Photoblog!

On the advice of my friend Bruce, I've joined Shutterchance. My photoblog is named aestheticimags — I wish they had allowed me one more letter. <grin> Shutterchance is an interesting way to share ideas and comments with other photographers. Not sure it'll produce the kind of exposure that'll result in business, but the learning counts for something.

VR lens magic

A little over a year ago I bought a Nikon D200 digital SLR camera and a vibration-reduction (VR) lens. I've been saying that the VR feature gives me about two stops of exposure, and on a recent trip to Italy I pushed the envelope, just for fun. My friend and I rode the vaporetto down the Grand Canal at night, and I sat (sometimes stood) in the back of the boat and shot a number of pictures. Most were blurry (at least partly because of the vaporetto's movement), but several were amazingly clear. Here's the one that came out the best:



Here's a detail from the shot. There's clearly some camera shake visible in it, but an amazing amount of detail can be seen. I think it was a 1/4-second exposure. (I normally shoot with the D200 set on ISO 400.)



One thing I like about digital is that I can experiment without worrying about wasting film.

Aha.

Well, they've progressed enough that I've converted my old blogs to this format. I have two others: UserWorks (my work) and Design Musings (which I may just merge with this one).