
The lighthouse at the Point of Ayr in North Wales.
A longish exposure photo taken with my new D700 with in DX crop mode with a Sigma 10-20 lens and 10 stop nd filter
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@Ted: It's odd isn't it Ted....I've achieved all the early ambitions that I had when I frist took up photography 3 years ago but I still get enormously frustrated when I go through periods like the one over recent months when I've felt like I'm no longer improving. The new camera means that there's a whole lot of new things to learn which is great and I'm particularly looking forward to improving my portrait skills as well as seeing what effect the new camera has on my landscape photos.
@Guy: Guy, I've taken a couple of portraits now with the D700 and my Nikon 50 f1.4G lens: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1021&thread=35234267&page=1
I've always admired the work of photographers who are skilled in portrait photography but I've never had the courage or confidence to give it a try for myself. I'm using the new D700 as the push I needed to finally do something about it.
I don't have any real experience of doing portraits with the D40 so it's difficult to make any kind of comparative assessment with the new camera but I'm certainly delighted with what I'm getting with the D700.
@bluechameleon: Yes I won a landscape photography competition http://ianbramham.aminus3.com/image/2010-04-23.html which meant I was able to get this lovely new full frame camera. I haven't got a full frame compatible wide angle lens yet so this was shot in DX crop mode with my old Sigma 10-20 lens.
NIKON D700
8 seconds
F/11.0
ISO 200
30 mm (35mm equiv.)