Air Show and the Fuji X Pro1
Well its summer and that means air shows around the country. Indianapolis has a nice one that has been running in its current form for over 15 years now. About every three to four years I attend. Doing it yearly gets to old. This year the Thunderbirds were in town. Knowing the flight line and the distance to the action, I was not going to get the flyby shots with the X Pro1. This is normally reserved for my Nikon gear. I was not going to lug two camera systems around to cover all aspects. This visit was just about the static displays. Because it was so hot I did not even stay for the flying action. Since my last blog entry I have purchased the 60mm lens. As all the other reports state, it is a very nice lens. I am looking forward to using it for my portrait work.
I have also added a thumbs up device to the camera which adds considerable grip to the body. A worthy investment. So the following images are a combo of both the 35mm and 60mm lens. I don't have a favorite of the two. They are both equally great lens. It all depends what I want to do with the image.
An interesting note. All these images I shot as JPEG fine, using a combination of the film simulation built into the camera. The black and white is so dreamy and smooth along with the pop of the vivid. On my other camera bodies (Nikon D300s) I default to RAW on everything. All images shown have been further processed in Lightroom 4/NIK plugins. My favorite workflow.
Tell me what you think.
Comments
I really want to get this camera, but I would dearly love to understand a bit more of your workflow.
Am I correct in assuming you import the camera jpegs into LR4 & load up the preferred NIK plugins from then on? ( I have Photoshop CS4)
Or do you convert the jpegs to say 16 bit tiffs first in LR to minimize artifacts, before NIK'ing them?
I was thinking that I'd have to get the full SilkyPix suite in order to convert the RAW files properly first, ( given all the issues others are having with RAW conversions from the camera) however as you say, the jpegs are excellent.
Thanks in advance,
Mark.