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My first post from my D700. (I am trying larger images here. I apologize to those with smaller screens. I may revert to the smaller size depending on feedback. Smaller versions will continue on my other site.)

This was shot at Breuer Hill - built c. 1800 in Princeton's Battlefield-Stony Brook Settlement Historic District. It is part of the gardens on the beautiful property.

It is quite different from the D200. It reacts very differently in terms of how it renders colors and meters exposure. It is much more accurate than the D200...hence I will have to take time getting used to it. My D200 tended to have flatter colors and tended toward underexposure. The D700 is the exact opposite. The colors are so vibrant and I am tending toward overexposing.

The menus are very familiar but they moved one or two things and I have had to hunt for them a little, but I suppose I will adjust.

The low light is way beyond what I imagined it would be. I really bought the camera for that very reason and it really performs beyond what I had hoped even at ISO 6400 I get AMAZING images. Here is a quick unedited example of ISO 6400 in low light. I did post this link a few days ago but wanted to show the example again. As you can see it is an extremely usable image.

There is very little in terms of post processing needed. Pretty much all I've done was RAW conversion in Lightroom. I have only used CS2 to resize images so far. I know that I probably don't even need to do that but I am used to doing it that way because I usually do curves adjustments but haven't needed to do any curves on these images. I tried doing some but tossed them because the original still looked better. Old habits die hard though.

Today is election day so for all those who can legally do it...

Don't forget to VOTE!

Pssssst...tomorrow is my youngest son's 16th Birthday!!! I can hardly believe it! Time just flew by!

Happy Birthday Jon!

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News:

This photo of the Bucknell Football field is a 2 page feature photo in the Fall 2008 issue of Bucknell Magazine.

This photo of the Bucknell Quad is a 2 page feature photo in the Summer 2008 issue of Bucknell Magazine.

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As of July 2008 I have decided to post the same photos on "Parallel Universe" as I do here. It has become too complicated to maintain two different photoblogs on a regular basis. Feel free to visit "Parallel Universe" and look through the portfolio/archives since there are quite a few photos there that were never posted here. I will continue to post on both since each one gets different viewers. I have also changed the title of Parallel Universe to Capture This Photography 2.

Check out my other Photoblog portfolio/archives:
"Capture This Photography 2"

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