Shooting Star
Cleveland National Forest is just a short drive east from San Diego, California. That short drive gets you into some amazing dark night skies and is a great place to see a shooting star. Read more to see how the image happened.
Balboa Shadows Balboa Park
Balboa Park is such an amazing historical site overlooking downtown San Diego, CA. It is a great place to visit for museums, walking around, plays, and photography. Learn more about how the Balboa Shadows photograph happened.
Sunset Redondo Beach Pier
Redondo Pier is located just South LAX Airport in Los Angeles, CA. This gem of a landmark is a great place to visit and watch the sunset. Learn more about how this photograph happened.
Night Sky Cleveland National Forest
Cleveland National Forest is just a short drive from San Diego, California. That short 1 hour drive gets you into some amazing dark night skies. Read more to see how the image happened.
Secret Canyon Page Arizona
What a great adventure to the slot canyons near Page Arizona! This image was taken in Secret Canyon. Read more to see how the image happened.
Observation Point Zion National Park
What a great adventure to Observation Point in Zion National Park! Read more to see how the image happened.
Greystone Mansion Photo Tour
Beverly Hills Community Services gave me a great opportunity to lead a photography tour at the Greystone Mansion City Park. The tour was one of a handful that were done in place of the Beverly Hills Art Show. Unfortunately, the Art Show had to be canceled due to the current status of the world. Keep reading to see how the tour went.
Pentacon 500mm f5.6 Lens and the Fuji GFX 50s
Pentacon 500mm f5.6 Vintage Lens and the Fuji GFX 50s
Over the last year I have shifted to using more and more vintage lenses with my Fuji GFX 50s. Having access to vintage medium format lenses that provide sharp and distinctly different looks compared to modern digital lenses has been a joy. Lenses from Carl Zeiss Jena for the Pentacon 6 lens mount in particular have been great to shoot with. Using vintage lenses on modern digital cameras breathes new life into these amazing tools. Therefore, I felt required to try some of the Pentacon made lenses. The Pentacon 500mm f5.6 lens is the first of these lenses that I am writing a review for. Let’s see how this lens performed in some real world applications.
Using the Fuji GFX 50s For Wedding Photography
Photographing a Wedding With The Fuji GFX 50s
Photographing A Wedding With A Medium Format Camera
The thought of using a medium format digital camera on location, in usually less than ideal light, for a wedding with moving subjects, seems like an absolute disaster waiting to happen. Especially given there are no do overs in wedding photography. Alternatively, the high quality photos produced by the Fuji GFX 50s makes this concept extremely appealing. Read More
Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 300mm f4 And The Fuji GFX 50s
Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 300mm f4 and the Fuji GFX 50s
The possibility of using a modern digital medium format camera like the Fuji GFX 50s with almost any vintage medium format lens ever made is exciting and just makes my creative juices start to flow. One of these vintage lenses is the Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Sonnar 300mm f4. There were so many legacy lenses produced. Therefore, their are many to choose from. There are many pros and cons to using vintage lenses on modern digital cameras which I won’t go into here, but a separate post on that topic is coming.
The Jena DDR 300mm lens I tested has the Pentacon Six mount. It is the most modern version of the lens, therefore it has multi coating. The older versions only had a single layer or no coating. This is the 3rd Carl Zeiss Jena DDR lens I have reviewed. So far, these lenses have all been outstanding optically, well constructed, and super fun to create photographs with.