SOOC
October 2019 | Issue No. 3
A Celebration of Fujifilm JPEGS
by JAMES POSILERO
Cover South Perth, W.A. X-T30 | 23mm | Acros+R 1/250s | f8 | ISO 160
Foreword If this is your first time reading SOOC, welcome! To our repeat readers, thank you for subscribing! I must admit, between my full-time job (not photography related), my photography and this e-magazine, it has been challenging finding the time to put this mini publication together. Not only that, while so far we have featured photographers in all three issues including this one, finding photographers who work with SOOC JPEGs or willing to take the challenge is becoming quite a predicament. Maybe some of the future issues will not have a featured photographer but the show must go on and I just have to make sure I have enough content to keep it going. Stick with me in the hopes that it will get better as we go along. I must thank Ritchie Roesch and Helen Fennell for allowing me to share their work in past issues and David Vissol, this month’s featured photographer. One of the best things about this initiative is being able to connect with like-minded people who embrace the “unpopular opinion” - JPEGS. The images I am sharing with you in this month’s issue are the first to come out of my Fujifilm X-T30 which I recently won in a Facebook photography competition. Along with the XF23mm F2, it is the perfect walkaround camera and I must say, seeing the SOOC output in full resolution is quite the treat! If you would like to be featured in future issues please email me at james.posilero@gmail.com or you can reach me through my website’s contact page. I would love to share your work. If you are interested in my landscape portfolio, you can visit www.jamesposilero.com. Thank you and happy shooting!
James
Perth City, W.A. X-T30 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/125s | f5| ISO 4000
(Top-Bottom) Perth City, W.A. X-T30 | 23mm | Acros+R 1/160s | f8 | ISO 160 X-T30 | 23mm | Acros+R 1/100s | f10 | ISO 160
(Top-Bottom) Perth City, W.A. X-T30 | 23mm | Acros+R 1/640s | f8 | ISO 320 X-T30 | 23mm | Acros+R 1/100s | f10 | ISO 160
(Top-Bottom) Perth City, W.A. X-T30 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/125s | f3.6| ISO 4000 X-T30 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/125s | f3.6| ISO 4000
Perth City, W.A. X-T30 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/125s | f2| ISO 4000
Featured Photographer of the Month
“Palm Tree in Montpezat” XE1 (IR Converted)| 35mm | Monochrome 1/340s | f5.6| ISO 200
David Vissol Brussels, Belgium
David is a French hobbyist photographer living in Brussels, Belgium. He began taking pictures with a Russian-made rangefinder given by his father when he was a boy. He developed his love for forest and landscape photography living in the French countryside. In his home town in the center of France, he was lucky to have at that time a regional Fujifilm laboratory enabling him to process easily his favorite films, especially Fujifilm ones. This was the start of his journey. Moving to Belgium, he continued photographing with an SLR and primes and tried a variety of new film emulsions (including high ISO ones), special effects with filters, abstracts, night shots and architecture. His experience built up and when he became an IT engineer, he was able to step up to a Nikon F3 and F6. It is only when a professional photographer and friend lent his older Nikon DSLR that David moved to digital photography. At that time, Nikon DSLRs brought the desired versatility with high ISO capacity along with an excellent JPEG engine. It permitted David to simplify his workflow with less post-processing. For these reasons along with other
self-imposed limiting factors during the photographic act, working with SOOC JPEG was obvious. David missed his beloved Nikon F3 and the characters of the films he was using. It was discovering the Fujifilm X100 and then the X-T1, that an old flame re-ignited: filters and film simulations with FujiFilm color science with the possibility to see immediately the results before taking the shot thanks to the EVF, the retro look like the F3 with direct manual controls and a great JPEG engine! These features lent themselves to David’s photographic style and hence he moved completely to Fujifilm without regrets. Recently, David expanded to pinhole and infrared photography, still in the straight out of camera philosophy. You will find his forest and landscape images here. David is one of the few I’ve know to use Fujifilm Advance Filters and I definitely learned a lot studying his work. He publishes his work on Instagram.
“Orange Tree 1” X-T1 | 23mm | Pop Color Advance Filter 1/60s | f5.6 | ISO 500
(Left & Centre) “Cathedrale-Automnale” X-T1 |35mm | Dynamic Color Advanced Filter 1/17s | f2 | ISO 800 “Shadows Against Color” X-T2 |35mm | Dynamic Color Advanced Filter 1/160s | f5.6 | ISO 400
(Right) “Black Against Pink” X-T2|90mm | Velvia 1/210s | f2.2 | ISO 200
(Left - Right) “A Bit of Green 2” X-T2 |50mm | Pop Color Advanced Filter 1/2180s | f5.6| ISO 400 “Autumn Tree” X-T2 |35mm | Pop Color Advanced Filter 1/210s | f4.5| ISO 200
“Blue” X70 |18.5mm | Partial Color Blue Advanced Filter 1/350s | f4| ISO 200