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Nikon Z6 & Fuji X-E3 Contemporary Worship Service

Nikon Z6 & Fuji X-E3 Contemporary Worship Service

by Stanley LearyDecember 31, 2018September 1, 2025

Photo Above Data [NIKON Z 6, Sigma 24.0-105.0 mm f/4.0 ART, ISO 16000, ƒ/6.3, 1/200, Focal Length = 95] Contemporary Service at Roswell Presbyterian Church on Sunday, December 30, 2018, in Roswell, GA. [NIKON Z…

Nikon Z6 & D5 at Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl

Nikon Z6 & D5 at Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl

by Stanley LearyDecember 30, 2018September 1, 2025

Top photo specs [NIKON D5, 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8, ISO 20000, ƒ/5.6, 1/4000, Focal Length = 17] Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl 2018 Florida vs. Michigan [NIKON Z 6, 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6, ISO 450, ƒ/5.3, 1/100, Focal Length =…

Focusing & High ISO with Nikon Z6

Focusing & High ISO with Nikon Z6

by Stanley LearyDecember 25, 2018September 1, 2025

First Christmas Eve Contemporary service at Roswell Presbyterian Church [NIKON Z 6, 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-5.6, ISO 51200, ƒ/3.5, 1/50] The main reason I bought the Nikon Z6 over the Z7 was to have the extra…

Too Much BOKEH

Too Much BOKEH

by Stanley LearyDecember 20, 2018September 1, 2025

Christmas Ornaments [NIKON Z 6, Sigma Art Zoom 24-105mm f/4.0 DG OS HSM, ISO 100, ƒ/4, 2.5] When shooting wide open aperture and getting as close as a lens will let you get to the…

Headshot for Opera Singer

Headshot for Opera Singer

by Stanley LearyDecember 16, 2018September 1, 2025

Milo Clements, one of my daughter's good friends from the church youth choir, asked me to help her with some headshots. She is a soprano majoring in voice. She is in her junior year of…

Nikon Z6 vs Fuji X-E3

Nikon Z6 vs Fuji X-E3

by Stanley LearyDecember 14, 2018September 1, 2025

Comparing Fuji X-E3 vs Nikon Z6 [NIKON Z 6, Sigma 35mm F1.4 ART DG HSM , ISO 8000, ƒ/4, 1/100] This is just a quick comparison shooting some ornaments on my tree. First, this is using…

Learning to “Peel the Onion” in Storytelling

Learning to “Peel the Onion” in Storytelling

by Stanley LearyDecember 9, 2018September 1, 2025

Stanley is teaching at the University of Nations in Kona, Hawaii. [top photo by Dorie Griggs, bottom photo by Robin Nelson] [Nikon D810, 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8, ISO 3200, ƒ/7.1, 1/60] While majoring in social work…

Faith and Human Rights with Jimmy Carter

Faith and Human Rights with Jimmy Carter

by Stanley LearyDecember 6, 2018September 1, 2025

President George H. W. Bush addresses the Unification Conference. The Atlanta-based German American Chamber of Commerce of the Southern United States hosted the Unification Conference, a historic meeting of President George Bush, 41st president of…

My first assignments with the Nikon Z6

My first assignments with the Nikon Z6

by Stanley LearyDecember 3, 2018September 1, 2025

Georgia vs Alabama, Fanzone Georgia World Congress Center [NIKON Z 6, 24.0-105.0 mm ƒ/4.0, ISO 5600, ƒ/8, 1/60] This past week I picked up the Nikon Z6 mirrorless camera. In s few days, I could…

Every Sunday Christians Re-experience Their Story

Every Sunday Christians Re-experience Their Story

by Stanley LearyNovember 26, 2018September 1, 2025

Siberia—Working with outsiders means listening and being heard, according to Eduard Genrich, Second Baptist Church in Novosibirsk. People here say they are encouraged and helped by outsiders but taken advantage of by some. (photo by…

Thanksgiving is a lot about food

Thanksgiving is a lot about food

by Stanley LearyNovember 22, 2018September 1, 2025

Charleston, SC [X-E2, XF18-55mm ƒ/2.8-4 R LM OIS, ISO 400, ƒ/10, 1/100] Thanksgiving is a time for many people to stuff themselves with food. Just Coffee Cooperative in Salvador Urbina, Chiapas, Mexico [NIKON D4, 14.0-24.0…

The exotic can be next door

The exotic can be next door

by Stanley LearyNovember 19, 2018September 1, 2025

Umbrella Cockatoo [X-E3, XF18-55mm ƒ/2.8-4 R LM OIS, ISO 1000, ƒ/4, 1/200] I didn't travel to Indonesia for these photos of the Umbrella Cockatoo, where they originated. I walked down the street to my neighbor's…

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