Card arrived today (first full day of having D300, so phew), and I went straight out to the nearest place that looks like far away, Richmond Park
Was impressed, of course, with the entire feel of the new machine, and it's controls, but sometimes got a little lost.... ("Right....set ISO.....NO NOT MENU!" etc). These are a selection of shots with small commentaries for those interested, mainly to make up for me being currently worse than the camera....
The first thing I came upon was a woodpecker.....on the bank of a river.....
But he decided to fly away after letting me get that close, and considering I had not yet firgured out how to turn on 3D 51 point AF colour tracking, I think I did relatively wellt o get this (cropped) shot, with the camera flailing in my hands, at 6 fps; something I'm definitely not used to, but certainly a welcome addition:
Then I had to wait awhile, because I saw this shot, then the sun disappeared....used the Nikon 'Active D-lighting' for this, whereby it (somehow) preserves shadow and highlight detail, and I think it did pretty well, putting aside the sun which isn't exposable for...
Then I saw this twisted tree, forgot I was shooting in manual (no mode dial), and didn't turn on d-lighting
, but still got quite a nice shot
Then I walked past the lodge place, and thought I could take a nice shot of it with the sky, which was getting a little nicer:
It was off to the deers next, and the first one I saw was an 'ickle babee'. The bright sun made exposure hard....I seemed to have forgotten about d-lighting....
Then two stags locked horns, and the fast AF managed to pick them out (cropped, slightly):
Finally, on the way back, I saw a tit by the river, and took a shot through some branches at quite high ISO (cropped):
TFL
Jack