Going out with friends, and walking in the sea water at sunset, is a great way to end a day.
My camera of choice is a Nikon D800E. It offers a huge 36 Megapixels of stunning ‘full frame' detail and colour in each photo. However, it is also a very heavy and an expensive camera to carry around.
Tonight’s pictures were taken with a Nikon D5100, a 16 Megapixel cropped sensor camera. There are many differences between the cropped sensor and full frame sensor cameras, one being, the cropped sensor cameras, being made with different quality material, are a lighter unit than the full frame cameras. This makes them much easier to carry around your neck for long periods and on hot days.. And, while you would still cry, you would not cry as much if you dropped a cropped sensor camera in the ocean as you would a full frame sensor camera.. ($$)
I moved between a 18-140mm and an 18-200mm lens tonight. (Both recent 2nd hand purchases). There was no tripod brought along, so long exposure was out of the question. (It would just be too blurry from camera movement).
The advantage of having such a large zoom lens, as the 18-200mm, is that you can really zoom in on the action. In this case, the sun setting, and subsequently, the immediate sky around the sunset.
You can see in the last two pictures below, how using a zoom lens can fill your picture differently.
