Ottawa Tulip Fest and Toronto Photo Show

Tallest Tulip
Originally uploaded by null photography.

The Ottawa Tulip Festival is a most attend event for any and all photographers living in the Ottawa area. There are so many beautiful flowers with endless shots to be taken. There are great landscape shots, wide angles, super zooms and macros. I was lucky enough to have my dad's new Nikkor 105mm VR Micro for a couple weeks during the tulip festival and I attended to take full advantage of it. It was too bad that the weather did not want to cooperate with me. It was either rainy or overcast. This created lots of processing I had to do later on to brighten up the photos and fake some sunlight. Now this weekend I am back in Cambridge so that I can attend the Toronto Photographic & Digital Imaging Show with my dad. I really want to check out all of Nikon's new VR lenses along with the new D200. My dad wants to check out wide angles and possible teleconverters and of course the new D200. Hopefully we will get a chance to attend one of the seminars while we are there as well. I also want to check out the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, I've heard it's really great and an awesome bargain. The f/1.8 will work wonders on my indoor photography (which happens alot with bad weather).

More Macro

R2-D2
Originally uploaded by null photography.

My dad gave me his 105mm VR Macro to use for the next couple of weeks. The Ottawa Tulip Festival is starting up this Thursday so I wanted to get some really nice close up shots and the VR will come in handy for the handheld shots. I shot alot of pictures in the past couple of days, well alot that turned out really good. I pulled out my Star Wars Monopoly set and took out the little pewter figurines to shoot. I put them on some black white printer paper for a neutral background. I also went out and took some macros and normal shots at a near by park. I also shot some macro shoots of my girlfriends miniature Winnie the Pooh figures that she has on her key chain. I will have those shots up maybe tomorrow when I have time to get to them. The lens is really awesome, it's really quick, takes very sharp photos and the VR is the best option ever.