All of the tips and tricks of photography I’ve learnt that are fit to print!
Today's fun involves giving a bit of love and attention to my workhorse lens...the 70-200mm f/2.8 ED VR telephoto lens. This lens has accounted for over half of the pictures I've snapped through my various Nikon bodies through the years because it not only has really nice reach on the telephoto end of the range but also that big f/2.8 aperture throughout the entire focal-length range means I can shoot in near darkness without a…
They say "into life some rain must fall". We wholeheartedly agree! It's also a wonderful opportunity to take the 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens out for a spin to capture the individual water droplets on Patience and Fortitude (the two Japanese Maples in front of the house named for the lions guarding the NY Public Library entrance who were originally given their names by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as qualities he felt all New Yorkers should embody).…
Here are some more macro shots using the 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, this time having sun shooting the neighbour's flower garden which also included a bumblebee doing the pollination thing. What makes macro photography so much fun is just how close you can get to your subject to see really small details like specs on the petals of the roses or the hair/fur of the bee.
This gallery started out as an exercise in playing around with the 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens ("micro" in Nikon-speak is actually "macro" for everyone else on the planet!). Between the centipede and the leaves on "Fortitude" (one of the two Japanese Maples out front named for the lions guarding the NY Public Library on 42nd and 5th), there was plenty of macro fun to be had! The rest of the time was playing with the…
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…
There's a bit of a story with this gallery as I was hoping to shoot some rolls of Velvia 50 I'd just picked up a couple of days earlier. Velvia 50 is color-reversal slide film (so the film aren't negatives, they're positives!) with truly obnoxious color saturation. So I'm driving along to Asheville when suddenly I had a rather disquieting thought after having gone through the mental inventory of what I had packed. Nikon F5…
