Testing DOF

Graveyard felt like a natural place to test my new Fujifilm X-E1 with XF35mmF1.4 R (Amazon). You can get pretty impressive bokeh with this lens.

Iron Fence


The Contenders

I guess our studio is a little bit dusty since although I cleaned the plexi glass before the shoot there was hundreds of small dust particles that I had to remove in post. Also the background was removed and replaced with pure black since this picture is probably going to a black poster.


5000

My first photo to get 5000 views in Flickr.

Men


Men

I have seen several different takes similar to this one on the internet but it’s such a good idea that wanted to try one for myself too. Black and white version did not work as good as I hoped so I left a little bit of color to the photo. All pictures where taken separately and half of them are actually taken in a different part of Finland.


New Props

Starts to look like a new photo project…

Gas Mask


Farewell

Had to do some push ups to get this picture. I was between two chairs to get my feet up in the air. I guess I should do more exercise since after ten or more pictures my hands started to be pretty tired…

 


Bulb Illusion

“Illusion of Light” That is the theme for this month in local camera club. I took it quite literally and made a picture that has illusionist with a light bulb. At editing stage I added glowing wire from another photo and then quite strong bleach bypass effect. I think it fits to this “dark magician” theme.


One light studio setup

I made a short video (in Finnish) about setting up simple one light studio setup. I use came club studio and my purpose was to show how easy it is to take a decent portrait in with studio lights.


Camera Gear Photos

We needed some camera gear photos for camera club documentation so I opened my light tent and started taking some pictures. I blowed (Amazon) all the lenses before photographing but I still had to remove dust in Photoshop quite a lot.


Rat Race

Another picture to the book. That rope loses lot of fibers quickly. Black shirt was covered with those and although I try wipe them off I had to do lot of cleaning in Photoshop too. It’s good idea to wipe your display too when cleaning picture like that. I tried to remove some real dust on the display with spot healing brush tool. Somehow it didn’t work…