Thoughts on the new Nikon D850

Thoughts on the new Nikon D850

Thomas Fitzgerald
Gear, News

When Nikon pre-announced the D850 a little while ago, I was filled with a mix of excitement and a sense of trying not to get my hopes up. I have long been an owner of the Nikon D700, which was Nikon’s first model in this style of full frame smaller body cameras. I love the D700 and I still use it all the time, but it’s starting to show its age. I really want a high resolution camera for landscape and nature work, but I also want one that does video. I had hoped when the rumours started of the D850, that Nikon would come out with something similar to the Sony A7RII. I was not disappointed.

Video: Fujifilm X100 Retro Review

Video: Fujifilm X100 Retro Review

Thomas Fitzgerald
Fuji X-Series

I was recently discussing the original X100 with a friend on twitter, and we were talking about how it is still a really great camera, even though it does have a few limitations. With that in mind, I wanted to put together a little short retro review, so In this video, I take a look at the original “classic” Fujifilm X100. 

Street Photography with an Ultrawide Lens

Street Photography with an Ultrawide Lens

Thomas Fitzgerald
Street, Gear

Last week I posted the latest issue of my on-going Street Photo Diary series to my PhotoJournal blog. I had taken those shots in a single session and I felt that they worked well together as a set, however, I have a few more images that I took recently too. They didn’t really fit into the narrative that I was going with, so I thought that I would share them here in a separate post, with a bit more info on how I shot them. 

Street Photo Diary: Issue 29 - Autumn is coming

Street Photo Diary: Issue 29 - Autumn is coming

Thomas Fitzgerald
Street, Fuji X-Series

I’ve said on my blog many times that Autumn is my favourite time of the year for photography. This isn’t just about the wonderful colours of the falling leaves. It’s also abut the Autumn light, and here in Ireland it’s already starting to be noticeable. In this issue of my on-going street photo diary series, I look at images shot on a sunny Autumn day in Dublin city, taken with a Fuji X-Pro 2 and  18-55mm lens.

Capture One Tips for Creating a better Default Image

Capture One Tips for Creating a better Default Image

Thomas Fitzgerald
Capture One

If you’ve been following my blog for some time, you’ll know that I’m a regular Capture One user. I don’t generally use it as my main image processing software, but I probably use it for maybe 30- 40% of the work that I do. While I’ve talked about it a lot on this blog before, much of that has been in the context of using Capture One for Fuji X-Trans images, but I actually use it with many other cameras too. With that in mind, today I wanted to give you some tips that aren’t camera specific, and cover ways to improve the default way Capture One interprets RAW images.

Rethinking How I Shoot and Process Fuji Jpegs

Rethinking How I Shoot and Process Fuji Jpegs

Thomas Fitzgerald
Fuji X-Series

I know this might seem light a little bit of a strange thing to be covering, as it’s pretty much been something that people have been talking about since the X-Pro 1 first came out, but recently I’ve been taking another look at using Jpegs from my Fuji X-Pro2. This started as a bit of an experiment, but it’s blossomed into a full project for me. Let me explain.

Fuji X-Pro 2 + Nikon Macro Lens

Fuji X-Pro 2 + Nikon Macro Lens

Thomas Fitzgerald
X-Pro2 Diary, Fuji X-Series

I’ve recently been using some non Fuji lenses with my X-Pro 2 and the other day, I was trying out my old Nikon Macro lens with the camera. Despite being a macro, I had mostly been using it as a short telephoto, with its 105mm focal length being useful, especially as the 1.5X crop adds to the throw. However, over the weekend I got to use it as it was intended, for some macro work, and the results were pretty great.

Revisiting Aperture and using Fuji X-Pro 2 Files in Aperture via X-Transformer

Revisiting Aperture and using Fuji X-Pro 2 Files in Aperture via X-Transformer

Thomas Fitzgerald
Apple, Software, X-Pro2 Diary, Fuji X-Series

As an experiment, and part of an ongoing project, I decided to launch Aperture the other day. It was the first time I have used the application in a long time, and It was an interesting experience. Because it has been so long, and I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. The reasons that I wanted to try it out, was that I wanted to see how files from X-Transformer were working in various different applications other than Lightroom. The result was both eye opening and depressing at the same time.

Presets in Action: Enhancing the mood; Creating Filmic Black & White with T-Pan for Lightroom

Presets in Action: Enhancing the mood; Creating Filmic Black & White with T-Pan for Lightroom

Thomas Fitzgerald
Lightroom

A little while ago I got up early in the morning and headed to a little fishing town just north of Dublin to get some morning shots of the sleepy port coming to life. I had originally hoped that it would be a nice bright morning, and that I would capture the early rays of the sun over the sea and the harbour, but instead a thick cloud was down, and it was beginning to rain. 

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