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Since I moved to Budapest in 2008 I set up
a small studio with 3 flash heads with various attachments 3 soft
boxes of various sizes one with an egg crate for greater directional
control of the light . Barn doors with 3 different color gels
and honeycomb plus a snoot. These I like to use for high contrast
black and white photography, especially nudes. I also have a couple
of umbrellas that I don¡¦t use often unless I¡¦m trying to burn
out a white backdrop for a color or black and white portrait.
In
2009 I updated from the Nikon D70 to the Nikon D90, and so far
have been very impressed with the results. I have used it for
a variety of work, i.e. documentary, portraiture, nudes and magazine
work. The 12mp D90 allows for huge excellent quality prints.
The
black and white shooting option, with various choices of digital
color filters such as red, yellow, orange, green has also produced
some surprisingly nice high contrast black and white shots. When
shooting in RAW the image in the playback will appear black and
white but once the image is downloaded to your PC it will appear
in color, where you can covert the image to black and white with
a greater degree of precision.
The
D90 has identical or slightly better image quality than the D300,
the exact same LCD screen at the back, and adds several really
useful features for better handling compared to the D300.
This
camera is also one of the first DSLR¡¦s to offer video capability,
and although its a nice bonus to have, the downside is there¡¦s
no auto focus which makes it tough to use on anything moving.
One
other useful feature worth mentioning is the cameras self cleaning
sensor mechanism. I had lots of problems with dirt and dust getting
on the sensor on the D70, so I was pleased to see this advance
in technology, which shakes off the dust every time you turn on
or off your camera.
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