Thursday, April 30, 2015

Vacation lifestyle with a Fuji X-T1 kit

It didn't take much to convince me to take my Fuji X-T1 as my main lifestyle camera on location to Miami. I have been working with the camera so much that I now have total confidence in it to deliver the goods in most lifestyle shooting situations.

Below is a set of images taken in a hotel room using my favorite triumverate of indoor, available light lenses -- the Fuji 56mm f/1.2, 35mm f/1.4, and 23mm f/1.4.  Two gold/silver combo reflectors provided a bounce fill from the window light, and that was pretty much it.













The blur in this photo was acieved by shooting past two hand-held champagne glasses placed near the lens in the foreground. 


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5 comments:

  1. dmsphoto1April 30, 2015 at 10:44 AM

    These are great Tom Beautifully lit. Thanks for sharing. What type of post-processing did you do on the files?

    Cheers.

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    1. Tom Grill:April 30, 2015 at 3:35 PM

      Most of the post-processing was faily straight forward, but to achieve the sun bursts and overall sunny tone in some of the images I add a sun-burst layer I created and another overall sunny tone layer. Both layers are added as "Hard Light" in Photoshop with the opacity dialed down to suit.

      Good question. I think I'll illustrate the technique in a a blog post.

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    2. dmsphoto1April 30, 2015 at 5:27 PM

      Cool. Thanks. A tutorial would be great. Yeah I saw you had a photoshop tutorial a little while back. Really added a nice atmosphere to the images.....

      Be Well.

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  2. AnonymousApril 30, 2015 at 2:32 PM

    Great post and images, the women's feet could be cleaner on image two. The lighting is very good. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Tom Grill:April 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM

    Definitely right about the feet being dirty! :) They'll be cleaned up along with a lot of other things when all the shots go through their final post-retouching cleanup.

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