Jones Photographics is a location oriented non-studio enterprise producing freelance fashion photography, scenic photography, landscape photography, butterfly photography, nature photography, animal photography, still life photography, abstract photography and abstract art from photographs, people and portrait photography and many miscellaneous categories of photographic images.

	Nikon FE

This is my most frequently used set-up. I live in the woods, and as the saying goes, you can't see the woods for the trees. [or photograph them either] ..so I don't do much "Scenic" photography around home. I try to show what the woods are like by exhibiting the parts that make up the whole, and to do this, I have to get close.

However, I have found that the macro approach to close-up photography is quite intrusive, so I stick a 2x tele-converter on Nikon's 70-150 zoom, and achieve the same effect with the added benefit of throwing the background out of focus [when shot at f5.6]--thereby isolating and accenting my subject, without scaring it away.

I have a motor drive on both my camera bodies. Although this is a left-over from my fashion days, I find it easier to carry a 35mm camera with the handle the motor drive affords, and the extra weight gives the set-up extra stability for low light situations if I don't have time for a tripod. I use the 70-150 zoom for most of my close-up portrait work, both with and without the tele-converter. I don't have to invade my subject's personal space with it, and most people think their noses are too big, so this lens foreshortens things a bit. The slide zoom is quick.