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 [...]

Nurturing Passion – Creating Capability

Arguably, in life, there are things that we either have or we don’t have… One of the key things that we look for in clients, when working with them to develop their skills in photography is a passion, a passion for the art and a passion for the subject. Easily developable are the skills associated [...]

Infrared Siem Reap – Cambodia

So another trip to Cambodia is well underway, including a short visit back to Siem Reap and the famous temples. I have been using the Leica M8 for some personal work over the last few months and not really had a chance to test it to its full potential yet, so thought I would bring [...]

Student Showcase – Catherine

One of my students that has almost finished the foundation course recently took a trip to Yunnan in China to practice some of the new skills she has learned throughout the course. Today we met briefly for a coffee and she showed me a few images that she took on her travels, and I found [...]

‘Som Tot Moy’ – F8 Exhibition in Soho, Hong Kong (VIDEO)

We exhibited our images from recent trips to Cambodia in Soho in January & February of 2011, with the aim to raise money for a Cambodian children’s charity.  Here’s the video from the opening night.  Thanks for all the support, we really appreciate people taking the time to see our work.

Cambodia… HDR with lights….

Second time around, place is just as amazing as ever for photography, this time brought along some speedlights for 3 light gritty look and combined some of these images with HDR techniques….

Cambodia Part 1

First recce to Cambodia, natural light shots….amazing place. Will be back for more in a few weeks….

China factory workers