All of the tips and tricks of photography I’ve learnt that are fit to print!
I grabbed the camera hoping to catch a hawk or an owl that was in one of the trees behind the house but sadly couldn't get back in time before it had taken wing. But, that didn't stop me from having a bit of fun wandering the very colourful garden next door at the neighbour's house…now it was time for the flowers and the bees to take centre stage! Enjoy! :)
I had to do a bit of minor surgery on the D810 which developed a cracked viewfinder cover. Fortunately, one was available from Etobicoke in Ontario and the D810 is now happily mended for another 256K photos! :)
I’d rather a $20 UV filter have a bad day rather than the $1,400 lens it was attached to! :) I accidentally lost grip on the camera bag and it hit the bleachers hard enough to crack the UV filter that was on my older 70-200mm f/2.8 lens which I discovered whilst switching from the 300mm f/4. The lens was perfectly fine finishing Nick’s lacrosse game without the filter on it. I’ll transplant a 77mm…
The coolest thing for me is when the moon moves into the umbra, you're effectively getting the reds from every sunrise and sunset simultaneously being bent by the atmosphere toward the lunar surface. These aren't the greatest shots you'll see but I'm pretty OK with them being somewhat noisy considering that I was sitting in a deck chair and handholding the D810 which had the 200-500 f/5.6 lens fitted with a 2x teleconverter and shooting…
A small bit of surgery was required this morning at the house on the Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 AF-S VR lens…otherwise known as my absolute favourite lens in the world. Over seven years ago, I lucked out and found this lens on consignment about fifteen minutes after the camera shop had acquired it…and at half the price a new lens would cost! Since then, this 2006-vintage tough-as-nails lens has been an absolute workhorse and the one…
(This was originally posted to Facebook in 2017 and finally made it here in 2021. It's long but if you want to see the backstory to Red Vixen Studios...this is your post!) It's funny how all this started with a seemingly innocuous question from out of the blue from my sister…"you like playing around with your camera, right?" She had started working at this theatre in downtown Fayetteville near the Market House that I had…
