Camera: Nikon D3s
Lens: Nikon 45mm f/2.8 PC-E
There are so many reasons to love the high-ISO capabilities of modern DSLRs, but more than anything I love that, with the right lenses and careful technique, we can actually take portraits and casual photos at night, that really shows wsa night looks like. Night is not the bright blue lighting cinematographers have had to use for decades to connote darkness. It is a barely grey darkness punctuated only by the things that humanity have made, the areas and objects that we deem important enough to light up when the sun goes down. It is many-colored, shiny and complicated. I love it.
I sometimes will be out shooting people at night with the tiniest of lights or no light at all, and I will see other photographers walk by , and I know they think I’m nuts. Right after this shot, a team walked by with a battery pack and a giant octobank on a boom. The way that you’re *supposed* to take photos at night, the way that destroys the night. It’s a good way to shoot, too — octobanks are killer light sources. But I love the freedom of choice.
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Steve Elmer - …when all ya need is an iPhone to light ya photo up ;) What are your thoughts on the 45mm PC-E Ryan?
Johann - Most photographers will say it’s not the gear that makes the photo, it’s the photographer knowing his/her gear to capture the essence of the moment. As you have shown us time and time again, and I can account to that first hand, you manipulate/abuse your gear to capture your thoughts into surreal images. My wife, my family, and I greatly appreciate your work.
Ryan Brenizer - Thanks so much!
Eric Kotara - I love TIlt/shift work and this is a wonderful example of it.
elizabeth pellette - awesome.. so love this… I am a natural light gal.. I try at all costs to not have to use a flash I mean I Have one and can use it when I have too.. ( hence my owning a D3 and D700)and I have no alternate light sources either I try to always work with just what I have thats existing. Unless like at a wedding when you have to make sure you got the shot