BY DEREK CLARK
This week in Scotland, we had about three hours of sunshine and the rest was rain, rain and more rain. I Managed to take a short walk with my X100F, which is nice to still be using, even though I have the V.
Stepping out of the car, I remember once more that my AirPods are still missing in action somewhere in the Edinburgh area after I mislaid them while shooting a jazz concert. I have headphones in the car, but it’s around this point I start cursing Apple and its infinite wisdom in removing the 3.5mm headphone socket. There just isn’t room for it they said, yet my iPod Nano was around 8x smaller and half the thickness. Just admit that it’s all about selling AirPods multiple times to people like me that keep losing them!
Anyway…I digress.
My observation on my short walk is this.
The photographic muscle is like any other; you must exercise it or it will go flabby and fail. Most of us know this and have done for some time, but what I have come to realise is that you can’t exercise one muscle and expect all the others to tone up too. Likewise, you can’t shoot Landscape and become a great portrait photographer.
This might be obvious, but for me, being out on the street with nothing but the F felt both liberating and odd. It felt like wearing a running shoe on one foot and a hiking boot on the other. I had swapped my X-T4 for the 100F for this brief amount of time and I welcomed the change, but I was learning to walk again. To see the way I used to see. To feel the way used to feel…about photography.
ALL SHOT ON X100F - 23mmf2 (35mm FULL FRAME)
