Another One bites the Cream Machine dust

Aaahh... the lust...
Welcome to the club. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
Mine gave me already its first 5 stars shot! :710: and it's only 2 weeks old.

 

Let's see the shot, Jordan.

 

I have it in my other computer, but I think it still lives in my camera's card too (which is here), so i will go check now.
I should start a new thread though, I don't want to hijack Christine's thread.

 

Thank you, that's what friends are for... to take the blame for you :biggrin:

 

Why don't you share it with us Jordan?  

 

ok... I am getting there... I will make a quick jpg from my .NEF
Since I noved everything in my job's computer nothing is easy at home  

 

ok... I hope I didn't mess it up very much... or else I will post it again tomorrow from my job :redface:
I was walking in Plaka when I met Petros painting. He is a great artist! His dark skin and white hair in the sun combined with the painting in the shade was a bit of a photographer's nightmare. It was windy too.
I had to use a medium aperture to keep everything -but the background- sharp. Thank God I had my tiny SB-400 with me (that's why SB-400 is useful) and I used a bit of flash to lighten the shadows and the painting.
Here it is.
Edited: It looks a mess in my ibook's screen and just a little better in my wife's Vaio. Oh dear... I have to try again, it doesn't do justice to the picture, sorry. :Sad:

 

Welcome to the club! It's also great in low light situations. Here's two from this past weekend. My nephew playing with a new toy

NIKON D200    ---    85mm    f/1.6    1/100s    ISO 1100

NIKON D200    ---    85mm    f/2.0    1/100s    ISO 1400

 

Ok, why did I ask to see the photos from this lens? Now I want it ahead of schedule. At least this weekend I discovered that the bokeh on the 70-200mm VR isn't a slouch, either:

 

Welcome to the club... Looking forward to seeing some photos!!

 

I made the jump, too, for both lenses, when they came up on a for sale list here on nikoncafe. I almost bought the 85 years ago, but have the 85 1.8 and could never justify it, until now. The 60 Micro was a recent thing -- one of my most respected outdoor photographer acquaintances talked about how his light field pack held a 12-24, 70-200 VR, and a 60 Micro, so it went on my wish list. There are "in the mail" and scheduled to arrive on Monday.

Now if I can just figure out how to justify a Beast.

 

i would LOOOOVE to get one of these.
probably my favorite nikon lens.....the shots i've seen of course...never had the pleasure.
matt

 

beautiful image by the way!

 

Thanks. I was just sitting on a bench at the lake waiting for the sun to go down. The bird was there, so I figured I may as well see what the lens could do.

 

I like this one:

http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/...761&catID=&style=&rowNumber=6&memberID=187122

I've always been a sucker for that composition!