Sea Lion in icy pool

Kale- winter in ZOO from Stane Crnjak on Vimeo.

Seagulls at Miramare

Seagulls from Stane Crnjak on Vimeo.

IDMC-gospel singing

Beautiful singing. Nikon D90's sound don't do them justice. And my right arm is recovering after fingers being broken, so some jelly shaking is forgivable.



IDMC-gospel singing in Ljubljana from Stane Crnjak on Vimeo.

Sea Lion in ZOO

Nikon D90 and "auto" bracketing

This is what I have wrote about Nikon D80 bracketing:

Bracketing. Why you can't do it with self timer mode? Why must we press shutter release button for each »bracketing« separately? If anywhere, than with bracketing we do not need shaked images. They must match perfectly!

I don't know if Nikon engineers wanted to, but they fixed this problem. Now you can have an "auto bracketing" in self timer mode. In menu C3 choose self timer and in same menu select the number of shoots you want to take with self timer. This feature (number of shoots) does the trick. Set it to 3 shoots and (to make bracketing easier) set self timer to 2 seconds. "Engage" bracketing. Press shutter relese button and Nikon D90 takes 3 shoots automaticaly. Each exposed differently, as you set it in bracketing option. Nice, ha?

New baby Mara in Ljubljana ZOO

Today I was really glad that Nikon D90 have movie mode. As usual when I have nothing to do, I went to Ljubljana ZOO to take some pictures. When I come to the mara and alpaca enclosure, I saw a little black fur-ball on the ground. It was new born baby Mara. I must have missed whelping for a couple of minuts at the most. Mother licked the new born and after he struggle to climb to a den, they both dissapeare in it.

VR would be nice, since even lense (Sigma 100-300 f/4) mounted on tripod can't prevent shaking and "jellying". But any way, I was very happy to shoot that movie.

Misfits in HDR; Nikon D90 movie

On a foggy saturday morning, Misfits (here is his picture of the week on the Photo.net) and I have decided, that we would take some foggy pictures in Mostec-Ljubljana. Well, there was fog all arround woods, but not in it. In the woods it was pretty clear. We take some pictures any way. Since Peter alias Misfits like to have little HDR applied in his landscapes, he did use brackateing most of the time. And of course, I have taken some movies with Nikon D90 and Sigma 50mm f/1,4 ( which is, BTW, very good lense).

Nikon VR effectiveness in movie mode

There was a discussion going on e-fotografija, whether VR (lense stabalization) is working in movie mode on Nikon D90 or not. I said that it does not. I was wrong. It does working. And it's workin just fine. Here is a movie with VR OFF and VR ON, so you can check for yourself.

Nikon D90 movie-Tivoli Ljubljana

Focus and zoom rings on Sigma 17-70 are not the smoothest ones. :)

Nikon D90 movie -shalow DOF

Nikon D90 and Sigma f/4 100-300mm. Set at 300mm and f/4. On tripod. Without tripod at this focal length it would be impossible.

Nikon D90 movie-Carp fishing in Ljubljana

Here is my first movie made with Nikon D90. I have Nikon D90 on test for few days. First impresions? Big step forward from Nikon D80.
Since this is my "movie or video" blog, I will publish here my movies. Here is my first movie made with Nikon D90.

These are all expirienced anglers, so excitement was a joke, since carp was rather small.
Of course, carp was relesed after un-hooking.

PS
I have some problems with Windows Movie Maker and Nikon D90 HD files, so movie is not exactly as I want it to be.

Tiger attack! Amazing!

A couple of weeks ago I saw a video clip on Discovery Chanel that I couldn't believe it was true. Well, it's true and it's amazing. Tigress is attacking man on an elephant (mahout). Height of a jump and speed of attack is unbelievable! The "fun" begin at 1min 50sec.

PS
Check out how mahout was trying to defend himself!

It's all over. Kimi is champion!

I am an Alonso fan, but I am not disappointed. Kimi deserve it. When going get tough, the tough get going. Kimi was going. Lewis was not. Why? I believe that there was too much pressure on Lewis for last race. After the race, it was clearly visible that he was just young, inexperienced driver with too much burden on his shoulder. A rookie! Who would done the job if faced with same situation? Fernando Alonso. Who is to blame? Ron Dennis himself. He preferred Lewis over Fernando. Rookie over two times world champion. Well, it's his team. Now both (Fernando and Lewis) are equal on 109 points. But one is still two times world champion and second is just a rookie, who missed out on his chance. And here is what Jason Button had said:
"For example, Lewis (Hamilton) is very young, he hasn’t had a lot of time in Formula One but wants to win the championship this year. But if he doesn’t win, there might not be another possibility. In reality, everything is a question of possibilities."
Yesterday many have said that it's not a question of if but when Lewis will win his championship. I believe it's if...

F1 champion. Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso,Kimi Raikonen?

After Schumacher retirement best thing that could happened to F1 was Lewis Hamilton. I am not his fan, but he is good. Very good. Better than Fernando or Kimi? No. Different. And he have something that all great drivers have. Charisma. Nelso Piquet and Ayrton Senna are both 3 times world champions. Nelson Piquet, who?
Now. One week to go, and one of the best seasons in years. Who do you think it will be world champion in year 2007? Fernando, Kimi or Lewis? I don't mean, who have better chances, but who do you wish it would be. There is a poll in upper right corner. Vote!

Lily

Spring, light and lily.

Lewis Hamilton World Champion

Not yet. Not just now. It ain't over 'till is over! Yeah! "Lady Luck" was on his side this year. Until today. And what a difference can this make.
As you can see, I am not a Lewis fan. What I don't like about him? Appearances can be deceptive. Schumacher wanted to look like nice gay, but Hamilton put this "wolf in sheep disguise"on completely different level. But, he is good. Very good. World champion good....

Nervous leopards and playful lioness

New female leopard is quite playful. She looks quite tamed, but you must be very cautious and never put your hand near the fence! She put her paw very easily through those fence rings and if she is not in the right mood, playing can and up in disaster! Today lioness was very playful. I don't believe, that she was aggressive, but if there was no fence, I would not be there...

Roaring in Ljubljana ZOO

Today it was quite an interesting morning in Ljubljana ZOO. It was foggy and cold morning, so I knew there would not be a lot of visitors, so I was at the gate before ZOO opening time. My main "task" was to make a video with lion roaring. When I was near wolfs cage, I heard some very load and odd roaring. I know how lion's roaring sound like, but that roaring was at completely different level. I went to lions cage to check it out. And then it started all over again. I do warn you. It's loud!

I figure it out, what to do with this blog!

It will be my "video" blog! Beside my Nikon D80 I own also Canon A85 compact camera and I use it as my "video camera". Nikon for photography, Canon for video.

PS
who said, that Nikon and Canon don't mix

Walking with 50 - Gold

You didn't win silver. You lost Gold.