g.charles.osborn

I have found that wide angle lenses seem to produce better star bursts than telephoto lenses.  But that's just been my experience with the lenses I've owned.
That being said, I usually go with a wide angle (something less than 24mm full frame equivalent) and stop the aperture down (very important) to approx F16.

http://www.fuji-x-forum.com/index.php?s=1b9d42f7028849eeaf2ac3e948819247&app=googlecse#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=X-T2%20problems
 
here the problems.
 
Advantages? Larger file, better video, faster autofocus, need for a bulky grip to advanced focus and video, joystick.
 
Do you plan to print any langer than 2 x 3 meter? Are you missing anything from your X-T1? 
 
Don’t upgrade fro the mere sake of upgrading.

Thanks! Good tip, it is indeed much better that way.

Naddan28, for a great lighting tutorial, check out One Light 2.0 by Zack Arias. Well worth the expense.
 
Or check out Strobist 101 on strobist.com, they have a free pdf book.

Thanks! I have a licence to Iridient Developer, but no Mac anymore. I should revisit all of these someday to get a more consistent look throughout my portfolio, lots of these were done while learning Photoshop, so various levels of editing used and mostly learning as I go along... Thinking about Capture One to restart my work flow process.
 
Lighting is usually only one 60x60cm softbox, sometimes 2. I use generic manual speedlights, Godox V850's and their remote trigger system. Cheep and cheerful, works just fine for me. I also have a Lastolite Triflector for headshots. I work only with a mua and tfp, so the less gear the better. Keeps me fairly mobile too.

A lot of that comes down to processing techniques. The detail is there, if you're willing to go through the (hopefully temporary) hassle of getting to it. For instance, doing your initial detail processing in another program, like PhotoNinja, and exporting to a TIFF that you then continue to edit in your adobe suite as usual. Even without that step, simply removing all noise reduction and lens correction from Lightroom will bring back a lot of your detail. I'd post an example but I don't want to encroach on a wonderful thread. 
 
 
 
I can't stop staring at the second photo in this post. Mostly because it reminds me of a very film looking photo from the late 90s maybe? Not the styling, or the girl, but just the way the image itself comes off the page. The way the detail is rendered. I love it. Can I ask what you're doing as far as lighting is concerned? Some of these look to be natural light (which you have an excellent eye for, in my opinion) but others look to be strobes, which I haven't seen many good systems for on the Fuji system.  Please keep up the great work, and keep sharing!