Local Wanders
Some random walks from the last week or so. The first two shots were taken with the GFX100S towards the end of last week during a dull but unpleasantly hot afternoon on the moors, while the rest came from an evening wander in the woods with much nicer conditions and a lighter camera (X-T50 and the 23,35 and 56mm primes). All processed from individual raw files in Capture One Pro 23. The X-T50 images will appear to be taking with an X-T5 as I'm still deceiving C1P by tweaking the EXIF of the raws in order to get it to process them for me.
Surveying The Land
I posted this towards the end of last weeks thread, but I think the thread had kind of died by that point, so I'm tacking it on here. I'd gone out for a walk on my birthday, but it was way too hot for me and I didn't get very far, about a mile up Black Brook before I figured I'd had enough and decided to turn back. Carrying the GFX, two hefty lenses and a tripod probably didn't help. One advantage of carrying the tripod is the occasional possibility of a self portrait, that rare bit of evidence that I actually once existed, given that none of my close friends actually take photos (at least not with proper cameras). I had a similar issue gathering photos of my dad together for a tribute video at his funeral, as my dad was the only one in his circle of friends who took photos there are very few pictures of him in his youth as he was always the one behind the camera, probably more once I was old enough to pick up a camera.
Anyway, I also took a few pictures of me coming up the hill, but this more contemplative shot is the only one I'm really happy with.
Well, I don't think that this counts. You are not behind of the camera but...😇
Tunnel of Trees
For a change, I took the route that leads up by Brinscall Hall (yeah, I didn't know there was a hall either until recently!) which eventually took me down this tree lined track.
A nice one, I love this kind of tunnels. Especially while driving in the middle of bright sunny day, entering in a such tunnel is a delight.
Wyrd Tree
This is a fantastically gnarly tree, that's often nicely backlit in the evenings. I keep meaning to shoot it in autumn but have never managed to get round to it. Maybe this year?
Definitely you should
Pathway
I took a lot of these woodland shots in black and white. I'm in two minds as to whether they work better in colour or B&W at this point. There's been a lot of discussion about the film sim dial on the X-T50, most of it negative and (as far as I can tell) mostly by people who don't actually own the camera. To be honest, I was sceptical about it too, but having owned the camera for a while now, I actually quite like it as it makes it much easier to switch film modes, something I never really bothered doing with any of my previous Fuji cameras (or the GFX for that matter), but having it on a dial definitely encourages me to use it more in the field. The loss of the drive dial isn't a big deal for me, as having drive mode on a button instead matches the UI on the GFX, so it's pretty intuitive. I do miss the ISO dial though, but I've got that mapped to the tiny button on the top panel which matches the GFX, even if it is on a more fiddly button to find.
Panasonic has the same idea with its dedicated LUT button of S9. I think a dial serves better for this purpose but extra space might not be possible on a camera like S9