Here’s one I grabbed the other day, and was especially happy about, seeing it “developed” later, inside on the computer monitor. What excited me was the fact that it was taken hand held at 1/15th of a second and is a sharp as I could want. I set shutter priority at that speed hoping to get some motion blur in the water (1/4th a second would have been better in that regard) while possibly not losing too much quality to camera shake. The 18-200mm Nikon VR lens seems to have done its work!
This shot, full res, makes a dandy desktop picture! Tell you what, if you’d like to use it, click this link to open the file (800k) and right click to “save as desktop image”. At least that should work in Windows. Let me know if it looks okay on your monitor, and if not, in future I can tweak resolution and aspect ratio, maybe, to improve things. (This is a limited time file; I’ll probably remove it from the server in a few days.)
That image stabilization stuff is really nice stuff. I find myself not toting the tripod more and more, using trees and rocks to brace and letting IS do it’s thing. Still in really low light or very slow shutter speeds the tripod is a necessity for sharp pics. Glad to see you’re enjoying the new toys.
thanks for the desktop Fred! very nice indeed. I made your house a “desktop for a day” here at work. hugs from PA – connie
This image is spectacular, Fred. Icy streams and the icicles suspended over them are some of my favorite photo ops ever – although I still have to do a fair bit of work on capturing them well.
beautiful