{"id":101559,"date":"2025-04-02T21:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T01:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/?p=101559"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:41:05","slug":"nikon-200mm-f-2g-vr-spring-blossoms-and-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/nikon-200mm-f-2g-vr-spring-blossoms-and-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikon 200mm f\/2G VR – Spring Blossoms and Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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What an outrageous combo the D700 and 200mm f\/2 is! I’ve been having fun with it on my morning walks this spring and the occasional portrait session when I have my STR\/STAMINA points maxed out for the day. From a beauty and technical level this might be the best lens I have, since it draws such a pretty picture with the least amount of chromatic aberration (color fringing) that I’ve ever seen.\u00a0 When I was editing the portraits I noticed that the metal spines of the photography umbrella had zero purple fringe or blooming at f\/2. Meanwhile the Canon 85mm 1.2L is definitely a color distortion party when shooting outside at or near maximum aperture (which is its charm, more on that in another post).<\/p>\n

It’s been an odd spring here in Georgia.\u00a0 The relentless cold didn’t make for a peach blossom explosion like last year, but the white yoshino cherry trees were crazy and full this year in Conyers and here in Suwanee.<\/p>\n

And yes I do have other photos with the aperture stopped down to actually show the cherry blossoms, this specific post is just to show the 200mm f2’s wide open awesomeness! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What an outrageous combo the D700 and 200mm f\/2 is! I’ve been having fun with it on my morning walks this spring and the occasional portrait session when I have my STR\/STAMINA points maxed out for the day. From a beauty and technical level this might be the best lens I have, since it draws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[363,123,173,37,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-101559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-200mm-f-2","9":"tag-bokeh","10":"tag-color","11":"tag-nikon","12":"tag-portraits","14":"post-with-thumbnail","15":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t