To “S” or not to “S”

Iphone image My recent breakage led me to visit my favorite supplier - Fixation for a replacement 56mm mk1 (I like the mk1, it's cheaper than it's "WR" replacement and many say that the newer lens, whilst sharper, is slightly slower to focus and has lost that "magic" IQ. Replace the 56 - good move … Continue reading To “S” or not to “S” →

Not so much a blog post…

Not so much a blog post... More just a set of images from this morning on the beach shot with an X-T2 and 35mm/1.4

Yesterday I did something every professional photographer has done

I had a full day of headshots running from 10:00 in the morning to 16:30 in the afternoon....

Just another sunrise

Although the cameras built into phones are quite brilliant and clever, as soon as you look at the images large on a calibrated photo monitor it becomes obvious how limited they are. ... Crouching down, I waited with the 14mm on the X-T3 which was set to underexpose using the Velvia film simulation to bring out the colours.

Editing to the Max

Recently I have been getting very frustrated with my 2018 MacBook-Pro. I say recently, actually it's been going on a while; I have never been that happy with the way it handled the external displays when editing in the office. Even with its Radeon Pro graphics and 16GB RAM is just really struggled in Lightroom Classic, imports and preview generation taking an age.