With all the talk of the D850 making the older cameras obsolete I sometimes feel like the odd man out by thinking there is still a lot of performance out of old obsolete cameras. During a lunch yesterday with my good friend Anastasia, that was forced on us by rainy weather not cooperating for a planned photoshoot in the park featuring the fall colors as background, I got a D800 out of my bag and shot with a 70-200 2.8 against the only light source of the room, the window directly behind her was the only light in the room of the small neighborhood cafe. This is a low odds shot since strong backlight means boosting shadows a lot to get the face. Shooting manual, 175mm 2.8 1/80, ran it up to 3600 ISO. It gracefully handled the blown out window light but captured enough mid tone data without boosting in post, I did use a little dFine noise reduction however in post. By the time the rain stopped the light was failing so used fill flash outdoors for one on a walkway and then one in the part with the after sunset. I would like a D850 but surely do not need one
Another image from the same session, on the street: 1/100, 200mm, 2.8 ISO400 flash for fill, I liked this image because ....just because:>) Anastasia is an actor in stage and place a police detective in a national TV series
One of the Forest Gump spots. We found it by accident on the way to Monument Valley. Came over a little rise and there were people with tripods in the road. WTF... took us a minute to figure it out!
Thanks for posting it.
One of the Forest Gump spots. We found it by accident on the way to Monument Valley. Came over a little rise and there were people with tripods in the road. WTF... took us a minute to figure it out!
Thanks for posting it.