Portraits With 400mm - Is It Possible? Nikon 400mm 2.8 TC VR S + Z 9 | Let's Have Fun | Matt Irwin
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
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We hit the streets with this epic lens and epic team and see if we can create some portraits.
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This was an epic afternoon! Was a privilege to be part of it. Looking forward to more adventures soon. Team MIP ftw!
Thanks so much sir, until next time
Nice. Sheila is a Brazilian countrywoman... kisses from Brazil Sheila.
Thanks for the video Matt. Long live Nikon.
Hey Matt! The Melbourne Meltdown (in the bokeh!) is just AMAZING... 400mm forever my friend! It's the way to go if you want these backgrounds... and what an optical formula this lens has! Top notch! Way to go Nikon!! (and Matt!).
Love seeing you at work and look at fabulous shots you got 😀
The Nikon Z 400mm Lens is a revolutionary lens. Fantastic you using the 400mm for portraits. Congratulations Matt.
The combo of the two seem unstoppable 😀
Cool, Matt! What an energetic, strong-looking model, and of course, captured VERY nicely with the Z9 and 400mm.
yeah thanks Mike, is was a great session and all the elements came together so well :)
Fantastic...
Thanks Matt
My pleasure!
Amazing lens! I love the
Thanks so much Michael.
What a super shoot and demo with the 400 / z9. Thanks,
Pleasure Kathy, what is your camera of choice in 2022? Cheers Matt
@@MattIrwinPhotography
Z6Ii and waiting for Z9 here in Texas.
I'm turning green with envy Matt, what a stunning location, great model and dream set up.
Glad you enjoyed it Ray, yes the team and the gear it was a great pleasure bringing it all together. Cheers Matt
Great Matt lovely model awesome pictures thanks PS Got my z9 and 100-400mm 🤩
Great job! This was a great photo shoot! I love your creatively with this lens! Great job team!
Totally agree, great job team !!!! Thank you DP :). Cheers Matt
What a combination! Now to find a bowling alley to turn into a portrait studio.
Finally saw a video with the gears I love to have.Love the combination of z9 and 400 MM LENS, its a dream for me. For f/9 still the lens has a pretty nice Bokeh. Thank you sir
Congratulations, it was a great shooting.
We sure did have a great time :) Cheers Matt
Excellent as always and a great model
Thank you !!! Yes she was a star.
Another wonderful vid. This is something I’ll never ever attempt but was mesmerized watching you all work together. Loved it. Thanks so much
Thanks so much Tim, we had a great time, I was buzzed afterwards
loved this Matt! MORE !!!
Watch this space .....
An extraordinary experience. I really loved it.
We Love You Matt. Amazing content 💪🏻🔝😊🍾🥂
You rock!
You did a stellar job with some great photo equipment and a beautiful model.
Yes, thank you James it was great fun, and a pleasure to work with the team and the gear. Cheers Matt
Have my 400 f/2.8 on order, simply can't wait!! But did not think about using it in this way. So can't wait to give it a go. Thanks as always for great content.
Cheers Joe, yes this combination really works without hesitation, and the outcomes are extraordinary from my opinion.
Excellent shoot and great captures!
Cheers M. B.
Great work Matt, with a lot of enthusiam. And a fantastic model!
Great job! And if you try this again, perhaps a talkie walkie system should help 🌞📷🌞
Yes sometimes I use those ...
Thanks Matt, I can't wait for my Z9 to arrive... more of a wildlife photographer but always appreciate your tips & insights.
Cheers David, which lenses are you looking to combo with you Z9?? Cheers Matt
Matt, great shoot, wonderful subject...just really fun to watch. Thanks for sharing. Love to see more shoots with Shayla. Also would love to see a shoot using Z6II and 70-200 S lens. Thanks again, Cheers from San Diego, CA USA!
outstanding shots..., would nothing else expect with such an amazing gear ;)
Nice one Matt. I sometimes do similar shoots with the D850 and the 70-200 or the 300PF and it really works. I have used the 3D tracking some times, but mostly just single point and continuos AF. The power of the 400 is of course outstanding and it promises for my wildlife work. I think that lens will be my only long lens in the future, apart from the 500PF when hand held. Nice to see that Nikon finally is getting it together!
Without a doubt the combination of lens and body are a formidable pair :)
Awesome job again , Z9 and that lense and of course your and models talent makes for a fantastic shoot , btw whos the model
Faby.... Lovely and mindblowing images. 🔥🔥🔥❤
Cheers
Awesome content again. Thank you for testing the lens so all of us that wish we can obtain one do wish we won a lottery 🤪
I’m interested in another test with 1.4 tc and also mount onto 2x tc. Now that would be an epic video to watch and get excited. Cheers and aloha!
Wow great work fantastic model and working in such a busy location I take my hat of to you and using Nikon 400mm. I am a Z fc user which is a great camera 🙂
Thanks Sean, it was a great session. I look forward to heading out again soon. What lenses are you using with the lovely Z FC? Cheers Matt
Nice video Matt. I need to now save my pennies to get a Z9 and a 200 f2.8
Go for it Leo!
Brill Matt keep up the great work.
Thanks so much Thomas :)
Another great vid from you Matt.
Your energy is infectious!😃
Thanks Chris, cricket coming in the next vid Can't wait to show off what we captured, and I still need your interview.
@@MattIrwinPhotography well that is just awesome 🙂👍
I am quite likely to be up in the city tomorrow morning. A legend of Premier Cricket is likely to retire at season's end and I will probably be stopping in at Junction Oval in St Kilda in the morning. Then free after that.
@@christhomas5846 Cheers Mate, I am off to Canberra, so it won't be this week or next. But lets talk again in about 10 days time ... and we can sort it out, really looking forward to it :)
@@MattIrwinPhotography cool.
Enjoy your trip to Canberra.
You definitely got one with this one Matt! Killed it! I have so many shoots like this planned with my Z9 once the weather breaks here in NY. Love environmental shots like this and to pull it off with that beastly 400!!! I mean DAMN! As a portrait photog, you definitely have me blown away with this one mate! Killed it! Hope to see more portraiture like this. Keep up the good work my friend. Cheers from NY!
Thanks so much, I love a long lens for this sort of work, but I don't think I have gone beyond 200mm before. And the Z9 with the 400m capturing sharp focus as she walked towards us with the pearls .... how good is that .... and all the gear just fells so good in the hand ...
impressive stuff, keep it up
Love it Matt! You are making it very hard to resist waiting to year-end to order mine!😂
I understand Eugene, there is a lot to love about this lens :) What are you mostly going to capture with it?? Cheers Matt
Concerts and sport!
Nice . I often use a 300 prime for portrait and if you have the distance the soft backdrop is amazing , never afford that lens , but waiting the second delivery of z9 to oz.
Hi that Lowepro backpack looks nice !
Fabulous! Think I heard you say no filters. Did you have the new polarizer? If possible, please repeat sometime with the 70-200 - would love to see what you could do with that on the Z9! Is this still a preliminary file rendering in Capture One, or are they fully supporting this combo?
Hi Carl, Capture One Supports the standard RAW files, but I believe the HE and HE* are yet to come. I was shooting with the standard Z9 RAW. :)
@@MattIrwinPhotography Ive had to shoot with the full Z9 RAW files as capture one doesn't yet support HE* or HE. Hoping its going to be added very soon although no announcement yet that I can see. I'd also like for them to add the Z lenses profiles very soon too. Only one supported as at 21st Mar 2022. Great content. Informative, entertaining and inspiration as always. Thanks
Matt -- great vid -- big fun -- ?
Why capture 1 over LR? Any reason you care to share?
Nice work Matt..
Thanks Tel.
She did a "fabulous" job. Love to see her again. She did such a good job. It is the difference between someone that know what to do and how to act vs someone that doesn't understand what to do. All in all, great job on this video.
Cheers John, and we had a lot of fun. It was great to be flexing all those photogeraphic muscles.
"like" - you make a great director Matt.
Cheers Charles.
hallo Matt. your title says it all. what a fun photo shoot. But I never got the Nikon promotion about this portrait lens, :). Keep well, keep safe and have fun. PS just got my Z9....
just OMG... can't afford it , but OMG. Did you notice improvement in the colours quality as well, comparing with the other Z lenses? if is better, which Z lens did you find get closer with the colour quality?
Once agin Matt you’ve knocked it out of the park… I’ve been enjoying my Z9… have this lens ordered and anxiously awaiting to shoot with it… you as always do your thing in show casing your skills and with the Equipment u use.. Nikon for ever
Thanks so much Stephen, what glass are you putting on the front of the Z9 the most at the moment?
@@MattIrwinPhotography right now I just recv’d the 24-120… your on scene review is true to form.., I’ve used 100-400
Z.., u can’t go wrong with any Z lens
@@stephencross6474 Totally agree, two fine lenses you have there
I bought a used 400 ED-IF AFS II about six years back and use it for portraits whenever possible!
The same characteristics that make it a great sports lens make it great for portraits as well.
For sure. What body are using with it today?
@@MattIrwinPhotography The Z9! :D Managed to get my hands on a couple from the first two US shipments and parted ways with quite a bit of other gear, including the wonderful D850. My staff will inherit my D5s so it's a win all around!
Yes, that was a great Sheila indeed.
Thank you Matt for another great video.
While I will never afford or actually need a 400mm f2.8, I will be getting the 100-400mm when it becomes available in my area.
I do hope that at some point, you might be able to do a side by side comparison of those 2 lenses.
I don't do sports or birds, so don't need the 2.8, and the 100-400 will suit my work need better, but still, I am curious about how they might compare optically even when using the same f5.6 stop. Especially for portraiture such as you did in this video.
Thank you again for showing us all what is possible.
Nice job. We’re you tethering the camera? I noticed orange cord coming out of z9. It was seen near end of video. If so what software do you use to tether the camera. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much Jon, the cable was for sending the EVF signal to the Ninja so I can record what is happening. Like here ua-cam.com/video/lYHDSfiSjxM/v-deo.html the view on the left is what I can see in the EVF :)
z9 and 400mm will be my life time goal in photography gear
A lady from my country... Nice!!! I'm from Rio de Janeiro!
Loved the video Matt. I couldn’t imagine using a 400 where you have to yell to the model like that and was amazed what you could pull off with all the people walking in and out of your frame.
I liked many of the images but really enjoyed the pop of blue wall behind her when she was walking past the car as well as a couple near the end with the mist.
Very well done! Your energy and enthusiasm during the shoot and during the video are infectious. Keep it up.
PS I don’t want to say I watch “too many” of your videos, but my 6 year old heard the video playing and said “oh brother, not your Australian Matt again”
At 15:30 you talk about the water vapor but my attention went to her eyes being sharp and the sunglasses that were in the way. Eye AF worked well.
Yep this is without a doubt very sticky eye detection.
Great work matt. Looked like a lot of fun. Z9!
Maybe you need a Z 9 too?
@@MattIrwinPhotography maybe? :-)
@@josephsworkshop75 could settle for a Ham and Cheese ?
@@MattIrwinPhotography ham and cheese is going to take weeks! I’m going to starve!
Wondering if you’ve tried to “old” 400mm FL ED VR and if so, how do you think it compares.
I ordered one - thanks for using it in a different way
yeah I love testing this outside the norms. Great too see it perform :)
Prejudice has it these lenses are primarily for bird-watchers and wildlife shooters. And then this Aussie thinks, I know what that means.
Great video Matt - very nice and dynamic work!
Cheers JP
I could be wrong, but I can think of a few incredibly sharp portraiture options that are a tad lighter.....;-). But loved the demo and the energy. Now that we are well into the Z transition it is safe to say that there isn't a bum product in their line up of lenses and cameras. Great job Nikon.
For sure Gerry, if you want that compressed look, this is a great option, but the PF's would also work well and the 70-200 which I have often employed for this sort of work. Indeed I agree there is really only great choices in the Z glass line up. :) What is your goto lens at the moment for portraiture?
@@MattIrwinPhotography Well.....I sold my 50 and 85 primes and now just have the 14-30, 24-120, 100-400 and 20 1.8 for nightsky. I just dove in after all these years and got the Leica M11 with a 35mm 1.4 and APO 75mm 2.0. When I get out of bankruptcy I'll get the APO 135mm 3.4. With Nikon and Leica, it's now a more nimble kit for with tons of great options.
400mm portraits, why not!
What’s not possible. 😀
Hi Matt, excellent to watch. But as a hobbyist photographer, I can't afford these flagship camera and lens. Let's hope Nikon comes out with more affordable cameras for us hobbyist . Nikon are you listening?
Excellent pictures. For a lens with that price tag you better find as much use cases as possible to make it pay off.😉
Exactly ... and yet another area it excels. :)
Matt, I plan to use initially with my 500pf mostly for wildlife photography. What software do you recommend for processing until adobe Lightroom is fully ready? Thanks
Hey Matt! What a shooting!!!!! Just a question, did you use Lossless of HE* ?
Standard RAW at the moment as I believe Capture One is yet to support HE* :)
My favorite portrait equipment is similar; ancient Nikon D3 + Nikkor 400mm f/4 using 3D focus tracking. A 2.8 version would be wonderful but would require selling off my car. 🙄
Your model like many pros know how surprisingly to add things to the performance.
Great Kit you have there Lesco, yes she was fantastic :)
So Matt big question do you have this 400mm in your future?
I would like to Ray ... but I have other priorities first ... I have certainly proven to myself it would fit in my world wonderfully ... now I have to work the other bits out ... how about you?
@@MattIrwinPhotography Hey Matt no not at this stage still rocking the D850 and D70s with a wide range of F mount glass. Can dream of this unbelievable combo in the future but hard to justify at my level of photography. Nikon are really knocking it out of the park at the moment and it will be interesting to see how the competition responds.
I recently had a play with the D5 and D4 cameras and whilst these are Ferrari’s in terms of their shutter speed and built like a tank, I was surprised they lack a number of features that the D850 has such as focus peaking, Bluetooth, focus stacking, smart phone connectivity etc.
Ray
That’s your version of wildlife photography.
A bit confusing for other street users, but great lens great model!
We ended up building up a bit of a crowd at times ...Life to the city which needs it.
Matt, looking forward to the full review. I hope you include a good look at the physics of the magnetic drive by putting it into a situation where metal in close proximity to the lens may or may not affect it. As a sports photographer I have shot from arena catwalks with nothing but metal scaffolding all around me, through metal boxes/fences (photographers nest) where these scenarios do present in the real world. PLEASE include testing that will show those of us who rely on this gear for our livelihood what we need to know to make an informed decision.
For those of us who already own 400 2.8 lenses we agree that the bokeh and reach of the lens is astounding. But we really need more data on the NEW aspect of the lens, which is the magnetic drive. Thank you 🙏
Hi Tony, I don't have the lens anymore but I will reach out and see what I can find out for you. :)
I have to say, Matt, I expected more of wild life, I know that lens is more than it capabilities, last of my word is "how much is it", I saw the price and my jaws dropped to the floor. I don't think I'm a man enough to pay, oh well, I be happy with 100-400mm Z lens. Maybe borrow that lens for a day.
Sure. Next time I get it. 😀👍
Excellent content.. but I think the back ground should have been opened up a bit more .. did you use spot metering in such high contrast situation or with that high shutter speed and f value the subject looked well exposed but the surroundings became dark creating images which looked liked photoshopped..
Thanks for your thoughts, yes it is interesting what using a lens like this, in harsh lighting conditions will do :) Lots of compression and high dynamic range. :)
I’m beginning to wonder if these new lenses are too contrasty! They’re stressing the dynamic range!
Tha camera and lens is about twice what I paid for my car. I do like long lenses for portraits .
I am buying this lens now and oh, thanks Matt for destroying my wallet once again 🙂
Sorry about that Zeppy ... 🙂
I dont mean this a a critism but It looks Photoshopped. Unreal lens almost. Great content.
It is interesting Koen, what a lot of compression and high dynamic lighting will do. I have actually always enjoyed creating images in camera, that perhaps look a little surreal ... so I think this is subconsciously a look I like :)
The whole thing was so Melbourne. People at the cafes probably thought it was street performance.
If you like to shout your directions to the model, 400mm is great! :)
Well only when she is a long way away, but when she is close, we talk
Brazilian Fashion Week.
Just shows how good it is with a professional model. Not normally a big fan of tarts. Bute’s a very classy, sexy lady, great lens though
sorry, that was Tatts, not tarts
Its a wonder the Melbourne police did not arrest you!
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