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Photographing Niagra Falls with the Fujifilm X-T50


I’m slightly embarrassed to say that that is my first weblog put up since June 2023. What can I say, I’ve had plenty of private stuff and different pursuits take precedence over writing weblog posts. I’ve all the time been a proponent of following your coronary heart and doing what you need at any given time in your stay, and after recovering from shoulder surgical procedure final summer time, I used to be far more into using my mountain bike than sitting at my desk writing weblog posts.

Nonetheless, I’ve missed it. I truly love writing, and whereas I’ve been doing different forms of inventive writing in the course of the previous yr, I’ve missed this common inventive and psychological outlet that has happy an enormous a part of my stay in the course of the previous 15 plus years.

So, I’m again at it at present with some model new photographs. I not too long ago spent three weeks in upstate New York, which kicked off with a day journey to Niagra Falls. I visited this place as soon as earlier than after I was a child, and even then it was a spectacular sight. Think about the identical child 50 years later, however with a digital camera.

Strolling round all day, on each the American and Canadian facet, I shot a whole lot of photographs the Fujifilm X-T50 physique {that a} pal loaned me, and three lenses, the 16m f/2.8, 35mm f2 and 70-300mm. I liked utilizing the X-T50, (right here’s my first look overview of the X-T50), particularly the devoted “movie simulation dial,” and that trio of lenses was an ideal combo. I typically say that for any journey or pictures outing, so long as you’ve got vast, center and lengthy, then you definitely’re coated for absolutely anything. No want to hold greater than you want, proper? 

Enroll under and I am going to ship you a particular low cost code so you can begin studying the way to grasp your Fuji digital camera at present.

Nonetheless, while you’re at a spot like Niagra Falls with tens of 1000’s of different folks, and you’ve got only a few distinctive vantage factors, and there are already thousands and thousands of images of the falls, how do you provide you with one thing distinctive, or not less than intriguing to your personal eyes and inventive mind?

That is the place lengthy lenses actually shine. Except for letting you get rid of all the opposite vacationers and buildings in your photographs, you’ll be able to zoom in and compose on particular components of the falls. One in all my favourite compositional strategies in pictures is the idea of abbreviation, the place you pick bits and items of the primary topic that counsel the bigger scene. This strategy labored very well right here, and I’m happy with the photographs I used to be in a position to seize.

I additionally loved enjoying round with the completely different movie sims, which additionally provides an excessive amount of distinctive creativity to your photos. The picture above was shot with Traditional Neg movie sim, whereas this one under was ACROS black and white. General, it is a very monochromatic scene, however the completely different colour palettes add a slight distinctive high quality to every picture. 

I’m fascinated by the geological side of the of the falls, and of the whole Finger Lakes space, the place we spent most of our trip. When the large ice sheets that after coated this space retreated about 10,000 years in the past, the left behind a panorama stuffed with mountains, steep gorges and quite a few giant lakes, together with the Nice Lakes themselves, which comprise 20% of the world’s recent water, all of which flows over Niagra Falls at a charge of over three thousand tons of water per second.

Dwelling right here in Alaska, we have now glaciers only a few miles away from our doorstep, and I discover them as typically as I can with my little Cessna bush aircraft. In fact, even with more and more hotter temps yearly, it’s nonetheless going to take a really very long time for all of our glaciers to soften, however once they have completed carving up the panorama up right here, what is going to it appear to be? Attention-grabbing issues to ponder…

Some of the memorable side about today was taking pictures photographs of different folks having fun with their go to to the falls. After watching one couple awkwardly making an attempt to take a selfie, I provided my providers, which started a 15 minute session of me taking pictures portraits of individuals and {couples} with their telephones, some at my very own providing, and some others who watched kind the facet earlier than garnering up the braveness to ask me for his or her flip. It was enjoyable to share my expertise on this means, understanding that theses strangers will go residence with an amazing picture of themselves in entrance of this wonderful pure surprise.

Anyway, I hope you get pleasure from these photographs. Thanks for studying and in your understanding throughout my lengthy absence from the weblog. I promise I received’t let that a lot time move once more earlier than my subsequent put up.

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