City of Champions

On June 2nd I decided to drive to Pittsburgh and get some photos from Mt Washington. Since the Pens were playing that night for the Stanley Cup at Mellon Arena, I figured the city would be lit up pretty well. As it turned out the Pirates were also playing at home so PNC was also lit up, the only thing missing was some lights at Heinz Field. The photo I have here is a panorama I made in Photoshop with 4 images taken that night and merged together. It was pretty windy and I have a cheap tripod so the pic isn't as sharp as I would have liked it. I used my Nikon 14-24 f2.8 lens on the Canon 1DsMKIII camera body. The original image is 12 inches high by 50 inches long when printed, however this images is a much scaled down version.

Pine Hollow Run

Seems there must be a thousand Pine Hollows in this part of the state. But todays photo is from one in Hermitage, PA which if you've ever been here you might be surprised there are places that look like this. Shot this again with the Nikon lens on the Canon body. You may want to check out my photo on Pbaseof Leesburg Falls that I took last night with the same setup.

Growing Greener

Everything is green these days, well at least if you listen to all the commercials on television and radio. Even the president wants to promote green technology and green energy. So this is my contribution to the green cause today. hope you enjoy, it was taken with the Nikon 14-24 again.

Black and White

Didn't get to do anything serious with the Canon and Nikon 14-24 over the weekend but I did like the way this treetop image looked in black and white. I've been looking for scenes that will lend themselves to contrasty images lately so that I could shoot them with a black and white print in mind as an end result. The clouds over the last few days have been cooperating nicely, but the high winds have been a problem for any long exposures. I'm finding that shooting at about f8 is giving me the right sharpness across the image with this lens but there's nothing scientific behind why I think that. More images will follow as I get time.

Flare

I've been following a thread on FM Forums in the Alternate Lens section with photos demonstrating some pretty nice flare some intentional and some induced like the photo i've uploaded today. The NIkon 14-24 G does a pretty nice flare on its own. Beautiful warm day today with lots of wind, so I didn't get to do any extra shooting like I wanted because there was also lots of yard work :)

Maybe tomorrow I can spend some time shooting with this lens to try some other settings. I also want to set it up on a tripod to try some sharp well focused images to check how well it fares.

Nikon 14-24 f2.8 G on 1Ds MK3

The new lens arrived today as did the adaptor and am I ever having fun with this stuff. I got a late start tonite, but I managed to get out to Buhl Park and take some images of the Casino across Lake Julia. Also took some shots in the parking lot of the gallery of the sunset with some timed exposures to pick up headlights and brakes going by. All was pretty much an experiment so I could see how this setup works. The rotating adaptor that I bought used on FM Forums is from 16-9.net's site. It all went together fairly well, its just a little bit more involved than slapping a lens on the camera and taking pics. I must admit that the sensor of the camera had better be clean when shooting open at anything above f8. Most of my shots were at 14mm. You'll notice in the photo here that the distortion is very evident on both sides of the image. I tried to capture a lot of sky to bring out the clouds which were very nice in the north sky.