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One of my favourite spots to visit in and around Dunbar is Doon Hill with its sweeping views of the East Lothian countryside and coastline. We made the trip up to the hill earlier today, dodging the bands of heavy rain sweeping across the coast from the west.  The fields at the top of the hill are filled with barley, which is nearly time for harvesting. As we walked up the sunlight hitting the golden crop contrasted nicely with the dark skies as the next rain front moved in. I captured a nice set of images before the rain came down using the X-T2 fitted with the 100-400mm and 50-140mm zooms plus the 90mm f2 prime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. --------------------------------...

The fields surrounding our new home near the village of Innerwick is full of arable crops waiting to be harvested in the coming weeks.  On Doon Hill the fields are full of wheat and a sunny evening provided me with the opportunity to get some harvest images. Images taken on Nikon D800 and Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF MACLEAN PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CANNOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION If you like what you see on this blog please visit our  Facebook ...

Just over a month ago I reported that I had added a Nikon D800 to the MacLean Photographic arsenal alongside the existing D700 and over the past month I have been getting used to the new 'beast' with its massive 36 megapixel sensor which gives me some massive advantages when working on landscapes or in the studio.  Starting today, and continuing over the next couple of weeks, I will write some blogs on my personal experiences on using this camera and compare it to the D700. One of the main advantages of the huge pixel count it the ability to produce large prints without resorting to software trickery.  The native image size of the D800 is 7360 pixels by 4370 pixels, which gives an image of 62cm (24.8") x 37cm (14.8") at 300 pixels per inch.  This compares to the D700 file size of 4256 pixels x 2852 pixels from its 12mp sensor, giving a size of 36cm (14.4") x 24cm (9.6"). Now in the real world none of that matters unless you produce massive images becaus...