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Milan Photoshow 2013 – A Fuji X20 Gallery

26/03/2013 By Mathieu Leave a Comment

Update: Check out our x20 full review, homemade macro test, Advanced mode test, and high ISO test.

The Photoshow is not only an occasion to test and see many cameras, but also an opportunity to take pictures, as you can find many models on every major manufacturer’s stand, as well as interesting situations worth photographing. So while I was moving from one stand to another, I had some quality time with my new Fuji X20. Here are some of the pictures that came out of the show. Enjoy!

Alessia: An Olympus OM-D E-M5 Portrait Session

05/03/2013 By Mathieu 11 Comments

Last weekend, my dear friend and great Italian actress Alessia Olivetti asked me to do a short portrait session as she needed to update her portfolio with new photographs. I seized the opportunity to work with the Olympus OM-D E-M5 coupled with the M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 and the Voigtländer Nokton 25mm f/0.95, which my collegue Marco Iozzo was kind enough to lend me for a couple of days. I love to shoot portraits with natural lighting, so we took to the streets of Turin to carry out the session.

Let It Snow: Black and White Photography with the OM-D E-M5 and the DMC-GH3

26/02/2013 By Mathieu Leave a Comment

On Sunday, we woke up to a city covered in a thick blanket of snow! We seized the opportunity for an impromptu black and white photography session with our GH3 and E-M5. We shot in RAW format and converted the photos in Lightroom 4. There wasn’t a lot of light, of course, so we increased the contrast to make them look more dramatic. I used the E-M5 with the M.Zuiko 12mm f/2 except for the eleventh and fourteenth pictures which were shot with the M.Zuiko 45mm f/1.8. Heather used the GH3 with a M.Zuiko 14-42 F/3.5-5.6 lens. Enjoy the gallery!

Walking in Wales: An Olympus OM-D E-M5 gallery

17/02/2013 By Heather Leave a Comment

Last week, during Carnival Break in Italy, I scooped up the opportunity to return to Wales, UK to spend some time with my parents. I had never been to Wales during the winter, so I was curious to see how the already wooly and wild landscape had adapted to colder temperatures. To document the trip, I brought along the Olympus OM-D E-M5, a mirrorless camera which is known for its ability to bring out the best colour in any landscape, even one as rugged as the Welsh coast.

Skiing in the Italian Alps with the Panasonic Lumix GH3 | Testing the Artistic Modes

12/02/2013 By Heather Leave a Comment

I will admit that I am not much of a skier, and thus, not very Canadian in the eyes of most. My first memory of skiing is of crashing into a fence, and subsequently a garbage bin at the age of 14. It is also my fondest memory, not for the pain it caused but for the amusing story it has allowed me to tell years after the fact.

Not wanting to put myself in similar danger on the treacherous slopes of the Alps, I happily traded the opportunity to ski with fellow MirrorLessons writer Mathieu and his cousin Nicola for a cold and snowy day out with the Panasonic Lumix GH3, photographing skiers and snowboarders with much more talent than myself! The challenge was to limit myself to the Artistic Modes on the camera. I wanted to see which of these modes could best capture the exciting ambiance of the Alps.