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After the bad light/weather in Kochel last week we ran into some serious good weather/light yesterday. The trees were ablaze with autumn leaves and the sky was clear pretty much all day. I managed to get my pal Duy psyched about my current boulder project and we spent all day working on it.
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I'd visited the project on my own a couple of times in the last few weeks but I just couldn't push myself that hard without somebody else around to share this obsession... finally made some real progress on it, too. I managed to stick the crux move for the first time ever and also figured it out in a way that I can do it about 65% of the tries, which goes a long way for making the whole problem seem more realistic. Unfortunately I always fell on the follow-up move because my foot kept slipping off the hold but I was totally satisfied nonetheless. Anyway, pretty psyched, starting to think it just might be possible for me to climb this thing after all...
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I played around with my 50mm 1.8 lens together with my SB-600 flash fired off-camera. The 50mm 1.8 always amazes me. At $150 it's one of the cheapest Nikon lenses you can buy and it is really awesome in terms of image quality. Unfortunately, the 50mm (which is on film and full frame cameras a very versatile focal length) becomes quite tight on DX crop sensors like my D90's... (about 75mm-80mm on full frame/35mm film) For climbing and bouldering this makes it difficult to use as you often can't stand back far enough. If it works, though, it works very very well. At f4 and up, images become sharper than anything possible on a zoom lens and colours are captured much much better.
The images in this post were all shot in manual mode which made it easier for me to balance between flash and natural light. I controlled the SB-600 via the D90's pop-up flash and put it down on the ground angling upwards. Flash output was set around quarter power in manual mode. I would have preferred a slightly bigger aperture (less depth of field) but due to bright conditions and the D90's maximum shutter speed with flash being 1/200th of a second, I had to go with apertures between f9 to f11.
(The full exif data on these images can be found at my flickr page, just click on any of the images and select Additional information.)
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Have a great weekend,
cheers
Bruno
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