Nico (THE GREAT) is not just a high-end computing genius, not just a mountain-biking/road-biking enthusiast, not just another avid appreciator of jazz music, not just another jazz double-bassist, but he is also a master photographer! He is not good! He is extremely good at photography.
Nico's parents were formerly professional photographers. It is nowonder when we talk about camera flashes, it is not just a little bulb that pops up from the side of the camera but "a couple of umbrellas". Suddenly camera lenses take a new dimension when I realise that he has in his collection a series of extremely expensive and high end Nikon lenses from the 70s. And we're not talking about normal 35mm lenses. They are 70mm lenses, clear enough to take shots the size of a large door.
His ancient camera body is almost 45 years old and dates all the way back to 1959. The camera itself is a working antique that turns heads whenever people see him carry it around. Yet at the same time, he can handle it with enough dexterity to take beautiful freeze frame action shots else long exposures. Suddenly I feel like trashing digital cameras and heading backtracking a couple of decades into oblivion.
I had a photography field trip with Nico yesterday where he taught me the finer points of advanced photography, notably digital long exposures as well as how to compensate film speed, shutter speed, aperture priority, filtering as well as lighting effects for a desired shot. I feel a little bit proud of whatever work I created yesterday, since it is technically speaking my very first time doing such things. Photography was never so fun.
These are my two favourite shots from yesterday's "field trip". Taken at night in low light conditions on Nico's 3 decade old ancient lens system fitted onto my digital camera. I think its really nice digital wise. But you have to see the shots that come forth from his manual. They are simple stunning.
Nico's parents were formerly professional photographers. It is nowonder when we talk about camera flashes, it is not just a little bulb that pops up from the side of the camera but "a couple of umbrellas". Suddenly camera lenses take a new dimension when I realise that he has in his collection a series of extremely expensive and high end Nikon lenses from the 70s. And we're not talking about normal 35mm lenses. They are 70mm lenses, clear enough to take shots the size of a large door.
His ancient camera body is almost 45 years old and dates all the way back to 1959. The camera itself is a working antique that turns heads whenever people see him carry it around. Yet at the same time, he can handle it with enough dexterity to take beautiful freeze frame action shots else long exposures. Suddenly I feel like trashing digital cameras and heading backtracking a couple of decades into oblivion.
I had a photography field trip with Nico yesterday where he taught me the finer points of advanced photography, notably digital long exposures as well as how to compensate film speed, shutter speed, aperture priority, filtering as well as lighting effects for a desired shot. I feel a little bit proud of whatever work I created yesterday, since it is technically speaking my very first time doing such things. Photography was never so fun.
These are my two favourite shots from yesterday's "field trip". Taken at night in low light conditions on Nico's 3 decade old ancient lens system fitted onto my digital camera. I think its really nice digital wise. But you have to see the shots that come forth from his manual. They are simple stunning.
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