{"id":7197,"date":"2013-01-01T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2013-01-01T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:03:17","slug":"pixel-peeper-or-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7197","title":{"rendered":"Pixel peeper or photographer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Happy New Year a few hours early, or if you read this after midnight December 31st, 20112, Happy New Year for real! \u00a0Let me take a moment befeore I get into some thoughts to thank you so much for coming to the Pilgrim’s Chronicles and spending a few minutes of your time with me! \u00a0I also want to thank all ofyou that comment or shoot me emails, it is a great encouragement and I do genuinly appreciate ydour efforts!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So I was having a \u00a0phone conversation with Mike Moats today and some really interesting things came up in the conversation, I would like to share the most important things with you! \u00a0If you are not familiar with Mike, and I am sure you are, he is one of the countries best close-up shooters, in my opinion! \u00a0Go to\u00a0www.tinylandscapes<\/strong>.com\/\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/cite><\/p>\n

After a trip to his website I think you will join me in a deep appreciation for his work! \u00a0What I appreciate even more is that Mike is one of those kinds of people I really like, he is a straight shooter. \u00a0Mike doesn’t pretend to know stuff he doesn’t know, and he does know a lot, but he is honest and forth right with his students and friends. \u00a0We were discussing how many people feel they have to own much more expensive equipment that they really need. \u00a0We both agreed that there are pros with very serious need for a lot of the high end gear, but that most of the people that just shoot for the shear pleasure of it, can do great work with a lot less. \u00a0The particular thing we were talking about was just how incredible the Nikon D7000 is, and how capable it is of producing stellar work!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This whole conversation grew out of mistake I made. \u00a0The other day I visited a antique shop, actually tow of them in my hometown that I’ve been wanting to shoot some images in. \u00a0The owners were kind of enough to let me roam around Alley Stuff<\/span><\/strong>, and McBurney’s Design Center<\/span><\/strong> to just have a little fun, and boy did I have fun! \u00a0I will share some of my favorites in a minute! \u00a0I decided to keep it simple and shoot everything with a D7000 and the 85mm Micro Nikkor f3.5 lens. \u00a0 I did use a tripod and a wireless release and then went hunting, so before I finish the story here are some of my favorite images!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So to finish the story, I told Mike that when I examined the shots above , especially the one at the very top I thought I detected just a little noise, which I have not found the be present in anything I shot with the D7000 in the past. \u00a0 When I checked the EXIF data, I found that they were all made at a ridiculously high ISO, (1600)!! \u00a0 Wow, my mistake! \u00a0The more I looked at the files, I didn’t think it hurt things that much at all! \u00a0We both got as good laugh out of it and vowed in 2013 to be alot less of a pixel peeper. \u00a0Actually Mike and I are not peepers at all, we are proud to say we are photogprahers, we use cameras, not to just test them, but to make images!!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Happy shooting in 2013!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year a few hours early, or if you read this after midnight December 31st, 20112, Happy New Year for real! \u00a0Let me take a moment befeore I get into some thoughts to thank you so much for coming to the Pilgrim’s Chronicles and spending a few minutes of your time with me! \u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}