My old Nikon D810 has now taken a bit over 200,000 exposures, and I have had to replace both the rubber grip and the shutter. It still works and takes great pictures, but it was…
Category: Gear
I recently bought my first second-hand lens, a vintage Nikon 135 mm f/2.8 AI lens which has been recommended by the Angry Photographer on YouTube. The lens was sold by Nikon between 1977 and 1986.…
Before I moved abroad I used to spend a day or so at the end of each year going through all the photos from the past year and have my favourite ones printed at Odenlab, a local…
I mentioned in my last post that I would talk a bit more about off-camera flash next. When you take flash photography with an on-camera flash it will create a very flat illumination of your subject,…
When I got my first prime lens I was enjoying the blurry backgrounds that the big aperture gave me. It allowed me to isolate the subject and minimise distractions. While those photos still have a…
I used to look through all my digital photos once a year and print the best ones, and put them in a photo album. I took the photos pretty much straight out of the camera without doing any post…