Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G Bokeh: Daylily Pictures

I went out and photographed a daylily.  I wanted to see the results of the different aperture settings and the bokeh.  I also wanted to find the "sweet spot" for my new lens.  Here's the results at different aperture settings:

85mm, f1.8, 1/8000, ISO 100

85mm, f4, 1/2000, ISO 100

85mm, f8, 1/500, ISO 100

85mm, f11, 1/250, ISO 100

85mm, f16, 1/125, ISO 110

I set my D7k to Aperture mode and since the flower was in bright sunlight I set the exposure to -0.7.  My post production (PP) changes included cropping, adding copyright notice, and reducing the file size for posting on the web.

Nikkor 85mm f/1.8G: Low Light vs Compact Speed Light

After I mounted my new lens onto my D7k, I took some sample pictures in a room with low light.  I had an incandescent lamp turned on to the left of the following book samples:

85mm, f1.8, 1/125, ISO 2800 (no flash & handheld)

85mm, f1.8, 1/125, ISO 400 (SB-400 compact flash & handheld)

Can you see a real difference between the two pictures?  In the first picture, the low light no flash picture looks quite good.  In the second picture, I bounced my compact flash towards the ceiling.

So far, I like the results I'm getting with this new lens.  More to come....