Marsel van Oosten
Camp Baobab
This image is about how plans don’t always go to plan, and how you always have to keep an open mind right up to the end.
While on assignment for Nikon for the Z7 campaign, my plan was to also do some night photography with the brand new Nikkor Z 35/1.8 S lens. I do almost all my night photography with two lenses: the AF-S 14-24/2.8 and the AF-S 20/1.8. With night photography, wider is usually better because longer focal lengths very quickly result in star trailing - not great if you’re after sharp, pointy stars.
That new 35/1.8 S lens gave me the idea to try it for night photography as the super-fast aperture would compensate for the extra mm’s. Wide-angle lenses are great for night photography because they show a lot of the sky, which is kind of the point of night photography. But the perspective they generate requires you to get close to a foreground subject in order to create some depth. This results in a certain look, which most people would describe as dynamic. But I thought it would be nice not to have to get super close to something for a change. The scene would look less distorted, more natural to the eye.
I found a great spot for my tent and thought it would be a cool shot with the silhouetted trees and the only light coming from inside the tent. While I was taking a test shot, a large truck drove past. The moment it was outside of the frame, I took another shot. When I checked that second shot, I saw that the rear lights of the truck had completely lit up the left side of the trees. At that moment, I decided to change my plan and recreate the same effect with a little light that I brought and a colored gel.
[Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 35/1.8 S, 8 sec @ f/1.8, ISO 3200, tripod]
Marsel | squiver.com
Camp Baobab
This image is about how plans don’t always go to plan, and how you always have to keep an open mind right up to the end.
While on assignment for Nikon for the Z7 campaign, my plan was to also do some night photography with the brand new Nikkor Z 35/1.8 S lens. I do almost all my night photography with two lenses: the AF-S 14-24/2.8 and the AF-S 20/1.8. With night photography, wider is usually better because longer focal lengths very quickly result in star trailing - not great if you’re after sharp, pointy stars.
That new 35/1.8 S lens gave me the idea to try it for night photography as the super-fast aperture would compensate for the extra mm’s. Wide-angle lenses are great for night photography because they show a lot of the sky, which is kind of the point of night photography. But the perspective they generate requires you to get close to a foreground subject in order to create some depth. This results in a certain look, which most people would describe as dynamic. But I thought it would be nice not to have to get super close to something for a change. The scene would look less distorted, more natural to the eye.
I found a great spot for my tent and thought it would be a cool shot with the silhouetted trees and the only light coming from inside the tent. While I was taking a test shot, a large truck drove past. The moment it was outside of the frame, I took another shot. When I checked that second shot, I saw that the rear lights of the truck had completely lit up the left side of the trees. At that moment, I decided to change my plan and recreate the same effect with a little light that I brought and a colored gel.
[Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 35/1.8 S, 8 sec @ f/1.8, ISO 3200, tripod]
Marsel | squiver.com