The New Gold

Black And White Photography, Joseph, Photography

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Fuji X100T and WCL-X100 Lens – 1/1250 @ f/5.6 – ISO 200

With fresh water becoming more scarce, droughts in the western portion of the USA and lead poisoning in Flint Michigan because of the Governor wanting to save money, water is  “The New Gold” !

Screwed and Owned…

Black And White Photography, Mario, Meho, Photography

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Owned because I can’t make Photoshop work well in a Windows 10 virtual machine running under Linux… Ok sorry for the technical vocabulary. I am running Linux Ubuntu on my desktop and I can’t find any good photograhy software. So I feel owned by Adobe and Microsoft 😥

I wish I could get more from that picture. I can see aliasing…

I am looking to buy this coming fall a Sony Z5 cellphone (benchmark) which actually gives a nice 23Mpx. If I can make somthing good with it, I’ll be able to shoot AND to process every picture on this cellphone.

We’ll see.

Joe and His JPEG’s

Black And White Photography, Emilio, Photography
Fuji X-T1 JPEG with in camera B7W Film Simulation

Somewhere in Goldfield NV Fuji X-T1 JPEG with in camera B&W Film Simulation

I tend to shoot everything RAW and then use Lightroom and a few other editing programs because I enjoy processing my photos. Meanwhile, my friend Joe would go on and on about how he shoots mostly JPEG and does very little editing because the Fuji’s are just that good. I mean, it was really getting annoying. Like a broken record! So, Sunday I put it to the test. Went out and shot jpeg (but backed up every shot in RAW) and set the in camera film simulation mode to black and white. And you know what?

Of course you do.

The guy was right.

Now, how annoying is that?

And now I’m perplexed. I don’t want to start a new blog, but I do want to feature Fuji jpeg’s on my site. Maybe once a week. The perplexion is that I have no idea what to call this continuing feature. Fuji Friday does not take into account that all posts will be jpeg only. So if anyone has a suggestion, please feel free. I will give you credit on every post, if you like.

Le petit Peloton

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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Another from my home safari:

Anyone that knows me  well will tell you I have more than a passing interest for cycling. It’s as much of a passion for me as photography. I’ve lost count of the hours I’ve spent in the saddle in all weathers and in all seasons. There is just something magic about it . Rather like photography in many ways.

Any of you have other passions/interests?

Nikon D800

Nikon 50mm f1.8

PP in Silver eFex pro2 and PS.

Sidelight

Black And White Photography, Photography

SoHo pedestrians illuminated by sidelight

SoHo, New York City

For those not familiar with New York City, “SoHo” stands for “south of Houston Street” (pronounced “houseton).” It’s a trendy area in lower Manhattan, sporting pricey boutiques and charming atmosphere, including streets paved with “Belgian blocks.” And, this day, it was alive with long shadows of late afternoon.

For more photos from New York City and beyond, visit VisualVenturing.com.