It was a great weekend for photography.
Laura and I missed getting together in the Spring for our seasonal shoot, so we made up for it this weekend for our Summer shoot.
This lovely lady couldn’t have planned a better wardrobe. Rule of thumb…when you can’t decide, bring everything you might want to change into. We will make time for as many wardrobe changes as you want.
I rented the Nikon 24-70mm lens this weekend (perfectly timed with two unplanned, spur of the moment shoots that I did). All the reviews I read online said it’s amazing and crisp but extremely heavy. Neither of those are untrue. It’s a beast to carry and hang around your neck, but WOW! It takes amazing images. I shoot with a D7200 Crop Sensor (should have listened to a friend that recommended a Full Frame…next year I’m hoping for the D750, although I love my D7200). So with my crop sensor the range is more like 36-105mm. It has a fixed aperture, which is cool. 2.8 gives nice bokeh and makes the subject pop off the frame. I hasn’t really considered a fixed aperture and what that even meant, until I did a bit more research.
Long boring story short, when you get a correct exposure at a specific focal length, when you zoom in or out, to change your focal length, the exposure settings don’t change. Very convenient and versatile for quick compositions.
I kept it on f/2.8 and ISO 100 as a test and just tried adjusting my shutter speed for correct exposure. A couple times I needed to up my ISO, but not by much. I definitely went in and out on the range to get my shots. This I LOVED, over switching up lenses or moving closer or further from my subject.
I can see the advantage of prime lenses and I don’t doubt that they are more crisp, but to me the advantage of being able to use one lens to zoom in and out is winning over the primes. I think if you were shooting with a second shooter and one was zoomed in and the other out, it would be great to stick with a prime lens, or if you had a couple camera bodies around your neck. Neither of those scenarios are my situation right now.
Here’s a peek into Laura’s shoot. There are so many that I love that I’ll probably do a blog later on composition and will use more images from this shoot. 1085 images in 2 hours, narrowed it down to 395 that I couldn’t delete. I shared a sneak peek with Laura that was 53 images. Narrowing it down is hard when there are so many varieties of clothes, setting and composition.
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