Recent content by JackStalk

I see your Panchito, and I raise you one Panchito from this weekend! It's an awesome plane, so majestic to see it cruise.

I was at the air show in Ocean City Maryland this past weekend and there was a guy shooting what looked like a pretty serious lens. I didn't want to bother him but I did get a pretty good shot of what he was using. It looked like a D4/D4S and a pretty fat lens (likely a prime?). I mean, it...

My girlfriend and I went out to the local botanical gardens for the day, she took the heftier of the two cameras and people were commenting on how it was almost as big as she was. And our friend Ron who's an established nature photographer toting a D3s/D200

I couldn't get AF to work on my Tamron 150-600 with a Tamron 2x converter. The widest aperture was F13 and it shot at 1200mm. Here's a base shot out of the camera, it was definitely a chore to manually focus at that long of a focal length and keep the camera steady hand-held. This turtle was on...

I took my girlfriend out to a soccer game and let her shoot with the D7000/55-200mm combo. She had a blast! Here she is attempting to figure out how the settings work (she hasnt done photography in years)

In general, when I shoot sports games outside during the day I'm between ISO 100-400, 1/500th-1/2000th, and F 2.8-F4. The settings vary based on clouds and the position of the sun, but I never go slower than 1/500th and smaller than f4 personally. Your results may vary if you have a smaller or...

I was at a wedding that was filmed for a network TV show a few weeks ago. This guy glanced over at me for a second and then went directly back to shooting. I'd love to shoot TV shows. AND the lead shooter tried to be slick but I was able to draw against her in time.

Here's another one with the nikon 70-200 2.8VR, I had to crop it a little but it gave me a useable image from the 15th row in the upper deck at Yankees Stadium