Oooh, I like my new camera.

[johno]

Long story short...

On our last day, at the last place we visited in Yellowstone, I fell and my Nikon D70 took a nose dive and stopped working.

So at Best Buy, on a 24 months, no interest, plan, I purchased a Nikon D300.

I've spent the last couple of weeks learning what it can do.

Here is one of the first shots I took that really shows off it's low light capability:

20080903-193410-d300

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johno/2839082192/

JohnO posted a photo:

SUGAR - Orchestra Member
Stage 1 Theatre
Newark, CA
www.stage1theatre.org
Sept 6-June 13-28, 2008

For the photo geeks:
Shot with available light.
A little stage wash, but mostly the music stand light only.

Nikon D300
Nikor 50mm/f1.8

Exposure time: 1/50
F-stop: 2.5
ISO speed: 2500

Other then then cropping it down a bit, I've done no post processing

My Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/johno
My Flickr feed: johnoflickr

Comments

[rebecca817.livejournal.com]

I like it. It seems to take great photos. Yesterday, we went to the Birch Aquarium and I learned how to manually focus my camera and bring up the ISO with the flash turned off to take pictures of the fish inside the aquariums. A nice gentleman stopped and showed me how to do it. I'm still learning because this is the first true SLR I've had that wasn't a point and shoot.