{"id":3228,"date":"2014-04-07T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T11:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2014-04-06T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T23:09:16","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had much inspiration this weekend. I recently upgraded my Nikon D700 to the new flagship D4s<\/strong><\/a>. I also spent the whole weekend outside which was a welcome relief to the horrible winter that I hope is now in the record books. <\/p>\n

My last bit of inspiration comes from my soon to be 98 year old grandfather that battled back from pneumonia this winter to defy all his doctors who gave us no hope of him recovering. Yes, he is still alive and kicking, like an old Cadillac, they don’t make them like that anymore.<\/p>\n

To say that the D4s is a beast would not be doing the camera justice. I truly believe it is the best of the Nikon cameras that I have ever owned. <\/p>\n

The first image below is of a Black Capped Chickadee.<\/p>\n

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This White Breasted Nuthatch is a favorite of mine. I have had them in my yard since I started photographing birds. They have a tendency to to be skittish so getting some good glass on them is not always easy. You can see the incredible feather detail on both of the bird images. <\/p>\n

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This image of the moon was a bit of fun. I actually think it looked majestic in the sky smack dab in the middle of the day. <\/p>\n

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I have rebuilt my digital darkroom and am also using a whole new setup which I will share with everyone at a later date. Its a completely laptop based system with top of the line, high speed external drives. Yep, you heard it, no desktop computers. The reason I bring this up is that all of the images above are right out of my new D4s, I did not do anything to them as I have not finished building my Photoshop CC workspace (which I hope to do between now and Easter). <\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy the images and sorry for the long absence from posting. I hope to have some regular post for you now that Spring is here and I can get out with my gear again! My next goal is to rebuild my blog and possibly the website to allow for higher quality, larger images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had much inspiration this weekend. I recently upgraded my Nikon D700 to the new flagship D4s. I also spent the whole weekend outside which was a welcome relief to the horrible winter that I hope is now in the record books. My last bit of inspiration comes from my soon to be 98 year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-equipment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t