I am a gear hoarder. BUT I'm trying to change that. Just sold my Fuji X100v... and although I'm happy it's going to get used by someone, I'm still sad to see it go! Took one last trip with it yesterday. Here are some photos from my adventure: This shot is one of the reasons I love the X100v so much. It's just a snapshot. I pointed…
A while ago I ended up selling my Fuji 16-55 f/2.8 red-badge lens because while I thought it was a really good lens… it was also big and heavy and I had all the focal lengths covered in primes. A year or so later, here comes along the Sigma 18-50 f/2.8 Contemporary lens, and I’ve got to admit, this thing makes me totally miss having a zoom…
INTRO - I first got into the Fuji system with the venerable X-T1, almost eight years ago. That camera had 16 megapixels, and I STILL love many of the photos taken with it. Here we are in 2023 with a brand new camera that has all the dials that made many of us fall in love with Fuji, and a brand new X-Trans 5 sensor with 40…
Film Simulation: Nostalgic Neg Grain Effect - Strong/Small Color Chrome FX Blue - Strong White Balance - Daylight Tone Curve: H+2 S+2 Color: -2 I went out to take photographs with my new X-T5 I received earlier today and felt like dialing in a film recipe for the blue skies and beautiful clouds I encountered. It's one of the reasons I love Fuji cameras - you can…
Today I'm inviting you along for a road trip to central Iowa, through a few small towns and dirt roads. Along the way, I'm taking photos with the X100v, a camera that speaks a language I love listening to. I often talk about the importance of pre-visualization with my students. This is a way we can set out on a photographic journey with a specific end-point in…
https://youtu.be/WqX3P4uQH5o A few minutes to spare and a Fuji X100v using the Kodachrome 64 film recipe. Magic: PARAGRAPH
https://youtu.be/BCdmgqw7xXY The Fujifilm X100v is the ultimate bike ride photographic companion. Small, light, and extremely capable, THIS is the camera to take with you wherever you go. On this day, I rode my bike through some roads in Nebraska looking for roadside beauty. Using the "Color Neg 400" film recipe from Fuji X Weekly created some strong, contrasty images that were pretty cool! All examples below are…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLmtXH0I99E&t=15s The Sigma f/1.4 on Fujifilm X-Mount is a very special performer. Fast focusing in autofocus. Smooth manual focus. Very strong image quality, even if a bit soft wide open and at close-focus distance. It's NOT the sharpest lens ever, but it's got some image characteristics that make it really beautiful. Check out the video above and the gallery below for more, and ask me any questions…
The Fuji 33mm f/1.4 is one of the newest lenses available in the lineup, and I wanted to show some examples of the lens wide-open. https://youtu.be/QHi1ZVcPtM4 This site is user-supported. If you like what I do, I'd hope you might consider buying me a cup of coffee or a gallon of gas to keep on exploring and sharing: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jerredz I also have my prints on Etsy if…
https://youtu.be/DCUdiq2QC-I The question I have to ask YOU is this: for the type of photography you do, do you NEED the new X-H2s? Only YOU can answer this ultimately, but I thought a lot about this after a recent portrait shoot where I did a family session with my wife and son. We all used different cameras, but we got some amazing results. After that photoshoot, I…