TRICKS WITH LIGHT

I have to mine this vein of visual ore from Costa Rica until I can come up with some new local material. Once again, this is Playa Langosta in an image made with some tricks of the trade. For the technically minded, the picture was taken with a Fujifilm X-T2 converted to an infrared sensor, using Fujifilm's Acros black and white film simulation. That's a mouthful but it looks cool.                     

Okay, Now I've Got It

Wednesday night's shots of the NYC fireworks weren't so great. The Fujifilm X-T2 I'm shooting with these days does the same things as my big Canon DSLR but the controls are often very different. I think I've figured out the settings for fireworks. We have a big Fourth Of July festival under the Arch, Fair St. Louis, with fireworks Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week. The family went downtown for it last night.  This time it worked.      

Thursday Arch Series

Taken on the levee on New Year's Day when I was shooting the crazy water skiers in the Mississippi. Used the new Fuji X-T2 and a fair amount of Photoshop. Liking the camera.   

Monday Morning

Ellie on Christmas morning. My little friend got quite a haul. Green is her favorite color and her best gift was a new green bike with training wheels (she's ready for it) and a green bike helmet. When it gets warmer, there's gonna be action.

This is one of my first pictures with the Fujifilm X-T2. Its control and menu system is very different from my Canon DSLR and the transition will take some time. But it's so much lighter. I notice that the reds are truer than on my 5D Mk III, which tends to oversaturate them. I need a lot less sharpening and get somewhat less noise at high ISO. On the other hand, I wish it had simple M, Tv and Av exposure settings, to use Canon's terminology. You can do the same thing on the Fuji but it's less intuitive. And it seems to underexpose when the scene is on the dark side. Lots to learn.