Pete Elliott

So, my identify is Pete, and I’m a business photographer from The New Forest, UK.

I are likely to specialize in something open air, life-style and sport. It’s type of laborious to place a label on it as a result of ever since I picked up a digicam 5 years in the past, pictures has taken me down so many various pathways.

I’m genuinely completely happy so long as I’m exterior, with some good firm and with a digicam in my hand. That’s one thing that’s rung true all through my complete profession with pictures.

I began taking pictures landscapes because it was so pure for me to be open air. Household holidays had all the time consisted of climbing and snowboarding, so after I picked up a digicam after college, this sparked my love for being open air.

I like to push myself mentally and bodily and to be someplace most individuals would solely dream about being for dawn or sundown. The trials and tribulations of untamed tenting and climbing to distant areas are so fulfilling for me, and after I can look again on a picture and keep in mind the hassle that went into getting the shot, it’s what actually excites me.

I’ve all the time used mirrorless techniques. I really like the portability of them, and naturally, in recent times, they’re simply pretty much as good as DSLR techniques.

I’ve all the time shot with the Fujifilm X Collection, beginning with an XT-1 and making my approach as much as the Fujifilm X-T4, which is a superb hybrid digicam.

Each the Fujifilm X-T4 and the Fujifilm X-H2S are excellent cameras.

They actually swimsuit my run-and-gun taking pictures model and life on the whole. Each are weather-sealed and stand as much as the hardest situations, taking pictures in minus fifteen levels in winter and relentless rain in Scotland actually exams them out.

With Fujifilm, the power to pre-load movie presets into the digicam is, no doubt, my favorite function, and you’ll actually obtain these refined colors with this.

Since transferring into business pictures, I all the time go for primes in the case of taking pictures, supplying you with somewhat extra depth in photos and a way more skilled look. It may be somewhat extra time-consuming and a bit extra to hold, but it surely’s value it.

Fujifilm XF 16-55mm f/2.8 R LM WR – an amazing all rounder.

Fujifilm XF 23mm f/1.4 R LM WR – so compact and gives unbelievable bokeh.

Fujifilm XF33mm f/1.4 R LM WR – my favorite lens, not often leaves the digicam. Excellent for reaching depth in so many conditions.

Fujifilm XF 50-140mm f/2.8 OIS – an amazing sports activities lens with unbelievable autofocus.

Fujifilm XF10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR – strong large angle, no distortion and nice for getting up shut and immersing folks in photos (not in gear shot as away for restore).

My bag of selection for many every thing, tenting, snowboarding, climbing and pictures, is the Shimoda X50. It’s an amazing digicam bag for the fashionable adventurer. It takes all of my tenting gear, and I might be secure within the data my digicam equipment is nicely protected. 

Vanguard VEO Carbon Journey Tripod 2 265cb – it is a light-weight, dependable piece of equipment. Though I not often use it, it’s nonetheless extremely useful to have.

All of my edits are achieved in Lightroom. It’s a strong instrument for color grading, and I exploit Photoshop for minor changes and cleanup. I attempt to edit with pure colors and never go overboard, reasonably depicting the picture as I noticed it.

Out of doors Provisions Nut Butter – for me, it’s important for any journey out together with your digicam!

Capturing landscapes forces you to get exterior and discover the sweetness that surrounds us. Capturing folks forces you to attach with others and to search out out issues about folks.

After I get out into nature with simply my digicam, I’m fully current within the second. 

Pictures is a car that I’ve used to get into so many different issues, seeing new locations, assembly new folks, creating lifelong friendships, having new experiences and pushing the boundaries of my capabilities.

For this, I’ll be eternally grateful, and it’s some of the rewarding issues about this profession path.

Though I shoot commercially now, I’ll all the time keep in mind to take my digicam out for enjoyable as I did after I began out, with none attachment to the end result.

I all the time try to embrace a deeper that means in my work, to try to encourage others to get out and discover the sweetness this planet has to supply, and I hope that is mirrored in my work.

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