Keith Lyles
I guess the rain was good after all. It allowed me to get this amazing shot at today’s photo shoot. This was shot with a Nikon D300 and a 17-55 2.8 @ 5.6, Alien Bee – 800 as my main light camera right and an SB-800 for the backdrop.
-H
Posts Tagged ‘Nikon’
Rainy day = Studio time!
March 15, 2009D3X finally announced…officially that is.
December 1, 2008
Nikon officially announced the D3X after being miss-announced a couple of days ago by Nikon Pro Mag in Europe.
Well, it’s finally here but, Nikon decided to let it go for $8,000 or $7,999.95 to be exact. ARE YOU KIDDING!? I don’t even think Donald Trump would pay $8k’s for a camera. After all, it’s just a D3 with more resolution and slower frame rate. Pretty much. It even has the same body. You probably need this if you’re a fashion photographer or something like that working for some big company or magazine. And then again, you don’t even need that much resolution to do a magazine shoot which is not bigger than 8×11 INCHES! My point is, I don’t see an average Joe buying this camera just because he’s shooting a couple of weddings next year. Nikon needs to understand this and drop the price because if they do drop the price, more people will buy this. In the mean time, just get a D3 or a D700 if you want Nikon’s best.
-H
Ooops… Did anybody say D3X?
November 29, 2008The long awaited Nikon D3X has been announced “accidentally” by european Nikon Pro Magazine before Nikon’s “official announcement”. You can see the detailed images and text straight from the magazine HERE.
Nikon’s news still has nothing on their website though. Now that the big X secret is out there, the only thing we need is price and release date. Ohh, and patience. =)
-H
Tools of the trade…
November 16, 2008I’m always being asked what kind of software I use to edit my photos so I decided to post it here.
Well here it goes; I use Adobe Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 (recently upgraded to CS4).
Fun Day
September 19, 2008I’m not always shooting weddings and/or models. I like to have a variety to keep my skills up to date. So I went out with the guys for a shoot today and decided to bring my Nikon strobes. I was able to get awesome results with three Nikon SB-800’s.
I shot @ ISO400, 1/1250 to darken the sky and the strobes we’re doing their job @ full power. I set my aperture to f/4 and went at it. After messing with my exposure for a couple of times, I ended up with what I wanted. Dark skies for a dramatic effect and a well lit subject. I didn’t have any kind of light modifier. Strobes were shot bare and I used Nikon’s CLS to fire the strobes. Enjoy!
P.S.
Flickr is not working for me today so I had to use Photobucket. :S
-Herson
