Venga Forever: Shooting a London car meet with the Fujifilm X-A1

Years a go I used to spend a lot of time shooting and editing photos of cars. I'd go to shows at the weekend, shoot a bunch of photos and slowly post them to instagram. Doing this was great, but I always took way too much gear:

• DSLR with Battery Grip

• 50mm

• 85mm

• 135mm

• 24-70mm

• Battery

• Fisheye

• Speedlight

• Spare Battery

• Emergency SD card which I’m not sure actually works

• Snack

• Polaroid

• Another Spare Battery

I would take all of this stuff with me every time, and guess what, I'd end up using none of it, maybe a couple of lenses, at most.

It was overkill and I always wondered if I reduced down the amount of gear I used, would I still get all the shots I wanted or would I find myself wishing I'd brought everything, just incase.

Years later (literally right now) I started carrying the Fujifilm X-A1 with me everyday, it’s small enough to carry around without thinking about which lens I should have or what I might be missing out on, and good enough to get a decent picture when the light’s right.

Anyway, when I heard one of the best meets in London was coming up I thought it would be fun to shoot one more car meet with a totally different camera and see what I could get.

And this is it! These are my best shots from the day, it was really weird trying to compose with such a wide lens, the TTArtisan 27mm was fun to shoot with, I'm a fan of prime lenses so having to rethink frames to a new focal length was an interesting challenge.

I shot everything RAW and processed in Lightroom, I'm pleased with how a bunch of these came out, there are even a couple in here which made it to the portfolio.

Never underestimate this little gem of a camera, I'm telling you now, what you can get out of these things is fantastic, if you're not shooting an old Fuji of some kind you're missing out.

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Enjoy!