“Yuzu and Sock” Cedar Park, 2022
Yuzu loves to collect socks. So I started an Instagram account to document the results of her hunting. 😄
Yuzu and Socks
“Yuzu and Sock” Cedar Park, 2022
Tag: photography
Photography-related posts. I talk about inspiration, settings, gear, other photographers, etc.
“Yuzu and Sock” Cedar Park, 2022
Lighting Kit in Action
“Lighting Kit” Cedar Park, 2022
My wife used our Neewer 660 lighting kit for the first time last night during a pizza lesson. It worked out nicely! The shoot-through umbrella is a little obtrusive, but the diffused light and soft shadows that it creates is worth it.
Neewer 660 LED Lighting Kit
“Lighting Kit” Cedar Park, 2022
We received a new Neewer 660 LED Lighting Kit today and it seems pretty good! Just a few days ago I sold my old studio flash and switched to these continuous lights which will be good for stills and video.
The kit we chose comes with two lights/stands, but doesn’t have any soft boxes. However, I have a shoot-through umbrella that I was able to use and it works great. The first photos I took were of an antique lamp that I am trying to sell on Facebook Marketplace. I think it looks nice!
“Lamp for Sale” Cedar Park, 2022
For the second lamp, I might purchase the Neewer soft box just to see how it compares to the umbrella. I’ll post again when I get it, but it might not be for a while yet.
Black and White
“Black and White” Cedar Park, 2022
A few times a year I think that I should try to shoot a whole month in black and white. But I’ve never been successful at it. Will this be the year? I doubt it. But stranger things have happened. 😆
But seriously, it would be fun and interesting to study and practice black and white photography, wouldn’t it?
Overheating Fujifilm X-E4 Camera
“Sun Shield” Cedar Park, 2021
My Fujifilm X-E4 camera shut off during shooting a time-lapse sequence the other day, so I was unable to capture the sunset I was hoping for. I believe what happened was the camera overheated and shut itself down. This has been known to happen while recording long, high-resolution videos, but I hadn’t experienced this with just shooting stills.
In order to stop this overheating from happening again, I made this cardboard shield to block the sun. I also have changed the image size that the camera is capturing frames to “medium” which is large enough to produce a 4K video sequence.
It appears the shield worked as intended as the camera was able to keep shooting even with the afternoon sun hitting the shield. Yay!
I hope you had a nice day. またね～
