Rodney Campbell's Blog

We celebrated the birthday of one of my daughters friends recently. The birthday party was held at Clontarf beach here in Sydney and it was an absolutely fabulous day – gorgeous warm weather, slightly overcast and not too hot – perfect day for swimming at the beach.

The girls all had a fantastic time celebrating the birthday, swimming and playing and I had the opportunity to take some nice photos. I stuck with the long lens (the 70-300mm telephoto) for most of the day. The Nikon 70-300mm really is a very nice lens and in good light the slower 4.5 to 5.6 maximum aperture doesn’t really hinder the shot making and the results are often very nice detailed and sharp images with good contrast and colour (especially so in the 70-200mm range).

Note: These images (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay gallery viewer.

Jumping off the pier into the enclosed protected swimming area.

NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 240 mm, 1/1250 sec at f / 5.6, ISO 200

A shot of one of my daughters friends splashing up the water in front of her with her hands whilst running forward. This was a tricky shot to capture since I was quite a long way away and attempting to focus on the water splash with a minimal depth of field whilst everything was moving – this was probably luck 🙂

NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 250 mm, 1/1000 sec at f / 5.6, ISO 200

My youngest daughter giving me the “look”

NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 210 mm, 1/1000 sec at f / 5.3, ISO 200

and another one 🙂

NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 220 mm, 1/1000 sec at f / 5.3, ISO 200

Finally a bit of water sports play on something inflatable that you can get tipped off 🙂 …

NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 210 mm, 1/1600 sec at f / 5.3, ISO 200

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