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The Power of Black and White Photography

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The Power of Black and White Photography

Wanna know how to harness the power of black and white photography to tell better stories with your portraits? Looking for ways to better connect with the people you’re shooting? Watch the video below for a very special portrait session that Jason conducted with an old man named Wiley from Turkey Creek, Florida.

This video is about the power of black and white photography with portraits and how it has the ability to remove distractions and help you see right into the subject that you are capturing. Jason also discusses the power that photography has to help bring people together and how that is a critical trait for any successful photographer to develop.

Below are images taken at the shoot with the Sony 100mm STF G Master lens

Below are images that Jason took using the Sigma 20mm Art Lens

All images were taken using the Sony A9 with a 600 watt second monolight using a 48 inch octabox.

**Links to Gear:

*Sony A9- https://bhpho.to/31qNTlv

*Sony 100mm STF- https://bhpho.to/2HTv9oT

*Sigma 20mm Art Lens- https://bhpho.to/2EUkyrY

**Links to Social Media:

*Website- www.jasonlanier.com

*Instagram- www.instagram.com/jasonlanierphotography

*Youtube- www.youtube.com/jasonlanierpros

A big thanks to Wiley with Gillespie Auto Parts for doing the shoot. Also so appreciative of Anthony Schick and Artemus Burton for their help in making this shoot happen. You can find links to their Instagram accounts below:

https://www.instagram.com/anthonyschickphotography

https://www.instagram.com/artemus_burton_photos/

Thank you for taking the time to watch this video. We truly hope you found it to be useful and hope you stick around to watch a few more!

Thanks,

Jason Lanier Photography

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Using the Sigma MC-11 Adapter with Sigma and Canon Lenses

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Using the Sigma MC-11 Adapter with Sigma and Canon Lenses

I get lots of questions about the adapted lenses that I use.  Should I use the Sigma MC-11 Adapter or the Metabones Adapter?  Well recently I had the opportunity to shoot with the MC-11 Adapter during my commercial shoot for Mia Bella Couture.  

First I used the 20mm f/1.4 Art lens that I was really excited to try.  It's the fastest aperture wide angle lens on the market that also does Auto Focus.  It's a canon mount lens made by Sigma and I have to say...it is truly a nice lens.  Very sharp and when paired with the MC-11 Adapter it behaves as close to a native Sony FE lens that you will find.  Below are some of the shots taken with the 20mm Art lens on my Sony A7Rii.  All shots were taken at f/1.4:

I then wanted to get some shots a little bit tighter so I put the 85mm Canon L lens on it and shot it wide open at f/1.2.  The adapter performed at the same level as the Metabones adapter which was really nice to see.  Below are shots taken with the 85mm:

The sun was close to being all the way set so I quickly put on the 200mm Canon L lens which also performed very well.  These were all taken at f/2.8:

All in all it was a great shoot and the MC11 performed very well.  Please take a moment to check out the video to see how the shoot went.  Flash was the Flashpoint Xplor600 with the Westcott Rapid Box XL as the modifier.  For links to the gear that was used please see below:

*Sony A7Rii-  

*Sigma MC11 Adapter-  

*Sigma 20mm f/1.4 lens-  

*Canon 85mm f/1.2 lens-  

*Canon 200mm f/2.8 lens-  

*Flashpoint Xplor600 monolight-  

*Westcott Rapid Box XL-  

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.  I truly hope the information is useful.  Please click on subscribe so you're notified everytime we have a new blog post...:)

Thanks!

Jason

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Sigma Art Lens 20mm f/1.4 Lens Review Canon Mount using the Sigma MC11 Adapter and the Sony A7Rii

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Sigma Art Lens 20mm f/1.4 Lens Review Canon Mount using the Sigma MC11 Adapter and the Sony A7Rii

One of the best things about shooting Sony is I get to use so many awesome adapted lenses.  I've used Minolta, Canon, Nikon alongside my native Sony glass for years now.  But recently Sigma announced a new adapter, the MC11, and this adapter opened up the Sigma Canon mount glass to the Sony World.

I already owned a lot of the lenses (either Canon or Sony) in the same focal range as the Sigma Art glass available.  The one lens that nobody offers except for Sigma is the 20mm f/1.4.  I had to give it a go.  So I bought it and started using it.

Simply put, it's a magnificent piece of glass for the price.  On the MC11 adapter it focuses very well and gives some fantastic results.  Shooting wide open it delivers very sharp results on the area of focus and creates some great separation between your subject and background, very reminiscent of that Zeiss pop that I'm used to with my Zeiss Batis and Sony Zeiss lenses.

Below are links to the gear used in the video I created to show you all what I think of this lens. There are also sample images taken.  I hope you enjoy and also hope it really helps you all out there!!

Links to Gear:

**Sony A7Rii

**Sigma 20mm f/1.4 lens

**Sigma MC11 Adapter

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