Nikon D750
If you watched Magnum PI in the 1980s, like I did, and revisited it on Netflix in recent times, through all those years I thought the only thing you needed to thwart bad guys in Hawaii was your wits, and of course a Ferrari 308 GTS! So when Bring A Trailer contacted me about photographing this supercar up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I was very excited!
Read MoreKaren has taken three 1-on-1 DSLR photography lessons with me at the JCP Home Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico as she had a big family reunion coming up in Taos she wanted to be able to make great candid photos of, as well as group photos. She has a Nikon D750, the same camera I have! So it was very easy to show her all the custom settings I use myself on my own Nikon. The first 2-hour lesson was focused on teaching her my 5-step process for shooing in manual mode and getting a sharp and well exposed photo in any shooting conditions.
Read MoreBack in Torrance County New Mexico on a rural land photography shoot for Hemingway Land Company, at a property much more covered in trees than I typically encounter. The last time I had hardly any open space to make photos with a view from. This time there was a good swatch of open land that allowed me to make landscape and sunset shots to help the client sell this rural land property fast! How fast? Well, read the Google review about how much my photographs and drone video help sell his New Mexico rural land properties.
Read MoreI have photographed dozens and dozens of rural land properties in New Mexico over the past year. I believe I am the best at what I do in the state in terms of the photos I produce, and the service I offer. My clients just have to give me the GPS coordinates, any notes about that particular property, and then no matter where the land is in the state, I get it done. I now offer 4K drone video for these rural land properties too. This additional service makes me unique in the state of New Mexico as a complete, professional go anywhere, anytime photographer and drone pilot for rural land properties.
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Debbi with her brand new Nikon D750 during our 1-on-1 commercial real estate photography lesson in Tampa FloridaI often get asked by photography students, what photography gear should I buy next? My first question back to them is, what is your budget? When Debbi called me she said she needed everything starting with the camera and she wanted to be able to make shots of her listings for her real estate business. I asked what the budget was first as I always do, except this time the reply was a little bit different as she said basically any budget is ok! Well, this meant I could recommend Nikon's newest full frame DSLR, the Nikon D750 along with its tried and true Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G lens and my preferred Induro brand carbon fiber tripod. Now that is a camera bag full of gear one can grow into!
This was my first time to gets hands on with the Nikon D750 and I was totally impressed. It was hard for me to hand it back to Debbi, I wanted it to be mine! After showing Debbi how to use my 5-step process for getting a well exposed and sharp shot in any shooting conditions, without taking the time to setup her new tripod, I just tried some very high ISO handheld shots of the rooms in the listing of hers we were in. I was blown away by the shots I could make at ISO 3200 and higher of the rooms of the house with the Nikon D750 and the Nikkor 14-24mm lens just hand holding it. Like really blown away. Even shooting at the largest aperture of f/2.8 and ISO 3200 the results were startingly good in terms of lack of noise and depth of field. For the next lesson we will actually put the D750 on a tripod and I cannot wait to see ISO 100 results!
