Sails on the horizon....

This is a strange photo... maybe the last in the photoshoot surely the last of it I'll show you^_^.

-I wanted to have an horizon full of little sails... the sails were there... but the 3:2 APS-C format of my D300 wasn't up to the task!
I needed to go into Pano mode... but hte sails were too far to get a decent 300mms shot... I tried to have it all in one shot... but half of this and half of that is not a recipe for succes... it's a recipe for failure I'd say!

So this is another shot I should have made better... still it is an interesting one as it clearly shows the difference between 100mm and 300mm on the 70-300 Sigma.

300mms are afar softer so in this photo there are good details even in the small sailboats!

Another thing... the shot was taken at ISO 1250 not bad at all, I was able to get a 1/640 sec as shutter speed... this, maybe is another wrong choice... I would have been better to shoot it at ISO 400 and 1/200 sec... 1/300 and ISO 600 would have benne better too... maybe...

To say it all it wasn't a choice of me... I clearly remember that I believed to have an ISO 200 Setting... it was a cloudy day and I was getting too much light in the exposimeter... but I was really convinced of that so.... good tht time I've learnt to chack twice on the setting BEFORE leaving home with camera gear ! [in the future will speak of the "OMG I've forgot to charge the AA batteries for shooting with the flash in the church!" just before a friend's wedding!]

So be it... the exif reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:13 15:11:00
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.34 EV (f/9.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 1250
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 100.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

The Regatta

This is the last of the photos taken to sailboats in regatta or training for them (they are an easy subject here in naples).

It has been taken only some minutes after the first two (IIRC obviously as we're speaking about something from more than a year ago!).

I used the Sigma 70-300 APO as for all the others... but I've cropped the image a little in order to get a stronger composition.

Exif Reads

Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:02:21 16:22:12
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.97 EV (f/5.6)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 300.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

P.s. With this post I'll try the "Write Now, Post Automatically later approach". If it goes well you'll have the chance to read it on Wednesday!

Training for Regatta

Another shot of a sailboat....
This is the first of 3 shots I'll publish in the next few days ^_^.

It has been taken with the Sigma 70-300 APO and, obviously was taken without flash^_^.

Exif reads:
Date Taken: 2009:02:21 15:59:28
Exposure Time: 1/800 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 300.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

Lonely Sail...

During the same period I was focused on getting some good shots of fishermen I figured out I could use the FOV Multiplier of my d300 to take some good shots at sail boats... This one is
from December.

There not much to say about it.... but this is the first shot I publish in some months (it is an old one!)

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:13 15:30:36
Exposure Time: 1/500 sec.
Aperture Value: 5.31 EV (f/6.3)
ISO Speed Rating: 1250
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 300.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

And the shipment goes...

It has quite a month...
I've had 3 speechs in the last month... to many to have an updated blog!

But... let us going on with our cargo trend and look at another photo of an another cargo!

I do not remember WHY I had taken that photo... so I won't go inventing it!

Exif is my only lead and it says:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:02:08 15:49:55
Exposure Time: 1/800 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.97 EV (f/5.6)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 300.0 mm



Enjoy your light

First Cargo

Even if this picture has been ideally presented after the previous one.

It comes out of the same day I was taking some shot at Mergellina with Pino, a friend of mine.
As you can see it is a 1250 ISO shot... I found it still impressive how much it is clean.
Moreover it is not have been taken with the SIGMA 70-300 APO but with a AF-D 28-105 mm f/3.5 -4.5. That is a MACRO lens! Funny how well it can focus on far objects... the only thing I had to gripe with that lens was is rotating focusing screen.

Too bad it was stolen too...

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:13 15:24:48
Exposure Time: 1/499 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 1250
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 105.0 mm


Enjoy your light!