Sometimes you work so much you have to just do something for yourself. For me that is taking pictures. I really truly miss film and darkroom work. This afternoon I needed to shoot something fun so I grabbed my D200 with the 35mm F2 and set the camera on B&W and went out to the backyard. I was in the mood to shoot some Fine Art type images because I have been listening to
Brooks Jensen's Podcasts on my iPhone and he is a Fine Art Photographer and the editor of
Lens Work Magazine. So my feeling was B&W and I was shooting the lens very close to wide open around F2.2 -2.8 and I turned the ISO up to 1600 because it was really dark and I didn't mind the grain look of the digital noise. The 35mm F2 is a great lens on the D200. It acts like a normal lens and it focuses to 10 inches which is about how far I was from this Pine Cone.
I tried several variations of foreground in focus and repeating backgrounds out of focus.
Tonight I shot basketball totally different than I did with the previous post. Saturday night was Decisive Moment shooting because I was using strobes that recycle about once every second. Tonight I shot available light with a Nikon D3S and a 24-70 F 2.8 lens with the camera set at ISO 8000 and the motor on 9fps. I think of this as more of a spray and pray type of shooting. I converted them to B&W because I like B&W better. We lost a tough game tonight to AR Tech in OT. Now we are moving on the the GSC tournament for the last time. In the fall the Bisons will be playing in the GAC, Great American Conference.
