Siberian Huskies in the Night

From Siberian Huskies in the Night

Nikon D70s, AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 18-55 mm f/3.5-5.6 ED, f/7.1, 1/200 s, ISO 1600

I had a great oppornity to shoot a training session of my brothers Siberian Huskies in the late Autumn of 2010. Despite the very low light I managed to get some nice photograph and this one ended up as the cover of Siperianhusky magazine 3/2012.

A light in the Night

From Metro Photo Challenge 2014

Nikon D90, Nikkor 24 mm AI f/2.8. ISO 200, f/8, 30 s

I was returning from work to home by bike when I spotted a single light above the trees. I set up my tripod and took a few photographs. This is my third take on Metro Photo Challenge 2014. Please vote here and share.

Farther Christmas

From Farther Christmas

Farther Christmas, Helsinki, Finland, Nikon D90, Nikkor 24 mm AI f/2.8, ISO 200, f/8.

Abandonded places, or as in this case, a boat named Farther Christmas can have their own kind of special photographical attraction. When I saw this wreck I immediately knew I had to shoot it in the dark.

This is my first take at Metro Photo Challenge 2014. Please vote for this image if you like the picture.

Tram #8

From Twilight Exposure

Nikon D90, AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED, 28mm, ISO 1600, f/5.0, 1/25 s.

In August I was lucky when returning from my regular pub: the tram was in the right place at the right time and this shot turned out to be nice though a kit lens is certainly not what one usually would like to have when it's dark.

Affordable Quality Glass

February 20^th

From Helsinki 2013

Linnunlaulu, Helsinki, Finland, Nikon D90, Nikkor AI 24 mm, 15 s, f/8, ISO200

"Affordable" and "quality" is a rare combination in photography. Cameras and lenses are precision instruments and as such things cannot be cheap. However, good glass lasts decades, so the second hand camera market is very much alive. Some of the used lenses are excellent and cheap.

From Twilight Exposure

My personal photographical precious is Nikkor AI 24 mm f/2.8. The AI-S version of this lens is still manufactured. So what good is a lens that doesn't autofocus and doesn't even meter on some Nikon bodies? Plenty. The lens is small, though heavy for it's size. The optical quality is excellent and the old-style manual focus is good for night photography. One can set the aperture to f/8 and focus to the infinity and the picture will be sharp. The modern AF-S lenses focus beyond the infinity so focusing them in very low light is not easy.

An old lens I bought from ebay at 100 euros (postage included) in some way performs better than the modern AF-S lens which costs twenty times as much.