Sometimes on second look or thought you think, maybe I should have adjusted the exposure somewhat.
This was the only cyclocross I went this year.
I packed my 810, 700, 135mm, 16-35mm and my SB-800. This is the first time I shot entirely on the 135mm without the 70-200mm. I found it quite doable and the D700 with the 135mm combination is not terribly slow. I can't scientifically say how slow or fast it focuses or the out of focus is due to AF ability or simply because of shooting at big aperture like f/2 or user error. The answer of course can be a bit of each and tend to be complicated. You believe what you want to believe.
Sometimes you just can't execute what's in your mind's eye. I got my SB-800 for easy carry and gel-ability. The about were shot at WB2940 with CTO gel on the flash.
In the middle of the shot, perhaps due to lens change, there is a piece of grass lodged on the sensor the size of Australia, found out later when looking the pictures on the monitor. Oh well. I don't have the heart to double check now.
I managed to stuff everything in my ancient tenba bag which I think is more than twenty years old. My last post also mentioned that I like have the option to pan at 1/8 a second and hence I like to have small aperture. Sadly the smallest aperture of my 135 is only at f/16. Usually I mount my long lens on my D700 which has a base ISO 200, so it doesn't help. That's why in the middle of the shoot I changed my flash camera to D700, 16-35mm and SB-800 and the D810 with the 135mm f/2 fixed lens + than big piece of grass. No matter what I know about not to change lens or be very careful to change lens in the field, I usually foul up. It's frustrating and disappointing. And plus 99% of your shots aren't what you envisioned.
But I guess that's photography. Or at least my kind of snapshots.
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