low, wide and dirty

the image from January 2020

I've said before (and I'll say it again) that the favourite use of my wide-angle lenses is not shooting sweeping vistas (I prefer to shoot a series of images with a telephoto lens and stitch them to make a panorama) but it is to get low and close to a foreground subject to stretch perspective and make a photo into a picture.

This week's image is a re-shooting of a photo I first shot in January 2020.  I shot it with my Fujifilm X-T3 and 10-24mm wide-angle zoom, but as soon as I saw it on my computer I wanted to go back and shoot it with my medium format camera.

And now I have.  Well, I say now, I shot this in May!  And it was a freezing cold evening, with a north wind blowing it felt like directly  from the North Pole.

It was so cold that by the time I reached the destination for the second image I wanted to make that evening Dexter refused to get out of the car.  I think sometimes he displays more common  sense than me!

Whatever, I'm glad I made the effort to re-shoot the image.  Have a look at them both and please tell me the second one, shot with much more expensive kit, is better!

Fujifilm GFX50R, Fujinon GF23mm f4
1 second @f16, ISO 50
tripod, self timed release
Formatt Hitech 3-stop reverse graduated filter

The return of my blog also heralds the return of my YouTube channel after its Summer sojourn.  And of course, that means there's a video to accompany this post.