Posted in AISD, Dance, Drama, Honl gel, Music, school, WIP on Jan 17th, 2010
Second photo session on Jan 17th 2010. Today’s rehearsal session was held in the theatre, so I had a chance to setup 2 wireless SB800′s in the upper gallery. Put a Honl 1/2 CTO gel on each to warm up the scene a bit and give the photos a warm “stage ligting” effect. Other photos [...]
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A friend organized a FunRun fund-raiser on Dec 9th 09 to assist a co-worker at her office. I did not run, but walked and took some photos for the team….   That’s not fog or mist in the 3rd photo – but clouds of dust billowing from the morning street-sweeping. You can see one of the [...]
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Posted in Destruction, Equipment, Kingfisher on Jan 5th, 2009
Was planning to go out at dawn today to photograph a large bee-hive I have observed in a public park, and also a Kingfisher who comes and perches on a tree-stump waiting his opportunity to grab a nice fish out of the pond. Cleaned out the camera and the 300mm lens… was packing up the [...]
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Posted in Equipment, Nikon on Dec 15th, 2008
This new gem of a lens replaced my Nikkor 17-55 DX and the Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm ED zoom F/2.8 Nano has seen more usage in the short while I’ve had it than the lens it has replaced. The 17-55 on DX was the equivalent of 25.5-82.8 , and the 1.5mm additional width I get from the 24-70 [...]
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Nikon’s CLS [Creative Lighting System] gives the freedom to shoot with remote speedlights, and the ability to control the master [on-camera] and remote [off-camera] flash units from a simple and quick menu system. High speed-sync high-speed flash-fill shooting in bright daylight is so easy with this system and the camera/flash units will sync perfectly all the [...]
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