Author: Vincent

  • Pic of the Day – The Olgas

    Pic of the Day – The Olgas

    This photo was taken last year on our big holiday around the center of Australia.

    Unfortunately, there was no clouds in the sky, so I have tried out Laminar 4 sky replacement feature. The sky is my photo has well.

    • Canon EOS 6D Mark II
    • 1/250 sec. f/8 29mm, iso200

  • Pic of the Day – The Eye

    Pic of the Day – The Eye

    I have been trying to get into street photography, here is pic from my walk around Brisbane last weekend.

    It’s a play on shadows, inspired by street photographer Sean Tucker.

    • Fujifilm XT-3
    • 1/200, f4 23mm, iso400
  • New Website Theme

    New Website Theme

    Today I have spent the day updating the website, hopefully making things a wee bit better.

    I am in the process of going through my images and rebuilding my image galleries, a long overdue project.

    I am also going to offer digital downloads, hopefully that won’t be too far into the future.

  • Pic of the Day – Southern Cassowary

    Pic of the Day – Southern Cassowary

    The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is a large bird which can be found in Queensland, New Guinea and eastern Indonesia. They are secretive by nature so are hard to spot in the wild.

    This image was captured at David Fleay’s Wildlife Park. A great place to take the family out for a picnic.

  • Adobe LR or CaptureOne for Fujifilm

    Adobe LR or CaptureOne for Fujifilm

    Anthony Morganti has presented an unbiased example of developing a Fujifilm raw file using both of the 2 most popular editors available today and demonstrates the shortcoming of each.

  • Pic of the Day – Brisbane’s little Flat Iron

    Pic of the Day – Brisbane’s little Flat Iron

    Wandering around Brisbane a few months ago I came across this building, I immediately thought about the Flat Iron building in New York.

    While not as magnificent as the one in New York, this is as close as I am going to get to one.

    • Fujifilm X-T3
    • 1/8000 sec. f/1.4 35mm, iso200

     

  • Pic of the Day – Coronavirus

    Pic of the Day – Coronavirus

    • Fujifilm X-T3
    • 1/320 sec. f/5 25.4mm, iso 320

    A walk around Brisbane CBD yesterday, just as many people with facemasks on as without.

    2020 is turning out to be a tough year, and a bad start to the decade down here in Australia.

  • Pic of the Day – Light Trails

    Pic of the Day – Light Trails

    Life is whizzing past, already into the third month of the year.

    • Fujifilm X-T3
    • 30 sec. f/18 10mm, iso 200
  • Pic of the Day – Story Bridge at Dusk

    Pic of the Day – Story Bridge at Dusk

    • Fujifilm X-T3
    • 1/2sec, f-20, iso800
    • Samyang 8mmFish-eye

    My first outing with this neet little lens. I didn’t have my tripod with me so I just rested the camera on a fence to get this shot.

     

  • Link – Instagram: Straight talk for Photographers

    Link – Instagram: Straight talk for Photographers

    An excellent talk by Sean Tucker.

    Sean gives perspective and possibly another use for Instagram. Certainly opened my mind to how I use Instrgram.

     

  • Christmas Eve – Brisbane

    Christmas Eve – Brisbane

    Still continuing with my experiment with Fujifilm X-T3.

    This is the first urban evening shoot with this camera and I was pleased with the result. I have also been experimenting with film simulations, so as a record for myself and also for anyone interested I thought I would post some pics with the recipe.

    This is based on the Astia film simulation.

    Astia – Urban

    • Dynamic Range = 100
    • D Range Priority = Off
    • Fil Simulation = Astia/Soft
    • Grain Effect = off
    • Color Chrome Effect = Weak
    • White Balance Custom = R +1
    • Highlight Tone = -2
    • Shadow Tone = -2
    • Color = +2
    • Sharpness = +3
    • Noise Reduction = -3

    All photos were taken with

    • Fujifilm X-T3
    • XF 23 f2 R WR
    • hand held – no tripod

    A great camera to walk atound with, and for jpg straight out of the camera a great result.

    I have the camera setup to shoot REW + JPG, the film simulations only work on the jpg, I keep te raw for a just in case I want a different look.

    It’s now been 2 months with this camera and I have made the decision to sell off my Canon gear. Since I am not a high end proffesional shooter, this camera does a very good job at a moderate price, and is a bit smaller and lighter to carry around.

    I will keep playing around with these film simulations as I think if you can get one that you like it will save having to do post processing alot of the time.

    Untill next time.