“Hello people, what’s going on?” we hear you ask. We haven’t hit the road for quite some time and some of you started wondering if we have totally abandoned our ON THE ROAD persona. The short answer is NO! Here is our long answer. For the last few months we have been working on a [...]
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Did I mention 120,000 sips of coffee?
It has been ten years. That is 3652 days, 7304 sunrises and sunsets. It’s been millions of heartbeats and breaths, thousands of kisses, touches, smiles, hugs and hellos. I have been able to take hundreds of trips and thousands of images. Did I mention 120,000 sips of coffee? It has been ten years of many [...]
R-A-I-N with the X-series
It has been pouring rain, cold and windy – normal weather at this time of the year in Vancouver. Most years this kind of weather would keep us at home, but not this year. For the last twelve months we have been working on a project appropriately called R-A-I-N. Unfortunately, a few years ago we [...]
Thoughts About The XF 23mm F2 Lens
Image courtesy of Jonas Rask To attempt product-photography for the purpose of this blog entry would be a giant waste of our time. We are just not capable of producing better X products images than those done by the visual virtuoso, Fujifilm X-photographer Jonas Rask. Make sure to check out his review of the XF 23mm [...]
Politics of Running (Not) That Successful Photography Blog
Amnesia, X-Pro2 & XF 35mm F1.4, ACROS film simulation. It has been five years since Kasia and I started this endeavour, not that we are into wearing stupid hats and celebrating our pre-school math skills. It is more about thinking out loud and sharing our incoherent thoughts. It is not a secret that running a photography [...]
Life in 16:9
All imagery shot with the Fujifilm X-Pro2 paired with the XF 35mm F1.4. 2016 © Kasia & Olaf Sztaba Photography. All rights reserved.
Going Nuclear with the X-Pro2
Who knew that someone who once lived in the communist bloc under the influence of the “Evil Empire” (Ronald Reagan) would one day visit a nuclear missile site on the other side of the Iron Curtain?! While driving through Montana, Missouri, Wyoming and the Dakotas, the beauty of the Great Plains, open skies and the [...]
Out-of-focus thoughts about a new Fujifilm medium-format GFX 50S
I decided to join the “hands-on” craze – from Vancouver! I should have seen it coming. After all, we knew Fujifilm has been working on it for years (thanks to Zack Arias for pushing for it and Patrick of Fujirumors for such a great job providing us with all the pieces). And we knew it [...]
Parallel Seeing
The leaves have already started falling. The summer display of fake smiles, exaggerated colours and sunburned thoughts is fading away. A much more subdued, desolate and harsh time is coming. I have always liked this time of the year. This is when my seeing comes alive and I don’t really know why. Maybe I like [...]
“Strong & Free” with the XF 50-140mm F2.8 OIS
When I leave home for an event or for street shooting I often take my Fuji X-Pro2 and one lens. It’s usually the XF 35mm F1.4 (50mm in FF). However, this time I decided to grab a lens that goes into my bag only when we hit the road – that is, the XF 50-140m [...]