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NIKON Z 6_2

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Aperture 63/10 ISO 2500 Shutter 1/1000 Focal Length 700/10

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Mar, 2023

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This took numerous shots from various angles until I got the right location for the bird and the flower.

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Horses being herded on a Colorado mountain ranch through a foggy morning.

Sunset over Davidson Mesa east of Boulder Valley

Milford Sound at Sunset AND Low Tide taken in April of 2014. The sunset was actually the '2nd showing' with amazing light on clouds in the a

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Wildflowers on a hillside near Crested Butte Colorado

Taken from an overlook off of the ski road to Coronet Peak ski area above Queenstown New Zealand in the Fall (April) of 2014. My traveling photographe

New Zealand South Island south of Aoraki-Mt Cook

Blooms in old downtown Louisville Colorado before another snow storm passed through

Waiting to take the elevator to the new observation decks of WTC1 and took this shot looking straight up 1,776 feet.

Drove up to Joshua Tree National Park before dawn at the end of October 2016 and stopped at the Hemingway overlook in the park. It was overcast but fo

Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken on a ranch in the foothills west of the city of Loveland in Colorado before sunset.

Time

This was taken in late afternoon of late February so the light was very low.

Lighting

Due to the low light from the late winter afternoon, I needed to increase my camera sensor's ISO to enable a faster shutter speed to capture the movement of the horses and the ranch hands.

Equipment

I used a Nikon mirror less Z6 ii camera body with a Nikon VR 70-200mm f/4 tele-zoom lens that was handheld.

Inspiration

I wanted to capture the movement of the horses with the riders across the pasture of the ranch with the foothills in the background to get the 'essence' of a western landscape image.

Editing

I did post-processing using Adobe Lightroom Classic to adjust the tones and bring attention (using gradient filter tools) to the horses and the riders.

In my camera bag

In addition to my Nikon Z6 ii camera body, I usually keep a 70-200mm f/4 telezoom lens with an FTZ adapter to it will mount on the Z6ii, along with a Z 24-120mm F/4 lens, and a 16-35mm f/4 wide-zoom lens, plus a rocket blower sensor cleaner, spare batteries and extra SD storage cards, and a wired shutter release cable.

Feedback

Don't be afraid to raise your camera's ISO high enough to use a faster shutter speed to freeze the action in this low light situation. Camera sensors do a fairly good job of minimizing 'noise' from the higher ISO and there are great tools like TOPAZ AI that will eliminate sensor noise.

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