New Friend, Same as the Old Friend

so, i had a chance this weekend to work again with carly erin who is just a load of fun to have around. we did some fine art figure work to round out her contribution to the black/white series. carly's work was really wonderful and i've had a chance to work on a few of the images, though i'm struggling through the workflow since the Aperture Team over at Apple hasn't seen fit to update their RAW processing engine to support the D300 i just picked up. so i'm using the much less familiar Adobe Bridge and having a tough time with the somewhat less capable workflow.

i was a little nervous when i started yesterday because i was faced with using a new camera in a professional situation where i was hiring a model. if i screwed everything up and couldn't work the machine, i would be wasting her time and more importantly, my money. in the end, though, it worked out quite well. Nikon did such a wonderful job maintaining the familiar controls and operation of the D200 in its successor. All the controls seemed to be right where they belong and the few controls they did add (like the directional pad on the vertical grip) provided amazing utility when switching orientations. there were moments when i had to tell myself, "use the directional pad on the grip now...", but that's just part of the familiarization process. in the end, i was quite pleased with the results.