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<\/p>\nI shot these photos with Amanda in 2020, which seems like forever ago.\u00a0 Don’t know why I passed by these specific ones on the first pass.\u00a0 I think that’s the cool thing about digging thru the archives of old photoshoots.\u00a0 Even some of the off poses can have their own charm when they’ve had to time to sit.\u00a0 I do remember on that day I specifically wanted to shoot with my old Nikon D300 and the Nikon J1 with an adapted 35mm 1.8.\u00a0 A bit related to yesterday’s post with the soft couch vibes color grades, this one is more earthy tones that would look great printed on matte velvet paper.<\/p>\n
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Oh yes, what song on Boon’s Ultimate Random\u2122 playlist stood out to me as I was editing the fly away hairs that didn’t belong? Let’s see, just now “Black Balloon” by the Goo Goo Dolls just ended, I always have fond memories attached to that song, and it just went to “The Fear” by Trustcompany.\u00a0 That’s a pretty good transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I shot these photos with Amanda in 2020, which seems like forever ago.\u00a0 Don’t know why I passed by these specific ones on the first pass.\u00a0 I think that’s the cool thing about digging thru the archives of old photoshoots.\u00a0 Even some of the off poses can have their own charm when they’ve had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[173,37,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-94461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-color","9":"tag-nikon","10":"tag-portraits","12":"post-with-thumbnail","13":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Soft-Earthy-Vibes-2024-12-A-008_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-ozz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78484,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/spring-in-georgia-gfx\/","url_meta":{"origin":94461,"position":0},"title":"Spring in Georgia + GFX","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"March 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Model: Amanda\u00a0 |\u00a0 Gear: GFX and Nikon 50mm 1.8 Ai-S The dynamic range and tones available in the GFX raw files are something else.\u00a0 Really a lot of latitude to pull back highlights in skies.","rel":"","context":"In "Photos"","block_context":{"text":"Photos","link":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/category\/photos\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Spring-in-Georgia-March-04-001_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Spring-in-Georgia-March-04-001_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Spring-in-Georgia-March-04-001_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Spring-in-Georgia-March-04-001_b-vong.com_Boon-Vong.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":112837,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/fujifilm-gfx-50s-nikon-35-80mm-f-4-5-6-samples\/","url_meta":{"origin":94461,"position":1},"title":"Fujifilm GFX 50S + Nikon 35-80mm f\/4-5.6 Samples","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"July 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"After tinkering with the broken Nikon 35-70mm on the GFX I replaced it with a Nikon 35-80mm instead! 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