On Location With The Fuji X-Series

I am slowly getting back into the swing of things after a short Christmas break. Ryan (Barrett) had approached me before the holidays with the suggestion to shoot an emotional story, involving a male & female model. As I still hadn’t had enough play-time with the Arri T1, I was more than happy to schedule a shoot in the new year.

It didn’t take us long to create a mood board and get a team together – consisting of some amazing creatives, namely Mary Kiely (makeup), Rachel Flanagan (Hair) and of course our female model Sarah O’Leary. Outfits were provided by Esquire Menswear and Be Fabulous Limerick. The shoot took place at Ash Hill House B&B in Kilmallock, a fantastic Georgian style mansion wich is run by the lovely couple, Nicole & Simon. Everything was shot using either the fresnels or natural light, or a mixture of both. Light modifiers, reflectors and diffusers were used as required.

I packed 3 tungsten fresnels (1 x 100w, 2 x 650w), reflectors, gels, diffusers, the X-T1 equipped with the 56mm and the X-Pro1 equipped with the 23mm. Whilst everyone is now getting excited about the X-Pro2 (myself included), there’s still plenty of life in the older X-Pro1. The shoot took around 5 hours, and everyone was exhausted at the end.