Gordon's Gin

A couple of riders heading

home

on Sat-

urday

after-

noon

for a

drink. 

Both

shot with a D200 + 85mm

1.8

Contre-

Jour.

Isle of Rum

Deer Tracks on Kilmory beach, Isle of Rum. Somewhere in the haze and rain clouds in the background lurks the Isle of Skye.
Photograph by Geraldine Davey, on a Nikon D200 with standard 18-55mm zoom at 18mm.

Long Lens

Spent some time pondering purchasing a variable aperture zoom such as the 70-300mm VR before our trip to the Isle of Rum.
Eventually took my 180mm/2.8 and a manual TC200 2X converter. On the D200 this gives the equivalent of a 560mm f5.6. I used that to take this photo of a duck? (Does anyone know what it is?)
Settings 1/500th f5.6 ISO 125

Black Grouse or is it?

Taken by Geraldine Davey using her D200 with 70-300mm/4-5.6 VR lens, Sophie made a noise to disturb him from his meal and he obligingly flapped his wings.

Tweed Green Snow in Peebles

Mrs Davey walks across Tweed Green on Wednesday afternoon. There is a brief respite in the snow fall and we have some blue sky.

This year snow has come about a month earlier than in 2009 when it was the week before Christmas.

I took this on Geraldine's D200 with the 18-55mm lens and a polariser. Settings were Iso 400, f16 1/250th sec.

Apertures

During Borders College Peebles classes from day one I encourage my students to use manual.

Regular readers will know that I have a graphic on the site which describes different shutter speeds. It shows the increasing bluriness of a football and the players as an inept photographer tries to capture the action at slower and slower shutter speeds.

I have now prepared a graphic starting at f5.6 (most kit lenses have variable apertures from f3.5-5.6) and increasing in steps to f36.

I used a Nikon D200 and 105mm f2.8 VR Macro lens to create the graphic which shows the depth of field variation. Photographers now seem to like the term "Bokeh" for the out of focus highlights seen in my f5.6 shot.