Streets of Dublin

As part of my new personal photo project I try to rediscover the city I live in and why not start with my close neighbourhood. Sometimes you only have 1 or 2 hours for a short photo walk, but even if  that's all you have you can still find some hidden gems in your area .

This post is first of many coming and I will cover different locations in Dublin City. All the images were captured with the Fuji X-Pro1 and processed in Lightroom.

 Irish Museum of Modern Art (Royal Hospital Kilmainham)

The following photos are from the Guinness Storehouse area.

Off camera flash with the Fuji X-Pro1

What to do on a typical irish winter day? It's not so cold, but rainy and windy, definitely miserable outside. So let's stay inside, have some nice food and shoot some portraits of yourself and your family.

I positioned my main light, a 60x60cm softbox with a flash slightly right to the camera and placed a white diffuser on the right side of the subject. I used an other flashgun facing the a cream backdrop and some natural light was hitting the subject through a window on the left. The last shot of Hanna was made by using a different lighting setup, weaker main light on the left and no additional light or diffuser on either side.(Probably should have cleaned her face before taking the shot, but at least she looks like a real kid!)

All photos were taken with the 35mm f1.4 lens, processed in Lightroom 4 and Portrait Professional.

Foodography with the Fuji X-Pro 1

Just because I had nothing to do this afternoon and Hanna found something to play with(and not jumping on my back) I baked a blueberry tart(or sort of). Didn't feel like having an espresso so I decided to brew a light filter coffee for myself with Aeropress.

Hanna was still busy playing so I grabbed couple of flashguns, triggers, a softbox and some light diffuser and did a few coffe and cake shots.  All images were made with the Fuji X-Pro 1 and the 35mm f1.4 lens and processed in Lightroom.

My wife loved the cake too, but probably she's going to kill me for my "nothing to do" opening line.

Bon appetit mon ami!

Hanna

Just a few high ISO examples with the Fuji X-PRO1. My daughter, Hanna was my model for the following images. (She only had patient for a few shots.) All photos were taken with the 35mm lens
at  ISO 2500 using available light.

                             

                             

Christmas Foodography with the Fuji X-Pro1

We had a lovely weekend over at Shauna's who invited us for an early Christmas feast. She is an amazing chef  and always surprises us with her creations. While I enjoyed the extraordinary Xmas meal and the ever hilarious company of my friends I managed to capture some of the colours around the table.
Photos were taken with the Fuji X-Pro1 and the 35mm f1.4 lens. Bon Appetit! (Watch out for the monster!)

More thoughts of the Fuji X-Pro1

I have my X-Pro1 over a month now and I'm pretty happy with it. So satisfied that I only took out my 5D mkII once and when I did so I realized my Canon with the 50mm f1.4 lens hunts more than the Fuji does. Yes, the X-Pro1 has it quirks. Does it frustrate me? No. Although there are few things I'd like to change if I could and if you read this you probably know what I'm talking about. One of them is that there is no minimum shutter speed in auto ISO mode and an other thing which actually bothers me more is the position of the auto focus selection button, it would be great to be able to assign the Fn button to select the focus point. Anyway, hopefully Fuji listens and will address these in a future firmware update.
Meanwhile here are couple of shots from the last weeks when my grandma came over to visit us and did a few trips around Dublin. Most of the photos were taken with the 18mm f2.0 lens and processed in Lightroom 4.