Winter Wonderland
We woke up to a few inches of heavy, wet snow this morning—the kind that clings to the trees and makes for an absolutely gorgeous scene. So I took out my camera and headed outside to the trees surrounding our condo complex and snapped a few pics. I think I’ve written about how I’ve simplified my camera gear a bit (and probably will downsize further), so I headed outside with one digital camera (Fuji X100V) and one film camera (Canon AE1-Program). While I have no idea how the film shots will turn out, I am loving the ones I took with my Fuji. I’ve been using a 10% Cinebloom diffuser filter from Moment since I bought my camera, and I love the subtle added softness it brings to my images. At least I think that’s what it’s doing—I don’t take the filter off to do with/without comparisons (though perhaps I should!).
I switched from a Nikon DSLR to the Fuji mirrorless system in 2016, and I could not be happier. I’m not sure I could ever be swayed to move away from Fuji…well, unless Leica would like to offer me a camera…but since that’s unlikely, I’ll continue to be a Fuji fangirl for life. One of the main reasons I love Fuji is the color science. And while I typically shoot both .JPG and .RAW, I often find myself choosing the .JPG images straight out of the camera—the colors are, to me, that good. While Classic Chrome is my favorite in-camera film simulation, I’ve played around with some of the film recipes available on Fuji Weekly. While today’s snowfall was beautiful, I wasn’t sure how the colors would look—gray/white skies, dark trees, white snow. I shot Classic Chrome and liked the .JPGs well enough; then I decided to load the RAWs into Lightroom—and switched the profile to Classic Negative (love that LR allows this via its camera matching capabilities!). And oh my gosh, I think I might be in love with Classic Negative—at least for days like today.
