Porto with the X-Pro2 and XF35/1.4
I've posted this in travel, but I actually live here 🙂 Still I have to leave the house to go to town!
I got my X-Pro2 about a month ago and it's only this last week I actually had half a day all to myself to go shoot with it!
I'm no stranger to Fuji, but this is a new sensor and I'm still finding my feet with it/my workflow...
I've got a funny taste in PP anyway!
So here are some of, well not my first ever shots, but my first day out to a location I know well shots!
It's been well over 30 (37 on one day, which is what? 98F?) here for a month, it's too hot, seriously - a lot of the Portuguese countryside is on fire (only about 7 clicks from our house actually..) the air has stunk of burning and the past few days have been smoggy...
These shots are just before that, when the only thing more harsh than the heat - was the light!
But I don't let bad light stand in the way of bad photography - no sir!
For those that care about such things - all shots from RAW, PP with SilkyPix Pro7
I love the crazy crap that I see painted on the walls here in Porto.
It was too hot to be outside, so I decided to go into the market
Amongst many other things, the market has a LOT of fish stalls. I always ask before taking pictures of people's produce, a request which is always granted, and that gives me chance to get in close and take my time.
This was quite a large Octopus, I'm not really skirmish about stuff like this and I eat meat... But I also love animals... yet somehow I can live with myself and this hypocritical contradiction.
Obviously I apologise to anyone offended by the fact that animals are killed and sold for food and then purchased by people like me.
After the market it was time to head back onto the streets! At this time of year the place is heaving with tourists. I LOVED the XF35/1.4 on the X-Pro1 and it's just as scummy on the ExProTwo 😉
I decided to try some back streets, Porto is zig-zagged with back streets, it's never hard to find a new one! This one lead to the 'Old Billicia' 😃
As the day wore on the light got softer (and the temperature goes up as the streets and buildings start to release the heat they've soaked up)
I love sticking my nose in places with bars across them... it's a guilty pleasure... I never really understood that phrase... I guess I'm guilty, but it gives me pleasure! (This was a store that closed down)
The decorations are still up from June's Sao Joao festival.
I'm very much enjoying the X-Pro2... There's a few niggles... The OVF is a bit hard to see in bright light, I've given up adjusting the dioptre wheel every day and put electrical tape over it, and stuck a bit of rubber on the AF-L button. Nothing insurmountable... I did find I was blowing the red channel with very little clue from the (luminance only) histogram which is a bit annoying, but the type of thing that once learned.... (I hope)
I've posted this in travel, but I actually live here 🙂 Still I have to leave the house to go to town!
I got my X-Pro2 about a month ago and it's only this last week I actually had half a day all to myself to go shoot with it!
I'm no stranger to Fuji, but this is a new sensor and I'm still finding my feet with it/my workflow...
I've got a funny taste in PP anyway!
So here are some of, well not my first ever shots, but my first day out to a location I know well shots!
It's been well over 30 (37 on one day, which is what? 98F?) here for a month, it's too hot, seriously - a lot of the Portuguese countryside is on fire (only about 7 clicks from our house actually..) the air has stunk of burning and the past few days have been smoggy...
These shots are just before that, when the only thing more harsh than the heat - was the light!
But I don't let bad light stand in the way of bad photography - no sir!
For those that care about such things - all shots from RAW, PP with SilkyPix Pro7
I love the crazy crap that I see painted on the walls here in Porto.
It was too hot to be outside, so I decided to go into the market
Amongst many other things, the market has a LOT of fish stalls. I always ask before taking pictures of people's produce, a request which is always granted, and that gives me chance to get in close and take my time.
This was quite a large Octopus, I'm not really skirmish about stuff like this and I eat meat... But I also love animals... yet somehow I can live with myself and this hypocritical contradiction.
Obviously I apologise to anyone offended by the fact that animals are killed and sold for food and then purchased by people like me.
After the market it was time to head back onto the streets! At this time of year the place is heaving with tourists. I LOVED the XF35/1.4 on the X-Pro1 and it's just as scummy on the ExProTwo 😉
I decided to try some back streets, Porto is zig-zagged with back streets, it's never hard to find a new one! This one lead to the 'Old Billicia' 😃
As the day wore on the light got softer (and the temperature goes up as the streets and buildings start to release the heat they've soaked up)
I love sticking my nose in places with bars across them... it's a guilty pleasure... I never really understood that phrase... I guess I'm guilty, but it gives me pleasure! (This was a store that closed down)
The decorations are still up from June's Sao Joao festival.
I'm very much enjoying the X-Pro2... There's a few niggles... The OVF is a bit hard to see in bright light, I've given up adjusting the dioptre wheel every day and put electrical tape over it, and stuck a bit of rubber on the AF-L button. Nothing insurmountable... I did find I was blowing the red channel with very little clue from the (luminance only) histogram which is a bit annoying, but the type of thing that once learned.... (I hope)
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