Travelling Lens

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Margaret River Long Weekend

Cherubino Winery
Cherubino Winery

The month of September has just flown by! I haven’t shared much on social media or on the blog as I’ve been busy life outside of photography. I took a short trip to Bali for a family celebration as well as a recent weekend trip down to Margaret River in WA as it was a long weekend in WA. Naturally I had a camera in hand for both trips. It’s not often I manage to go through my photos so soon after I’ve taken them. When I was down south for the long weekend I photographed with the mindset of SOOC.

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Cafe Leadman, Perth – SOOC vs. Edited images

Cafe Leadman, Perth
Flat white, SOOC

If you haven’t heard of a little neighborhood cafe in Perth called Cafe Leadman you should check it out! I’m not generally one to visit a cafe multiple times in a short space (I love trying new places!) yet I did visit Cafe Leadman twice in a month. The food is a little bit Asian inspired (there’s a fancy giant bowl of gourmet Mi Goreng) and very tasty. My favourite is actually the prawn brioche roll, which I ordered on both occasions.

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Staycation at QT Hotel in Perth

QT Perth, one of the newest hotels on the block in Perth city
QT Perth, one of the newest hotels on the block in Perth city

A couple of months ago, we decided to do a 1-night staycation at QT Perth. It was a public holiday long weekend and rather than travelling interstate or join the bustle of driving down south to the wine region, we decided to make QT Perth our home away from home. Since my last visit to QT Perth as a volunteer photographer for Open House Perth, I’ve been interested in actually staying at QT Perth. I was attracted to it’s modern and whimsical architecture and interior. The hotel experience didn’t disappoint.

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The Fujifilm Simulation Challenge Accepted

Perth City, Forrest Chase
Perth City, Forrest Chase. Fujinon 14mm f2.8

Last week, after the sunrise shoot in Applecross with James, I grabbed a much needed coffee and got chatting about all things the art of photography. One of the many things discussed was the idea of shooting in JPEG only using custom film simulation settings on Fujifilm cameras. It’s an intriguing idea and to be honest the film simulations was what converted me from a Canon DSLR shooter to the Fujifilm X series cameras. When I first got the X-T10, I was still using Lightroom 4 and it wasn’t able to read .RAF files. That meant I was shooting JPEGs only using the in-built film simulations and was rather pleased with my images back in the day. As the months went by, I decided to jump onto Lightroom CC and had access to editing the raw files. I haven’t really gone back to shooting just JPEGs since for the most part.

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