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            Gymnastics season is coming up, and I want to figure out to optimize the myriad settings on the D300 for sports, and so had my daughter run up and down the sideway while I fiddled with the camera.  Unfortunately this haphazard approach didn't do any good, so its got to be redone systematically, changing each setting separately to see its effect in real life.

In between the running, my daughter rests and looks up our street.  This is the last image of her with long hair, as her mother had it all chopped off since my daughter had no interest in the brushing required to keep long hair from developing rat's nests.

The 85mm f/1.4D lens isn't usually considered to be a sports lens since its the old manual drive, and so its too slow, but the UNC gymnasiums are incredibly dark, so going to f1.4 or f1.8 is the only way to get to shutter speeds required for action sports at ISO1600.  Maybe the new D3 will make this a thing of the past since it easily goes to ISO6400, but for the rest of the cameras, its got to be the ultra-fast lenses.

As you can see above, the 85mm is tack sharp at f4, and required almost no sharpening to bring out fine details in the eyelashes and eyes. This isn't a particularly creative photograph, just a catch shot on the front porch, but I wanted to remember her long hair.

Taken on: January 8, 2008

Tags:

portrait

long hair

porch

resting

eyes

85mm

D300

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85mm f/1.4D

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Camera: Nikon D300, f/4.0, 1/800 sec, 80mm (=120mm), ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D300
Lens:	80.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	80mm (35mm equivalent: 120mm)
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
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