Some time ago when we had out brief taste of spring in this country I was able to do a beach shoot one weekend with a couple of great models, Bexie and Poppy. It was a very challenging shoot ( but great fun ), as we had no shade, it was 2pm and the sun was pretty strong. I shot these images in raw on the XT-1 and used PhotoNinja to pull back some of the highlights. I have to say, it did a great job and this was one of the few times I was not happy to shoot in jpeg. The jpeg results were not bad, but I was able to get better results from the RAWs.
The backlighting was a bit of an issue and I couldn’t see the results on the back screen very well. Once I remembered to turn manual exposure preview back to on ( it was off for a studio shoot the previous day ), and to use the EVF to look at everything rather than the back screen, everything went smoother. I found the 56mm focussed a lot better in this situation than the 55-200. Next time I would use manual focus a bit more I think. Anyway..here are a couple of the images.
