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Thursday, November 01, 2007

  • Halloween in Michigan

    A LIST Halloween

    I hope everyone had a great and safe Halloween! I set up a little set outside last night to get my girls and my friend's kids pictures. Sarah is too cute in her Cinderella dress, Disney really does a great job making costumes! We had 2 Minnie Mouse's and 1 Mickey Mouse and my oh my the "Mad Scientist" is too cute! They are all so super cute. What a fun night! I just love seeing all the little kids dress up in costumes, such fun and excitement for them all. here are a few pics I hope you enjoy.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Monday, October 22, 2007

  • Nikon lens for sale

    I am selling the following if anyone is interested!

    1. Fugi FinePix S3 Pro $500 excellent condition

    2. Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8  $900 barely used

    3. 18-70 f/3.5 $200 barely used

    4. 24-120 f/3.5 VR $400 barely used

    if you are just getting started all of this would be great. I will sell as a package for $1800

    The 17-55mm is excellent in low light conditions or inside you home etc. It also very wide so great for landscapes but actually makes great portraits.

    I am also selling a Nikon D2H for $1200 its in excellent condition as well.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

  • Photos By Anton, New Location

    A-LIST New Location


    I am very excited about some good news! We went to view the site of our new building. It is VERY old like 125 years old. But it is so totally fabulous. Its about 10 thousand square feet and in need of major work which will hopefully be completed in about 6 to 8 months. The front of the inside will be a gallery and coffee shop/wifi hang out, very artsy! The back will be closed off and made into 2 offices that I will rent out. There is a cool space upstairs that looks down into the whole front that will be my office/studio. Here are a few pictures.

    I am adding 2 pics that I received today! These are of the building in its original state. How Cool!

    P86-217 P86-279

    01 (1)

    This is the upstairs and where my office would be if you look you can see what use to be windows, we would put them back in so there would be a cool view to the downstairs.

    02

    More of the upstairs

    03 04 05

Saturday, October 20, 2007

  • Ken Rockwell may well be one of the world's greatest serious photographers and probably the most knowledgable. I love reading his site, mainly because 90% of my knowledge came from him for FREE. I love it when photographers just love what they do so much they want to help and teach others and not try to rip us all off. Anyway, Ken tests all the cameras including Canon. He does love Canons but seems to be partial to his Nikons (ofcourse). As you may or may NOT know Nikon has made the WORLDS greatest camera the D3. It is FULL FRAME, and it kicks the Canon 1Ds Mark 111 ass all the way to camera hell. This King daddy hits ISO 6400 in every mode and can max at 25,600 in custom function. Holy depth of field batman! Along with the greatest lens ever the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S the widest lens available (only by nikon hehe) this first shot was accomplished. Now I am giving full credit to all the photographers who were awesome enough to be chosen to test the camera. You should really go to Ken Rockwell's Site to see the real pictures and read the full article. BTW. I have mine on order! hopefully it will be here by my birthday November 4.

    1 2This is by  Dave Black      Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S at 14mm, f/4 at 1/1,000, manual exposure, direct sunlight WB.

    This is the best possible example image to show off the D3 and the new 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S lens.

    This shot couldn't have been made any way other than with the Nikon D3 and a 14mm lens.

    These images are UNEDITED!

    3 4 Photographer: Mike Corrado

    ISO 1,600, Nikkor 400mm, TC-17E converter, f/6.3 at 1/250, Matrix meter, -0.3 compensation, shutter priority, Auto WB. UNEDITED

     

     

     

    5 6

    Photographer:  Joe McNally

    ISO 200, f/16 at 1/10, Manual exposure, Cloudy WB.

    UNEDITED (see how manipulating the white balance changes everything)

    Take some time, a few hours and read and read and read somemore on Ken Rockwell's site! You wont be disappionted, only educated!

    Do you even know the value of a full frame camera..Take a pie for example, all DSLR cameras are 35mm its like seeing only 1/8 of the pie well you see the whole thing but you only capture an eighth of it. With full frame you get the whole pie. notice the crops above from the originals, they are what you could maybe get with a regular 35mm and this is a partial crop from the full frame D3......UNBELIEVABLE!

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    • Name: sandy.anton
    • Country: United States
    • State: Michigan
    • Metro: Grand Rapids
    • Gender: Female
    • Member Since: 2/10/2006
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