When I was shooting film, I don’t remember self portraits being this difficult to do. I’ve been doing a round of self portraits lately, where I’m juggling and then taking the picture. The difficult thing is my need to tweak settings after each shot.
I guess that’s the whole point of the exercise though. I’m getting [...]
These were shot with the D70 and the 50mm, usually wide open with the aperture priority program and an off camera SB-600. It was a group effort, consisting of great models, eBay, a cooperative sunset, and a very talented lighting assistant.
Full disclosure: These were taken with a construction site in the background. It’s American University, [...]
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Today was productive, mainly because I got to take nearly 300 pics. The new compact flash card seems to be working in the D70. I was getting image corruption errors with the old 1GB card occasionally, and the new 2GB card seems to be fine so far.
I got some great pictures of people in their [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
I was particularly interested in the Nikon 18-55mm VR lens, primarily as a way to shoot indoors without having to resort to flash. It was either that lens, or continue to move myself closer and farther away to compose my shots.
Not that I mind, if I’m doing a dedicated shoot, I move around a lot [...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
I favor the 50mm when I’m shooting portraits with the D70, mainly because it’s fast. I do have a tendency to shoot wide open, which sometimes leads to some focusing issues, but then I’ve learned to compensate for that. At least for now. Shooting the 50mm with a DX format camera means I’m shooting at [...]
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Monday, February 16, 2009
I did some photography this weekend, and I’m happy with the way things turned out. I’m remembering a lot of things that I used to do with 35mm film. This time, I’ve got a better flash and I’m still learning about exposure both with it and without it.
The D70 is becoming more and more an [...]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
I’m so focused on digital right now. But I’m still trying to figure out what to do with this box of photographs. It’s sitting, almost forgotten in a banker’s box in a closet. There are developed pictures and negatives, but without any sort of metadata, they might as well be images from an alternate reality [...]