It is amazing how quick things can disappear when you are no longer a puppy.
I bought a new lens for my trip to Portugal. Had a terrible time with it on my camera in Lisbon. I was walking up and down the hills of central Lisbon and my photographer friend, Fernando Santos, who met with me for that one Saturday saw a monster big Peacock on the roof of a building and made peacock noises at it. It got all puffed up and made noises back, but not really offended My voice no longer goes that high, so I whistled sharply at it and it went nuts! I could not get my lens to release a shot for all the tea in China.
Finally, after it was too late to get a picture, Fernando came over and looked at my camera. "Wink, why are you shooting video?"
It seems my new camera bag that I got to fit my Z9 was simply wanting me to take video and moved the lever to video every time I put it in or took it our of the bag, I had a total of four or five pictures for the time I was in Portugal on my camera and a couple hundred on my iPhone. Some of them were great shots too.
BUT, I just spent a bunch of bucks for a new Nikon 70 to 200 2.8 S lens for my Z. Yesterday I decided to get off my behind and get back into taking photos with my camera. So, I watched the how to video from Señor Steve and did the upgrade to 4.0. I read nine pages of comments about the upgrade and watched several videos.
Today, right after Butlerkid welcomed me back, I left the house and went to Katheryn Albertson Park and started taking photos, one at a time of many different subjects. Most of them were boring as heck!
So, what did I learn?
1. I learned that the reason I could not get a close up focus was because I had the selector switch set to Infinity to 5m rather than full. Once I took that off, I got some good close ups. Not exciting, but good.
2. I started out with my B Bank set up. Along the way I changed to single shot and manual from the Shutter Speed I had been using. I changed my ISO to what ever I needed it to be rather than using Auto and some of my pictures were over or underexposed. Of the fifty or so photos I took, maybe thirty were printable, but boring as HECK!
3. If you change your set up, remember to load settings when you are done. When I did that my Manual setting returned to Shutter and auto ISO and 1/4000, but I still had to manually change the mode to ten thousand frames per second...
4. I learned the 70 - 200 is one heck of a great lens, with tack sharp focus if you let it.
5. I learned, again, how challenging and fun it can be to just walk a couple of miles and take photos for the heck of it. I was nearly alone in this beautiful park. Of course it was 92 degrees and the clouds that would have given me soft focus light disappeared and I got more light than I wanted. I finished my walk with the three miles I shoot for every day. (When you are 76 and overweight, you must constantly be moving it or you will be losing it...)
6. I have not mastered either my camera or my lens, but I am much happier with both of them than I was in Portugal where I ended up leaving the camera at home most days.
Here are the only two that I will share from the shoot today. Not because they are wall hangers, but because I had so much fun taking them
I bought a new lens for my trip to Portugal. Had a terrible time with it on my camera in Lisbon. I was walking up and down the hills of central Lisbon and my photographer friend, Fernando Santos, who met with me for that one Saturday saw a monster big Peacock on the roof of a building and made peacock noises at it. It got all puffed up and made noises back, but not really offended My voice no longer goes that high, so I whistled sharply at it and it went nuts! I could not get my lens to release a shot for all the tea in China.
Finally, after it was too late to get a picture, Fernando came over and looked at my camera. "Wink, why are you shooting video?"
It seems my new camera bag that I got to fit my Z9 was simply wanting me to take video and moved the lever to video every time I put it in or took it our of the bag, I had a total of four or five pictures for the time I was in Portugal on my camera and a couple hundred on my iPhone. Some of them were great shots too.
BUT, I just spent a bunch of bucks for a new Nikon 70 to 200 2.8 S lens for my Z. Yesterday I decided to get off my behind and get back into taking photos with my camera. So, I watched the how to video from Señor Steve and did the upgrade to 4.0. I read nine pages of comments about the upgrade and watched several videos.
Today, right after Butlerkid welcomed me back, I left the house and went to Katheryn Albertson Park and started taking photos, one at a time of many different subjects. Most of them were boring as heck!
So, what did I learn?
1. I learned that the reason I could not get a close up focus was because I had the selector switch set to Infinity to 5m rather than full. Once I took that off, I got some good close ups. Not exciting, but good.
2. I started out with my B Bank set up. Along the way I changed to single shot and manual from the Shutter Speed I had been using. I changed my ISO to what ever I needed it to be rather than using Auto and some of my pictures were over or underexposed. Of the fifty or so photos I took, maybe thirty were printable, but boring as HECK!
3. If you change your set up, remember to load settings when you are done. When I did that my Manual setting returned to Shutter and auto ISO and 1/4000, but I still had to manually change the mode to ten thousand frames per second...
4. I learned the 70 - 200 is one heck of a great lens, with tack sharp focus if you let it.
5. I learned, again, how challenging and fun it can be to just walk a couple of miles and take photos for the heck of it. I was nearly alone in this beautiful park. Of course it was 92 degrees and the clouds that would have given me soft focus light disappeared and I got more light than I wanted. I finished my walk with the three miles I shoot for every day. (When you are 76 and overweight, you must constantly be moving it or you will be losing it...)
6. I have not mastered either my camera or my lens, but I am much happier with both of them than I was in Portugal where I ended up leaving the camera at home most days.
Here are the only two that I will share from the shoot today. Not because they are wall hangers, but because I had so much fun taking them
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