MK1 Photography Blog

A 10Fsample today..... The photos today show an old a reluctant Indi waiting not sure what's going on? The bluebells still have colour but are starting to fade, I took a photo of a leaf lying on a root of a tree, it looked lost.  

XF10 does cloud and colour I took out the little pocket powerhouse that is the XF10, i shot in RAW for a change and the file sizes were quite large from such a small camera. I liked the dark foreboding clouds against the fresh green foilage - see what you think

A simple tree  Today's shot is my favourite tree that has featured here a few times. Today's shot was with the XF10 and was saved as a RAW file, this camera gives a huge file of 43.5 mb so plenty to work on. This may make a nice looking large print!

I dusted off the old Godox flash... I have been asked by my son to cover a wedding to a couple who are his best friends. I have agreed to offer my services this coming August and on Saturday i did the pre shoot at the venue. They were such a nice couple a pleasure to take photographs of   The V was used and the TCL was employed to give a little seperation, off camera flash was provided by my aging Godox 850 and its 2.4ghz transmitter. This gives power adjustment from the camera. I had the flash on my collapsible light stand and the light was softened by a Rogue Flashbender a strangely named light modifier! The best off camera technique you shouldnt be able to see the results of the flash. This video explains all about it, the last shot i left the set up visible to show its light fall off https://youtu.be/RvHQLodHirg

A tutorial on OCF(off camera flash) So today as its raining i thought it would be a good idea to offer those with any X100 series of camera a tutorial on the cameras ability with this technique. Firstly we need to consider why to bother with OCF at all? Why not use the built in flash? Why not put a small flash directly onto the camera hot shoe? The answer is simple really : The light that comes straight in line from the camera gives the least flattering light and direct flash is harsh in its output. So how do i go off camera?:  The method to get the flash off camera and at another location is again very simple, you need a flash gun and a trigger. When starting out its tempting to go with a flash that is TTL Sync. TTL or through the lens is a technique where the camera communicates with the flash to give enough power to light the scene right at the point of exposure. This sounds great doesnt it? The problem with TTL is that it uses more power than manual exposure as it tries to light th

The V came out for some shots  A couple of days ago the v came out for some more work. A few close ups and simple shots from it. The lovely shot of Indi was lit by the morning sunshine on that day. All shots straight out of camera.

The V needs to be rested for a shoot this weekend.....   The V  is going to be used at a shoot this coming Saturday that is a wedding pre shoot i am doing for my sons friends wedding this coming August. I plan to use the V and the two lens adaptors i have to do some portaits at the location, i will be doing some off camera flash in some of the shots too. I will put some on this blog once the client sees them and agrees. The XF10 came out to do some landscape shots and of course some bluebells! At the end i got a great capture of an unusal visitor to a bird table i passed by

Amazing almost see in the dark V  I can remember the days when I shot film and if I used ISO 400 Kodak although at the time I loved them nothing in today's latest cameras have any real trouble with higher ISO levels. I was a wedding photographer as many may know, I used the mighty Canon 5D and that was only 13mp and at 800 ISO it wasn't great. Wind forward to to today's latest cameras and we have the luxury of very good quality images - today's Indi photo was at 1600 ISO and I really love it!

Fuji XF10 goes an a bluebell walk Back from more holiday in Norfolk my home local woodland is alive with colour and the bluebells are still active and blooming. The trees seem to be coming alive with green. Perfect for a Fuji camera!

 A walk in Sandringham park The Fuji colours are so lovely straight out of camera, the V and wide adaptor lens is also a great combination for this. Sandringham estate in Norfolk is the Queens country estate and is open to the public for walks and picnics. The flowers are just starting to bloom and the walk will be filled with colour soon.

Beach huts with colourful sky The X100V with wide angle convertor was used for this early evening shot of the beach huts and the big sky of Norfolk. Its a beautiful place with very feature filled shots to be had, the sky was amazing today full of darkness and colour The shot below was helped by the tilting screen on the V something i used all the time on my long used and battered trusty X70. having this feature in the V was a debate amongst us Fuji addicts but its a well engineered slim screen.

This was taken with the X100V and wide angle adaptor  The sky here in Norfolk looked foreboding but didn't reveal any rain. We are up in Norfolk again this was my favourite image from today

Out in the rain with the XF10.... Woke up to an unusual sound today, the rain was softly falling outside and we havent seen much of that lately. So a usual late get out due to my weird condition and it was still raining as we walked out. The XF10 isnt water resitant so i took a chance taking it out in that weather, obviously the X100V is weather sealed and would have been a better choice!  So i did some close ups with the little camera and they seemed to come out rather well

Sorry for the less regular blog posts... I have been unable to blog regularly due to personal reasons, so todays blog is a tad overdue - sorry. So the weather was windy and the clouds looked amazing and had to be photographed. I have been flip flopping about having a camera with some sort of zoom, but these are genrally of a very small sensor variety. Once i saw the images from todays walk that GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndome) seemed to die down. Hope you enjoy the photography