November 2nd, Cold and grey around here today. Line got around to remove the left plants in the garden and made her last wild flowers bouquet. Had to get a shot with the D700, filtered the hell out of it for mood effect. I'll see if I can shoot some more after I get the 180 2.8 this afternoon.
Is anyone using this lens on a D6/7/800? I've got an opportunity to get a nice looking pre-owned one and was wondering if some of you had positive or negative thoughts about it.
October 31st out with the D600 24-70 but I ended up having to use my (always in the car) 70-210 older lens because I just couldn't get close enough with the 24-70. Overall, I'm enjoying this lens, specially since I only paid 75 $ for it :)
You absolutely need a black background to do nice smoke pictures. The smoke will disappear whenever it's in front of a white object.
Here's an example of what I mean:
It's been a while since our temperature is so so miserable for doing outdoor pics. We attended cooking class last night and I thought I'd share what the D700 with 55 1.2 was able to capture under not so favorable light and high iso.
Re: Fuji X10. Yes I know it's not a Nikon
Here is a severe crop I did from a snapshot in France last month. I thought the shoes were indeed extremely interesting but I was amazed at the sharpness of this little bugger's lens.
Just for fun with the reverse ring, Sigma 105 macro aperture blades. A bit shabby because I was too lazy to get the tripod out so it's hand held and blurred a bit.
Here's a shot I just did with the 55 1.2 at f4 with the reverse ring. A few tests for exposure and then just some color correction to overcome the color cast of my light.