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It's not really a photo tips post this it's more of a classified ad. I'm hoping it will appeal to any Nikon collectors or fanatics out there.
I have recently acquired (from a relative) an Ultra Micro Nikkor 135mm f4 lens, this is an ultra rare affair made (by hand) circa 1965. I'm trying to a) see what it's worth and b) see who wants to buy it. It was used in a printing factory that needed lenses to take photos of circuit boards I think, apparently it can resolve down to 2 microns (0.002mm) so it's some kind of super macro lens. I rear a review from a quirky Japanese collector that stated "the god of light lives in this lens" I thought that sounded great. Anyway there is a gallery here showing some more pics of this lens here, If you know anyone who might be interested just drop me an email, I've had a crazy response from nikonhistoricalsociety already which is good, I'd like it to go to a good home, me being a canon shooter have no need for such items
Another ultra quick post because I need to go to bed, I've just been processing this one as it was literally the first one I looked at from a shoot this evening and I needed something to do while all the other photos were being imported. This was of my good friends who don't mind being photography guinea pigs! This isn't how I typically process a maternity shot, but I quite liked the effect, I imaging the rest will be in mono, I have another 293 of these to do! Anyway happy easter!
As I haven't been out taking many landscapes of late I thought I'd see if I have anything in the back catalog and came up with this one. This is from a field near my house as the sun was going down. I probably didn't work on it as I have a decent number of tree shots and try to avoid adding to them, but they are just so damn photogenic. I have done a bit of HDR on this one in Dynamic Photo. The exif was ISO200, 126mm, 1/640, f4 don't ask why I didn't go to ISO100 and have 1/320 it's not like the cows are the fastest of movers!
Two post in two days, I do have these fits and starts when it comes to posting photos. This was another from our ascent up to high street in the eastern fells of the lake district. This was looking back at the crag featured in the previous photo, I think this is called eagle crag (but could be wrong) apparently the last surviving golden eagle in England resides around here, very sad indeed. Anyway I've burnt the clouds a little to add a bit of drama and dodged the snow to make it slightly whiter. In retrospect I think it might be a bit too central but if I crop it I get rid of the dark cloud to the top left of the shot and I really wanted to keep him in.
On a completely unrelated point, I downloaded some free lightroom presets for any lightroom users, it is from a site called protography.com the link for the presets is here. They are pretty good if you need a bit of direction on how to process your shots.
I haven't posted for ages and I thought I'd get back with a HDR shot taken of my friend who went with me up high street in the lake district today. I was explaining how it is possible to process a RAW file for HDR but you are better using a bracketed exposure, obviously this isn't possibly for moving subjects. You used to have to process the raw file 3 times and blend them together in photoshop but it really is much easier to use a dedicated HDR program such as photomatix or the one used for this photo, dynamic photo hdr. The clouds were fairly thick but still had a bit of texture too them so I under exposed by 2/3 so I didn't blow them out. There are plenty of sliders to play with in dynamic photo it just depends how much you want to cook your image. The painterly effect (if thats the right word) is a new feature in the latest version, it's called match colour, then you chose which sort of colour set you want, I recommend you give it a try. The exif for this one was ISO200, 16mm, f8, 1/320.
Another quick post I'm afraid, this was another from a recent trip to the big smoke, I managed to walk around all day and came away with very little. I've processed this one in photomatix (although I tend to use dynamic photo for HDR stuff) then I tweaked it with some presets I have in Lightroom, it might be a bit overcooked for some but it was another one of those experimental things.
Someone told me I hadn't posted anything recently, I haven't been taking much worth posting to be honest, and this one is no exception in my opinion, I had to import a sky to make it a bit more interesting, anyway as I have to rush out I'll post in now and maybe edit in a bit.
It's not really a photo tips post this it's more of a classified ad. I'm hoping it will appeal to any Nikon collectors or fanatics out there. 
