Well today has been a great day for photography, it's was wonderful outside. Crystal light blue skies, almost cloud free and the temps at a balmy 55' but very bearable. I had a late night staying up all night processing 580 images from a sweet 16 shoot I did last week, then I had a McDonald's breakfast YUMMY and then off to play with my camera all day. I started at my youngest daughter (11) Alexa's Dance Competition (she's a nationally ranked dancer with several national titles - yes I'm a proud papa LOL).
NO FLASH was allowed and it was very dark with just stage lights from over head and I was about 40' from the stage, so once again I had to push the D300 into it's comfort zone Focal length 105mm, 1/250 @ f/5.3 High ISO Noise Reduction set to Normal and ISO 2000 ! Yes I said 2000 and I wanted to show those who don't know about the fantastic low light capabilities of the D300 what it can truly do. This shot is 100% SOTC ! Not even a hint of sharpening, just converted it from RAW to .jpg in PS RAW Bridge and saved it. As you know noise is best seen in blacks & dark colors and especially skin tones, I've uploaded the full size file as well so you could see up to X3-LARGE size so you can see how good the D300 handles noise in low light conditions, Remarkable !!! I also only used my 18-200 VR lens which isn't even close to the sharpest in my bag (but shines at 105mm about it's sharpest around this length) and this shot IMO came out Awesome! I have 100 others like it that I shot during her 3 minute routine LOL and they all came out great ! Oh I also was using the 51 Point 3D Constant Tracking Focus feature !
I traveled to a bunch of my favorite landscape sites along with the Horse Stud Farm. I'll post more tomorrow. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend, I know I am !!!
~Bill~
NO FLASH was allowed and it was very dark with just stage lights from over head and I was about 40' from the stage, so once again I had to push the D300 into it's comfort zone Focal length 105mm, 1/250 @ f/5.3 High ISO Noise Reduction set to Normal and ISO 2000 ! Yes I said 2000 and I wanted to show those who don't know about the fantastic low light capabilities of the D300 what it can truly do. This shot is 100% SOTC ! Not even a hint of sharpening, just converted it from RAW to .jpg in PS RAW Bridge and saved it. As you know noise is best seen in blacks & dark colors and especially skin tones, I've uploaded the full size file as well so you could see up to X3-LARGE size so you can see how good the D300 handles noise in low light conditions, Remarkable !!! I also only used my 18-200 VR lens which isn't even close to the sharpest in my bag (but shines at 105mm about it's sharpest around this length) and this shot IMO came out Awesome! I have 100 others like it that I shot during her 3 minute routine LOL and they all came out great ! Oh I also was using the 51 Point 3D Constant Tracking Focus feature !
I traveled to a bunch of my favorite landscape sites along with the Horse Stud Farm. I'll post more tomorrow. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend, I know I am !!!
~Bill~
Well today has been a great day for photography, it's was wonderful outside. Crystal light blue skies, almost cloud free and the temps at a balmy 55' but very bearable. I had a late night staying up all night processing 580 images from a sweet 16 shoot I did last week, then I had a McDonald's breakfast YUMMY and then off to play with my camera all day. I started at my youngest daughter (11) Alexa's Dance Competition (she's a nationally ranked dancer with several national titles - yes I'm a proud papa LOL).
NO FLASH was allowed and it was very dark with just stage lights from over head and I was about 40' from the stage, so once again I had to push the D300 into it's comfort zone Focal length 105mm, 1/250 @ f/5.3 High ISO Noise Reduction set to Normal and ISO 2000 ! Yes I said 2000 and I wanted to show those who don't know about the fantastic low light capabilities of the D300 what it can truly do. This shot is 100% SOTC ! Not even a hint of sharpening, just converted it from RAW to .jpg in PS RAW Bridge and saved it. As you know noise is best seen in blacks & dark colors and especially skin tones, I've uploaded the full size file as well so you could see up to X3-LARGE size so you can see how good the D300 handles noise in low light conditions, Remarkable !!! I also only used my 18-200 VR lens which isn't even close to the sharpest in my bag (but shines at 105mm about it's sharpest around this length) and this shot IMO came out Awesome! I have 100 others like it that I shot during her 3 minute routine LOL and they all came out great ! Oh I also was using the 51 Point 3D Constant Tracking Focus feature !
I traveled to a bunch of my favorite landscape sites along with the Horse Stud Farm. I'll post more tomorrow. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend, I know I am !!!
~Bill~
NO FLASH was allowed and it was very dark with just stage lights from over head and I was about 40' from the stage, so once again I had to push the D300 into it's comfort zone Focal length 105mm, 1/250 @ f/5.3 High ISO Noise Reduction set to Normal and ISO 2000 ! Yes I said 2000 and I wanted to show those who don't know about the fantastic low light capabilities of the D300 what it can truly do. This shot is 100% SOTC ! Not even a hint of sharpening, just converted it from RAW to .jpg in PS RAW Bridge and saved it. As you know noise is best seen in blacks & dark colors and especially skin tones, I've uploaded the full size file as well so you could see up to X3-LARGE size so you can see how good the D300 handles noise in low light conditions, Remarkable !!! I also only used my 18-200 VR lens which isn't even close to the sharpest in my bag (but shines at 105mm about it's sharpest around this length) and this shot IMO came out Awesome! I have 100 others like it that I shot during her 3 minute routine LOL and they all came out great ! Oh I also was using the 51 Point 3D Constant Tracking Focus feature !
I traveled to a bunch of my favorite landscape sites along with the Horse Stud Farm. I'll post more tomorrow. I hope you are all enjoying your weekend, I know I am !!!
~Bill~
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