I'm here again shooting with Elysha. Our idea was to do a city shoot with holiday lights as a backdrop. Unfortunately we planned this last second and didn’t realize we were a few days early for the tree lighting. Either way, Lancaster is a beautiful historic city and we plan to have fun exploring it today. We are meeting up around golden hour and should go well into the night. It’s freezing out but that’s not cooling off our enthusiasm. With it being Friday night in Lancaster there are plenty of shoppers and foot traffic in the city. Elysha and I are starting our shoot at central market and just leisurely finding spots around the city.

As always for the shoot I will be using my Fuji x-t2. This is my first time shooting with the Fuji x-t2 at night. It’s a natural light shoot. I definitely learned some things about my camera during this shoot. I’ll be using the fujinon 50mm f2 and 16mm f1.4 lenses.

This is my first photoshoot in a very long time. Definitely the first since switching to Fujifilm from Canon. I have only concentrated on nature and landscape shots for years it seems. So after plenty of family shoot requests, I'll be slowly dabbling into portrait photography. Maybe this is a new chapter for me. Whatever it is, I'm excited for something fresh. Today I'm meeting up with Elysha and we are heading to Chickies Rock Overlook in Columbia PA. This is my first time going to Chickies Rock. The plan was to get there for golden hour. Unfortunately traffic had us running a little late and we were racing the sun. It is a light walk with a 20-30% grade from the parking lot to the overlook. The trail is wooded and slightly rocky, so make sure you wear sneakers. Once you're at the overlook you get a great view of the Susquehanna river. For the shoot I used all natural light with my Fuji X-T2. The lenses for the shoot are the Fujinon 50mm F2 and Fujinon 16mm F1.4. Unfortunately I had the grain on during the shoot. Yeah it's been awhile!

Elysha @Lancaster City

Elysha @ Chickies Rock