Fuji X-T1, Micro-Nikkor 55mm f3.5 AI
In my previous post, I made a comment about being unhappy with Fuji colour for landscape/nature work.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about that.
The reality is I was actually having two issues.
1. Fuji's expose quite differently from most other cameras. That means that relying on the meter gives me overexposed images with limited ability to recover highlights (the flip side is there is FF-level data in the shadows, as all that missing headroom is sitting down there).
2. Fuji's blues are lighter and warmer than Nikon or Olympus blues.
The first is easy to address, underexpose by 0.7 to 1.3 EV and lift the shadows in post. That will darken down the blues in the sky to start.
The second is harder to address. It's linked to how the Fuji's render colour. They simply have less resolution in the blues and reds and Fuji's very distinct colour signature tends to a warm shift and a mild green shift, both of which compromise the blues.
I'm still working on a solution for #2. The reality is these colour rendering items are predictable, so may be solvable with presets (unlike the Sony colour challenges, which I just never liked it in any regard, with Fuji it's just the blue skies that I have some challenges with).
Note in looking through my Fuji archives here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mawz/tags/fujifilm/
I can see some great skies. I don't see that deep indigo I get from some of my Nikon shots, but I do have some lovely blues. I'd love to get that indigo look, but can probably live without it.
So in summary - I need to work on how I expose with the Fuji's, and need to see if I can come up with a preset that gets me closer to those Nikon and Olympus blues I love, but I can already get good skies from the Fuji's if I don't accidentally overexpose them.
In my previous post, I made a comment about being unhappy with Fuji colour for landscape/nature work.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about that.
The reality is I was actually having two issues.
1. Fuji's expose quite differently from most other cameras. That means that relying on the meter gives me overexposed images with limited ability to recover highlights (the flip side is there is FF-level data in the shadows, as all that missing headroom is sitting down there).
2. Fuji's blues are lighter and warmer than Nikon or Olympus blues.
The first is easy to address, underexpose by 0.7 to 1.3 EV and lift the shadows in post. That will darken down the blues in the sky to start.
The second is harder to address. It's linked to how the Fuji's render colour. They simply have less resolution in the blues and reds and Fuji's very distinct colour signature tends to a warm shift and a mild green shift, both of which compromise the blues.
I'm still working on a solution for #2. The reality is these colour rendering items are predictable, so may be solvable with presets (unlike the Sony colour challenges, which I just never liked it in any regard, with Fuji it's just the blue skies that I have some challenges with).
Note in looking through my Fuji archives here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mawz/tags/fujifilm/
I can see some great skies. I don't see that deep indigo I get from some of my Nikon shots, but I do have some lovely blues. I'd love to get that indigo look, but can probably live without it.
So in summary - I need to work on how I expose with the Fuji's, and need to see if I can come up with a preset that gets me closer to those Nikon and Olympus blues I love, but I can already get good skies from the Fuji's if I don't accidentally overexpose them.
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