Unless the weather is really lousy out I try to take about an hour walk around Rockport or Gloucester looking for interesting images. Last week I decided to also film it for my weekly vlog on YouTube. It was a fun experience and more like what I like to do photographically. I’m not really much of a tripod guy but I do try and get out for some stick landscape work once in a while. This particular morning the light was find of flat and it was kind of foggy but I enjoyed it just the same. I used a fun Fuji rig for this shoot the Fuji X-T30 and the XF 16-80.
Here are some of the images from the shoot.
Rockport lobster boats wait to go out.
Colorful work dinghy’s sit idle at the Rockport town wharf.
Dinghy’s waiting at the Rockport Town Wharf form interesting triangles.
Colorful reflections Rockport Harbor.
Lobster traps and buoys wait to be used behind Bearskin Neck in Rockport.
A potted plant dies away with old lobster buoy’s and fish netting behind Bearskin Neck.
Old wooden lobster trap and buoys behind Bearskin Neck in Rockport.
Cut off Chorox bottles and a pale sit inside a row boat filled with water.
Here is the YouTube video on my Foggy Morning Shoot
A few years ago I would have never thought this was possible. Make a photograph with your camera in raw format. Process said photograph in camera and convert to jpg then send to your phone or tablet with the camera app, then tweak it a bit in Lightroom mobile, and finally post it here or on Instagram or Facebook.
A rake waits to be used at a neighbors house.
Both of these images were made with the Fuji X-T3 and the new Fuji XF 16-80 f4.
Earlier in the day I was shooting with the smaller X-T30 and a newly purchased 23 f2 and did the same thing with my phone and posted the photo below to Instagram. Wow! But since I needed it here on my iPad I had to transfer it from the phone to the iPad. No problem Apple Airdrop sent it right over. Pretty incredible.
Fuji X-T30 with Fuji XF 23 f2
Technology certainly has come a long way since we waited for the prints or slides to come back. For me it was a bit more instantaneous as I only had to wait about 45 minutes before I could make a print.
We knew it would be close! The sun was going down and my wife and I could see the color popping up under the rather large cloud layer that had moved in. So driving along 127 in Gloucester towards Lanes Cove kept bringing the question, are we going to miss it? As it turned out we were just in time. Shooting at water level made a huge difference.
I made this image handheld with the lens OIS on. The exposure was 1/50s at f 5.6 with the ISO at 400. This image is sharp as a tack. The OIS is outstanding on the Fuji 18-55. As you can tell by the flag it was blowing pretty good. A slower shutter speed at a lower ISO with a tripod would have meant the flag would have shown more movement.
I really like this shot of the glow on the horizon as the sun dipped below it.
Sunset over Lanes Cove
Then I switched to my Fuji 10-24 to see if there were any good wide shots available. I tried a few different compositions but nothing really felt good so I headed back to the car. Just as I was about to climb into the car my wife said; turn around you’re going to miss it. So I turned around and this is what I saw. My first thoughts were wide and the crop will be 16:9 and that is what I ended up with.
The exposure was tricky but Lightroom was able to pull the shadows and calm down the sunset so it all worked. The exposure on this wide shot as the light level started to go down was 1/25s f4.5 @ ISO 640. I would have rather had the tripod for this shot so I could have shot at a lower shutter speed. ISO 640 might be a little high. When I print this I will see what the shadows print like.
