Close-up stills with a Zeiss Touit 50mm f/2.8 macro on the Fuji X-T1

Seems like this was a week for taking still life photos. This time the theme was seashells where we wanted to create a very light, pastel feeling, like being near the seashore on a calm, bright day. The photos were taken in out daylight studio, side-lit with a soft window light and a bright background.

The camera I chose was the Fuji X-T1 coupled with the Zeiss Touit 50mm f/2.8 macro lens, one of my favorite combinations. The lens itself is a perfect focal length for this type shooting -- not too long and not too short. I worked mostly with wide apertures, but occasionally had o stop down to the f/16 range when I wanted everything to be sharp, especially in the flat, straight down shots.

One thing very nice I am discovering about working with the X-T1 one is that the RAW images from it require the least amount of post-processing correction and tweaking, which has been making my workflow much easier and faster -- definitely a big plus.

I took a lot of photos during this session. Here are a few of them: