ordered a 77mm 3.0 ND MRC Filter. Is supposed to give me 10 stops. That should do what I want and then some. Can't wait to try it for all sorts of special shots. I got the 77mm so it will fit my 11-16 and then a step up adapter so I can use it on my 67mm 18-140 zoom to.

I love new toys.
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Sounds like a great idea! :cool: Are you looking to completely remove the people who are milling around or simply to blur them? It will be interesting to see your results. :)

You might want to invest in a 77mm front lens cap for the times when the ND filter is on your 18-140mm lens. Otherwise you will probably need to remove the ND filter every time you put your lens with the step up ring/filter in its bag.
 
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Bill16

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Thanks to my good buddy @Eduard I'm now adding a Nikon 1 V1 with grip and 10-30mm lens to my camera gear! I'm really looking forward to trying out the mirrorless side of the Nikon coin! :D
 
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Bill16

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Well I'm really liking the Nikon 1 V1 though my laptop hates to deal with the files for some reason. So I my switch to jpegs to make it easier.:D

My Nikkor AF 28mm f/2.8 arrived too, but so far I'm not thrilled with it as some of you predicted. But I try some other types of shots to see if I can like it for some things anyway. :(
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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I don't know but it has a 2gb video card not on the motherboard (nvidia), and it's a i7 core processor, with a 1 tb hard drive, and 8 gb of RAM....I'd have to pay $2500 for the same guts this PC has if I bought a Mac. No thank you apple.

by the way.....you should only totally edit one picture at a time....but you can do some things like white balance to multiple shots.....but editing isn't my strongest point yet....I'm still trying to learn the tricks of the trade with Lightroom.
 
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RocketCowboy

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Yup, it's the video card that blows up the apple pricing, plus I don't think they put spinning disks on anything except the Mac Mini and iMac anymore...nothing mobile. It's all SSD, for higher price.


My "how many pictures can you edit" was just a friendly poke. :) Unless batch editing, usually the slowest part of the process is me.


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Krs_2007

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Well birthday gift cards at best buy and can't find anything so I picked up a SB-910. What a flash, seems to be a lot more features than the 700.
 
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