Favourite shots of 2015

2015; my first venture into landscape shooting and a couple of casual portraits. I rarely do any portraits.

everyone loves the beach...

Crop from X100T

X100T

X100T

Not my photo shoot but my X100T executed an awesome RAW capture then generated this jpeg in camera! Logo added later.

Chrome...

JimmyHBG wrote:

JimmyHBG wrote:

Pic Man wrote:

Very good idea for a thread. I love your last shot Dave, the one taken in the peak district. I'm a big fan of long exposure water shots.

My favourite shots in 2015 are all taken with the X100T.

I really like these photos alot, the framing and exposure is really good, and they all seem to tell a story. Are these ooc jpegs with film simulation or have you done some pp?

Thankyou.

These have all been post processed in Lightroom. I'm a RAW shooter mostly because I enjoy editing my photos and it's easier for me to get the look I want.

Would you mind sending me a pm telling me more about the pp?

I really like the look of your photos but I'm having a hard time getting it like that myself. I'm used to having rich color and high contrast, have been trying to change my editing in LR to accomplish the look you have but it ain't working out

Quick tip: Hit 'auto' in the basic panel. This may screw up exposure (or not, its hit and miss), but it sets the highlights/shadows/blacks/whites properly. Now adjust exposure back to what you want it to be, if necessary. Your image should now be pretty punchy already, but if it is not to your liking, adjust blacks/whites to your taste. Hold 'option' (mac) or alt (win) while moving the slider to see what part of the image is affected. White blobs mean clipping. Keep clipping to a minimal for whites; for blacks it is less important and more to taste.

Of course this doesn't work for every image and every look especially if the capture is significantly different from the final result you envision, but it will give you a good starting point. People also tend to freak out over using 'auto' buttons as they feel it takes away control, but in this case it just gets you in the ballpark quicker.

Happy new year everyone, got my XT1 for my birthday and christmas. Just some of my first trip out with it to the local lake.

Not really worthy between all these great shots, but here's some from me as well. They're all from the same trip, but I don't have my X that long yet.

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland

Lighthouse, west coast, Ireland

My bike, somewhere on the Irish coast

Galway, Ireland

Church on the Kylemoore Abbey estate

Escalators, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Millennium Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Central Arcade, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

They're great, I really like the lighthouse one. I've only just got my Fuji as well, it gets its first proper outing when me n my girlfriend go up to Scotland for the weekend. Hoping to get some astrophography in n the northern lights if we're really lucky

Here are a couple of mine from the X100T.  Not on par with some of the previous images posted here, but still learning and getting comfortable.

Shot completely from the hip on the move in South Beach.

Pap Hemingway's typewriter in a glass case, his house in Key West.

Great thread idea! Here are mine, all shot on a Fuji x100T. Some with a wide or tele converter attached. Just got the camera this year and love it.

Sequoia National Park

Sequoia National Park

Yosematie National Park

My house decorated for Halloween. We had 344 kids turn up. We gave out a lot of candy!

DisneyWorld

DisneyWorld

Disneyworld

Chinese Temple Interior

downtown Los Angeles

Hollywood sign Los Angeles

Union Station Los Angeles.

Thanks for looking!

Nokomis Beach, Casey Key, FL

I like the calmness of this beach image with the birds, the clouds and the beach walkers.
Fuji X20 and postproduction with a filter from Preset Pond.