dream maker

I'm lucky in life (well, my photographic one) in that I can shoot with a really very lovely and up to the minute Fujifilm camera and lenses.  The results the equipment is capable of are just on another level from equipment of old.

But there is a camera and lens I own which are now firmly in the vintage status, or ancient even in digital terms - my Nikon D700 and 105mm macro lens.  Both are approaching twenty years of age, and they feel it.  Auto focus is slow, the fixed rear screen means (with my back) a lot of guesswork when shooting near the ground and everything has a clunky feel as opposed to the super-smooth, hair-trigger like operation of my Fujifilm gear with its fully articulating rear screen.

Why then do I still use the stuff?

Simple really.  When it comes to transferring an idea or concept from my head and into a photograph, it's he Nikon that is now really on another level.

Take the images below for example.  I wanted some reasonably soft, dream-like images of these two flowers in my garden.  I wasn't looking for some hyper-sharp, realistic record of them, but rather just an interpretation of what the scenes were saying to me at that time - dreamy daisies and rather damp, dark asters.

Neither shot required any work in post processing other than applying a small crop.  Anyway, enough of me rabbiting on; here are the images: