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Water Pump In Our Garden

April 20, 2015 Dennis

One of the great things about the D7100 is that I can now literally can freeze water on a photo. That was often difficult with my point and shoot, but with the DSLR you really can get crystal clear photos of running water. I do also like that I can crop the image and there are not much details lost if I do so. Here I will show you the original and the cropped photo of the water pump in our garden and the water jet, you need to click on the images to enlarge them. Continue reading Water Pump In Our Garden

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Random Plant Photo

April 20, 2015 Dennis

Here I will show you one photo that I really like. It’s a close-up photo of a random plant branch that I found on my way when I was walking outside yesterday. I didn’t edit the image apart from resizing. There are no improvements made, this is basically how the photo came out of the camera. I really love the blurry background and that only the branch with the small blossoms are in focus. I like the bokeh or depth of field effect in the background and I shot this with the focal length of the lens changed to 105mm. … Continue reading Random Plant Photo

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Traffic Light, Lens Zoom Test 105mm

April 19, 2015April 19, 2015 Dennis

When I went outside in the morning today, the first thing I tested was to zoom to 105mm. I saw a traffic light and zoomed in. It’s not a big zoom lens but there is a range you can play with. For the start it is really enough because I come much closer to subjects now. Here is the photo… Continue reading Traffic Light, Lens Zoom Test 105mm

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After 900 Shots I Can Say This Camera Is Impressive

April 19, 2015 Dennis

I have my D7100 since yesterday, but I didn’t really do much with it yesterday apart from trying buttons and reading a little bit in the manual. I only shot my first photos in the automatic mode, I showed two of them here and here. Some hours later it was too dark to take more photos. I know, the D7100 can also be used if it is darker, but without tripod this is probably very difficult, and apart from that I have not the experience yet to do these shots. But I was very curios and excited in the evening, … Continue reading After 900 Shots I Can Say This Camera Is Impressive

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Cat Test Photo In Black And White

April 18, 2015 Dennis

Here is a photo that I took with the 18-105mm kit lens fully zoomed in to get a close-up shot of my cat. I don’t know, I really like to shoot close to 105mm. I don’t know, I think this photo is not too bad, but I disliked the colours and decided to change the image to black and white afterwards with Lightroom. Continue reading Cat Test Photo In Black And White

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Funny Test Shot And My First Impressions With The D7100

April 18, 2015April 18, 2015 Dennis

I was the whole afternoon at home, experimenting with my new Nikon D7100. After some time I had the basics down. I first had to learn how to mount the lens to the camera, I also did put my UV filter on the lens as protection, and then the lens hood but all that was easy. A much bigger challenge was to attach the strap to the camera but after a while I featured out how it works. There are a hell of a lot of buttons on the camera. It took me a while to understand some basic buttons … Continue reading Funny Test Shot And My First Impressions With The D7100