D700 first proper day shooting

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I had the first proper day shooting with the D700 on Sunday. I have obviously been mucking about with it at home, reading the books and I took it to the beach one day with the kids and dogs but it's not quite the same as a full on days shooting.

So Sunday saw me with the lovely Trevor and Faye Yerbury and three fellow delegates (Waves hello, it's amazing where you meet fellow TP'ers :wave:) We did have a great day shooting the amazing Becky and between window light, just the modelling lamps in the studio, one softbox and a fresnel the lighting was fairly simple but required a fair bit of shifting about on camera.

As more experienced Nikonians have reported I've found the metering to be about 1/3 stop over so I'm going to keep an eye on that one. I'm hoping to be shooting again this weekend and if I'm still getting 1/3 stop on both cameras I'll dial them both down. Coming from an underexposing Canon it's a little bit funny to have them going the other way even if only slightly.

The hardest part of the day was going from shooting under the modelling lamps (tungsten) ISO 3200 f2.8 1/60 to plugging in a synch lead and bingo, WB changes to flash, ISO to 200, f8 and 1/100sec so back and forward went the settings. Only a couple of the shots under the modelling lamp using the fresnel were a little soft due to some subject movement which is entirely my fault.

Other than that I have to say that I was really pleased with it first day out. Loved the little 50mm f1.4 and although I shot all the studio stuff on the 24-70 f2.8 for the extra reach. (Trevor was shooting on an 85mm so the shots were set up for that longer focal length) I would certainly shoot with the 50mm with no qualms at all. It's a little star :)

Couple of pics from the day on my blog as they may be NSFW

http://alisonbaileyphotography.blogspot.com/
 
Hi Ali,
Glad you had a good shoot, pics look excellent and about to read your write up on your Blog,
 
AliB said:
As more experienced Nikonians have reported I've found the metering to be about 1/3 stop over so I'm going to keep an eye on that one. I'm hoping to be shooting again this weekend and if I'm still getting 1/3 stop on both cameras I'll dial them both down. Coming from an underexposing Canon it's a little bit funny to have them going the other way even if only slightly.
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I found much the same when I switched from the 5D to the D700. Initially I thought I'd leave -1/3 dialled in but in practice it mostly gets the exposures right, getting fooled by the usual suspects of excess dark or light tones. Even then, I found that it got the exposures mostly right with no compensation at the wedding I shot a week and a bit ago. Shooting RAW and 14bit, any hot exposures are easy to pull back.

Give it a while longer before you decide dial that -1/3 in.
 
Thanks Chris, that's what I'm figuring. Most of the pics I was shooting on Sunday were reasonably well lit, I'm holding off to see what it does with a groom's suit!

I'll find out soon enough I have two grooms on the 10th thanks to a certain mate called James who has roped me it to shoot a civil partnership :)
 
Nice work there, very impressive indeed.

Hope you are pleased with your new toys!
 
Still feeling my way with them a little but I'll get there. Just doing everything manually until I get truly intuitive with them. I still have to look for the buttons at the moment!
 
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