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A Nikon D3 Shot from Glacier

By Scott on Friday, September 21st, 2007 at 5:28 pm | updates.

Here’s one from last night’s shoot at Glacier (click for a larger version). It was raining pretty steadily last night, so our sunset shoot was out, but when it rains it’s the perfect time to shoot streams (you can get that silky water from long exposures, and the rocks are wet, too). Unfortunately, this is shot at 100 ISO, so it doesn’t take advantage of the D3’s incredibly low noise, but I thought I’d at least throw one up. I’ve learned more cool things about the D3, and I’ll share more next week.

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the D300, but unfortunately there’s not one here for me to shoot, so at this point, I have no idea how it compares to the D3, but as soon as I get to field test one; you’ll be the first to know.

I got a couple of shots this morning at our dawn shoot, and I’ve another shoot late this afternoon (it’s still cold, but not as cold, and it’s a bright beautiful day. I’m lovin’ it!). Have a great weekend everybody, and I’ll see you on Monday.

-Scott

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^#1

Hi Scott,

The photo is beautiful. I tried to do the flowing water trick by shooting the fountains in front of Mandalay Bay at Midnight. They turned out fairly good, but not as good as yours. I do appreciate all of the motivation and inspiration that you provide me with your work.

Thanks,

Mike Reeves

Michael Reeves on September 21st, 2007 at 5:36 pm

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Scott:
What software or plug in do you use to create the pop up display when you click on your photos to enlarge them?

Mike Goodwin on September 21st, 2007 at 6:47 pm

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Hey Scott,
Great shots as always. I was wondering how hard it would be to post the shooting data along with some of these great photos.. What was the lens, shutter speed, ISO, f-Stop, any filters, etc..
Even Moose gives us the camera make and model and the lens used on his blog. Now, Im not saying you should 1-up Moose, but a little bit of healthy competition doesn’t hurt…

Thanks.
Alan

Alan Hess on September 21st, 2007 at 6:49 pm

^#4

Mike, I believe Scott is using Wordpress for his blog and the plug-in for the photos is likely “lightbox”.

Ken on September 21st, 2007 at 8:36 pm

^#5

The waterfall is incredible but the lower left corner has a holographic effect from looking underwater. Blows me away.

Al Marsh on September 21st, 2007 at 8:42 pm

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This spring in Tennessee, Bill Fortney insisted we wait until it rained to photograph the waterfall, because then the rocks would be wet. But then it was raining. My plan next time is to find the waterfall and throw in the famous photography teacher. Rocks wet, no rain.

Janine Smith on September 22nd, 2007 at 12:09 am

^#7

Scott, do you really mean 100 ISO as the D3 has a minimum of 200 ISO but also has Lo. With such a long exposure, that one stop makes a huge difference between .5sec and 1 sec. Start piling on the polarizers.

Great job on a really powerful picture.

Ian

Ian Spector on September 22nd, 2007 at 4:17 am

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Absolutely love the picture!!!!

Carlo on September 22nd, 2007 at 5:20 am

^#9

Any chance you could post the full size of that image? Please… It’d make a sweet wallpaper.

Matt on September 22nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm

^#10

Love the picture, as well…have preordered my D3, and can’t wait for it to arrive!!

David Baker on September 23rd, 2007 at 5:42 pm

^#11

Hi Scott,

I would like to second the request for more information on your photographs. It would really help photographers who are trying to do more nature work who don’t have the background -

I also was wondering how hard it would be to post the shooting data along with some of these great photos.. What was the lens, shutter speed, ISO, f-Stop, any filters, etc..

Thanks for considering this!

Cheers

Suzie on September 23rd, 2007 at 6:24 pm

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Hey Scott,

I am a landscape shooter that pushes my D2X pretty hard. I often get solid 30×45 shots of gallery quality prints with my unit (of course being very careful).

Haveing used both cameras (the D3 and the D2X) have you pushed any files in printing and is there a noticable diffrence in detail using the new unit with the new lenses? (assuming you have used the likes of the 14-24 lens)

Oh…and nice work. Long time since I have been there to Baring Creek over in Glacier….

Here is my D70 shot from a few years back.

http://www.pbase.com/romansphotos/image/54791710/original

Keep up the good work!!!! And thanks for being a trusted source of info on the new D3.

Roman
http://www.pbase.com/romansphotos