Nikon D700 Ten Minute Portrait Challenge - BUDGETOGRAPHY

[@mattgranger]

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[@Man_Cave]

An artist at work with a true classic camera. I love this video Matt. Probably one of your top ten best.

[@mattgranger]

Wow. Thanks mate. It was a lot of fun to make

[@SatanSupimpa]

Everytime I get my camera is budgetography time.

[@lennutrajektoor]

This is now by far best video on the internet.

[@mattgranger]

hahaha, glad you enjoyed it

[@Talyessin63]

Wowee. I had that on normal speed, but it looked like at 150% speed! It shows what a real professional can do.

[@jeffreyhenderson6293]

So much fun!!!! Alysa was such a sport and did a fantastic job!!!!! Great Video as always!!!!!

[@mattgranger]

Thanks Jeffrey

[@musiqueetmontagne]

Great fun video Matt...very challenging, great music everything, had me smiling throughout. I've still got my D700 and all those lenses, love bringing them out but difficult to use in a timed rush like that...Well done 😊

[@GetOutsideYourself]

Amazing work as always.

[@BABA-ws5eo]

That was a fun video to watch! I wish you would do a video about your locations. Do you have a studio? What kind of studio did you rent this time? Do you ever use AirBnb to rent locations? If you are in a park, are you researching if they have rules on photography?......etc....etc. thanks!!

[@Sportserjeff]

It was a good shoot. Love the B&W.

[@gordonshkurhan]

That was a cool BTS look. Great space for some really interesting photos. Just a thought for the barber chair shots though, I would have reversed the roles to have Aaron in the chair. She gives great femme fatale vibes so it would have given a bit of that feel to have her stropping the razor while looking at him with some menace. Overall, a fun shoot. Thanks.

[@mattgranger]

Thanks - had to consider what each ‘model’ was comfortable with. That’s what guided my choice 👍

[@gordonshkurhan]

@@mattgranger Yes, for sure. Fair enough.

[@violin-schwerin]

I really like that kind of format

[@mattgranger]

Thanks! What challenge should we try next?

[@violin-schwerin]

​@@mattgrangerdoesn't have to be budget, but the max creative in a tight time window is great!

[@lightytan5404]

​@@mattgrangeryou could nikon d700 with any manual focus lens, outdoors and natural light, time frame is 20mins without any preps or discussion of poses beforehand. i think it would be great to see you think and shoot in the process :)

[@gewglesux]

Great Going Matt!! Glad to see that Nikon is still the Jam! you do great work with it...

[@Neopulse00]

Makes me wish now the FTZ adapter had a screwdriver motor in it.

[@denisnicholson2528]

If they ever came out with an FTZ that had a screwdrive mount on it, I would jump to Z buddies in a heartbeat.

[@matskay1971]

It was a great location with vintage vibes, you should have taken some wider shots with deeper DOF . @ 22.28 u said 'It hasn't gotten worse because other things have gotten better'. Instead i would say it hasn't gotten worse but we have become lazy with the latest mirrorless cameras.

[@TheNitebinder]

Interesting video about an amazing classic Nikon camera. Nikon rules the night!

[@ihatesjws669]

Did you use fine tune auto focus for each lens? Or do you just attach it and shoot with factory setting?

[@caltari]

I still have the Nikon D700, great camera. I like your hat what brand is it?

[@mattgranger]

thanks! I usually wear these Kangols geni.us/kt507b In this video it was a no name brand I found here in HK.

[@violin-schwerin]

the sharpening leather is called a strop :)

[@mrdev9843]

I'm still rocking a D700, a simple camera that gets the job done.

[@kh1188ish]

Yes! Budgetography is back and I love it! Kinda think planning each shot for 20min before the 10min challenge is cheating (I checked the official rule book, sorry). Cheers, mate, great shots. 😊

[@mattgranger]

I think you have the outdated rule book mate :) we updated it that morning.

[@mattgranger]

It was only 5 mins of planning anyway :)

[@suyashkulkarni8071]

Notification Gang ❤❤❤

[@kriXoff75]

THis camera is really something for portrait

[@LowViz82]

I regret selling my D700. Such a great camera.

[@d.k.1394]

Love it

[@bonghungk7544]

It would of been nice if you grabbed the 85 mm f1.4 D lens maybe the 105 is a bit too long if space is limited or even better a 58 mm f1.2 nikkor noct for this challenge instead of the 58 mm Helios f2.0 lens. Looked really a fun time and nice challenge!

[@mattgranger]

Cheers, but it kind of kills the budget idea to go buy new lenses for it

[@bonghungk7544]

@@mattgrangermake sense. I thought you might of already have these lenses being “The Nikon Guy” cheers 🍻

[@mattgranger]

@@bonghungk7544 haha thats a fair guess! When I moved to mirrorless, I only kept a handful of F lenses - including those I showed, the 500 PF and 200 f2.

[@bngr_bngr]

Looks like the camera needed some micro adjustments on the focus.

[@mattgranger]

Nah just needed less rushing 👍

[@michaele.strasser9641]

You and Joe McNally I will always remember.

[@mattgranger]

Wow. That is high praise to be included in the same breath as Joe. He’s a legend.

[@rolandrick]

Cool self-challenge 👍🏻💯. Fun fact at 10:58, the phone was correctly in the cradle, she „hung up“ a little bit “strange”. Never used one for real? If that would have been a real call from China to Europe, that bill might probably have been quite expensive. 😂 Fun fact 2: what he wants to shave on her? 😂. That would have been cool, she sharpens the knife and your camera man sits in the chair 😅🙌🏻

[@mattgranger]

Nope. She had never used one before - didn’t know how to dial either.

[@johncantrell614]

Now you know how rushed I feel when shooting the wife at any vacation spot…😂she is in such a rush to get shots and move to another place or pose that her patience to get the gear set up is almost zero.. got to teach her to slow down….😂📸👍

[@mitchellwnorowski6747]

It's called a strop

[@JoshuaJonesPhoto]

Shooot give me a d300 I’ll show the biz