Minimal Gear For My architectural Photography

After purchasing my first DSLR, I distinctively remember being very excited and my choice. Since my aim was to learn, I purchased every magazine out there that had a “How To……………” on the cover. Inside every one of these magazines, I found a new camera or new lens review, a camera comparison and with all…

Travelling light

I love travelling and you will never find me travelling without my camera. For short travels, I keep things to the bare essentials. This includes a body, a wide angle lens which is my ever faithful Canon 17-40mm f/4 and a telephoto my Canon 70 – 400mm f/4, ND filters and as many SD cards…

Has film imitation gone too far?

If you’ve been following this blog for a while you will notice that for the past couple years, I’ve been into film and trying to perfect my practice. Last night while editing, while I was using one of my favourite plugins Nik Effex, I realised that it includes Analog Effex Pro. As the name suggest,…

Nikon announces a new mirrorless camera

After years and month of speculation Nikon finally announces its first full frame mirrorless camera. Along with the new camera a brand new range of lenses have also been announced. If you are already a Nikon user, don’t fret an F-Mount adaptor will also be made available in order to use your old lenses. Have…

Using ND filters for night photography

When I first tried my hand at night photography, there were something about the images that left me unsatisfied. To be quite honest, the images were simply dull and not what I was looking forward to especially  since  the images will later be in black and white. I wanted a result that captured the city…

New black and white films to get excited about

I’ve promised myself that this year I would improve my film skills whether it is shooting or developing. I’ve been shooting more film but I’m yet to develop any of my own films. The exciting part of shooting film is trying out various films to see which ones suit me best. To start with I…

Review of the Cokin graduted ND Filters

As I shoot mainly landscapes, filters are my best friends. As you can imagine I have a couple that I use constantly. The polarizing filter and the UV filters. As you add more lenses to your collections buying individual filters become expensive (even though I personally prefer them. Just clumsy of nature). I went for…

Items I’d like to add to my kit

Hope everyone had a good week so far. I’ve been searching for an all purpose lens for a while. As you may know, I am one of those people that  will do with whatever lens on hand. But I’ve been looking for an all purpose for a while. However, the prices were not very attractive…

Fujifilm X10 & X100s – Worth the buy or a waste?

Shopping for a birthday gift last week I came accross the Fujiflim X10 which had been reduced.I’ve been looking for a compact camere for as long as I can remember. What made me lose sleep over this camera is that it’s only function is MANUAL. Why just Manual function?   We all know that I…