Tsim sha Tsui at 0.95 in low light
(The back alleyways on Chunking Mansions, great light always) Note: All shots on the Leica M9 with SLR Magic 50mm 0.95 hyperprime. All processed with VSCO Film Presets in Lightroom 4. Tsim sha Tsui is one of my favourite places to shoot in Hong Kong, you have the diversity of rich and poor all in [...]
Street Photography with Fuji XPro1
NOTE: All images shot on Fuji XPro1 and Fujinon 35mm 1.4 lens with autofocus only. We’ve had our hands on the Fuji XPro1 for about a week now, and starting to get used to it and its nuances. Yesterday myself and a few friends met up in Soho and headed over to Temple Street in Kowloon [...]
Guest post: Shooting film in Cambodia (Rocco)
Note: This post is written and all photos by Rocco Paduano who attended both our Street Photography and Cambodia workshop over a period of two weekends. Rocco is partial to film cameras as well as his digital M9, this trip he took both, this is his story. - Gary Tyson, Director F8 Photography. (Playful children jump onto [...]
Guest Post: My Cambodia experience (Trevor)
Note: This post is written and all photos by Trevor Smith who attended both our Street Photography and Cambodia workshop over a period of two weekends. Trevor works in Saudi Arabia so had a long journey to be with us, this is his story. - Gary Tyson, Director F8 Photography. (The eyes are the window to the [...]
EXCLUSIVE: SLR MAGIC 50mm 0.95 on M9/XPro1
(Watch seller – Kowloon – Fuji XPro1, JPEG FINE) UPDATE: I made some comments about the white balance on the Fuji not being so great later in this post – I retract that statement as I had the camera set to VELVIA mode, so the colours are naturally boosted, making skintones much yellower than the [...]
Cambodia – Me & my Leica M9
Note: This is not a technical review of the Leica M9 in any way shape or form, its purely my own view of the experience of using one in the field with the images I shot to support my views, I also comment here about some AMAZING Zeiss lenses that I have been using that [...]
SLR MAGIC 50mm 0.95 Hyperprime (FIRST LOOK)
(First shots wide open in Lan Kwai Fong) Anyone that shoots Leica M cameras may have heard the buzz that is going around currently about this new 50mm lens that is due to come out later in 2012. We were lucky enough to meet Andrew Chan from SLR MAGIC who let us have a play [...]
No Photos allowed…..or are they? (VIDEO)
In recent news here in Hong Kong there has been much controversy about photographers rights to shoot in public places (in particular in front of large branded designer stores, etc). Security guards have been misinformed by their employers about what is ‘public space’ in front of a shop and therefore this has led to confusion, [...]
Street Photography…underground
Something I hear a lot is “I went out shooting and there was nothing to see”, well my honest reply is…..“there is ALWAYS something to shoot”, no matter where you are, there are always things to find of interest, be it people, buildings, landscapes or even subway station markings as was the case in subject for [...]
So Uk – The oldest government housing in Hong Kong
Sunday morning, and myself and good friend and fellow Leica photographer ‘Rocco’ met up for a traditional English breakfast in Soho before deciding where to head out for some street photography on this pleasantly sunny but chilly Sunday morning. We decided to visit ‘So Uk’ in Cheung Sha Wan, reported as the oldest government housing [...]
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