Photo by Daniel Kiechle

Christmas Dreams

I was struck by the dreamy look in this young boy’s eyes with the Christmas tree lights in the background. The opening of the presents was still a few days off; was he thinking of what may be in the packages under the tree? I shot this with a Fujifilm X-T5 camera with a Fujifilm XF 33mm f/1.4 R LM WR prime lens. The camera was set to 1/125s in shutter speed priority mode and I adjusted the ISO so that I could use the maximum opening of the lens at f/1.4 to keep the background out of focus.

Editing notesThis is a small crop of a larger photo shot in landscape format. I used Resize AI to size the image so that it would print properly in an 8 × 10 format. I also use Portrait AI to slightly whiten the eyes. I almost always add a vignette; in this case, I wanted to draw the viewer’s eyes to the boy’s face. All processing was done in ON1 Photo RAW 2026 Max in June 2026.

X-T5
ƒ/1.4
33mm
ISO 320
1/125 sec

Christmas Dreams

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