Anyone that knows me well will know how much I love my Fujifilm X-Pro3 camera, however truth be told it has been a while since I’ve taken photographs with it.
An opportunity arose to have a very brief late afternoon session in the Sydney CBD, therefore I took my X-Pro3 in with me to dust off some cobwebs.
For the most part I decided not to get too close to people on this day, and so my one lens of choice was the Fujifilm 35mm f2, being close to a 50mm full frame equivalent.
This was a beautiful early spring day with plenty of golden light. Given that I did not have a lot of time to shoot, I decided to head to a few spots within close proximity to each other to maximise my chances of making some nice pictures, spots where I anticipated great light to be available.
In the Sydney CBD you will often find beautiful late afternoon light, however you need to choose your locations well because once the sun is low enough it will be blocked by many buildings.
One of my favourite late afternoon locations is the northern end of George Street right outside the Ernst Young building.
The low setting sun from the west falls between buildings and directly toward the facade of this building, allowing you to wait for people to walk past and also in and out of the building.
I love the golden light, plus both his reflection and the street reflection.
She was actually posing with her eyes closed, in a dream-like state.
I call this one ‘glazed over.’ I tried to create depth in this photograph with the two people well separated, plus the reflection of the glass beautifully lit by the sun.
I saw this person walking closely toward me and knew that he would fill the frame due to the lens I was using, however I decided to take the photograph to see how it turned out. I kinda like it.
FLG!
When you’re in this vicinity you usually walk the short distance down to Circular Quay as well, however to be honest on this day I just couldn’t seem to find any photographs that really worked for me.
I did manage to capture this one though, an interesting perspective with a person in the foreground and the crane lift operator up above the fencing.
This next one is a typical example of many photographs I take simply to document a time in my life. A very simple photograph, however in some small way it tells a story to me about our city.
I do like this one and I couldn’t help myself once I saw the person on the phone, whilst the world moved around him.
I then moved away from the Circular Quay precinct and headed back toward my car, whilst looking for anything that I found interesting along the way.
This is a photograph that I’ve been looking to make for some time, a person in great light with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background.
Back around to George Street to see if I could use any of the available light at or near the Bridge Street tram stop.
I love the depth here, created largely by the people moving the large green metal thingy in the background.
So there you go, a very brief late arvo shooting session in the city.
This is something that I need to do more often, to create opportunities to shoot, even if there is only a relatively short window of time.
When I do, it usually feeds my creative hunger. I don’t need to come back with a lot of good pictures, I just need to be out there trying to do so, and if that does not eventuate, then so be it… all good.
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Roger Brooks.