Great Shots of Helen & Adrian, 01-22-2012

I cleaned up today, wow!

 

Since last Wednesday, we're back where we were most of last year--with a Nikon D3000 & Nikon D5000 pairing. I upgraded the D60 to a D3000 at very minimal cost, (I missed having 11 AF points, the D60 had only 3) buying it, of all places, at Dpreview (their buy-sell is not all that active, & the particular posting went back to November).

Now, finally, I can settle down for awhile & learn to leave well-enough alone.

Today, after church (their grounds makes for good portrait settings), the lighting was good (cloudy) & we got some good shots of Helen & (mostly) Adrian. I edited in Lightroom 3 with the included "Yesteryear" preset (not the Oh So Posh ones this time) before doing VERY MINOR touch-ups in Photoshop CS.

Here we go.

Nikon D3000, 18-55mm VR, Normal-Large JPEG, SanDisk 4G SD Card (holds >1000 JPEGs)

#1 Adrian, 1/500 second f/5.3 at 40mm ISO 400

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#2, Adrian 1/800 second f/5.3 at 40mm ISO 400 

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#3, Adrian, 1/125 second f/5.3 at 40mm ISO 100

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#4, Helen, 1/200 second f/5.3 at 40mm ISO 100

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#5, Adrian, 1/320 second f/5 at 38mm ISO 200

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#6, Adrian, 1/250 second f/8 at 35mm ISO 200

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#7, Adrian, 1/200 second f/5 at 26mm ISO 200

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Wow, what a day, I really cleaned up.

FOG SHOTS

On the 29th of December, I awoke early to find the atmosphere very foggy. I rode into town with the wife on the way to her work (I typically just stay home for the duration) armed with my D60--oh yes, for the "everyday-beater" d-SLR, I ditched the 6mp D40 & got the 10mp D60 for only $20 more. Here we go again, it seems. (If you remember when, for much of last year, the "beater" model was the D3000--the D60 is the predecessor, and it has the same sensor & thus same resolution, and is also a basic model--even more so, actually.)

Anyway, with the fog being everywhere, naturally I wanted to take photos, so I took my D60 into town and, after dropping the wife off at work, went to checking out the lay of the land. I did, in fact, get some good shots. Here are (arguably) the best two.

Nikon D60, 18-55mm VR, Raw + JPEG mode, ISO 100, aperture-priority mode, edited in Nikon View NX & Photoshop CS

#1, 1/60 second at f/10 at 26.0mm iso100

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#2, 1/100s f/10.0 at 32.0mm iso100

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