Friday, September 5, 2014

Close-up stills with a Zeiss Touit 50mm f/2.8 macro on the Fuji X-T1

Seems like this was a week for taking still life photos. This time the theme was seashells where we wanted to create a very light, pastel feeling, like being near the seashore on a calm, bright day. The photos were taken in out daylight studio, side-lit with a soft window light and a bright background.

The camera I chose was the Fuji X-T1 coupled with the Zeiss Touit 50mm f/2.8 macro lens, one of my favorite combinations. The lens itself is a perfect focal length for this type shooting -- not too long and not too short. I worked mostly with wide apertures, but occasionally had o stop down to the f/16 range when I wanted everything to be sharp, especially in the flat, straight down shots.

One thing very nice I am discovering about working with the X-T1 one is that the RAW images from it require the least amount of post-processing correction and tweaking, which has been making my workflow much easier and faster -- definitely a big plus.

I took a lot of photos during this session. Here are a few of them:

























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5 comments:

  1. dmsphoto1September 5, 2014 at 11:37 AM

    Again, another really pretty series of images. Do you mostly create stock images Tom? Or is something like this more of an assignment?

    Cheers.

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  2. Tom Grill:September 5, 2014 at 3:41 PM

    I shoot primarily for fine art and stock photography. I took these images specifically to explore a more commercial fine art area, but they will also fit easily into my stock portfolio.

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  3. dmsphoto1September 5, 2014 at 7:18 PM

    Oh. Very cool. Is stock something that's an option these days for someone who is not established in that area? What are the viable/friendly agencies?

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  4. UnknownSeptember 7, 2014 at 6:00 AM

    These shots are edited any way or straight from camera?

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  5. Tom Grill:September 7, 2014 at 6:34 AM

    Some of them had very minor editing, usually when I wanted to do a slight color shift for effect or add a bit more contrast or lighten the exposure. Most had no editing at all.

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