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I was excited to put my new Nikon D800e to work and make some family portraits with my wife, our 1-month old son and myself. I set up two Elinchrom Ranger Quadra battery packs to run an Elinchrom 39″ deep octa as the main light and the Quadra Ringflash ECO as the fill light.
Unfortunately, by the time I was ready to shoot it was too late. I got a couple of shots of my wife and son, but the boy was not in the mood to have his photo made. The family photos will have to wait for a day or two.
The D800e is proving to be everything I hoped it would be, and nothing I was afraid of. I have yet to see any moire problems in my shots. That doesn’t mean that the D800e is not prone to moire problems, it just means that it’s not an issue with the type of subjects I shoot.
The detail and dynamic range that the D800e sensor captures are stunning. The detail in the hair in these portraits is really intense. When I’m looking at the images on the computer I have the same wow factor that I had when I first saw an HDTV. The files are more like looking through a window than viewing a digital image.
Hopefully I’ll have some great family portraits to show you this week!
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