Update on 42.5mm and 25mm Panasonic Portrait lens for my g85!

Having both lens for shoots lately I’ve concluded that I prefer the 42.5 for headshots (85mm equivalent)! For tight spaces, events, and walking around I prefer the 25mm lens (50mm equivalent). Overall having my mirrorless micro43rds g85 has been a joy to shoot with. It’s so much lighter than my Nikon dSLR and I’m enjoying using the touchscreen viewfinder more. I haven’t quite mastered the manual focusing yet but the focus peaking on the g85 has been great to play with!

My next experiment will be using the lens for short films which I hope to co-create with my husband 🙂 I am always trying new things to keep things flowing.

Right now I’ve been enjoying the use of textured backgrounds for indoor shoots and using off camera flash for shoots. When I first starting shooting headshots over a decade ago, I played with indoor and outdoor shoots. Then for the longest time I only did outdoors. A couple of months ago I decided to pick up indoor photography again and it’s opened up that part of me again that loves to creatively play with light in a more controlled environment.

That’s it for now! Thank you to all the new clients that I’ve been meeting!

Speedlight Speedlite Strobe External Flash etc etc etc

As an artist I think it’s important to always be experimenting and trying new things out. I’m still learning new things every day as new technology and equipment gets added. Got a new external flash unit for my Panasonic g85 and it’s cute, portable, and super fun to use in my indoor studio set up! Got the Godox mini version and got some cool lighting effects when placed up high and behind the subject. I also had an led portable light in my hand for added front light. See below (lightsaber effect added in post):

New photos in the portfolio!

Finally have a bit of time to update the portfolio with some clients in the past couple of months!

Update on the movie 25mm Fotasy Lens!

Well, that was an experiment! I tried and am returning the Fotasy Lens because it had a black spot on the lens and silver foil pieces. It’s okay though because I have the Panasonic Lumix 25mm 1.7 on the way which is what I should have got in the first place 🙂 My main function for the 25mm is to take on events and festivals since it allows for more coverage and I can be closer to the subject. I think it will also function nicely for an indoor lens that is fast, night time walk around street photos, and baby and young children portraits.

Anyhow I’ll update some pics when the Panny 25mm comes in!

New Camera adapted lens update!

Quick update on using my new mirrorless Panasonic g85 with an adapted lens. I was a Nikon girl before all of this so I wanted to see how a Nikon f mount would work on my microfourthirds. Research told me that there would be some restrictions such as no autofocus which I was willing to do manual since the Panasonic has focus peaking.

I ordered a Fotodiax f mount to microfourthirds adapter from Amazon that had decent reviews. I got it a couple of days ago and I ended up returning it yesterday. My main issue was I mounted a zoom lens and not a prime. I put my Tamron AF 28-75mm f2.8 on my Panasonic and the first thing the camera asks is, “What is the focal length?” I tried various numbers depending on what I set the lens to but nothing seemed to work. Now I was handheld, as there is no image stabilization happening, I couldn’t find focus manually even with focus peaking on. Maybe it would have been different on a tripod?

Well experiment over for the moment. I ordered a really cool Fotasy 25mm f1.4 Movie Lens that will be coming next week that has really dreamy bokeh. It will also have an adapter and will be manual focus but I have hopes that using a fixed focal lens will work better.

FYI I have the AWESOME Panasonic 42.5 f1.7 that I LOVE to use for headshots and portraits. That’s been my main lens these past two weeks. The kit lens is something I haven’t really used. I suspect that I will use it for travel since it’s weatherproof.

Until next time! Photo below taken with that awesome 42.5mm:

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