A few days ago on a particularly stormy day I decided to grab my camera and drive to Belcarra Regional Park. You know my penchant for cloudy skies. As soon as I arrived it started pouring with rain so I sheltered under a tree and started observing. There was a family on the jetty crab fishing. [...]
Fusion Festival is one of the youngest festivals in Canada but it has already received the ‘Best Cultural Event in Canada’ award. The festival is a celebration of music, food and culture from all around the world. What a great venue for photography! All Images - Fuji X-T1 paired with the XF 90mm F2. I [...]
While our last few posts dealt with the brand new XF 90mm F2 lens and therefore portrait photography, we are now returning to our usual genre – travel, landscape and documentary in B&W. Here is a series of the images taken during our last trip to Olympic National Park, including incredible Rialto Beach. All images [...]
Those of you who are familiar with our approach to photography know that our bag contains the XF 14mm F2.8 lens, XF 35mm F1.4 and XF 56mm F1.2 along with the second camera/lens – the Fuji X100S. This setup not only contains one of the finest XF lenses with but also covers 99% of our [...]
Let’s make it clear: macro is not our long suit, neither it is our favourite genre of photography. However, given that we got our hands on the Fujifilm’s Macro Extension Tube, MCEX-11, we decided to match it with the XF 90mm F2 lens and go along with it. After all, we understand that some of [...]
Each time we have an encounter with a new Fujinon XF lens, our expectations are high but we hold ourselves back, just in case – don’t want to get too excited. When we got our first Fujinon – the XF 35mm F1.4 – we were really impressed. Then, we added the XF 14mm F2.8 – [...]
All images are taken with the Fuji X100S and Fuji X-T1 coupled with the XF 56mm F1.2 (our usual documentary setup). Most of them are JPEGs; some are processed in LR6. 2015 © Kasia & Olaf Sztaba Photography. All rights reserved.
“…there appeared to be a small opening which flattered us with the hopes of finding an harbour…” – James Cook, 1778 When we come back from our photography trips and look through our photos, we realize our favourite images often come from unplanned locations. Initially, we hadn’t planned to visit Neah Bay and Cape Flattery [...]
