Back to School with Carrie
October 10th, 2023
For a time beautiful, talented model Carrie Turner had studio space in an old school building. We did a couple shoots there. These photos are from the first time we worked together there.
I was working with my new Nikon Z7ii camera. I didn’t yet have a z-mount lens to use with it, so I spent this shoot playing around with other options. The two photos above were made with a pinhole on the new camera. So, don’t worry, it’s not the camera causing the softness…
After playing with the pinhole I put my old single-element soft-focus lens on the new Nikon to see what it would look like. I love that old lens, but hadn’t used it much since I went to digital cameras because the crop-sensor digital Nikons made it too long an effective focal length to be very useful for portraits. But the new Nikon Z is “full-frame” so the lens was back to it’s 100mm focal length.
Along with being soft focus, this lens does some fun things with flare and backlight.
And Carrie’s brilliant modeling took full advantage of the qualities of this lens.
I also used some more “regular” lenses from my old Nikon F-mount collection.
Some of the old lenses began to show just how sharp the sensor in the new Nikon could be.
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