a Sad Dog

This is my dog, the photo was taken some day ago (12th of March) when the new lens arrived.

I post this as in these few days the dog is suffering by some aches we cannot identify...
Nothing to worry too much about as it is only puking what he eats...
I remembered this shot and decided to publish it...
Heal yourself fast Ranma!

From the Image's EXIF:
Exposure Time: 1/39 sec.
ISO Speed Rating: 200

Obviously flash did not fire!

Here and Now (even better than last night)

Here I am in front of the PC.
Yesterday the light was off and I was playing to Battle For Wesnoth in my Linux box.

I find that game very intriguing... so I advise you to try it out (it's free!)!

My PC has one of those light emitting fan. I had never noticed the nice effects it have in the night.
Last night I tried to shot a photo of it...
With a screenshot of BfW it was not a reallyl inspiring one... so I got an idea.
Use the monitor of hte PC to display the image from yesterday and shoot another photo of the fan...
I would have done it on the instant but the battery was too low to shoot (not joking!)... So I had to wait...
For the second shot I have used the AF Nikkor 50mmm 1:1.4 I've bought used last week.

I've used a shutter speed of 1/25 and an ISO setting of 400 so I have succeeded in using f/4.0

Waiting for sunset

Here in ITaly we play rugby... just to say it all our most widespread sport is soccer, then you'll have many other more famous sports and in the end you'll have rugby... but we play it!

Our national representative (Italy Rugby Team) plays in the 6 Nations' Tournament every year.
England, France, Galles, Ireland, Italy and Scotland meet each other in the field once every year... it's really a show time!

Last Sunday we went seeing the match in the house of a frien d of ours (Italy has lost! :() and after losing the game I realized there was an almost perfect vignette to portrait.

I've taken this shot in portrait and later cropped to have a landscape as I was not fully sure how the sun reflection on the cars would have been after working with GIMP...

To say it all the effect was awful... so I cut them out!

The original photo was taken with a Nikon d300 and the 18-200 VRII, it was taken at F/13 with a shutter speed of 1/200" and at ISO 200.

glasses

This photo is an experiment in aperture...
I wanted to get only the reflection on some glasses you can find in a Castellammare's Pub where we usually go Friday's night.

The read light is from one of the neon enhanced mirrors you can find in pubs (I really do not know how properly address them) but I've enhanced the red component in PP when setting up UFRAW to import the photo in GIMP (yeah I know it is not PS3... But I have got that^_^)

This obviously has cancelled exif datas. But If I remember well this was taken with the d300 with 18/200 VR with a shutter speed of 1/3" and an aperture of f/4.0 (some more than f/3.5 as it is not taken at 18mm).
Obviously it was shot with a low ISO setting (200 or 300 ISO... seriously no more than that!).