A view of the city made from the 27th floor of an office building in downtown Atlanta. Nikon Df + Nikkor 28mm f/2.0 AI.
Skyview Atlanta
A view of the Skyview Atlanta ferris wheel, as dawn breaks over the city. Nikon Df + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 SE.
A Night Stroll through Boston
Recently, I had the opportunity to take a quick walk in downtown Boston, around the Boston Commons area. I had my trusty Nikon Df with me, mounted with the 50mm f/1.8G SE lens. Here are a few image from that stroll. I think they definitely illustrate the clean images the Df produces at high ISO settings.
Young Artist Redux
I received a few messages on the one image I had previously posted here so I decided to share a few more images from that series. All shot with the Nikon Df and the Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2 lens.
John
A wonderful man, John. Kind, loving, and compassionate. Full of all sorts of engineering knowledge – especially mechanical engineering and radio engineering. Always helpful. Always there. We had a chance to enjoy a very special Armagnac together recently at my home. Very glad to have him in my life.
Sailing through Time
Four images from a series that I call “Sailing through Time”:
Young Artist
My daughter has developed into quite the young artist. She sketches, draws and paints. She’s currently very fascinated by Manga and has been doing a lot of sketches influenced by that style. She’s also learned to ignore dad when he’s got a camera in hand! I managed to shoot several portraits of her as she was sketching away one day, by the winter light of a northwest facing window. This image was made with the Nikon Df, a remarkable camera that I will have more to say about in the next few days. The lens used was the classic Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2 lens. One of my all-time favorite lenses for Nikon F-mount. Shot wide open at f/1.2, focus was on the eyelashes, with the rest of the image showing the wonderful out-of-focus rendering that the Noct is so well known for. RAW conversion using Capture NX 2.4.5.
As always, comments and critique welcome!
Back after a long hiatus…
Life tends to get busy and things fall by the wayside. Such is the nature of life…
For me, it has been a long break from posting here. I was traveling a lot for work and then I made a change in my life – I resigned from a great job and jumped into a startup that a friend and I decide to create last April. Things have been very busy, with little time for photography and none for devoting any attention to this blog. I used to hang out at the Leica Forum at DPreview with what little time I had, as I had many friends there, and have found the forum to be a great community over the past many years. Recently, I’ve observed the forum to have devolved into cliques, mindless praise of iffy images (something that I must admit to certainly being guilty of – both posting and commenting) and a tendency on the part of some people to engage in a cult of personality fueled by ego. I decided then that life was too short to hang out in such a community. What little time I can reclaim, having made that decision, I plan to spend posting here.
A very Happy New Year, filled with much love, laughter, prosperity and joy to you all in 2014. And above all else, a year filled with great light!
Cheers,
-raaj