05.28.10 Port Wentworth
My last bit of landscape work from the quarter. I’ll post up my final series tomorrow.
Posts Tagged ‘nikon’
05.24.10 Savannah Romps
Not much to say about this one, just a collection of what I’ve been doing for this quarter (in addition to the previous posts).
Tagged beach, contemporary landscape, d700, georgia, nikkor 50mm f/1.4D, nikon, nikon 20-35mm f/2.8, savannah, tybee
05.18.10 More assorted bits
More work in relation to my contemporary landscape course, taken in various spots in and around Savannah.
Tagged contemporary landscape, d700, georgia, nikkor 50mm f/1.4D, nikon, nikon 20-35mm f/2.8, savannah
05.15.10 Abercorn
Another short set of photos from a neighborhood down Abercorn, one of the main roads in Savannah. A continuation of the contemporary landscape work I uploaded in the previous posting from Jamestown.
Tagged contemporary landscape, d700, georgia, nikkor 50mm f/1.4D, nikon, nikon 20-35mm f/2.8, savannah
05.13.10 Jamestown
Starting to upload the work I’ve been producing for my contemporary landscape class. It’s been somewhat of a struggle dealing with the subject, since my focus has been on the sterility of suburbia – and thus, it is inherently boring. So the challenge to make it interesting, at least on the surface, has made it frustrating at times. Regardless, I’m hoping to end up with something cohesive at the end of the quarter.
Tagged contemporary landscape, d700, georgia, jamestown, nikkor 50mm f/1.4D, nikon, suburbia
02.03.10 Lauren in the studio
Did a shoot with Lauren, more simple stuff, hopefully will start doing work with more art direction soon (may verge off into still life for a bit as well).
Tagged d700, digital, fashion, lauren, mamiya rz67, nikkor 50mm f/1.4D, nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, nikon, p20, phase one, portraits
01.29.10 Sarah in the studio
Taking a studio lighting class this quarter. Did a session with Sarah, so check it out below.
Tagged d700, digital, fashion, nikkor 85mm f/1.4D, nikon, portraits, strobes, studio
01.04.10 Things that I want from Nikon
2009 was a disappointing year to an extent if you were a Nikon user. Yes, there was finally an update to the 70-200, and the D300 and D3 got HD video and a tweaked sensor. But it was a huge letdown otherwise, what with the lack of lenses, no forward thinking on a mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera (also called an EVIL, or my preference, a digital rangefinder), and no D700 update. And although I’m content with my D700, I certainly don’t need a 70-200.
No, what I’m looking for is a 24 1.4 to compete with Canon’s, something like a 17-40 f4 (you know, to compete with Canon), and a proper digital rangefinder with a set of pancake lenses and HD video, to match up with Panasonic (however if they don’t hint at anything soon, I’ll likely end up with a GF1 regardless).
And now with Samsung finally announcing their own digital rangefinder, with an APS-C sensor to boot, it makes me wonder if Nikon may pursue such a route. My realistic prediction though is that Nikon will indeed announce an EVIL by summer, but won’t do anything daring like Olympus did in bringing forth the EP-1. We’ll instead get something similar to (maybe copied from) the Samsung, that is more an upgrade to the D5000, just without the mirror box and still pushed to consumers. And once again, the folks who call themselves photographers (and aren’t being ironic, unwittingly or not) get left out in the cold and continue to wait for a fleshed out digital rangefinder that doesn’t have a red Leica dot and accompanying price tag.
So as long as I’m in this pipedream rant, it would also be nice if Nikon took Thom Hogan’s advice and developed a digital FM2 – stripped down full frame sensor, no mirror, no LCD (an EVF instead), brutish metal body that could fit in a coat pocket, and manual control dials. Now that would be a beautiful thing.