(noun) - A vanitas painting was a particular type of still life immensely popular in the Netherlands (and Paris, to a lesser extent), beginning in the 17th century.The phrase comes to us courtesy of a Biblical passage in Ecclesiastes, in which the Hebrew word hevel was incorrectly taken to mean vanity of vanities. vanitas painting, while possibly containing lovely objects, always included some reference to man's mortality-most often a human skull (with or without other bones), but also by way of burning candles, soap bubbles or decaying flowers.
Turn the camera off and remove the cap that covers the lens mount on the front of the camera. Remove the cap that covers the back of the lens. Hold the lens in front of the camera so that the little white dot on the lens aligns with the matching dot on the camera body.
Once you set the shutter speed and aperture to the values of your choice in manual mode, your images will all have consistent exposures. NIKON D700 @ 28mm, ISO 200, 1/200, f/20.0. I only use this mode in extreme situations, when shooting panoramas or when using on-camera or off-camera flashes.