Monday, December 30, 2013

Fuji X-E1 / Crystal Bridges / Christmastime 2013

Not much post processing save selective cropping and reduction to monochrome (with sliding color filters in Photoshop). Fuji colors are great. I am posting both the B/W reduction and color on several shots for contrast.












 

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Fuji X10 / Crystal Bridges / exterior shots

Nothing special. One interior of Crabby's grill thrown in randomly.














 

Fuji X-E1 35mm f1.4 Crystal Bridges

My son wanted to go to Crystal Bridges while the Stieglitz exhibit was on so we drove up the 30 or so miles to Rogers from Farmington on an outstanding winter day. I took the X-E1 w/ equivalent fast 50mm Fujinon XF lens and an X10 I just re-purchased last week. I used the X-E1 indoors and the X10 outdoors. The shots I'm posting today are just some I reduced to monochrome because I liked the composition and felt monochrome told the story better. I got zero bad shots from the Fuji. I left it at f1.4 and allowed the ISO to automatically adjust if the shutter speed was too slow. I've shot at CB with my X100 in the past and gotten great shots but not as good as these. I also got some unusable ones. Some were my fault, of course but since all of these are great, it compensates for my lack of shooting talent. I assume the X100S is much better but this lens at 1.4 is plainly outstanding glass.





Saturday, December 21, 2013

Panasonic LC1 / Christmas tree 2013

 The DMC-LC1 [and sister Leica Digilux 2] is a classic digital camera with an extraordinary Leica designed summicron lens. These are interior shots on a cold and rainy day. Christmas is four days away. I hope you're ready for Santa.



Got a close up lens filter w/ the camera which can provide bokeh

The nearly 10 year old camera struggles with auto white balance but is easy to set manually from menu.



couple merged shots

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Sony R1 / oh that crazy sky



Sony R1 - Winter Scene

Sony's sensors and Zeiss (licensed) glass make for great HDR shots. The R1 has terrific glass. This shot is three bracketed exposures, @ about 2/3s +&- stop difference, blended in Photoshop and slightly sharpened in Topaz.