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360 project – beginning of October 2013
Continuing my updates on my 360 project ( take one photo a day for a year ). Here are a few from the past week or so, most of them taken with the Fuji XE-1, not because I don’t like the D800 but...
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Fuji XE-1 location shoot in Southampton
These shots are by my brother Ant, who also happens to use the Fuji XE-1 on his shoots. These are taken with a minolta 50mm 1.7 lens using manual focus.
View ArticleLinking your flickr photostream to your blog.
If you check the portfolio link on my page now you will see it reflects the photostream on my flickr account. It also displays them flickr style, which is really nice and much better than the standard...
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Shooting a pub gig with the Fuji XE-1 and a D800.
Armed with these two cameras and a promise that the band would pick up my beer tab, I ventured out to the Turks pub in Reading on Friday night. I was interested in seeing how the D800 stacked up...
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Shoot with Fiona York – D800 and Fuji XE-1
I had the pleasure of shooting with Fiona again recently and the focus of the shoot was beauty shots. These are pretty easy to do with a model like Fiona. I opted to use continuous lighting so I could...
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A very important shoot – Ellie’s 5th birthday
My daughter had her 5th birthday last week, it was a very busy week as my wife’s birthday is the day after. But as chief family photographer it’s a good chance to justify the hideously expensive...
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360 Project October to November
I’ve still been keeping up with my 360 project although with the rubbish weather it has taken more of an effort to get out every day and take a picture. Here are a few of the images from the last few...
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Beauty Portrait Shoot with Alice
Alice normally resides in the chilly northern wastes of Scotland. On one of her rare journeys to the south we had arranged for a mini portrait shoot. These were, as usual, shot both on the fuji and...
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Fuji Xe-2 first impressions
The Xe-2 arrived on Friday and I’ve put it to serious use over the weekend. I used it at my sons football match, at a birthday party my 5 year old daughter attended, and then all day at a group...
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Fuji EX1 with old lenses
Although the Fujinon lenses are excellent, even the kit lens, it can be fun to try other lenses on the Fuji EX series cameras. I found an old 50mm minolta lens at a car boot sale and decided to give it...
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Shooting football with the XE-2 and the 55-200mm lens
So at the weekend I had another crack at shooting my son’s football ( soccer for any Americans reading ) match. I had briefly attempted it before but the weather was so cold it was unpleasant to shoot...
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Adobe Creative Cloud anti shake filter
OK I have to admit I was pretty dubious about this one when I read about it. For starters I don’t like the new subscription model. Secondly, I didn’t think I’d ever need it. However..on a recent...
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Fuji XE-2 for studio work
I’ve tried using the Fuji XE-1 in the studio before, as most of what I do takes place in the studio. My preferred lens in the studio is usually a 70-200 or a nifty fifty. My issue with the XE-1 was...
View ArticleBridal Shoot in January
We will be doing a Bridal Shoot in January , the aim being to show off the skills of several bridal MUA’s and to showcase some lovely dresses. So far 3 MUA’s are coming and three models, I will add...
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First shoot with D800
So I took delivery of a shiny new D800 a few days ago, and was keen to try it out in anger, there’s only so much photo’s of your dining room table can tell you. I have always been a canon user, right...
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Reuben’s Christening shot with the Fuji Xe-2 and D800
I had the pleasure of shooting a Christening at the weekend. The little boy in question had chicken pox so a private service was arranged for him in a side chapel ahead of the main service on Sunday....
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Birding on the Fuji Xe-2
The Fuji XE-2 is not ideally designed for nature photography. Ideally you want a fast DSLR with a 400mm lens on it. However, I thought I’d nip out on my habitual lunchtime stroll around the local pond...
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Noise reduction in jpeg on the Fuji XE-2
Thanks to www.fujirumours.com for alerting me to this one. I saw an article on there that mentioned the jpegs from the XE-2 are having noise reduction applied way too much at the moment and this was...
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Tamron SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USB for Nikon Review
Wow that’s a whole of of letters in a lens name! What do they all mean? Do we really care that much? Nope! All you want to know is whether this lens is worth you parting from your hard earned cash for....
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Advanced Studio Lighting Course Jan 2014 – behind the scenes
I ran the first of our 2014 lighting courses on Sunday. There were 6 photographers in attendance and one great model ( Julie Burville ). I’ll post some images from the course in the next few days, once...
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