I took this picture up in Maine at Cape Elizabeth Light. Well, I took most of it there. The sky was actually from here, in Louisville, Kentucky. Check this out.
The original is a cool image on it’s own, but putting that sky in really makes such a difference! Here’s the original.
But before I get into how to make that happen, here’s a bit of an update.
I’ve got a wedding to shoot this weekend, along with a backlog of editing from Mothers’ Day, and a corporate shoot we did earlier this week that I need to get done by Monday. BUT. I’m super excited, because I just upgraded my kit. I think over the next few weeks of me using it, I’m going to review each of the pieces I got this week.
In a rather sacrilegious move, I’ve bought a Nikon kit, and have moved that to be my primary shooting equipment from my beloved Canon things I’ve used for years. I love my Canon gear - it’s what I learned on and for video it is definitely king. I was definitely on the Canon side of the Nikon/Canon divide, but now I’m using both. I find myself doing quite a bit more photo lately though, and so for the ease of sharing lenses and making things much easier in post, I’ve bought a Nikon.
I haven’t gone totally off the wall though, I made some sensible purchases. For the body, rather than going all in on the D850 - I wanted full frame, I wanted good dynamic range and low light performance, but I didn’t need 47.5MP files. I bought the Nikon D750, and I know, it’s a three and a half year old body, but it really is hard to beat for the price tag.
From there, I needed glass. I went with the absolutely superlative Tamron kit of both the 24-70mm f2.8 G2 and the 70-200mm f2.8 G2. They’re amazingly sharp lenses and the fact that I could buy both of those lenses for less than the cost of the un-stabilized Nikon edition of the 24-70mm meant it was a no brainer. On that stabilization, by the way, it’s incredible. I mean the fact that you can hand hold a 1/4” exposure easily with that VR turned on is just unreal. I paired both of these lenses with the super cool Tamron Tap-In console so I can manage focus profiles and really tune the lenses how I like to use them.
Finally, after about a billion YouTube reviews, on a billion different tripods, I bought the Benro Travel Angel in Carbon Fiber, with the V1E ball head. Seriously it blows away any of the Manfrotto ones I’ve used in the past. The packaging, the presentation, and the kit it came with has really got me excited to go out and use it.
On the list of things left to get: I need to update my pocket wizards, and I’d really really like to find one of those ProFoto B1’s that I don’t have to destroy what’s left of my bank account for.
I will probably post more on each of those after I’ve had a chance to use them a bit. Excited to see what I can make them do!!