Went to the woods today with Carlos. A gray and dull day, so: SB800 to the rescue
I like to share a few with you. All shot with my D700, 70-300VR and an SB800 to get some contrast.
Thank you all. About the flash, it's pretty straight forward. There wasn't much to bounce so i've used the sb800 bare on the camera. TTL BL mode since it's outside and there is still a good amount of natural light. I've dialed both flash and exposure down with 1/3. Camera was in Manual.
That's it. Looking at these pictures made me realize i should use more flash outside. Despite the fact that the D700 has great iso capabilities. One tends to get sloppy and rely completely on the iso capabilities, while a bit of flash yields a better image. Sure that's not always possible, but in this case it was.
Nice shots Ray looks like Carlos is doing great! My Gizmo has torn ligament in his hind leg and has really been struggling, he might be going in for surgery too
Beautiful pictures, you are lucky to have such an accommodating subject.
I have a LightRoom question for you, are you converting your files to dng or are you keeping the raw files?
Thanks
Monty
I keep the raw files. It's just as fast so i don't feel the need to convert to dng at this moment. Of course i have the xmp sidecar files, but those are small. Storing the complete rawfile in a dng gives large files so that's not a suitable option either and converting to only dng is a bit tricky too. When nikon announces NX3 i want to try that straight away too.
so for now i keep the raw files. And if they become obsolete or real proprietary, we will know soon enough and i can always convert them at that time.
Dan Bellyk wrote:
Nice shots Ray looks like Carlos is doing great! My Gizmo has torn ligament in his hind leg and has really been struggling, he might be going in for surgery too
