The Tamron SP 35mm F1.4 Di is a prime lens for Canon EF mount and Nikon F mount. I am using the Tamron 35mm f1.4 for portrait photography on the Canon EOS R and the Canon 5Dmk4.
In today’s photoshoot I borrowed a friend’s Canon 24-70mm f2.8 and wanted to try it out at a natural light portrait session!
In today’s video we’re comparing the Sigma 35mm f1.4 ART vs the Canon 35mm 1.4 II lenses during a natural light portrait photoshoot. I used the same camera body for both lenses - the Canon 5Dmkiv.
For today’s photoshoot I thought it would be fun to compare 2 extreme apertures while capturing natural light portraits. I picked a few different locations that I thought would suit both apertures and shot pictures of Claudia and f1.2 and also f16.
At the end of 2019 I joined up with Google to host a portrait photography workshop with Team Pixel! Just in case you haven’t heard, I joined Team Pixel halfway through last year and I have found it’s such a great group of creative and talented people from around Australia. It was a really fun experience getting to share my portrait photography knowledge on lighting, composition and posing with the team for the masterclass and then seeing all the photos everyone created during both the workshops! During the workshops in Sydney and Melbourne I also had the chance to capture a portrait of everyone there. These are some of my favourites all shot on the Pixel 4 with either the normal camera or portrait mode, depending on the location! I also edited all these photos with Lightroom Mobile on the Pixel 4.
You can watch my vlog of the week in the life of a photographer below where I shared some snippets of my trip to Melbourne for the workshop!
My year in 100 pictures.
I’ve put together my favourite 100 images I took in 2019 as well as some of my favourite videos I’ve created. To start, this is the first video I uploaded in 2019! I had an older version of this video that I uploaded when I first started my YouTube Channel, but felt like it was time for a refreshed and more detailed version.
My first 2 photoshoots of the year!
The first place I visited in 2019 was Thailand and it was an amazing experience that left me wanting to come back! Dan and I travelled with our friends from Poland and met in Bangkok. From there we spent 3 weeks exploring the cities, mountains and beaches of Thailand - I filmed a vlog and also a creative photoshoot video doing some street photography which was a really fun experience.
One of my favourite photoshoots and videos I created this year was - surprise! - on a KIT LENS haha which is quite different to the low aperture lenses I usually like to use. But as I mentioned, these turned out to be some of my favourite photos. You can watch the behind the scenes of that photoshoot below.
Dan and I also had the chance to travel to Scotland this year to capture a wedding, we decided to stay for a few extra days to be able to explore the Scottish countryside which I have always wanted to see and definitely didn’t disappoint.
I couldn’t miss out on including another favourite creative photoshoot from the year with Kristina and baby goat Ollie!
While we were in Scotland, I had the chance to meet up with some other creatives and take their portraits. I took portraits of Karoline (above) and also Tamar & Matt - behind the scenes of that photoshoot is below!
Since we travelled to Scotland for a wedding, Dan and I decided to stop by and spend some time with his family in Gdansk, Poland. From there we decided to take a roadtrip with Karol and his girlfriend to Austria. Just before we left for the roadtrip we filmed a video with Karol about How to Pose Males who are not Models and it’s my first video to hit ONE MILLION views!! Which is absolutely incredible. After Austria, Dan and I took a short flight to Spain to explore the city of Granada. I still haven’t edited the photos from Spain or the videos from Spain and Austria (I am terrible when it comes to personal creative projects) but I’m hoping to edit them early this year if you guys would still like to see that footage!
We arrived home to Sydney after our trip to Europe in time for my birthday where Dan and I spent the day walking around the Blue Mountains. This is around the time that I joined Google Team Pixel which I am so proud to be a member of! When the Pixel 4 was launched I filmed a review video of the camera and it’s incredible Night Sight capabilities. It was such a fun video to create!
Yet another Blue Mountains highlight was when Kristina, Dan and I took a roadtrip there to take some pictures. At home the air was still but as soon as we got to the mountains the wind picked up and there were incredibly strong gusts of wind pushing us around - we persevered through it and came out with some (in my opinion) really special photos from the day.
The second half of the year was filled with a plethora of portrait photoshoots, here are 2 of my favourites! Shooting portraits with a slightly unconventional 28mm lens and also a portrait photoshoot at golden hour on Portra film which I scanned myself!
The last video I wanted to include felt right to film at the end of the decade - a photoshoot on my first ever DSLR camera, the Pentax K100D. When I first started photography 11 years ago, I used my family’s point and shoot camera to take some creative photos. After a little while I realised that this was something I really enjoyed doing, so I decided to get my very first DSLR. It served me really well to learn all about photographing, shooting in manual, what kind of photography I liked the most, how to compose, how to work with natural lighting and many more things. I think I used this camera for about 3 years before saving up for my first professional body the Canon 5Dmk2 and have since been using the 5D series for all my work. It was really fun getting to go almost back in time to see how the Pentax performs today! Below is the behind the scenes video to see all the final photos and my thoughts on the experience.
For today’s photoshoot I am finally using the Canon EOS-1 V again, this time with Portra 160 & 400 film. I over, on and under exposed a few of these shots to see which style I preferred, then while scanning the film I brought back the exposure so all my images looked cohesive. I was personally leaning towards always preferring what skin tones looked like in the overexposed images while scanning, so maybe next time I shoot on a roll of Portra I will overexpose a little more often.
Watch the behind the scenes of our photoshoot below! And please subscribe to my channel, I upload new photography related videos every single week. I also shared some of the digital images I shot on this photoshoot at the end of the blog post.
model claudia
makeup lidija j
video dan @ i make films
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And here is my mini set photographed on the Canon 5D mkiv + Canon 35mm f1.4 II. I edited all these photos with my Mountains Lightroom Preset Pack!
In today’s photoshoot we are comparing the 35mm and 50mm to see the pros and cons of each focal length when it comes to portrait photography. This is my (for now) last instalment of this series as I have now compared 35 vs 50, 50 vs 85 and 85 vs 135 - so if you want to see more please let me know what 2 focal lengths you’d like to see me compare next! These are all the final photos from our photoshoot edited with my Aspen Lightroom Preset, watch the video to see the behind the scenes of our photoshoot + hear all my thoughts on the comparison of these 2 lenses!
I have a whole series comparing prime lenses and focal lengths, you can check them all out here:
24mm vs 35mm vs 50mm vs 85mm vs 135mm on a full frame camera
24mm vs 35mm vs 50mm vs 85mm vs 135 on a crop frame camera
Gear used:
model shanice
makeup lidija j
video dan @ i make films
All photos edited with my Aspen Lightroom Preset Pack!
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In today’s behind the scenes video we are comparing the 85mm and 135mm focal lengths for portrait photography with a number of different portrait compositions and locations to see the pros and cons of each lens for portraits.
I have a whole series comparing prime lenses and focal lengths, you can check them all out here:
24mm vs 35mm vs 50mm vs 85mm vs 135mm on a full frame camera
24mm vs 35mm vs 50mm vs 85mm vs 135 on a crop frame camera
Please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already, I upload new photography videos every single week!
Gear used:
model karina
makeup lidija j
video dan @ i make films
All photos edited with my L.A. Lightroom Preset!
All photos edited with my L.A. Lightroom Preset!
In today’s photoshoot and behind the scenes video, we are going to be testing + reviewing every single filter from the Lensbaby Omni System including the Crystal and new Colour Expansion Pack. Watch the video below to hear my thoughts on these filters and see all the results!
model claudia
makeup lidija j
video dan @ i make films
All photos edited with my Amalfi Lightroom Preset (before and afters are in the video)
All photos edited with my Amalfi Lightroom Preset
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These are some of the sample images I took with the new Google Pixel 4, watch my review video to hear my thoughts about the camera below! We did a portrait photoshoot on location and also headed on a roadtrip to try our the new astrophotography mode. All of these photos are straight out of the camera with no editing except for the banner image and the final astro photo at the end of the blog post. Download the high resolution images for some Pixel 4 pixel peeping here!
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model claudia
makeup lidija j
video dan @ i make films
Last month, Kristina, Dan and I decided to go on a roadtrip to the Blue Mountains to take some pictures in a new location. While it was a perfectly sunny and still day at home, by the time we got to our destination the winds were howling and were so strong it was physically pushing us around! We went ahead with our photoshoot anyway and despite the conditions we were dealing with it was one of the most fun photoshoots I’ve had, my sides hurt from laughing so much at the ridiculous situation - you can watch the behind the scenes from our day down below!
model Kristina
gear Sony A7III + Zeiss FE 35mm f1.4
video Dan
Our weekend in the Scottish Highlands is one I’ll remember forever - Scotland is such a beautiful place that I could have easily spent a whole week (or two!) just in the highlands exploring and taking photos. On Saturday we made our way to the Isle of Skye, so on Sunday - our last day before our flights back to Gdansk, Poland - we decided to make our way to Glen Coe Valley. We visited the famous Harry Potter train tracks which took my breath away getting to see them in real life - what a beautiful structure! We also stopped at castles along our way, rivers, lakes, bridges - again as you can see in the vlog I filmed, we stopped on the side of the road to photograph everything pretty much every 10 minutes!
On our way home at the end of the day, we passed through the iconic mountains of the Scottish Highlands. All the parking spots with good viewpoints were absolutely packed to the brim, so we stopped at one a bit further back and decided to make the most of Scotland’s nature “freedom” and ran to the top of a hill to the most stunning views of the mountains at sunset. It’s safe to say Dan and I took at least 98098 photos of each other while we were up here and it was the perfect way to say goodbye to Scotland.
Watch the video of our time there below! And please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t yet, I upload new videos every single Wednesday.
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
The Samyang 24mm tilt shift lens is a lens typically used for architecture and urban photography. In today's photoshoot, we are going to use this lens in an unconventional way by capturing portraits.
I’ve been sharing a lot of lens comparison videos recently, so I thought I’d do a good old creative photoshoot on the Sony A7III + Zeiss 35mm f1.4. We shot a few photos on the streets, finding good colours, textures and lighting for the background and then headed down to the beach for a few more fun, movement filled shots at the end. You can watch the behind the scenes below where we included a new little fun thing where you can see what I see while I’m taking photos!
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model katya
makeup lidija j
video dan @ i make films
outfits zaful
All photos are edited with my Mountains Lightroom Preset Pack!
This blog was put together with Narrative. I love using Narrative as part of my photoshoot culling process to see which images from a shoot I should edit and I also use it to easily & quickly be able to put together these blog posts with different layouts of images side by side. I’m really excited to say I’ve teamed up with Narrative and have a 15% discount code for you guys using the code julia15 or just clicking this link! You can download a free trial to test it out for 7 days too :)
All photos are edited with my Mountains Lightroom Preset Pack!
After the wedding, Dan and I only had 3 short days left to enjoy Scotland before our flights back to Gdansk, Poland. We were as far south as we could go in Scotland for the wedding, but decided to make our way all the way north in a long roadtrip to Inverness. Inverness was our base for the weekend and we spent both Saturday and Sunday going on roadtrips to explore the Scottish Highlands. On Saturday we woke up bright and early and made our way to the Isle of Skye, stopping every few minutes on the side of the road (as you can see in the vlog I filmed!) to take pictures with all the stunning landscapes around us.
The Scottish Highlands were absolutely beautiful and I would love to go back there one day and spend more time exploring. Since we only had 2 days to see everything, we couldn’t wait for ideal lighting conditions for landscape photography, so we worked with what we had. Luckily the weather in Scotland is usually quite overcast which I absolutely loved for creating moody photos. You can see a lot more of our trip and behind the scenes of us taking photos in the vlog I created from our time there below! And if you haven’t already, please subscribe to my channel - I upload a new video every single Wednesday.
This blog was put together with Narrative. I love using Narrative as part of my photoshoot culling process to see which images from a shoot I should edit and I also use it to easily & quickly be able to put together these blog posts with different layouts of images side by side. I’m really excited to say I’ve teamed up with Narrative and have a 15% discount code for you guys using the code julia15 or just clicking this link! You can download a free trial to test it out for 7 days too :)
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
After spending a few days in Edinburgh, it was time to head to the south of Scotland to get ready for the wedding we were capturing. The morning before the wedding Dan and I headed out to explore what was in our area and stumbled across Galloway Forest which was a beautiful park full of lakes, mountain views and you guessed it - forests! We spent a few hours driving, going for walks and taking lots of photos. One thing I noticed about the lakes in Scotland is that a lot of them are a very dark colour as you can see from the photo above, which I absolutely loved! The water looked clean but for some reason also looked almost black, it was mesmerising.
We headed back to our accommodation and spent the rest of the afternoon charging up all our camera batteries and getting our camera gear ready for the wedding. You can see a few photos from Laura & Shaun’s wedding here if you’re interested in taking a peek! It was a wonderful day and we were really spoilt for choice on photo locations in the amazing Scottish countryside. You can also watch the vlog I filmed which we were in Scotland below, please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t yet, I upload new videos every Wednesday!
This blog was put together with Narrative. I love using Narrative as part of my photoshoot culling process to see which images from a shoot I should edit and I also use it to easily & quickly be able to put together these blog posts with different layouts of images side by side. I’m really excited to say I’ve teamed up with Narrative and have a 15% discount code for you guys using the code julia15 or just clicking this link! You can download a free trial to test it out for 7 days too :)
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
In today’s video we are comparing every single prime lens that’s in my photography kit but on a crop frame camera, the Canon 7D mk2! The lenses/focal lengths we have are:
Sigma 24mm f1.4
Canon 35mm f1.4 mkII
Canon 50mm f1.2
Canon 85mm f1.2 mkII
Canon 135mm f2
If this topic sounds familiar, it’s because I just did this comparison on a full frame camera, the Canon 5D mk4 and you can take a look at that video + those photos here if you’re interested. On top of comparing all my prime lenses on a crop frame camera, I also took a photo standing in the same spot on a full frame so we can also see the 1.6x difference a crop sensor makes! It was all a little confusing on the day having to change my lens so many times, but I think in the end run it was all worth it to see these photos side by side.
If you’re interested in seeing more prime lens and focal length comparisons you can check out the whole series I created here:
24mm vs 35mm vs 50mm vs 85mm vs 135mm on a full frame camera
Watch the video below to hear my thoughts on each of these focal lengths! And please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already, I upload a new video every Wednesday.
All photos are edited with my Aspen Lightroom Preset!
To make it easier to compare what each focal length looks like, please select which 2 lenses you want to compare below.
Photographer + model standing in one spot:
Full body with photographer moving around to fill the frame:
Mid length portrait with photographer moving around to fill the frame:
Close up portrait with photographer moving around to fill the frame:
All photos are edited with my Aspen Lightroom Preset!
This is my first of 5 blog posts I’m going to be sharing from my time in Scotland and what better way to start than at the very beginning of our trip, in Edinburgh! After only 3 short weeks back at home after Thailand to catch up on work, capture a few weddings and do some photoshoots, Dan and I flew from Sydney, Australia to Gdansk, Poland. We spent about a week at Dan’s family’s place in the country catching up on jetlag, visiting the old town and as usual taking lots of photos and even filmed a video. Next up it was time to head to Scotland!
We were visiting Scotland as Dan and I were capturing a wedding while we were there. We decided to book our flights with a few extra days on either side of the wedding as Scotland is a place we both have wanted to visit for so long! Our first couple of days in Edinburgh were a whirlwind! We visited the old city, walked up to Edinburgh Castle, did a photoshoot with Tamar & Matt at the Botanical Gardens and did a photoshoot of photographer Caroline (behind the scenes for this photoshoot coming really soon!). Here are some of the pictures I captured in those first two days.
You can watch my vlog of the rest of our time in Scotland down below + it’s a sneak peek for the rest of the photo posts to come soon! Please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already, I upload a new video every Wednesday.
This blog was put together with Narrative. I love using Narrative as part of my photoshoot culling process to see which images from a shoot I should edit and I also use it to easily & quickly be able to put together these blog posts with different layouts of images side by side. I’m really excited to say I’ve teamed up with Narrative and have a 15% discount code for you guys using the code julia15 or just clicking this link! You can download a free trial to test it out for 7 days too :)
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
All photos edited with my new Mountains Lightroom Preset!
