Available Light

For some time, I am using this super simple but effective setup for indoor portraits with window lighting. All that is needed — apart from a model and a camera — is a window and a big piece of black cloth. From time to time, I turn any room in our house into a “window light studio” using these items. I simply drape the cloth over a door to serve as a background. The cloth I use is a piece of black fleece, which is great because of its matte, non-reflective, surface. It is als

Just wanted to quickly share some further explorations with the Sony A7III and Sigma 35mm F1.4 Art lens. As I explained in my previous post, I love the ability of a full-frame setup like this to isolate the subject from the background (and foreground, in some cases). The subject sometimes just seems to float over the background because of the strong but smooth sharpness fall-off. The samples below are from a recent trip to Zeeland, a beautiful coastal province in the Netherla

So Fujifilm decided not to develop the long expected 33mm F1 lens, which I wrote about in a previous post. Although I regret that decision, I definitely understand it. This lens was obviously going to be a big, heavy, and expensive behemoth. It would probably have put off many Fuji users, who primarily opted for the Fuji X system because of its compact size. Instead of the 33mm, Fuji is now developing a 50mm F1 lens, which is going to be around a third smaller and lighter. Ot