Thank all of you for your kind welcome and words.

:)

The grips are also key for long exposure projects for time lapse, or long videos... a battery grip can keep a long recording session viable, where as if your battery dies mid take....

On small short battery life cameras like the Sony a7 series, the grips are useful to hold the camera, particularly with a large lens, and the batteries are always dying....

Like the first one, LOVE the fluffy pillows... did you use an art filter??

Looks like a painting.


Fabulous.

When I click the Phoenix Headshots, I get to see but not edit my profile on that page.

When I click on 'My Profile' link at top of each page, I can edit my profile. And had written a bit of additional info about myself in the Additional Info block.

This additional info is not showing on my profile page.

And, not seeing any place to add the web link or a bio, per se.

I went to Johns Hopkins in the late 70's early 80's.

It had changed a lot last time I visited Balto in the mid 90's.

Would I even recognize it today I wonder?

:)

Ok, lots of confusion here I see...

The full frame lenses on a crop sensor camera captures the image from the center of the lens... this creates a magnification factor, similar to cropping out the center of a full frame lens on a full frame camera.

Put a crop sensor lens on a full frame camera, and you get vignetting, often going to complete out of image projection circle black. On some zoom lenses, like the 11-16 Tokina, at 16 mm, there may be little to no black out vignette on a Nikon full frame, and quite a bit of black circle at 11mm zoom.

The DOF of the lens is a function of the focal length. So, an image shot with a 50mm FX lens on a DX camera will have the same DOF as on an FX camera, however, the image magnification will be similar to that of a 75mm FX lens on a full frame body, making the 50mm a nice portrait lens on the DX body.

Some brands, like Canon, the mirror on an full frame body may hit the back of EF-S (Canon crop glass) lens, ouch breaking things...

Full frame lenses are heavy and pricey.

One good way to see how these work is use something like a D800. Try it with both FX and DX glass, you can see the image circles if you set the adjustable camera modes correctly.

Using something like a D7100, you will not notice the effect in the same way, as the larger image circle of the full frame glass will fall outside the smaller sensor window.

Beautiful.

Places like these and the movies made, back in the day, in Monument Valley is part of what made me move to Arizona... too bad I mostly shoot indoors these days... getting out there is a haul from Phoenix. How easy were permits to get?

For me, I had a D800 and switched to Canon after... I miss several of it's features... however, the move towards higher and higher megapixel cameras is daunting when photographing things like events and headshots, or in any photographic environment where lots of shots are taken. The data takes huge amounts of space and the images take forever to upload, open, edit and so on.

So for me, the real question is, what kinds of subjects do you photograph in what kinds of situations...

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Thanks Tom..not seeing AVATAR info either...?

Prefer the textures the BW presents

Love the sultry eyes in shot 1

Love #3

I tell clients/models to talk with their expressions. moving mouths make funny shapes...

Nice point re the earring

Hi Tom, I used to live in Balto, many moons ago... the drone sounds fun :)

I'm a professional Headshot, Event and Fine Art Photographer in Phoenix, Arizona.

Not sure why, though my profile does not seem to list my bio and I cannot seem to be able to add a website link, so am adding one here to a site which contains a mix of our work.

If you'll like to view my work, please visit www.Yucelphoto.com, it does contain some nudes, though you have to navigate to the art and boudoir pages to see them, so if you don't enjoy nudes, avoid those pages.

Photography is not my first career, I've been at it more or less full time since about 2009 and have published a book, through Amherst Media, for photographers, entitled, "Alternative Nudes." It's available for preview or purchase on Amazon if you like to read a bit and like to peruse lighting diagrams and such.

I'm often avail to talk photography, when not otherwise engaged. Feel free to reach out.

See ya around.