xmagination Blog - photography » sb-800 http://xmagination.net/blog Photography Blog Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:51:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Studiolike portraits with the X100 http://xmagination.net/blog/2012/02/studiolike-portraits-with-the-x100/ http://xmagination.net/blog/2012/02/studiolike-portraits-with-the-x100/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:45:01 +0000 Andreas http://xmagination.net/blog/?p=307 Today my sister was visiting me and she brought fake lashes, make-up and a hat. I brought my X100 and we both exercised patience as I do not have a modelling light and the X100 performs bad in low light. But the pictures turned out to be sharrrrp! Eazybox with SB-800 camera left, trigrip gold/silver.

Portrait X100

Portrait X100

Portrait X100

Portrait X100

Portrait X100

100% crop from Fuji X100

100% crop from Fuji X100

And then her husband came, Dimtrij Dimitrijanovitch:

Portrait X100

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