A collection of photos I took at the Denver Botanic Gardens. This was my first time using focus peaking on my Fuji X-E5 and boy, was I missing out.
I’ve been shooting the X-E5 like every other digital camera I’ve used: half-pressing, trusting the box to find the subject, firing away. Functional. Forgettable.
I went out with the intention of slowing down and getting more comfortable with digital and creating a scene. So I flipped the focus ring to manual, turned on peaking, and started shooting the way I shoot my film cameras: deliberately, one frame at a time, actually looking at the thing before I committed to it.
It turns out all I had to do was shoot my digital camera like a film camera and my photos turn out better. Funny how often that’s the lesson. The constraint wasn’t the gear. It was me, moving too fast to see.