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I shot a cultural exchange art exhibitions of a well known Polish artist Friday night, after the formals just shot some candids of the the attendees. I am posting only photos of personal friends who gave me permission. This was an official event from the Polish Consul General. The couple was of...

I post informal photos of friends as examples of casual photos of the portrait style but don't post any client photos. Here is one that was a few hours before a formal photo shoot for a top glossy bridal fashion magazine. The later shoot was very interesting and the only one where armed guards...

Here are a few taken September 3 2019 as the sun was at the horizon on the Gulf of Finland just north of St Petersburg Russia. These were all shot from the same position just in different directions and 15 minutes between them.

A quick snap shot with Z6 and 85 1.8 of my GFs daughter in a restaurant And one of momma and daughter. The light was mixed so white balance was impossible...shaded sun, incandescent and LED. The only way to fix that in shooting would be using high shutter speed to limit ambient and use flash...

I have used all the current and past 70-200 and for build, retaining value, IQ and speed, I would recommend a used Nikkor VR II G or a new Tamron 70-200 2.8 G2. I have both the VR and VR II Nikkor and both are real workhorses and until the Tamron G2, there was not much competition and both are...

A lot of the memory of how good the D700 was came from comparing to cameras of the time and it certainly was good in comparison but things changed very quickly about 2008-9 in sensor performance and even the D90, intended as a enthusiast camera at a lower price point, ended up with very...

More photos from last night, these of three friends who I met in a restaurant a few years ago and sometimes meet for a play or opera. The woman on the left is an ex-champion figure skater and one of the nicest more pleasant people I have ever met. The woman in the center is a mathematics...

There does not seem to be as much portrait activity lately, maybe everyone is out on vacation. I went out to a club(actually 3) to go dancing last night and had my Z6 with me. I did not intend to shoot and just put my bag in the manager's office but a couple hours into she asked if I would get...

I recently had a birthday that was the official transition into old manism but naturally I celebrate in a small dance club with a few friends, making it the third party in 10 days.Naturally I had a camera, the Z6 and 85 1.8 G, 24-70 and 70-200 2.8. A singer friend sang a couple songs I had...

Not many portraits lately being posted. I went for a walk today in the early evening with my friend who had a long day of filming in her role as a police detective in a TV drama. After a late lunch(it is White Nights here so sun set is around midnight and it never gets fully dark, and full sun...

I downloaded the 2.0 firmware from Nikon USA Web site at about 2am their time and updated my Z6. All the speculation is over....it really works . The tracking is faster and in much lower light. Burst mode H is useful now that there is good frame to frame consistency and it focuses at l least 2...

I was a moderator for a large Nikon community and service questions came to me usually and more often than not, the reset, even if having to do it 10 times in a row was a remedy for long stored camera bodies. The main board is generally very reliable and it is rare that a general failure is...

I think we are just as the beginning of the refinement of the firmware to optimize AF performance. The hardware is there already, the speed of the processor and data buses suggests the only thing preventing the AF from matching or beating the D5 is further work on the software which apparently...

I was in a small cafe last night where my friend was singing some of her original songs and took a few photos while she was performing. She is really a good singer, with a master's degree in voice from a top conservatory. It was too dim for good noise level so I set a remote flash on a shelf set...

Another dim backlit snapshot of a long time from Kazahstan in a small restaurant near my home Z6 24-70 f/4 1/80 2000 ISOm no flash, not very bright ambient.

Another photo taken in an alley with low light last night, a yard light about 50 feet away directly to the right of the frame. It was fun playing around with shadows and available light, hard contrast, and a bit grunge look. None of this shoot was planned,we just met to chat and I had my Z6 with...

I have not posted in a while but on another thread, there was a discussion about Z cameras and apparently, there is a lot of people on this site who dismiss them as not being real cameras. It is something people need to get used to because mirrorless will be the only cameras available in a...

The G and E 24-70 2.8 both work great on the Z cameras, mine do anyway. But the 24-70 f/4 is likely the sharpest zoom available right now. It is really good. It has a bit higher distortion but the camera and LR have automatic correction in the lens profiles. Resolving power in the corners...

Turkey is really interesting and has changed a lot since my last visit years ago. We went to the area Cappadokia in the center of the country which is mountainous with a form of sandstone that was easy enough to work with bronze and iron age tools so thousands of sandstone weathered columns...

I just got back from Turkey late last night. I was very limited on weight and girth for carry-on luggage so could not take my better cameras or lenses and instead took a 18-105 kit lens, and 10-20 Sigma low-end wide angle and my D7000, no grip or even extra battery. We came upon a group taking...