I started the morning by going to my Grandson’s soccer practice to try out my newly acquired Nikon f/2.8 70-200 VR II lens.  After being there about 15 minutes I heard band music near the playground where the boys were practicing – so off I went to find it.  It turned out to be the Marching Band from our neighborhood District high school, Highland High School.  The band was marching through the district neighborhoods to raise money for the bands’ needs.

I wouldn’t have chosen this zoom lens (which I bought for night-time football) to capture a marching band parade – a wider angle zoom would have been a better choice.  So I cranked it down to its lowest focal length of 70 mm (equivalent to 105 mm on my Nikon D7100 crop sensor camera) and tried to get far enough away to capture a few frames.  After all, you don’t often get to see and hear a band marching through your neighborhood!

All photos (except the first two) were taken in manual mode with shutter speed of  1/125 second, aperture f/11, and ISO 200 with matrix metering,  I took the first two photos at f/7.1, but decided to decrease the aperture slightly with the last photos as the sun rose in the sky and became brighter.

Comments and questions are always welcome.

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