A break from the farms and hay. I grabbed this shot in my car while putting the 105mm f/2.8 VR on my Nikon D300. This image, focusing on the closer hand, not the face was the most interesting image that I captured. It works for me because the focus and light puts the hand at the visual center, but the face and expression creates a strong secondary focus for the eye.
The 105mm is so sharp and with the VR it’s possible to get a shot like this hand held, stopped down a bit to f/4.5 with a shutter speed of 1/30 sec. The specialty lens, put to an usual use here, is for me the primary reason why DSLRs are the most widely capable image makers, limited only by size and noise compared to compacts.
