Saturday, June 09, 2012

Cruizin The Neighborhood

Continuing my learning curve with the Nikon




Dan

6 Comments:

Blogger Lea said...

I really like the colour and focus of the orange/red dragonfly. The reds infront of greens,, so good! And the empty space to the right makes it feel as if it's just landed there.

Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 7:56:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

The dragonfly shot is spectacular, great detail and color.

--WT

Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 10:08:00 PM PDT  
Blogger tedm said...

Wow! I like the dragon fly one too. What lens?

Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 11:13:00 PM PDT  
Blogger dan in marin said...

Thanx everybody, I was practicing using the live view focus with the 70-200 f2.8. Manual focus with live view is quick and easy, by moving the point of focus on the LCD screen. Shot at 200 and cropped to approximately 100%. I think I will take Warren up on his offer for me to use the Nikon 200 Micro. It should be interesting on this sensor.

Dan

Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 7:34:00 AM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

Dan, on your dragonfly and flower shots, were you shooting handheld? I can imagine that the D800e and 70-200mm would be quite a handful to hold. Also, I just looked up the price of a new 70-200mm on Amazon... Yikes!!!

--WT

Monday, June 11, 2012 at 3:21:00 PM PDT  
Blogger dan in marin said...

No I was practicing with the live view focus feature, which is quite handy. I like you have been spoiked by the Lumix as well as the RF systems. I have to build up some muscle mass for hand held steadiness.

Everything was on a tripod, and I found a great deal on Craig's list for the lens. New lens at $2K+ is way overpriced, but the lens is one of Nikon's current quality performers, and I am happy with it. Warren, let me know when you want to do a city walk since I have more free time than you.

Dan

Monday, June 11, 2012 at 4:28:00 PM PDT  

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