Recent content by Sessantasei

Depends on what sort of night sky objects you want to shoot. Personally I use a Nikon 28mm f2.8 Ai-S lens. It costs about 400 dollars used (two years ago).

Wow I didn't know you could do it this way! Thanks for sharing!

The most direct way would be to use a screw on star effect filter as shown in the link below. I believe it can be also done using post processing techniques. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/397744-REG/Formatt_BF_77_STAR8PT.html

Strictly speaking the manufacturers are not lying. However they are not telling the complete truth either. I think the problem arises really due to the reduction in sensor size, i.e. you take a photo on a smaller sensor and then enlarge it to the same size as an image taken from a larger...

Personally I would choose 6D. It's cheaper, lighter and also because I don't need some of the features of the 5D3 such as better weather sealing or that many autofocus points etc.

Very nice lighting. May I know the lighting setup used?

Please consider very carefully why you really need (not want!) a full frame body before buying one. As you have already pointed out it is a huge investment. Also as far as most photographers are concerned, full frame is not what one should be aiming for. Rather, most photographers I know make...

May I suggest taking a trip to White Island? http://www.whiteisland.co.nz/ It is a guided tour where you get to visit an actual marine volcanic island off the coast of Whakatane (about 5 hours drive from Auckland). However the boat trip from Whakatane to the island itself is about 4 hours, and...

With regards to photo editing software, if you are unwilling to pay for Adobe products, there are a number of free applications available. Well known examples are Picasa and Gimp.

Image 1 - Probably post processed in an image editing software by "editing" the other colours out except for the yellows. Image 2 - A lot of beautiful landscape images are the result of waiting (possibly for hours on end) just for the right moment where the light is most beautiful, i.e. colour...

248. FM2N with Russian 35mm f2

Nice work! May I ask what were the lighting conditions you used?

I think the non-white dresses in the closet are sort of distracting... Also I'm guessing the dominant light source here was window light?

If you're not planning to switch to Full frame anytime in the near future, I would suggest 17-55 instead. 24mm on DX is quite tight and you won't be able to pull off some "wide angle" shots which you can get with at 17mm.

I have faced the same light banding problem as in your photos with my D700, realised that this occurs when I was using very high ISO while shooting in the dark with bright point sources. Perhaps trying with a lower ISO but longer exposure time might help resolve or reduce this problem.