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…
First, forgive me for the pun as you will see. A good friend of mine (and much better photographer) sent me a critique of some recent photos and made some comments that stuck with me. He said that many people today are so caught up in the dynamic range of…
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…
I had two missions – one was to see how my Leica M 28mm ASPH f/2.0 lens looked in black and white film and the second was to see if my out of date black and white film still exposed well. I’ve read in various circles formulas for exposing out…
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…
UPDATE: I spoke with my contact at a Leica dealership and they confirmed that the build of the X Vario is much more like the Leica M and less like the Leica X2. The weight alone is about double the X2. I think the look is similar, but the frame…
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…
The most recent firmware is released for the Fuji X100S. The version number is 1.03. My camera is not old an contains 1.01 from the factory, so I have updated to this firmware. Both 1.02 and 1.03 fix problems I have not experienced – issues with the OVF (optical view…