Artistic Physique
June 25th, 2020
As you know and can easily see if you look at this blog, I’ve been neglecting it. To be honest, with all that’s going on with our plague, I’ve just not felt like putting any energy into this…or more accurately, I’ve just not really had any energy to put into anything. But maybe I’m starting to get back into things, even though it looks like the plague is with us for a long time to come.
Anyway, I did some editing today on photos I took a year and a half ago. I guess it’s about time. I was playing with a new lens and trying a few things out when I did this shoot with Artistic Physique. For the photo above I used my little camera that I keep on my belt all the time, a Canon G7X Mark II.
The photo above was taken using the little Olympus pancake fisheye lens. I don’t think it looks too bad for 6400 ISO. That lens is a fixed f/8, so I needed the speed. The camera is my main camera for years now, a Panasonic GX8, a truly great camera with a wonderful sensor.
In the photo above I started working on the main thing I was doing at this shoot…testing my brand new Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.7 lens. This was taken wide open at f/1.7. The ISO was 200. This is a lovely lens. The two photos below were also shot wide open at 200 ISO. A lovely lens coupled with a lovely model…how could I go wrong?
Of course I wanted to challenge the lens a bit, so I shot the photo below with a lot of backlight. Seems to handle that pretty well too. I did stop down a touch, to f/2.2 and upped the ISO to 400.
And, just for comparison, here’s a shot below with the lens I use for about 90% of my photos, another lovely lens that is quite versatile, the Panasonic 12-60. It’s not as fast as the 42.5, so this was shot at ISO 800, which really isn’t an issue with the sensor in the GX8.
Thanks Artistic Physique for letting me experiment with you in front of my lenses.
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