Alesia and Jack outside of California Pizza Kitchen in Riverside, CA

Life This Week - Big Floppy Hats, Burrrrrritos, and CPK

April 06, 2014 by Daniel Jester in Street Photography, Life This Week, Fuji

Life this week through images. Everything was shot on the Fujifilm X100s. I went all color this week. I really love black and white for candid shot, but the colors on this thing with the Velvia setting are so beautiful, I couldn't help myself.

Product stylist Dani models this big floppy hat that we had in the studio this week. This one was the biggest, but there were others that came close.

Loretta chillin in the sitting area of the studio

Adam enjoys a Chipotle burrito on what turned out to be a pretty cold day by So Cal standards

Temp product stylist Breagan came back to us this week

Van is excited for Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Excuse the terrible window shot, but we are getting a pretty cool looking new railroad bridge. First span went into place this past week.

Hannah nestled in her seat outside of CPK in riverside. Dinner followed by shopping at a brand new Nordstrom Rack

A look down a corridor of product storage racks in the fulfillment canter for HauteLook and Nordstrom Rack

Life This Week - A New Photographer, a Storm, and a Tour

March 29, 2014 by Daniel Jester in Street Photography, Fuji, Life This Week

This week we went to Nordstrom Cafe at the Galleria at Tyler in Riverside CA, Brought a new full time photographer into the studio at HauteLook, finally took a tour of the fulfillment center, and enjoyed an early spring storm.

All images were shot with the Fuji X100s.

Jack enjoying the patio at Nordstrom Cafe in Riverside.

Bonnie, the newest addition to the HauteLook studio team

Adam contributes to our early spring storm (its vapor btw)

This is where the hawks sit. Not pictured: giant bird droppings on the ground.

Mike tells us about the returns dept of the HauteLook fulfillment center.

Lindsay asks a question during the fulfillment center tour.

The inner workings of the HauteLook fulfillment center.

Stylist Dani packs away a shoe as we get ready to pack up Friday afternoon.

Print(s) for Sale

March 18, 2014 by Daniel Jester in Fuji, For Sale

Today I added a For Sale page to my site. I have a framed and matted print that I would like to sell, and maybe sell other prints in the future. Check it out if you're interested.

Click Here to see print(s) for sale.

I didn't want to not post an image, so here: "Stop" shot with the Fuji X100s

More fun with the Fuji X100s

March 13, 2014 by Daniel Jester in Street Photography, Fuji

Well my two week rental of the Fujifilm X100s is over, but I enjoyed the camera so much that I decided to order one for myself. Here are a few more snaps with this camera that is quickly pulling me out of a rut.

Photographer Adam Queen watches the rain at the SB Fulfillment Center/Photo Studio for HauteLook.

Jackson checks out the Polar Bears at the San Diego zoo

Product Stylist Loretta preps handbags at the HauteLook SB Photo Studio

I've been shooting mostly black and white, but I love the Fuji Velvia color film setting on this camera.

Hannah enjoys a mild evening in Canyon Crest

Alesia enjoys her burger from Bucket List Burgers in Canyon Crest

Hannah protests getting her picture taken.

High Speed Sync with the Fujifilm X100s

March 03, 2014 by Daniel Jester

In order to get a taste of what the leaf shutter of the Fuji X100s can do, my friend and fellow HauteLook photographer Adam Queen did some modeling for me.

The set up: The Fujifilm X100s, 1 Lumopro LP180 (bare and hand held at arms length camera left) and triggered with Pocketwizard Plus III transceivers.

We were able to sync the LP180 to 1/1000th shutter speed, bringing some detail out in the clouds and making these mid day portraits very dramatic. The 1/1000th shutter speed in this case is limited by the Pocketwizards ability to send the signal. In other tests, I was able to use a hard wire sync cable to sync the flash all the way to the camera max of 1/4000th. This is easily one of the coolest features of the X100s (and other leaf/non focal plane mirrorless cameras).

These were shot in all of about 10 minutes with minimal gear, a testament to what a useful tool this can be for the professional photographer.