All Things Mystifistisk

A couple of weeks ago I attended the excellent music festival Bukta Tromsø Open Air Festival in my home town Tromsø. Apart from some light rain it was a great festival. And, because I was working as a house photographer for the festival, I got a triple-A photo pass which allowed me to shoot from the photo pit in front of the stage! The full gallery can be found in the photography section, but here are some of the highlights:

Lately I’ve been busy with my new addiction to flash photography, fueled by the excellent photo blog Strobist. It has an ongoing online “course” on flash photography (off-camera that is), called Lighting 102, and I’ll probably be posting some of the exercises here. If you have a flash laying around and want to start using it Strobist is the way to go!

Also, I’ve been debating whether or not I should start investing in 2.8 glass. Do I really need it? Seeing all those press photographers at the festival with their expensive gear kind-of pushed me over the edge, but I have to think about it some more. The prime candidates would of course be the Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S DX and the Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8D G-AFS ED-IF — in that order.

One of the things keeping me back at the moment is that by investing in glass that expensive I would basically be marrying the Nikon brand. I really don’t want to switch to Canon, but sadly Nikon is a couple of steps behind when it comes to high end bodies. Hopefully the rumored D3/D3X will make me confident that Nikon and their DX technology is a good bet. We’ll see!