Getting High on the Job

Construction Worker
Nikon D200, 28-105mm@105mm, f/10 1/640, ISO 200

There is a new building going up on 6th Ave. between 42nd and 43rd. I caught this construction worker doing his thing, and then he caught me doing mine. At first I thought he was working without a net, then I noticed a saftey line clipped to his back. WiredNewYork has some interesting background on this project and others.


Nikon D200, 28-105mm@105mm, f/10 1/320, ISO 200

Poor Man’s Macro

Micro Drive
Camera: Nikon D200 Lens: 28-105 with 6T filter F/8 1/40th sec ISO 400

One lens I like to ‘take everywhere’ is the Nikon 28-105 AF-D. I purchased this lens back in my film days, and continue to use it alot with my digital bodies. This lens features a ‘close up mode’ that gets you to 1/2 life size on the image sensor. I also use a Nikon 6T close up filter. Apparently this filter has been in short supply lately, but at $50 it is a real bargin. The quality of the images with this filter is excellent. It gets soft at the edges, but the results are still impressive. The photo above is of a dead Hitachi Microdrive removed from an ipod. Here is a 640×480 crop from the original image :

Micro Drive Crop
Micro Drive Close Up

The tiny platter from the microdrive is about the size of a quarter. It has a highly polished reflective surface that makes an excellent mirror. The flowers below were about 1.5 feet from the microdrive. The D200 had no trouble focusing on the tiny reflection on the platter:

Micro Drive
Camera: Nikon D200 Lens: 28-105 with 6T filter F/7.1 1/50th sec ISO 400

A photo blog by Sean Unruh