Chatham remains a small but active fishing port. Seagulls had a feast on fish remnants, maybe it was unused bait, and I got a close-up of one gull screeching for a place at the table. Otherwise, I captured various boats from the fleet.
The OM System camera has a neat trick up its sleeve – an internal Graduated ND filter. I used it on most of the longer distance shots. It seems to work pretty well. One can rotate the filter using the control wheels and move the horizon boundary up and down on the touch screen. There are choices of 2, 4 and 8 stop GND filters. It’s another tool that can lighten my camera bag, a huge benefit to using M4/3 camera systems. This weekend I was asked to photograph a wedding. For these occasions, I have always used my Nikon D 850. The Nikon has superb image quality and from using Nikon DSLR’s for so many years, the menu system comes naturally. I packed my camera bag with a gripped body, a 24-70 and 105mm F 1.4 portrait lens. The bag was very heavy to carry, and the gripped camera with 24 – 70 was tough on my shoulders. I don’t have enough confidence in my skills with the OM Systems system yet for shooting events where I need to get things right. Perhaps with time, that will change.
The Olympus lenses in my stable are great lenses, however Micro Four Thirds seems to be a bit behind with throwing backgrounds out of focus. Nothing can beat the creamy bokeh and pop of my Nikon 105mm F 1.4 lens for portraits. That lens is astounding. My two most used Olympus lenses are the 40 – 150 F 2.8 and the 300 mm F4. Both are just outstanding lenses with first rate build quality and handling. All of these images were shot with the 40 – 150. It is pretty damned great.
