hss — BLOG — Jason Lanier Photography

I'm blessed....I'll admit it. I work hard for what I've achieved, but I'm very grateful and humbled that I get to shoot with some of the best lenses in the world. I've shot with Zeiss, Sony G Master, Sony Zeiss and many more. I've also shot with nearly all of the Canon L lenses and many Nikon lenses to boot.

So one comment and/or request that I get quite frequently is, "Can you do some videos or shoots with some cheap stuff that the rest of us can afford? We love seeing your shoots but I'll never be able to afford that stuff."

Fair enough.

I remember the days of saving up income for good amounts of time to be able to afford gear. I REALLY DO. Those days aren't too far in my past. So I decided to start adding (yes I bought them), some cheaper lens options into my gear arsenal so I can represent and reflect all of the photographers that follow my work and my Youtube Channel.

So recently I did a shoot using the Sony FE 50mm with the Sony A6500 inside of an old train. The shoot was quick as we had only 15 minutes to complete it. I think that's a good thing because it shows you what was able to be created without an elaborate setup or time that could honestly make the lens look better than it is.

**Links to Gear:

*A6500-

*50mm FE lens-

*DJI Osmo-

*Westcott Rapid Box XL-

If you haven't already please take a moment to check out the video that we rolled that will show the focus tests, the shots using natural and artificial light and more. The video explains much more than I can properly articulate here in a blog post, so I kindly invite you to watch it now.

For those who have already watched it you'll know that for $200, I think it's a pretty sweet little lens that is a welcome budget friendly addition to the Sony mirrorless lens lineup. Below are the shots taken at the shoot. All of them have been edited using Lightroom and Photoshop. I hope you enjoy...:)

The model is the beautiful Cassandra Caballero. Please let me know what questions you have...and thank you for watching!!

Jason

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So I get asked a lot about my images and work. People wanna know how much of it is editing vs. what I capture in camera. While I'm not opposed to photographers editing their images, I do take great pride in what I'm able to capture and create in camera vs. relying on post processing wizardry. There's something so old school about creating it in camera. I personally feel it's more gratifying and is also a greater challenge.

Maybe I get this attitude due to the fact that my roots are based in being a landscape photographer. That's why I've always incorporated so much of nature into my work. So from time to time I'll create posts and videos where I not only show my finished work, but also my completely unedited raw and straight out of the camera work as well. Now for those wondering I won't be posting my raw files onto these posts. Why? Because I don't want other people taking my work and editing it for their use or pleasure.

Sometimes folks post raw shots for others to see. But those are for the viewer to get a look at how a lens or camera performs for example. Or the shot is posted so people can download it and try a certain photoshop technique. This isn't that kind of a post. This post is about showing how much I capture in camera vs. what I create afterwards and I hope it helps to shed some light on what I do.

To start off I pretty much use Lightroom for ALL of my work. This is largely in part to time. I'm not opposed to Photoshop in any way and kudos to those who choose to use it for their work. But with a full time photography company and full time Youtube Channel, I just need the streamlined workflow of Lightroom to get my work done quickly. The only times I would use Photoshop would perhaps be for images being submitted to a competition etc. The work you see on Youtube and on my website is all Lightroom only.

So I did this shoot with a beautiful model named Jazmen Parker in Oceanside, California. I used the Sony A7Rii with the Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens. I used the Flashpoint Xplor600 in High Speed Sync for off camera flash.

To be able to illustrate how my shots look in Raw I did screen captures of select images from the shoot while open in Lightroom. These shots are seen in the gallery below:

I then exported these same shots as shown in the screen captures as completely unedited (SOOC) jpegs. This gallery is below:

And here are my shots that were edited using Lightroom only

I truly hope this post helps to shed a little light on what images look like out of the camera for a professional photographer. Links to gear are included below:

**Links to Gear:

*Sony A7Rii-

*Rokinon 14mm f/2.8-

*Flashpoint Xplor 600-

*Westcott Rapid Box XL-

Jason

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