Ramequins & a Tiny Flash
The alarm went off at 6:30 AM. I’m ok with alarms, but that’s about 45 minutes too early for my body clock. Fifteen years of this hasn’t moved the needle either—biology is stubborn. The routine, however, is nice. For a long time, I believed structure was a barrier I needed to destroy, but that’s not the case. It’s a rudder. Without it I’m doomed to float endlessly.
The images below are yet another episode of “dessert production”. It’s usually Anaïs but this time Heloïse wanted to give it a go. Needless to say I didn’t even look at the scale this morning—I went straight for the stair-stepper.
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A quick technical note: I’ve been playing around with the Fujifilm EF-X8 flash on my X-Pro3. It’s a small flip-up that essentially mimics a built-in camera flash. I saw Mustafa use this when were shooting NIGHTSHIFT and remembered I had one: it was actually still in its plastic bag, in a drawer; I think it came with my X-T3, but I’m not certain. I know I got it with a camera at some point… maybe even the X-T1?
Anyway, it’s fun. It’s not powerful (guide number is 26) and it quickly needs a break if you push it, but when it doesn’t work I just flip it down and keep going. It’s so unobtrusive that I haven’t felt the need to remove it from the camera. You can see it in action on image #6 of In Raw (Jacob looks like he posed behind the wood beam, but it’s the movement that’s frozen in place—he was running around). It’s also in a couple of shots here.
Nice little surprise—like finding a long lost birthday present.
