Brett_H Nice! I've often wondered if I should get a 35mm or 28mm prime. Look forward to seeing your shots!
GeekKopi Brett H wrote: Nice! I've often wondered if I should get a 35mm or 28mm prime. Look forward to seeing your shots! i popped in for a little bit as I spent more time at the baby expo next door with the Mrs and baby. Well to sum it up its like any other expo. The multinationals taking up most of the space and the smaller retailers in a 2x3m booth. There were some demos on lighting and other photo tips and post editing. Nothing new but good for people starting out to take pictures. I was hoping to grab some Joby products but they didn't sell any on site. I took a few pics but spent most of my time waiting in line to ask a Nikon guy at the Nikon stand how much for a refurb d810. Well $300 less than the price in a shop. The lady in front of my bought a refurb d800 for $2K and another guy bought a refurb d750 for $1800. All in all it was average but I did get a free coffee from the Nikon baristas. Taste was average and sugar was needed. Pics to follow.
GeekKopi ok, here are a few shots. indoor lighting was mixed, some parts well lit, some parts shockingly dark. I was shooting in manual mode making adjustments to ISO, Shutter and Aperture. I thought to myself it's a good time to take full control of this camera body in a challenging environment. I did "chimp" for a while I was dialling in my settings. I took heaps of "street" type photos of people and even though I wasn't pointing a massively long telephoto lens at them they gave me dirty looks.... I do apologise that I wasn't just taking photos of cameras on display (even though I did take a few) and that I was more in their face with an ultra-wide angle rather than like a weird perv shooting from a distance with a long zoom and hood (indoors). lol FYI - The fastest aperture of the lens is f2.8. Oh, and I didn't see Canon there...
Brett_H Nice! A D800 for $2k is a good price. The 750 for 100 less than new is not. Save your pennies on a new body... The one you have is more than capable. The next generation of releases will be worth waiting for!
GeekKopi Brett H wrote: Nice! A D800 for $2k is a good price. The 750 for 100 less than new is not. Save your pennies on a new body... The one you have is more than capable. The next generation of releases will be worth waiting for! Maybe a full frame Mirrorless with a 1000 shot battery life and a flicker free zero lag EVF. dreaming. Night peeps. Off to bed. 5am start tomorrow on site.
GeekKopi Sunrise photo shoot @ Altona boat ramp pier. I set up at 5:30am an awaited the sky to light up. Well there was heaps of could cover so no real sunrise but the picture still turned out very nice. Milky smooth water and moving cloud trails. I will need to go back when the weather forecast is better. Photo EXIF data: ISO100, f11, 11mm, 343sec. Shot with a Nikon D7200 and Tokina 11-20mm lens. Picture was taken in 14bit RAW.
Brett_H Nice work. Was the HDR done in-camera or post? Beautiful composition and even better for the iPhone picture. Bravo!!
GeekKopi Brett H wrote: Nice work. Was the HDR done in-camera or post? Beautiful composition and even better for the iPhone picture. Bravo!! no HDR. Single exposure. Just edited the blacks highlights and contrast. Also adjusted the white balance to correct for the slight colour tint of the ND filter. The exposure was a little off too so adjusted that a bit. These 10stop ND filters are darker than 10stops. I should have exposed longer but post can fix that. Didn't need to use a black card or GND to avoid blowing up the sky as it was cloudy and matrix metering was sufficient. Shot 14bit raw flat picture control.
GeekKopi Brett H wrote: NICE work!! thanks Brett. I'm very happy with the ND filter I bought. For $50 (82mm) it's a bargain.
mycuppa As it's a Nikon thread and this was shot on a Nikon......such a glorious day here in Melbourne.......just had to take a quick photo from across the road of the place I spend all my time........didn't have time to swap lenses around or setup properly.
GeekKopi mycuppa wrote: As it's a Nikon thread and this was shot on a Nikon......such a glorious day here in Melbourne.......just had to take a quick photo from across the road of the place I spend all my time........didn't have time to swap lenses around or setup properly. Nice! it was such a glorious day but it started a bit rough on my end. What camera do you have?
FreshCoffee2 Agreed, Carlini HQ looking GOOD. I've enjoyed all the photos in the last few days, and Re: "...Oh, and I didn't see Canon there..." Nikon owners should note that a market leader like Canon doesn't need to be at the Digital Expo as it wouldnt affect their sales one way or the other :stir
mycuppa Have a few Nikons and a bit of glass. Been MIA from my photography for the last few years. That pic was out of focus taken on a D600 with the stock 24/85 VR zoom in lazy auto mode point and shoot style
Brett_H Fresh Coffee wrote: I've enjoyed all the photos in the last few days, and Re: "...Oh, and I didn't see Canon there..." Nikon owners should note that a market leader like Canon doesn't need to be at the Digital Expo as it wouldnt affect their sales one way or the other :stir Canon.... do they still make cameras?? I thought they were big on photocopiers. :pan
GeekKopi Brett H wrote: Canon.... do they still make cameras?? I thought they were big on photocopiers. :pan bahaha. Gold
FreshCoffee2 Gosh you blokes.....! You have to have a good solid core business so that you can spend money doing the finer things in life, like producing market leading cameras and lenses, because you want to...not because you have to ! :stir
GeekKopi Fresh Coffee wrote: Gosh you blokes.....! You have to have a good solid core business so that you can spend money doing the finer things in life, like producing market leading cameras and lenses, because you want to...not because you have to ! :stir Got a point there FC...... too bad their core business was to make Leica camera knockoffs ( :thumb: ), and had to use Nikon glass to do so :doh: :rofl: Canons core business is consumer (and industrial) electronics where Nikon's core business is optics first, electronics/software second. In this day an age they are as good as each other and constantly leapfrog each other. But both don't come close to Sony, they are the worlds leading sensor and optics manufacturer (by sales) as they are in each and every iPhone. That is good business.
