70 200 f2.8

One day it was 70 degrees and sunny and you can see that in my last blog about my 70-200 I just got. Well, the cold came and the snow came with it and with that said, my wife and I had to get out for some snow photos, as you do.

We went back to the same trails you will see in the last blog but now, it’s covered in snow. This trail was about 2-3 inches deep as there is a good amount of tree cover. It was cold but I was determined to get some photos and try out the lens for some video.

Check out this video below to see some of the shots I captured and some video clips that I put together from the 70-200mm f2.8 paired to my Canon 5d Mark iv.

Another blog and video are coming soon as I just picked up a Nikon f4. The blog will cover my reasoning for picking up a Film camera from the 80s. A really cool story that I love to tell people comes along with the reasoning.

See you all next time and thanks for coming back!

Peace!

Once a year I shoot an event and this event takes place in a very dark venue and this is due to the choice of lighting they use every year. This event is a black-tie event for charity.

I struggle with choosing what lens to use so I brought my whole bag this year of canon gear. Knowing the lighting situation I didn’t want to limit myself to just one or two lenses because you just never know until you get there. So the lenses I brought were 85mm f1.8, 35mm f2 image stabilized, 70-200 f2.8 ii stabilized and the Rokinon 14mm f2.8. I started out with the 70-200 simply because I just bought it and wanted to try it out. It’s awesome having a good 70-200 again. Then I used the 85mm for a good bit of the night because its a f1.8 which gives me a good amount of light when compared to the f2 and f2.8 that the other lenses are.

There is a choice of color images that I took from the night. ISO varies from iso 4,000-12,800 on the 5d Mark Iv. The shutter was around 1/200th-1/30th so that gives you an idea of how dark it was in this venue. I also had to bump the exposure on almost every image at least 1 stop to 1/2 a stop in Lightroom. I don’t do a lot of post-processing for event photography. I stick to basic contrast, exposure, and highlight adjustments. I add a little bit of sharpening, do some cropping and very little noise reduction. If some images are too bright with color from the lights or grainy I go black and white. Here are some of those images.