I’ve always had a great love for portraiture, just because I think people are very interesting, and everyone looks, and acts differently, so their photos varies and I like that difference. Faces speak of many things, and every face, has something very deeply hidden, or something quite emotionally obvious happening on it. But there is a new love for my camera and photography, and it’s the panoramic images it can take.
I’m too sure then, having had done mostly portraiture during my career, and even my studies, where the joy for landscapes began. I have always been observant of light, and if perhaps there are active clouds in the sky, or perhaps a wind that moves things like reeds or grass or leaves…
So something about the quiet beauty it just presents you, is what I had come to fall in love with. With many of them, you have to meet it halfway and only get it’s fully beauty by waking up early for it, or staying up late, and with others, you’ll come around a corner, and it’ll be right there.
Receiving my X-T1 last year, had my go through the camera with a curiosity, seeing what else and what more it can do than what I’m used to. and there it was – being able to take panoramic images….
One feature I fully, and thoroughly enjoy, is the Panorama feature, located conveniently close to my left thumb, on a knob you can dial on top of the camera. By sweeping right, the camera will fill the frame with the image, and almost virtually seamlessly stitch it together in seconds.
I do love my landscapes, and I’m more happy to find them, than any other type of photo, on any trip I might take. They’re my little jewels I keep, and I hopefully will get to display them up on a wall in some beautiful future home.
I guess it’s what they’re made for – to print and display. These offer me what I love, just so much more image – more colour, more sky, more landscape.
Yolandi Jacobsz, Loci Photography