marcelo_valente

Couple more examples: Having a snack by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr The fly. No edits, just a bit of a crop. by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr

can you elaborate on this? :-)

Did you use a remote shutter? The phone? Great shot. I took some fireworks shots last new years eve handheld and they came out pretty cool also. This one is great because we can see the trail all the way from the floor up. Really cool.

Seems rather complicated ;-) Seems to me like you work in IT and wanted the challenge, hehehe.

There are ways of stabilizing a handheld shot that might help. I was trying some techniques on the shots I showed above. There are some videos on YouTube teaching those techniques. Here is one example: 6 Ways to Hold a Camera for Slow Shutter Speeds a…: Sent from my SM-N910C using Tapatalk

So..I was doing another test shot with the Rokinon 12mm. I decided to shoot out the window. The shot below is straight out of the camera. No editing. ISO 3200, shutter at 1" and f/2. Kind of handheld leaning against the window. There is a black area on the top right. That is a cross section of the net I have in my porch so the kids won't fall out. You can also see it on the bottom left. What do you think of the shot? I was kind of impressed. Not that good a shot really. I should have done some straightening, but, I think it shows some cool possibilities. You might want to head over to flickr to see it larger. FXE25204.jpg by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr

Hello. I have a question. I was looking at my shots with the rokinon 12mm and the lens information does not show in the Exif. I know that the lens has manual focus and can't send the aperture information either, but I thought that at least the lens information would be placed in the Exif. Only the focal lenght is there because I included it manually in the camera. Is there a way to add, in Lightroom, the lens information to the Exif? Thank you.

My Rokinon 12mm finally arrived!!! Yeah!!! I could not test it out much today but I was able to take a few shots. I went past this beautiful tree near my house the other day, so today i took a detour and stopped there for a shot. Funny thing that I thought I was far enough, where I would usually stop for the shot, and with the 12mm I was infact pretty far away. I took the shot below from this place. I did crop a bit the shot, and did some editing in LR. FXE25153.jpg by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr Then I realized I had to get closer, if I wanted to fill the frame with the tree, and took this other shot: FXE25156.jpg by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr I actually should have gone closer, but the wife and kids were in the car waiting...so...some other time. We went to the mall so I took some shots to test it out inside: FXE25163.jpg by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr FXE25162.jpg by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr Last one was a stealth shot making of kind of. The shot did not really come out that good. I did some cropping but this is in a really small elevator. The possibilities... FXE25160.jpg by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr

I hope you never loose that bag!! Or, at least have some insurance hired!

I usually use Loupe mode (E) for this, but the full screen seems a good idea. I'll try it next time. I onlly think that the F will not allow you to see, before hand, if you have a series of like photos to analyse together when you get to them. But maybe it is better to select since you view it bigger on the screen. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing. I have found a way of working with the jpegs and raw. Maybe you might want to try it, if you think the jpegs are worth keeping and are good enough. I used to shoot raw with my canon and always felt the need to work the files every time. With the Fuji, I feel the jpegs are great and also I feel that doing minor tweeks to the jpeg instead of working on the raw a lot, is better for me. But, each of us do what feels better to them, and works out better. Depends on the type of photography you make and how much time you like to put into post production. With 2 kids, wife, work, everything else, post-production time is not much for me.

I guess it depends on the rest of the workflow. For me, unflagged images are either raw files I want to keep or images I have not looked at. Since I pick all the jpeg images in the beginning and filter by flagged images, going through them is pretty quick. When I reject one image (using X) it already jumps to the next, if it is a keeper I'll skip to the next using the right arrow. Pretty quick process, and I would look at all of them either way, even if good or bad, so, what changes is that I either click X or right arrow to change image using the loupe view (E). I'll take a look at his videos, thanks for the tip. I guess you end up getting used to one workflow and then it feels pretty natural

I maintain the raf file. Don't know if there is a difference. Sent from my SM-N910C using Tapatalk

I'd recommend you try the spray tool to reject the raw files related to those jpegs you reject. Pretty easy and quick to use. Specially if you do this after stacking the images together. What I do is set the zoon in the grid view in a way that it shows 4 images at a time. That will usually show 2 stacks per line, so if there is one rejected or picked you click the spray on top of the one on the side and that will reject/pick depending on your selection for the spray action.

So, you keep the raw files of all the images? Even the bad ones?

Hey hoschi420 thanks for the reply! Good point on number 5. I'll try to incorporate that into my workflow. Sometimes I feel that images shot in the same place end up looking a bit different because I individually process them, instead of looking at them as a group, do a sync like you do to get the feeling of the images in the same mood and then individually tweek them. Thanks! Finding a workflow for Raw+jpg is complicated. This is because LR either treats them together or as separate files. When treated together you only see the jpg (if I remember correctly, or the RAW, but only one) and the other does not get imported. So, for me this does not make sense. Now, if you import them as two separate files, they are treated as separate images, so if you reject one of them, you have to reject the other also, they won't reject together. Or pick together for that matter. I tried using the stack option for this, but again, when stacked, if you reject of pick it only does that to the image on top of the stack. That is why I ended up doing the text filter and rejecting the RAW first, and picking the jpg. Then, I filter by the picked images and go rejecting the ones I don't like, that makes it remove the image and skip to the next one down the stream of photos, so it works pretty quickly. On lightroom 6 performance. Good thing you commented on that. I might delay moving to 6. Maybe you could start a thread on that to check if other people have that issue or maybe you need to do an upgrade to your machine (which will not be nice) Thanks!

The 60 with the raynox works the same, but if you are that close it's easier to focus manually and moving the camera back and forward. If you will use it you will need to buy a 39mm filter, if it's a cheap one remove the glass. This is because when the lens retracts the raynox will hit the lens body and will not allow the lens mechanism to work correctly, you need some kind of "spacer" to move the raynox a bit further away. If you want some specific test I can do it for you. Sent from my SM-N910C using Tapatalk

Man...I envy you [emoji6] in a good way, hehehe Sent from my SM-N910C using Tapatalk

I was also impressed. Check my flick, there are others images there. Sent from my SM-N910C using Tapatalk

The 35mm is a great lens. I never feel the focus is slow to be honest. I guess I might have gotten used to it by now. The shots below are straight out of the camera with the 35mm. Zeca Pagodinho by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr Zeca Pagodinho by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr Zeca Pagodinho band by Marcelo Valente, on Flickr

Hello, let us share our workflow here. There are many ways we can go about selecting, archiving, saving and sharing our images, so, how do you do it? Let me share mine. I use only Lightroom to work my images. I shoot raw+jpeg and import both files to lightroom by connecting the camera to the PC and importing. As I import I already apply exif information like copyright, owner, etc. I also apply some keywords for the camera, and what I can to ease the process later. After I import all the images, I filter by text and type RAF. I then reject with the flag (also X) all the raf files. I usually work on the JPEGs and use only the RAW if I want to change from colour to black and white or apply the film simulations. The, I select JPG as filter and pick (P) all the images. I then filter by flag, selecting only the picked images and then go to Loup view (E) and will look at the images one by one. The ones I don`t like I just reject using the rejected flag, by clicking X on the keyboard, which makes it jump to the next image. After I`m done selecting the ones I want I then change to Develop mode and go about developing the images. There are many ways of doing that so, it depends. But I keep my workflow within LR. If I think I want to edit a RAW file instead of the JPG then I change the flag filter to show the rejected files and switch the flags. After I`m done developing the images I go to the gallery (G) and start keyworking the images that I picked. Sometimes I reject another one. After I do this step I do another thing. I choose the red color to the images that are public and green to the images that I like to keep for family and friends only. Also, this shows the image that I selected. I then use the flickr plugin to share the red images as public and the green ones as family and friends only. I create an album for the images and upload them. This is my backup. Eventually I`ll backup everything to an external HD (I`ve got more than 24000 images there, which use up only 14% of the space they give you for free) Then, what I do is stack the images together. I only stack the jpeg with the raw file by going to the libraty, selecting all images and doing auto-stack with 0 for time. That will join the raw + jpeg into a stack. Then, I choose the spray tool, select the Unflag option and I`ll unflag the raw files that I want to keep to maybe later do some more editing. Then I add the images to a collection. And last. I select all the rejected images and delete them forever...no mercy! I guess this is it. What`s your workflow like? Let us know! Share your thoughts and doubts!

I also use this one, couple of batteries and a small charger.

I`ve seen the light stay on a little longer when you pull it out of the outlet, is that what is happening? I see this on my wasabi charger. My charger takes a while, not 10 hours, that is a really long time.

abjurina, I feel the same way. I'm no professional, but when I shot with my Canon I used to edit the raw files only. With the Fuji X-E2 I started to shoot RAW+JPG but I mostly work on the JPGs in LR and they come out pretty good. A few minor adjustments and, good enough, for me at least. I used to delete all the raw files once I edited, but I changed my mind and now I keep the raw files of the jpegs I kept, in case I want to apply the film simulations in LR and do some editings, or if I shoot monochrome and then decide I want the color version. The JPEGs are great, sometimes at high ISO it looks a little weird, I agree.

So...when is this coming to the X-E2?