Category: Stories
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My Street Photography Walk with the Canon R8 Changed Everything About My Fitness
Somebody once said golf is a good walk spoiled. I have spoiled plenty of walks on purpose, with a camera. It is the only exercise I have ever figured out how to do without hating every second of it. Tell me to go do cardio and my brain negotiates like it is a hostage situation.…
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They Were Wrong About the Leica Q
Dismissing the Leica Q as just a point and shoot was pigeonholing. It was meant to rank it below the Leica M. After ten years of ownership, I understand this camera better than ever. The lens: the same 28mm Summilux, carried unchanged through the original Q, the Q2, and the Q3. Not a revision, not…
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Is this Sony Lens Broken? Sony A6700 with 16-50mm Kit Lens.@JasonVong HELLLLPP!
Help a brother out. Just got the Sony a6700, a camera I have wanted since I sold my RX100V. But listen to this kit lens when it opens up. The 16-50mm. Listen closely. Does that sound right to you? Because that cannot be right. It retracts without a problem, but opening? Something is grinding in…
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The Best Black and White Fujifilm Sensor
I have shot every Fujifilm APS-C sensor. Sixteen megapixel, twenty four, twenty six, forty, plus the little 12 megapixel compact. And Fujifilm accidentally made the best monochrome camera in Fujifilm history: the 2015 X-Pro2 with the X-Trans 3 sensor. The magic formula is plain Monochrome with the red filter. Not Acros. Not any recipe. I…
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There Is No Such Thing as a “Beginner Camera”
If you are a photography YouTuber and you call a camera a beginner camera, you are part of the marketing. You are not part of the photography. Here is what that label does. It tells somebody their camera is not good enough to take them to the next level, so they buy the starter, then…
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Work the Scene, Not the People
Beginners should not approach people. Work the scene, do not work the people. The people teaching you street photography online are full of it. Especially the ones who say if it is not good enough, it is because you are not close enough. That phrase came from a war photographer. Capa. In war, get close.…
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Did You Know You Could Remove The Color Filter From Your Fujifilm X-Pro2?
Quick one. I made a long video about the monochrome setting on the Fujifilm X-Pro2 with the R filter, and it is the best black and white I have ever shot on any camera, anywhere, anytime. Go watch that one if you have not. Then a commenter asked why I bother with a monochrome setting…
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The 180° Rule Isn’t What You Think (Street Photography)
I don’t believe in rules. Except the 180 degree rule, and most people get it wrong. It does not mean shoot directly into the sun. It is about the direction of the light. If the light is behind you, your photos go flat. Safe. Lifeless. Turn around, or shift five steps, and the same street,…
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My Wife BUSTED My Gear Acquisition Syndrome with One Sentence. Will I Buy a New Camera Ever Again?
Oh fellas. They’re on to us. I have Gear Acquisition Syndrome like nobody you have ever met. I am the gas man. And I was about to buy another camera, so I did the honest thing and told my wife, since she manages the money. She asked one question. “What does it do different than…
