Coming from someone that absolutely loves Adobe Lightroom, I have to say, the Iridient Developer has a great many positive attributes to processing RAW (RAF) images from the Fuji X-Trans Sensors. This was a simple macro shot of a Caladium leaf that had rain drops left. The color was true…
Ok, I know that firmware 3.1 is now out, but I don’t anticipate differences except in the movie module. So I spent some time this morning shooting the railroad tracks near an old mill. I used the 60mm lens for all but the last three shots. What I found was…
Fuji pulled the X-Pro1 firmware version 3.0 due to a flaw in the movie mode. Today’s post is not about the photographic quality of the X-Series, but rather the reason that Fuji has made the X-Series the best camera on the market today. I may be stretching, but I don’t…
First, sorry for the lack of posting this month – vacation and boy scout camp put a damper on computer time, but certainly not the photography time. I’m processing about 1,000 images from a week at camp, solely with the X-Pro1 and X100s. Some of the images will surprise you…
Storm clouds are a great opportunity for photography. I’ve said before that the exposure is key to being a great photographer. Well, storm clouds offer some of those challenges. For starters, the dynamic range inside the cloud is very wide. Where the sun pokes through is extremely bright and easy…
Sometimes you just nail the exposure. I find that when that happens to me, it was really just perfect lighting. Ironically, yesterday I posted about the importance of getting the best possible exposure as the top priority. Today, I went down the Reef Bay trail to some 1,000 year old…
There are several photography quotes I really like. First, “the best camera is the one you have with you” and second, “practice, practice, practice.” There is no doubt in my mind that anyone aspiring to produce great photographs has to practice exposure techniques more than anything else. Learning the physics…
Ok, so I have a real job too, the one that pays me. At lunch today I snapped a few images walking to the sandwich shop. Simple. JPEG only. ISO 200. Exposure Adjustment -1/3. 35mm Fuji lens at f/2.0. I used a new variety of focusing and meter techniques…
Pages for Black and White with the Fuji X-Series Settings for Great Black and White with the Fuji X100s – Part I (here) Settings for Great Black and White with the Fuji X100s – Part II UPDATES at the bottom. I keep reading about some great photographers around that have…
I keep posting about how much I like the in camera JPEG files with no modification. I guess part of this is because I “grew up” on film cameras where what you shot was what you got. So, I like the challenge of nailing the exposure in the Fuji X100s…