From a recent photowalk with Doug Kaye – shot with my Fujifilm X-E2 and converted to black and white in Lightroom 5.
Category: Fujifilm X-E2
The day after Thanksgiving I stopped by Menlo Park’s Allied Arts Guild with my new Fujifilm X-E2 camera. I wrote a brief article about it over on InMenlo.com.
Allied Arts was decorated with holiday ornaments – and this particular one caught my eye. There’s a distant reflection of another red ornament in the window in the upper right – purposely out of focus in this shot.
Post-processed in Lightroom 5 with VSCO Film and in Photoshop CC with a touch of the Oil Paint filter.
While I was out running errands on Friday, I stopped by Menlo Park’s Allied Arts Guild with my new Fujifilm X-E2 camera and took a few shots (see my Flickr set).
I tried to compose this one to have the permissions be a diagonal line – adding visual interest. Post-processed in Lightroom 5 using VSCO Film 01 – Fuji 160C film emulation.
Best wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving!
This image is from a visit to New York last week – walking up Madison Avenue heading to an early dinner. Shot with my Fujifilm X-E2
Here’s an image overlooking Central Park shot early in the morning last week with my Fujifilm X-E2
The glow of the sun along the buildings was perfect – and the late fall muted colors in the trees added a nice touch of contrast.
We were in New York last weekend and really enjoyed a performance of Peter and the Wolf – with The Maestrosities – at the Brooklyn Museum.
I had my Fujifilm X-E2
I’ve posted a set on Flickr of the best images from this very casual shoot – these images are straight out of the camera and demonstrate the beautiful photography possible with the Fujifilm X-E2
As a street photography, you’re always trying to look for stages – places of visual interest against which you can shoot an interesting image. Finding a stage is one thing – being patient enough to wait for something of visual interest to walk into it is another.
On this particular morning in San Francisco, Doug Kaye and I were finding stages – but the pedestrian traffic was so light that we got frustrated waiting for something to fill the stage.
For this particular shot, I got lucky. I happened to like the stage of the stores’s display window behind – and captured this shot very quickly with my Fujifilm X-E2 as this young woman – in her bell bottoms – walked across the stage. Perhaps not the greatest illustration of this technique – but you get the idea!
I post-processed this in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC – applying a bit of Topaz Simplify 4 and a touch of the Oil Paint filter to add a bit of interesting texture.
I wrote earlier this week about the beautiful light that Doug Kaye and I found recently in this “street” near the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco’s Financial District.
This is another image shot with my new Fujifilm X-E2 that took advantage of that magical light. Originally, I thought I’d process this image in color – as that ketchup bottle just pops in red – but, instead, I converted it to monochrome in Photoshop CC using Topaz Simplify 4 and then applying a touch of Photoshop’s Oil Paint filter.
I really love the tonality of this image – and the subtle textures that the oil paint added to the glow of the metal.
Over the weekend, I wrote an article for our local Menlo Park blog – InMenlo.com – talking about my earlier experiences with the new Fujifilm X-E2
As I mentioned in that article, I’ve decided to shed my existing Canon and Nikon DSLRs (and all of the lenses) in favor of simplifying my photography gear down to two Fujifilm cameras: the Fujifilm X100S
Today’s New York Times had an article by Eric Pfanner titled “As Digital Camera Sales Sputter, Fujifilm Finds Its Niche” that described Fujifilm’s success with its X-series of cameras “that blend Fujifilm’s digital technology with retro aesthetics reminiscent of the company’s analog heritage. At a time when sales of other cameras are slumping, the X series is selling briskly.” Pfanner’s article captures the moment for Fujifilm with these new cameras.
Here’s to Fujifilm’s Masazumi Imai, the chief designer of the X series, for the great work he’s done bringing these delightful cameras to market!
By the way, if you’re interested in purchasing any Canon (5D Mark II and lenses) or Nikon (D600 and lenses) gear, drop me a line and I’ll send you an inventory of what I have – I’m selling!
On Sunday, I often like to take a walk around the Stanford University campus. Parking is usually easy on weekends (except game days!) and there’s so much to explore. I can get a nice hour long walk in and capture some interesting images along the way. Lily and I used to do this regularly – and I still miss her whenever I’m walking Stanford.
Here’s a shot taken with my new Fujifilm X-E2 at Stanford this past Sunday. I was walking around the Quad when I noticed this young woman coming towards me – right in the middle of the walkway. As she got to the stairs, she stopped, looked at her smartphone and began talking – clearly she was in a FaceTime video chat with someone. I thought the like was very beautiful with the striking contrast with the shadows – and snapped this image with the Fujifilm X-E2.
When I got home, I post-processed the image a bit using both Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC. For shots that tend to be “busy”, I often use Topaz Simplify 4 to remove some of that busyness – and I did that on this image. If you look closely (click on the image to see a larger version), you can see that there’s lots of detail in the center where she is but that as you move out to the edges the details fall away and you just see the major elements of the image. That’s Topaz Simplify in action.
I also applied a touch of cinematic toning (orange-ish highlights, blue-ish shadows) using Lightroom 5’s split toning panel before declaring the image complete!
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