Two weeks in the zone……….
Photo by Doug Haines
What a great two weeks!!! I really love teaching with Jack and his two groups were great people, eager to learn, and they produced wonderful images! Jack is a great shooter, teacher, and workshop leader, it i is always an honor to work with him. We not only had some wonderful people to trench, I son’ think I can ever remember two weeks straight of near perfect conditions. When we needed rain we got it, when we needed it to stoop it did, when we got to the Palouse, we need nice clouds and blue skies, got it!!!! All of this led to great conditions for our students and ourselves! I rarely get many good images while teaching but this was my most productive trip to these two locations. I even got enough rest to live through the experience!!! Here are some of my favorites with comments! First a little technical note. I’ve been using a number of Nikon manual focus lenses with the X-T1 and with focus peaking am finding they work great! Currently, the longest lens from Fuji is a 200mm end of the 55-200 zoom, which is a 300 mm equivalent. On this trip I used a Nikkor 300mm f 4.5 IF-ED manual focus model from back in the 80’s! I’ll feature those images first, and I think you’ll agree, it works great on the X-T1!!
A couple of portraits of my buddies Doug and Rick shooting in the field!
A big part of shooting the Palouse is capturing the many wonderful barns! Here are a few!
More wonderful fields of wheat! (300mm again!!!)
Even the stuff on barn sides can make great monochrome images!
Thanks Jack, and all the attendees of these two workshops, you helped me have a great time, sure hope you did too!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
A few more!
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What an honor to work with Bill, whom without I would not be here. I am not only looking forward to the fall and working together again but to 2015.
I am a blessed guy…. Thank you my friend!
JG
I feel the same way Jack, the honor is all mine! What fun!!!!!!
Great shots with the 300mm.
What adapter are you using for the Nikon lenses?
Thanks,
Tom
Tom, it is the Fotodiox from Amazon, the one for lenses with aperture rings. With focus peaking it is deadly accurate!
Bill, I love that last one especially of you shooting. Warms my heart. I am so thankful for all I’ve learned from you and all I’m continuing to learn from you. Just so thankful for you!!
Blessings,
Catherine
Ditto, Catherine!!!!!
I’m looking forward to 2015. I always window shop workshops. Soon I’ll be able to enjoy more. 215 work days til my permanent vacation. 🙂
Congratulations, it will fly by, my last year at Nikon sure did!
Thank you Bill for your teaching and witness. You and Jack put on a fantastic workshop in the Palouse. Great teaching. Great fellowship. I hope to do it again soon.
Rick
Really enjoy spending time with you Rick!
Bill, it was truly a delight/honor to meet and spend some time with you. Thank you for being so willing to share your wisdom and advice. Look forward to meeting up again….
……and me you as well Doug!
Welcome home, my friend. It wasn’t the same here in the Midwest without you.
I got in at 1:15 this morning the result of lots of airport bumps. Really looking forward to what remains this year with you guys! Love you man!
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Why oh why doesn’t every camera have focus peaking? 🙂
I have to say it is very, very exciting with old lenses!
Bill,
After much ado I finally sold my D600 and 2.8 lenses and moved to the Fuji along with the 18-55, 55-200 and 60 macro. It is a major paradigm shift for my mindworks but I’ll get there. Can you expand on the 300 Nikon you are using as I think I located one but am not for sure it is the same. Does this lens have a foot? And the other is, what is your take on the 60 macro (mine is still unboxed) because I can still kick myself in the rear for selling my 200 micro a couple of years ago. What about using one of the older i05 MF Nikon macro lenses on the XT-1?
I’ve yet to put my 60mm on either Fuji body I own but I will tell you that the 18-55 and 55-200 lenses are very sharp and great for waterfall shots. You have to watch the highlights but be aware that you will easily be able to recover what appear to be blown highlights. The Fuji auto white balance is quite good — never relied on AWB before but with Fuji it’s pretty much dead on most of the time.