DLWS hits the town! The entire DLWS gang hit the streets of Provincetown tonight and had a great time. While there is some wild characters to photograph, this boat had all the character I could handle.
Photo captured by D2Xs, 10.5 on Lexar digital film
You’re probably wondering just where the heck am I? We’re still in ME wrapping up our DLWS event. And I’m exhausted! We’ve been going from long before daylight to well after daylight having just a grand time. I’m way behind on many things right now which includes blogging some images. This is from this evening’s shoot. I spent some time trying to find some unusual leaves to photograph and I was quite happy when I found these three in the crack of a rock. I’m not really good at macro photography, so this image made me happy.
We’re off tomorrow to Cape Cod, looking forward to the possibility of getting a little caught up and posting some more images.
Photo captured by D2Xs, 105VR on Lexar digital film
What a great group of folks! They have so much energy and desire to shoot, I’m not getting much shooting in and no time to blog what I have shot. This is a photo from this morning’s sunrise shoot at Cadillac Mtn. It was gorgeous, it was cold and it was windy. What a great morning!
You can see more images from our ME DLWS event and Laurie’s blog, Josh’s Blog and Kevin’s new blog. They’re having to pick up my slack!
Photo captured by D2Xs, 14f2.8 on Lexar digital film
This has been one heck of a day! We’re in Bar Harbor ME for our current DLWS event (1st of 2 in two weeks). We have just a great, great group of folks who are just working us too death as they pursue their photographic goals. Some great images were made today focusing on Jordan Pond (seen above) and at Bass Harbor.
The magic of the fall color grabbed my attentions. The top image is a simple down the shore photo taken with a 200VR. I came in closer on the fall color with the middle photo which are leaves under water, about three inches. The varying degree of sharpness I could see with my eyes kinda reminded me of the effect of the Lens Baby. This photo was captured with the 105VR. Finally, I came in close on one fall leaf and the drop of rain that had collected at its tip. This image was also taken with the 105VR. The color gets more and more intense each day we’re hear. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!
What a glorious morning! The DLWS gang headed out to the rural center of the UP and cruised the roads looking for and found Americana. This is a old, one room school house nestled in corn fields in a little valley. We spent sunrise here working the area finding marvelous subjects and having a grand time in the warm temps.
The predawn sky was just killer for working wide. The direction of the school house in orientation to the rising sun, the clouds breaking overhead and the light bouncing of them is what created the natural hallo of light you see in the photo. It was a natural for B&W done in CS3. The light on the front of the school house 45min later naturally drew your eye into the door. The paint is very faded on the sides of the school house and dirty in the bright light. What you see here is a straight shot with the brighter door and jam bringing the eye right into the middle of the photo.
I was dying for something to charge by so I could put the D3’s AF system through its paces. I’m using the 21area AF and it works really, really nice. I was shocked when I first started to play with the D3 in a darken room during a slide presentation and the D3 in those very dim conditions was able to focus on black items. I picked up the D2Xs and it couldn’t even focus on the same items. I’ve been shooting with the new 24-70VR and wow, what a bloody sharp lens! It’s much smaller in real life than I thought it was from the photos and feels really good in the hand. Hopefully this afternoon, I can plug the D3 on my 600AFS II and really give the AF a solid test.
Photos captured by D3, 14AF / 24-70AFS on Lexar digital UDMA film
It was another excellent night of shooting, so good that I spent most of the time with students rather than continuing on exploring the amazing qualities of the D3. I did manage to get a couple of minutes though with the D3 and the results are still hard to grasp. The top photo was taken just prior to the sun setting. What is amazing to me is the color retention of the new color engine and what you can’t see here, the beautifully crisp, sharp files the D3 produces. The files truly are a work of art. The new LCD while not the best at color & exposure rendition, it does show sharpness better than any other LCD I’ve used.
The bottom photo was taken at Slender’s Restaurant. This is a locally renowned restaurant where you can kiss a Moose (I hang out here during my off time) head mounted on the wall. Well the DLWS staff couldn’t pass up having dinner at such a place. Carol, the NPS rep suggested I play with the high ISO, so I cranked it up to 3200 and went exploring. When you open the file and search pretty darn hard, you can find noise but it’s so little, it really is amazing. It’s so good I’m afraid many will pass up good photo technique and simply crank up the ISO.
Since posting this AM that I had a D3, I’ve been flooded with emails with tons of questions. You should be excited about the D3 as it’s a really impressive camera, but I have to apologize, I simply don’t have time to answer every question (especially when many are answered on Nikon’s site), don’t have the bandwidth to post full res files and shoot resolution charts and send them out to folks. I’m more than pleased to have the opportunity to test drive the D3 and make some quick reports, but I simply can’t write a personal user report for every email that comes in. When the time is right, I will post all of my findings and settings. Until then, I hope what I can bring you here will be enough to satisfy and excite you about this evolutionary camera.
Photos captured by D3, 14AF on Lexar digital UDMA film