Wanna know how to harness the power of black and white photography to tell better stories with your portraits? Looking for ways to better connect with the people you’re shooting? Watch the video below for a very special portrait session that Jason conducted with an old man named Wiley from Turkey Creek, Florida.

This video is about the power of black and white photography with portraits and how it has the ability to remove distractions and help you see right into the subject that you are capturing. Jason also discusses the power that photography has to help bring people together and how that is a critical trait for any successful photographer to develop.

Below are images taken at the shoot with the Sony 100mm STF G Master lens

Below are images that Jason took using the Sigma 20mm Art Lens

All images were taken using the Sony A9 with a 600 watt second monolight using a 48 inch octabox.

**Links to Gear:

*Sony A9- https://bhpho.to/31qNTlv

*Sony 100mm STF- https://bhpho.to/2HTv9oT

*Sigma 20mm Art Lens- https://bhpho.to/2EUkyrY

**Links to Social Media:

*Website- www.jasonlanier.com

*Instagram- www.instagram.com/jasonlanierphotography

*Youtube- www.youtube.com/jasonlanierpros

A big thanks to Wiley with Gillespie Auto Parts for doing the shoot. Also so appreciative of Anthony Schick and Artemus Burton for their help in making this shoot happen. You can find links to their Instagram accounts below:

https://www.instagram.com/anthonyschickphotography

https://www.instagram.com/artemus_burton_photos/

Thank you for taking the time to watch this video. We truly hope you found it to be useful and hope you stick around to watch a few more!

Thanks,

Jason Lanier Photography

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Recently I had the opportunity to borrow the Sony FE 100mm STF lens from Sony to test out. My followers asked me to not only shoot it on my A7Rii as is typically the case for me, but to also shoot it on some lower cost Sony mirrorless bodies that my followers can more easily afford.

So we went down to Balboa Park in San Diego and it POURED rain. I put the 100mm STF on my Sony A7ii and commenced to do a shoot where I illuminated the model in the rain by using the Flashpoint Xplor 600 as my backlight and the Rotolight Anova Pro as my key light with a 2 Stop Diffuser by Westcott called the Illuminator.

I gotta say I was very impressed with the lens. My full write and recommendation will be in a following post and video, but I wasn't disappointed by this lens at all. It has an F stop of 2.8 and a T stop of 5.6. It was very sharp, it found focus very quickly and it was a challenging condition to shoot in.

As you'll see in the video it held up just fine with some rain getting on it and didn't give me any issues at all. Towards the end of the shoot I really started to test the STF Smooth Trans Focus elements of the lens. It's pretty amazing how that lens can turn virtually any light source into a gorgeous Bokeh ball. I can't wait to do more testing on that.

Below are some of the images taken during the shoot. These were all shot wide open at the aperture of f/2.8 but the t stop value of 5.6. ISO range was anywhere from 2,000 or higher with a shutter speed at 1/60 sec. I think this lens is a keeper....but more on that in my full review. I have more shoots to do with it but just wanted to share this one on the A7ii. I hope it also helps people out there that I did it with a more affordable camera body like the A7ii.