Well, a few really! Our favorite Thai restaurant has this cool upholstery in their booths. I had been wanting to use it for a background. This last time, we sat in the round booth. The sun was setting to my right, and thus very low on the horizon, coming in through the window. There were a few overhead lights. Lighting was kind of tricky. I shot these at f/2.8 and high ISO of 5000, no flash, just ambient and restaurant lights. I am pretty pleased with the result.
Sabi was rushing out the door to go to college and I wanted a quick portrait. I tried using the overhead skylight as my main light and a round silver reflector underneath for clam shell type beauty lighting. I am quite pleased with the result.
Photo Info: Natural light with reflector fill from underneath, Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm, ISO 1400, f/4 @ 1/160s.
I tried the panorama technique on some portraits this weekend. Using my 70-200mm VR2 lens zoomed to 200mm at f/2.8, I first focused on Sabi and set the D700 to manual focus. Exposure was based on exposing her properly. Then, I started the panorama series, by taking her pictures first and then kept taking pictures in rows from bottom to the top. At 200mm and f/2.8, the depth of field is very narrow. When composed into a panoramic image, these final images simulate the depth of field of a lens around f/0.8, which for a 200mm lens is very hard to engineer, if not impossible and terribly expensive. I am fairly happy with my first attempt at panoramic portraits.
Photo Info: Natural Light, D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm VR2, ISO 200, f/2.8 @ 1/320th.
Location: University of Washington Arboretum, Seattle, WA.
Photo Info: Natural Light, D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm VR2, ISO 200, f/2.8 @ 1/320th.
Location: University of Washington Arboretum, Seattle, WA.
