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 [...]
Eric Kim Street Photographer – Hong Kong (VIDEO)
Eric Kim was recently in Hong Kong running a street photography workshop in partnership with F8 Photography. After the workshop we had a few days to go around town shooting and on the last night we decided to catch Eric’s thoughts in a short interview to get his opinion on how the workshop went and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How we shoot Street Photography in Hong Kong (VIDEO)
A lot of people have been asking us how we get close up pictures of people out on the streets in Hong Kong, so we decided to make a short video to show exactly how we go about getting these images. We attached our little GOPRO video camera to the top of the Leica M9, [...]
Student Showcase – Lisa (composition)
Lisa is about halfway through the course now, and has recently been on a month long trip back to Europe so had plenty of time to concentrate on some of her homework, this time being ‘composition’. The brief was to take a few images that demonstrate some basic elements of composition after having had the [...]
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