After reading all of the reviews about the 35mm f/1.8 lens I had to buy one. This is my first picture on the blog from it. It can be set to a much wider aperture than the kit lens which allows me to get some better blurring. As you can see, I was able to focus very specifically on Forge’s paw.
I used the SB400 flash to bounce of the ceiling and did a small amount of post processing to the RAW file using Nikon’s software. This isn’t quite the same as ‘photoshopping’ it.
The RAW files store all of the information the camera captured at the time of the photo so the values I tweaked were things I *could* have done with my camera… if I knew what I was doing.