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With my renewed vigor for photography here are some images taken over the last short while...

Taken in the Melb CBD on Moomba weekend:








And a couple more from yesterday afternoon.
I decided to play with some off-camera flash with a small home-made softbox that mounts to my SB800.
Shooting at 1/200 and F11-16 (to kill the bright ambient sunlight) I ran my speed light in manual mode (triggered via the in-built flash in commander mode) and held the camera with one hand and the speedlight/softbox in the other to light my subjects.
Lens used was the 50mm 1.8G.





I am loving the 50mm lens. It is so sharp. It has also helped fine tuning the AF on the D7000 for all my lenses.
I had noticed over Xmas when we were away on holidays that I'd taken some portrait shots of the kids and when I reviewed the images in Lightroom my son's ear was in focus (not his eye), which I specifically remembered focusing on. I then did some tests when we returned from holidays and found it was back-focusing quite alot (which apparently is a known issue with the D7000's). It's alot better now (probably not perfect, but close enough).

Dave

Great to see some images, I am in need of a new 50mm but I am contemplating the 50/1.4G, but congrats on the purchase and I am sure the AF fine tune will sort out any back focus issues.

The second image is amazing!

Cheers, thanks Matt.

We were lucky enough to have a decent vantage point during the skiing and the wake sprayed up behind the skiers made for great photos (and made for some good panning practice).

Here's a few more from the series:

As Matt said, the second image of the first group is spectacularly good.

Numbers 6 & 10 for me. Nice shots Dave.

Very good photographs, all of them. The second is the best for me.