Peek a boo, Darla Doo Doo Doo.. my youngest and cutest niece Darla is just starting to crawl and she can get from point a to point b faster then most people can walk.
After two years of testing, renting, buying and selling just about every level of Nikon and Canon lenses and cameras I have learned quite a bit about what works and what doesn’t. Pretty much you can’t go wrong with Canon or Nikon and just about everything they make is top notch. You can buy one or the other and in the end you’ll have a great product even though I give Nikon a slight advantage in most categories. One thing I have learned is that the more you spend the better the quality of the lens, the camera and the final pictures you take. Well, that is until this week. This week I discovered the Nikkor 35MM Manual Focus lens. This lens has been around so long that it has reached legendary status (I believe it has been around since 1982 which is amazing considering how much technology and cameras have evolved from that point). The lens was originally created for press photography and is one of the fastest wide angle lenses that you can buy even to this day. This lens has one of the most superior color renditions of any lens I have used and creates great contrasty images with amazing depth of field when you dial the aperture to its lowest levels.
My nephew Irish is heading off to college and enrolling in the acting program there. He needed headshots so I tried something different. We went in my backyard and using a reflector and small portable black background we took the head shots using natural sunlight instead of flashes. I thought it gave a warmer look to the light and not as harsh as the indoor flash.
