Category: General Photography

KIT: New Bits…

Since starting down the Nikon DSLR path we have acquired new bits.  As a result of commercial photography for events we now use the Sigma 17-50 f2.8 for DX cameras on the Nikon D3300 and though the company we also have a Nikon D610 and a 35mm AFS f1.8.  Why… The main reason is that

KIT: Our Basic Setup

I use a Nikon D5200 together with Nikon’s older AIS lenses in manual mode. I originally bought the camera as a kit with the 18-105mm kit lens. The kit lens is absolutely useless; the results with auto-focusing are poor, the manual focusing is impossible, the lens does nothing to contribute to good crisp images. I

Introduction to me, my photography and my mindset

I was 5 or so, years old when I first understood that people wanted to kill me and my family.  My awareness of my surroundings and visual inspection of every environment, I went into, was hard wired as a form of self-preservation.  My father, an officer in the British Army was as we all were,