April 23, 2010 4:26 & 4:41 pm
Nikon D90, Nikkor 70-200 2.8 VR I - shot in RAW
Manual, No Flash, ISO 200, f/2.8, SS 1/800 (cloudy), SS/1600 (sunny)
Pattern Metering, AF-C, 75mm & 78mm focal lengths
I had a big assignment over the weekend. My photography class instructor asked me to assist him as a second shooter at a wedding. It was going to be a pretty big wedding, and the two primes I carry in my bag weren't really the right lenses for the task so I rented the appropriate lenses from our local store Light Tec.
The wedding was a great excuse to lay my hands on a lens I've been itching to try ever since I first really understood what fixed aperture meant, the Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8. It's a big, heavy lens and when its coupled with my camera and flash means toting around over 6 lbs. Six pounds in itself doesn't seem like much when you're doing bicep curls, but it suddenly seems to weigh more when you're having to hold your hands in specific positions to get the camera at eye level.
I needed to test out the lens and the only thing the girls were interested in doing was swinging so I took the lens on trial run on moving objects using the continuous focusing mode.
post-processing
The post processing work on these was pretty easy since I had great light to work with. I did bring them into Photoshop and used a curves layer to lighten the midtones in the overall photo.
oh my goodness!! i'm so jealous of that beautiful green grass!! i hate you! lol these are wonderful shots!! i so need to try that lens and the 24-70 lens out!!!
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