Day One

Dr Rimkus has asked me to work on turtle photography for him. He'd shared a few ideas with me over the last few weeks of school, and the school got a ton of new photography equipment.

So now my job was to capture a diving turtle with the new Nikon D300S, and several speedlights. The speedlights hadn't come in yet so we used only one, but tried out the brand new Nikon lenses.

Earlier today I spent time in one of our school labs. Only this time it was going to be for very different reasons. Today in lab I was going to take pictures.

I'd also brought my own tripods, cameras, cables, batteries, speedlight, lenses, etc...

We spent over three hours in the lab with the turtles.  No pictures turned out considerably great, but it was only the first day, getting used to the (awesome) new equipment.  This is what we turned up from day one:

Focus and timing were the biggest challenges.  (None of these pictures are truly in good enough focus.)  The third biggest challenge was the lighting.  But after today I know what I'll do differently.  I'm going back to the lab this Wednesday, where hopefully I'll be able to correct those errors.