Image From Golden Pavillion, Kyoto, Japan

Everything is golden about this place, simply beautiful. Nikon, 105mm Micro VR lens

Beautiful Dancing Fairy

This image of the beautiful dancing fairy was taken at Disneyland, Tokyo, with a Nikon D2H. The image was captured with the Nikon 17-55mm zoom at 55mm, this lens is great for photojournalism type photography.

Flowers

This little flower was taken at the Toowoomba flower festival. The image was taken with a Nikon D2H camera and a Nikon 105mm Micro lens. This Micro lens is very suited to flower photography and can give extremely sharp results.

Disney on Parade at Disneyland, Tokyo Japan

This image was captured at Disneyland, Tokyo, Japan during the Disney on Parade show. The Nikon D2H was used together with the Nikon 17-55 mm lens. Disneyland is a wonderful opportunity for photography.

Bollards at Geelong

Along the Geelong foreshore there are many bollards which illustrate aspects of the Geelong area, this bollard in the following image represents the Geelong Football Club. The image was taken with a Nikon D2H camera with 17-55mm lens. This lens is very suitable as a general purpose lens. 

Shooting in the Raw and a Beautiful Fairy

Digital cameras give you plenty of opportunity to improve your photography. Most digital cameras have settings to enable you to shoot in the raw mode, tiff mode or jpg mode. Shooting in the raw mode gives you a lot more opportunity to improve your images, corrections can be made to white balance, adjustments can be made to brightness and contrast to improve the dynamic range of the image. Shooting in raw mode retains all the original information captured by the cameras sensor. Shooting in tiff mode generally retains most of the image details but produces extremely large file sizes. Shooting in jpg mode compresses the image and some of the detail is lost. The image below of the beautiful fairy was taken with a Nikon D2H in raw mode, the Nikon 17-55mm lens was used at 55mm. This image was taken at Disneyland, Tokyo, Japan.

Have a Laugh

This image was taken at Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan. A Nikon D2H camera wa used together with the Nikon 17-55mm lens. The image was taken at 50mm, F/4.0 and 1/1250 second. The image was taken during the day parade. Digital photography gives great potention for enhancing and improving images, with this image being processed in Photoshop to give it a slight increase in saturation.

Daisy Flower – Nikon 105mm VR Lens

This image of the daisy flower has been enhanced by a slight increase in saturation and slight sharpening The image was taken with a Nikon D2H and 105mm VR lens.

How to Take Lightning Images

Over the last week we have had many storms, together with plenty of thunder and lightning, I was thinking how good it would be to capture some lightning with the camera. I set the camera up on a tripod with a remote control cable to avoid any camera movement, the camera was focussed on an area where I was observing pleny of lightning and the shutter was held open for sufficient time to capture the lightning flashes. This is pretty much the same technique that I would use to capture fireworks, however the lightning happens much quicker and is less predictable in where it is going to occur.

The images below were both taken with a Nikon D2H with the 17-55mm lens. The first image was taken at f/6.3, 12 seconds and with the lens at 17mm. The second image was taken at f/6.3 at 15 seconds and the lens at 17mm. The camera was set up to implement long exposure noise reduction and the images were processed in Photoshop.

 

Fairy at Disneyland, Tokyo, Japan

This image of a fairy at Disneyland, Tokyo, Japan was taken with a Nikon D2H and a 17-55mm lens at 55mm. The image was processed in Photoshop with a small amount of sharpening and an inctrease in saturation.