Peter: I am always amazed at the detail you manage with the 105--I clearly need to try shooting with a smaller aperture. And the image with the lights is very intriguing--I've been studying it trying to figure out how you did it. Where did the lights come from?
PebblzNnutz: That beach image is super striking--so is the dead fish thingy, but in a less pleasant way. I see you are another one who is using the Tamron 70-200 to great advantage--I'm not loving mine at the moment, but you inspire me to keep trying with it.
Deano: A very good omen indeed! Fantastic!
Kenafein: Sigh...you and PebblzNnutz are convincing me that I am doing something very wrong with my Tamron lenses. This is a wonderful capture--so detailed and beautiful. I have the 150-600 and have used it on my D600 as you did, but I didn't get nearly the same sharp results.
Anyhow, I mostly stepped away from weddings this year. Just didn't have the time with my new job (55+ hours per week when the commute is included...some of you are rolling your eyes because you do more than this, I'm sure), but I did shoot this wedding a couple days after Christmas. I didn't pose this couple beyond telling them where to stand--they were so into each other that I just let them be themselves and shot away while they interacted. It was fun enough that I'm rethinking my decision to back off of wedding work... Oh, and look, I used my Tamron 70-200...
Holiday Wedding by Nicole Fernley, on Flickr
D810, Tamron 70-200 @ 122mm, f/2.8, 1/125, ISO 3200 (why must they alway have a dimly lit room?)
So, I stuck my Tamron 70-200 on my D810 to give it a fighting chance and put my Nikkor 24-70 on my D600 and kept them both with me so I could switch back and forth conveniently. I ended up using the D600 more often than the D810 because the Nikkor lens seemed to help it focus more quickly and accurately--not because I wanted a wider angle. I was cursing that @$%&! Tamron all night.
And just for fun, here is a photo from earlier this week of my neighbor snowblowing his driveway. I was super intrigued by his attire--gym shorts and a t-shirt with heavy winter gloves and hat. It was 23 degrees Fahrenheit. I took this with my 85mm on the D810 only because it was what was attached at the time. I figured he would be done by the time I grabbed my 150-600 and got it on the camera, so I snapped it with what I had and then cropped the image like a madwoman. Cropping madly seems to be much more possible with the D810...
23 degrees...sheesh.
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