Green flesh
Succulent plants, orchids and tropical plants display fleshy surfaces, sometimes. Pictures shot at the Stadtgärtnerei Zürich
Click each picture to zoom in. Pictures shot with D800 plus Nikon 80 mm f/1.8 plus Nissin MF18 Macro Ring Flash
Nikon SB-700 on Nikon D800: never again without external flash, first impressions on SB-700
I recently bought the SB-700 for my Nikon D800, as I could need it for reporting indoor, evening events in Zurich. Although I still need to learn how to use a flash, the full automatism of the SB-700 makes it a wonderful learning item. Its remote control under command of the internal D800 flash makes it a very interesting toy to experiment with lights. Let’s the game begin!
No flash (center up) suffers from high ISO and incandescent lights.
D800 flash (center down) is flat and gives a terrible shadow on the backgrond
In all the other cases I moved the SB-700 in different positions around my favourite model (FL = front left; BR = back right). Waiting forward to test the flash on humans!
Click to magnify and appreciate the detail differences. All pictures 100 % crops of originals.
Lucerne Jazz Orchestra at Mehrspur (Zurich, Switzerland): musical and photographical joy!
A 20 line musical score: piece of cake for the director of Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, David Grottschreiber!
Brasses first…
add a bass in the background …
a drummer to keep the beat ….
A solo for the sax …
Lead voice ready.
… and now the solo of the guitar-man!
You are my man!
Well, I am only a photographer, not a music director, and I regret I will never lead such an awesome group of instruments. This concert of Lucerne Jazz Orchestra was at the Mehrspur in Zurich, one week ago. Don’t miss their amazing performances and pass by Mehrspur when you are in Zurich: free (!!!) jazz (!!!) music every Friday! Gratis and quality music don’t come often in one package …
All pictures shot with D800 and 50 mm f/1.4 with no flash and no tripod in a quite dark environment, not bad, uh? Times around 1/100 secs, Iso 800 to 4000, aperture f/1.8 to f/ 2.4
