Matteo Del Grosso Photography

Of course, you might say! But sometimes, even after many years of photographing, I’m still surprised about the difference light and weather can make. Last couple of days were exceptionally dry and windy here at the Lake of Constance. Usually we have a high humidity in the summer which limits the visibility and creates less favorable light for landscape photography. Only when we have the Foen wind, a warm wind crossing the Alps from the South, we get dry air and good visibility.

I’ve taken this shot of Montfort castle in Langenargen quite a few times in recent years, but I never had such a clear view. I took many images that day, but these two are my favourite ones.

Voila! After many years of waiting for my digital Nikon F100, it’s finally here! My brand new Nikon D700. Besides the myriads of settings and configurations it offers, the most important upgrade from my D200 was to be able to use my 35mm lenses uncropped at their real focal lengths, especially my beloved 20mm/2.8. Being able to compose wide-angle images again, is an amazing experience.

But the low-light performance of that sensor is fantastic as well and, of course, lightyears better than what was possible on slide film. The example shows a handheld shot I took yesterday in Meersburg at ISO 2500. Even though corrected with some noise reduction in Lightroom, the original file showed only minimal noise.