SOOC
September 2019 | Issue No. 2
A Celebration of Fujifilm JPEGS
by JAMES POSILERO
Cover Mount Pleasant, W.A. X-T3 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/500s | f5.6 | ISO 160
Foreword We made it to issue number 2! First and foremost, I would like to say thank you to everyone who took time out of their day to read our pilot issue. At the time of writing this, Issue No.1 was read 1,154 times. Truly unexpected and I am humbled. Thank you kindly. Please be patient as we still only use the free version of Issuu. You will notice we have now added technical details to each of the photographs. A couple of the readers have suggested it and while we would not like these to be the most important aspect of the photographs, we understand they are helpful. Here at SOOC, we are about the community and are always open to feedback and suggestions. Onwards and up! We have received correspondence from a number of interested photographers who would like to be featured however we would like to please call others to also express their interest. Creating and finding content will be the constant challenge and we can only do it with your help. If SOOC is not your typical workflow, why not take the challenge? You may just enjoy the process. We are not after portfolio images but rather self-expression. 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
Mount Pleasant, W.A. X-T3 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/1000s | f5.6 | ISO 160
(Left-Right) Mount Pleasant, W.A. X-T3 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/640s | f5.6 | ISO 160 X-T3 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/500s | f5.6 | ISO 160 X-T3 | 23mm | Classic Chrome 1/500s | f5.6 | ISO 160
Shopping Centre Carpark X-T1 | 27mm | Classic Chrome S.S. Varies | f8.0 | ISO 400
Featured Photographer of the Month
“Window” X100F | 23mm | Acros+R 1/30s | f2.0 | ISO 1250
Helen Fennell United Kingdom helenfennell.com
Helen first picked up a camera about twenty-five years ago when her then boyfriend, now husband, taught her how to use a film SLR. She was a student at the time and couldn’t afford to buy a camera but practised on a primitive point and shoot she had been given for her birthday some years earlier. As soon as her first pay packet from her first proper job came through, she bought a Nikon FM2, a 50mm lens, and a winter coat. She shot on that one lens and camera for twenty years! About four years ago she bought her first digital camera, a Fujifilm X-T1, and at first did not take to shooting digitally. The fuss of processing RAW files in front of a computer was not the same as developing film in the dark room, and just seemed to be a lot of extra work, without the joy. All was well again when she discovered Fujifilm jpegs. She experimented with jpeg recipes to get a look suitable for different lighting conditions and subjects and now carry a handy list in her camera bag to cover all eventualities. While she does not photograph any particular genre, she does shoot everyday and
slowly building a personal record of her surroundings and experiences in the small market town she lives in. She prefers to work on a project basis and currently have a couple of projects on the go. The first is an attempt to photograph all the locations on the London Monopoly board. As it turns out this is harder than she thought as some of the locations are very mundane and others are so well known, getting a unique take on them is very tricky. It has allowed her to discover all sorts of areas of London, which she would not otherwise have visited. The second project is about the British seaside. It is a strangely British phenomenon - ice cream, fish and chips, parades and buckets and spades, all so out of place anywhere else, but embraced to the full when near the sea, regardless of the unreliable weather. She encourages everyone to try shooting straight out of camera. “It makes you think so much harder about composition, exposure and creative vision, when you know you can’t do too much in post. It frees the mind and improves your skills. Go on, give it a try, I think you will be surprised by the outcome.”
“Staircase 1” X100F | 23mm | Acros+R 1/200s | f4.5 | ISO 100
“Staircase 4” X70 | 18mm | B&W+R 1/80s | f2.8 | ISO 400
“Worthing 199” X100F | 23mm | Acros+R 1/900s | f7.1 | ISO 200
(Left - Right) “Worthing 149” X100F | 23mm | Acros+R 1/850s | f7.1 | ISO 200 “Worthing 5” X100F | 23mm | Acros+R 1/450s | f5.6 | ISO 400 “Worthing 39” X100F | 23mm | Acros+R 1/900s | f5.6 | ISO 200
“Big Wheel ICM” X-T2 | 23mm | B&W+R 1/2s | f8.0 | ISO 400
“Birch Trees ICM” X100F | 23mm | Acros+R 1s | f16 | ISO 200