Before sitting down for dinner, I strolled around the harbor looking for an less traveled spot with some possible Image opportunities. The sun was kind of yucky, no brilliance, so I had in my mind a black and white. I set up my D3s with my 200mm f2 and the tce-3, I needed some extra reach to get to the lobster boats just offshore, and there were also some fancy waterfront homes.
I took a lot of shots and thought they were sharp until I returned to the DD. Here I found out I made the same mistake again with the TC20. It will give you 2X the reach, it’ll cost you 2 stops of light and it will also 1/2 your DOF (per Moose and Nikon manual). This DOF debate rages on at various forums, but I’m going to embed in my memory Moose’s comment as the last word……anyway…
As I was shooting the other scenes , I kept glancing over at this nearish boat house, with its strange construction patterns reflecting the water. It soon had me intrigued enough that I was framing and shooting at various combinations of windows. I wanted to reap what I felt was an appealing composition that tied everything together, with the added knowledge I’d be developing in the DD as a B&W…
