Author: Erik Williams

Tonight was the night I caught more awesome shots of lightning bolts than I have in the over four years I've been shooting storms from my front porch. Not only was there frequent lightning bolts but the storm ended up regenerating giving another hour of shooting which exhausted the batteries in the D700! The actual technique is simplicity itself...set the camera on the tripod and set it for manual focus to infinity. Dial in an…

It's time to see what the D810 can do with the 36 megapixels on offer with a nice big full moon hanging there in the sky! I had fun playing with the settings to see what effects I liked best for the next time that atmospheric lensing provides us a supermoon. All of these were shot with the 300mm f/4 lens and the 2X teleconverter which on the D810 full-frame (FX) sensor is effectively 600mm…

Unfortunately, by the time I got back out the door with the camera, the hawk was well off in the distance. But it wasn't a huge disappointment…got a few moon and tree shots while I was out there just for the heck of it. :)