#taken with my fujifilm

[shutterandpencil]

"Satsuki's Cheongsam"

The other day, Satsuki got a new dress, so here's a compilation of her in her cheongsam. I think she looks quite pretty

[adriannalogue]

en la villa — puerto vallarta, mx

marzo 2024

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

oh no I just found my stash of selfies from when I was 19-20 and kind of hot. Idk if I can handle this 😭😭

[friendlyfishes]

a scan of mostly vintage tamagotchi packaging and the friend i use to document when im not scanning.. a finepix f401 digicam!

[delpandaeyes]

Cat's Paradise. Istanbul, Turkey. 2023

[baxterofthewoods]

day-to-day

[dragoncuspid]

American Crow on the fence by my house

Photo by me, taken on FujiFilm X-T30 II

[photoswithjere]

[ozzgin]

Hello! Just your friendly cat coming in for cuddles~

This is a reminder! Have you drank any water today? Taken your meds(if you have any)? Why don't you get up and stretch? Maybe get something to eat? Remember to take care of yourself lovely Ozzgin. This is a reminder for any followers too! Have a good day <3

-🐈‍⬛

I thank you for the thoughtful words, anon. I shall pass them on to everyone here.

On that topic, allow me to include a little blog update. Tomorrow I will be leaving on a two week holiday to Bali, so my post frequency will be a tad more sporadic. The first week of Ozztober has been completed, but otherwise I'll be focusing on the occasional short ask, or whatever currently lies in my drafts. If you've asked me to be a certain anon, it always helps to check the pinned post; I might've already added you to the list.

Depending on how welcome y'all are to the idea of a little blogposting, I could share some photos of the animals I encounter. I've got my Fujifilm and a brand new action camera for underwater shots, so I'm really hoping to find some critters!! Fingers crossed. If you couldn't tell already, I am a fan of anything involving animals.

That was it from my side. Wishing everyone a lovely weekend! ❤

[lindagoesmushrooming]

hi linda :) im going to a redwood forest this weekend and there'll be tons of mushrooms. i'm new to photography, and i was hoping you could give some tips for photographing mushrooms? thank you!!

Yay for tons of mushrooms! Have fun! 😁

But oh god, where to start... Well, firstly it depends what you're using for photography. Is it a phone camera or semi-pro/pro camera? If it's a camera, then what kind of lens do you have?

A lot of mushrooms tend to be on the small side, so the best thing would be to have macro lens for your camera or a clip on macro lens for your phone (I don't have one myself, though).

I don't have a fancy macro lens but I've been using a Tamron 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro lens for years that's both a telephoto and a macro lens. The only downside of it - I have to step back to take photos. The longer the lens, the longer the minimum shooting distance. So, if you use a phone or a lens that's, say 18-55mm, you can get really close to your object which also works very well for mushrooms. I find that some of the prettiest mushroom photos are taken from below when you can see the gills or the light making the cap transparent. You should be prepared to bend and crawl a lot. 😆 (Not photography related, but wear something you're not afraid to stain. Also - ticks. Be wary of those.)

If your equipment allows it, use large aperture. The smaller the number, the larger the aperture. Yes, it's weird like that. The larger the aperture, the more light is let in. F-stops of 1.4 to 5.6 are considered large apertures. A large aperture will give you a shallow depth of field (you know, when the object or only a part of it is in focus, but the background is all blurred out?). Luckily, mushrooms are small objects, so you don't necessarily need the largest aperture out there.

In my own experience, though, the coolest mushrooms (especially clusters of them) mock me and grow deep in the bushes or wherever I can't reach them/get close, so for such cases having a zoom lens can come in handy.

Some of the examples:

This is a recent pic I posted, taken with a Fujifilm hybrid (mirrorless) camera.

Not a mushroom, but still something small, taken with a Samsung phone (by my sister in law, not me, though).

Taken with a Nikon dslr, using the Tamron lens in its macro mode.

Taken with the same camera and lens, but using its telephoto mode (the mushrooms were located far from me).

I hope this helps at least a bit!

[jarredspec]

First sun on the hills.

Taken on my early explorations after having just moved south - it was blowing an almighty gale at the time of taking this. Had to pull over and grab a sneaky few frames handheld with that light.

📷: Fujifilm GFX100S & GF 45-100mm.

[shutterandpencil]

"Sehnsucht"

I haven't anything to title this.

[adriannalogue]

Oakland, October 2023

[gingeremo]

The moon tonight 😍😍

Taken with my Fujifilm 50-230mm zoom lens.

[brickcentral]

🤩 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: jcmimoso Hello everyone! It's time to direct the spotlight toward our community members, and today we will get to know better jcmimoso!

"Hello fellow LEGO photographers, my name is Juan Carlos Mimoso. I'm from Spain and I grew up in the 75-80s. When I was a child I never had access to LEGO, due to economic reasons and poor distribution in my area. On the other hand, I did play with Playmobil and also with Exin Castillos bricks, with which I built spectacular castles.

I am currently a Doctor in Primary Care in a health center, and when in 2020 we suffered the COVID-19 pandemic and forced confinement, I continued working. I changed my work in the clinic for work at home and in the clinic, with no limit on hours and with the uncertainty and feeling of not being able to offer everything my patients needed. That caused me a lot of added stress. I had always liked photography, landscapes, macro, etc... and I relaxed by walking to see the world with photographic eyes. Instead, now I found that I was confined and unable to create new content.

My son had a couple of LEGO minifigures and a small set, and I thought it was cool to take a photo with an interesting background and post it on Instagram. And since then, I have been hooked on toy photography. I have seen that there are many colleagues spread around the world, and communities like Brickcentral, where tricks and ways to take the final photo are freely shared.

I took almost all of the photos with an old second-hand Fujifilm X-E2 mirrorless and the little Fujinon 27/2.8 pancake lens with a +2 or +4 close-up filter attached. I like that combination because it is very small and portable. A couple of years ago I added the Fujifilm X-H1 because, although it is a little bigger, it has a flip-up screen, which makes it much easier for me to make low compositions without having to move the whole equipment to check the focus. This year I bought a 1:2 macro (Fujinon 60/2.4) and so far I like the results, although due to work and family issues I haven't been able to take many photos. I hope that changes in a couple of weeks.

My workspace is typically my desk. I use the PC monitor as a background, or if it's a building without any background at all, and I place everything on heavy, thick medicine books so I can use my tabletop tripod at the right height. For lighting I use LED spotlights (Ulanzi VL49 and Lumecube Air), although I have also sometimes taken photos with matchstick lighting.

My compositions are not very large because as soon as I finish the session I have to put away everything that is on the desk so that I can use it to process the result. I usually take several shots with different lighting, aperture and sometimes even stacking photos to give more depth, although I never usually use the whole stack, but only just enough so that the background does not look too sharp. Later I choose the shot I like the most in Lightroom and complete it with Photoshop for basic retouching such as cloning, filters, etc.

I mainly use LEGO minifigures from various series (Marvel, DC, Ninjago…), although you can also see some Playmobil and Star Wars figures. The main type of photography I do is usually related to medieval, fantasy, sword and sorcery environments, among others.

In my posts you can see that I use extensively the Barbarian (series 11) and Viking (series 20) minifigures. I think it's because they don't usually require much post-processing, but also because they remind me of the 'Conan the Barbarian' comics I used to read when I was a kid. It's my humble way of paying a little homage to great artists who have drawn the Cimmerian since the 70s and who bring back so many memories. I recently acquired the Red-Haired Barbarian minifigure (series 25), which I'm sure will co-star in future photos. In fact, the photo I'm showing you today is the first one I've used it for.

Fortunately, over the years, I saved some Exin pieces, and along with others I've gotten lately, I use them extensively in my creations to mix LEGO with Exin Castles and get a more realistic environment. To this I usually mix all kinds of rocks, sand, grasses and other accessories so that it integrates well with the sword and sorcery atmosphere that I usually pursue in my publications. For inspiration I use old comics, game or movie sequences, and anything I see that fits well with my possibilities and knowledge. I have notebooks full of ideas written down for a better occasion, which doesn't always come. I learn a lot from other fellow toy photographers and I'm always looking for new ways to tell the little stories in my photos.

"

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- @theaphol, Community Outreach Manager

[delpandaeyes]

Inside metro station.

Istanbul, Turkey. 2023