Beauty photo session with the Fuji 56mm lens

Today I was able to give the Fuji 56mm f/1.2 lens a good workout on a beauty shooting in the studio with Ariel, one of my favorite models. My X-T1 is in the shop having its light leak repaired so I attached the lens to an X-E2 for the session. The sample images below pretty much sum up why I love working with high quality fast aperture lenses in available light. I wanted to keep things bright and airy, and working towards the most open aperture settings with a lot of selective focus helped. Normally, I do shootings like this with a Nikon D4, but lately I'm finding myself getting very comfortable, and not sacrificing any quality, by moving to the Fuji X system.

The lens is absolutely sensational, the camera, too, but with a model like Ariel it's really pretty hard to miss.

You can check out the full specs on the Fuji 56mm f/1.2 lens on the B&H Photo website, where it can also be ordered. You can also read my full hands-on review of the lens here.

The latest RAW release candidate for Photoshop is necessary for reading RAW files from the X-T1 and X-E2, but there is also another side benefit from this version of RAW. It includes a new set of Camera Profiles for the Fuji X-cameras.

This is the new drop-down menu of the Photshop ACR camera profile options for the Fuji-X series RAW files. My favorite for people photography, and the one I used for most of the images below, is the Camera Pro Neg. Hi. For landscape and travel I like the Velvia/VIVID or PROVIA/STANDARD. You really need to try them all to see which one best suits the image type you are processing. One thing is for certain, these profiles have saved me a lot of time in post processing. 

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The Fujifilm XF 56mm f/1.2 R Lens can be ordered from:  BH-Photo