Weekly Challenge March 18th-25th. "N"

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Blacktop

Senior Member
"N" - (Nikonpup)'s Choice

LIKE THE "LAST LETTER GAME" IN "OFF TOPIC". ALL SHOTS SUBMITTED FOR THE CHALLENGE
MUST HAVE THE LETTER "N" AT THE START OF THE TITLE FOR THE SHOT. NEEDLE - NEGLIGEE - NEIGHBOR - NEST-
NET - NIKON - PHOTO MUST BE RELATED TO THE TITLE.

Let's see how creative you can be! Color, B&W, HDR...anything goes!

DO NOT SHOOT OR POST IMAGES UNTIL WEDNESDAY March 18th
This early announcement of the topic is to give a little think time, before the challenge begins. Photos must be taken and submitted between 00:00 UTC of the start date and 00:00 UTC of the end date.

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The Rules

1. Photos must be posted to the thread in order to be considered for the challenge. No gallery images or off-site links (flickr, 500px, etc) will be accepted.

2. Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread.

3. Only one photo entry per member for each week, unless otherwise noted.

4. All regularly active members of Nikonites are allowed to participate, including moderators and administrators.

Voting

During the submission & like periods, please click the Thanks/Like button to vote for your favorite images. You can vote for as many as you want! At the end of the week, you will have the opportunity to vote again for the top 3 photos for this challenge!

There will be no cash or prizes awarded for the Weekly Photo Challenges, unless specifically noted by the site administrator.

Any photo will be accepted for the challenge. Edited or straight out of the camera, it does not matter. You are left with complete freedom to do whatever genre of photography you wish to do, and your own interpretation of the challenge subject.
 
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paul04

Senior Member
"Nailed it"

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Bob Blaylock

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
Blacktop said:
Not in focus?
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The odd focus is intentional. It's an effect that that particular lens produces at wider apertures, and I intentionally used it that way to get this effect. Notice that the middle of the picture is in sharp focus, getting softer the farther out from the middle. I could have stopped the lens down tighter, and got a picture that was more sharp overall, or just used a different lens. I wanted this effect.

See http://nikonites.com/education/2552...tionship-vivitar-85-205mm-f3-8-tele-zoom.html for a more complete explanation of this lens and its odd characteristics.

Also intentional, is the very shallow depth-of-field, which, of course, is an expected characteristic of a long lens used at a relatively close range.

If you look again, you'll see that the text on the lens itself is in sharp focus, the camera body, perhaps an inch behind, is a bit softer, and the edges are showing just a bit of the distortion that is a characteristic of this lens toward the wider side of its aperture range.

Oddly, even though it really isn't usably resolved, if I let my eyes and my brain relax in just the right way while I look at this picture, I can read the number “1.4” displayed in the little window just up and right of the last “n” in “Nikon”, indicating that the lens is properly coupled and recognized by the camera as having a maximum aperture of ƒ/1.4. If I try to look directly at it, and focus on it, it turns into an unreadable blur.
 
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Bob Blaylock

Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
Blacktop said:
Made up words are not allowed. Unless it's a UK thing, I never heard it before. Sorry!
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In Felisek's defense, I'll say, that I've seen “nom nom nom” before a number of times, so he didn't make it up. From the context in which I have seen it, it generally seems to be associated with eating some particularly delicious treat; a bit of a stretch to apply it to a cat eating common cat food.

See Urban Dictionary: nom nom nom.
 
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