Out and about

‘Agil’, MS Maasdam

Nigel Atherton, Editor

Fujifilm X-T3, 56mm, 1/60sec at f/1.4, ISO 800

This year I was invited to become a guest presenter on a cruiseship, and sailed on two voyages. During the first one I started photographing the crew at work to test the limits of the Fujifilm X-T3 kit that I'd taken with me, and before I knew it I found myself shooting a documentary project about crew life, which I continued on my second trip a few months later. This is Agil, from Indonesia, who greets diners at the restaurant. It is one of the first pictures I took, and though I've since taken better ones this was the one that first made me think ‘there is a project in this', and sold me on the idea of doing it in black & white. Shooting a mixture of candid and posed shots, using fast prime lenses and mostly high ISOs, this portrait was captured using the gorgeous XF 56mm F1.2 R, atin a few weeks' time.