Canon EOS 5D 1/500 @ f/4.0 iso: 200
this afternoon one of our reporters asked me to go to a sex club with him in zyke’s corner near neoga, illinios. usually i would say no to a request like this on a weekday, but i was feeling a bit frisky. we needed photos for a story he was working on about what is actually a gentleman’s club that the city is trying to run out of town. why he refereed to it as a sex club, i’m not sure. the building is an abandoned school house and i was told to get photos of a school bus near the building that was allegedly being used for having sex parties. heading out to the assignment i had no idea how far off the road the school or bus was and i was warned to not step foot on the property. here’s the story.
Nikon D2H 1/250 @ f/4.0 iso: 400
so i wanted to be prepared with a long lens if i needed it. (for the photographs, not the sex club). the best i’ve got is a 70-200, but was able to borrow a nikon d2 (which is a p.o.s. camera) and a 300mm lens with a 1.4 x extender. combine that with the magnification in the camera and i’m working with a pretty hefty telephoto. this came in handy for a photo i’ve been wanting to make of trees in the recent fog. in order to achieve what i’ve been seeing i needed the extra long focal length to compact the space between the camera and the tree. add in some snow and voila, you get the photos i’ve posted below. nothing really special, but it’s something i’ve been wanting to get lately and haven’t been able to with the equipment i have.
Nikon D2H 1/640 @ f/4.0 iso: 400
although it was way more than i needed since the school house/strip club is just off the road, i’m glad i got to get a handle on a nikon again. i haven’t picked one up in a while and it’s just good to know how to do stuff. plus it made me appreciate my old canon 5d a lot more.
Nikon D2H 1/640 @ f/4.0 iso: 400
despite the snow i could have worked a scene like this for hours. those black blobs are actually birds flying around the corn field i was parked next too.
Nikon D2H 1/640 @ f/4.0 iso: 400
