What do you get when you combine a beautiful woman after a 12.5 hour work shift, 2 speedlights, DxO software, black and white processing, and as far as I'm concerned the best camera in the world, the Nikon D810. 

I woke up at 530am so that I could meet up with Christine outside her job at 730. I decided to pack light with just my D810, SB-910, SB-710, and three lenses. The three were the Nikkor 24 1.4, the 35 1.4, and the 70-200 2.8 II. All fit comfortably into my ThinkTank Shapeshifter backpack with the assortment of hardware, batteries, and doodads that i bring in order to make sure I don't have a catastrophic failure when i get a model to shoot at 730am. 

We decided to stay close - it was chilly, it was the end of a long day for Christine, and after a few abandoned building shoots in a row it was nice to just be out and about in mid-town Manhattan. I set up the lights with one flash on each stand making one group A and the other group B so that I could control the power individually via the Nikon Creative Lighting System using the built in flash of the D810 as commander. As always I had the the pop-up shut off for the actual exposure. (If all of this is interesting to you - please come see my presentation at the B&H Event Space on December 8th at 4PM - I go over all of this...simple and fast)

After shooting to take advantage of the amazing dynamic range of the D810 i did my raw processing in DxO. I don't do a lot of post in general, trying to get it in camera as much as possible so that i can turn the images around to clients FAST, but the process for keepers is to use DxO after importing. The amount of crispness and detail that it extracts from the D810 exceeds everything that I have ever had the chance to shoot.

Black & White conversions done in Nik Silver Efx 2 due to the fact that I just know what I'm going to get with no work...

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