my goal is to give you a quick rundown of the Fujifilm X100 series, what’s new with the X100VI (compared to its predecessors), and how it compares to some of the competitors within the same camera niche i.e. premium point-and-shoots. This is not a blog to persuade you toward a camera like this one - especially since they are nigh-impossible…

In the last decade, the photography world has totally shifted, especially with the exponential boom of social media and its influencers. Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube have built up all kinds…

I’ve launched a preset pack and an online store called Hipster Presets! This is such an exciting new venture for me as I work toward making content creation in the field of Photography my primary source of...

I use Ilford liquid chemicals to develop my film - Ilfosol-3, Ilfostop, and Rapid Fixer. Each one requires a specific dilution to get your film looking right. Otherwise, you could over or under develop, not stop the reaction correctly, or worse, wash the emulsion right off...

Pinhole photography is a style (field, perhaps) of photography where instead of using a traditional glass lens that refracts and focuses light to create a sharp crispy image and allows for different apertures and focus depths, you use a tiny little hole to allow light to pass into a camera body. The pinhole, because it is so small, allows for an image to be…

“Are the ISO settings across different camera brands and analog film types really the same?” As someone who thrives on both the technical and the artistic details of photography, I decided to dive headfirst into this query in as scientific a method as possible. Armed with a digital camera, a large format film camera with a medium format film adapter, and a Polaroid I-2 camera, I set out on a mission to…

No surprise but I actually got on the pre-order of this camera. Ever since the X100V became impossible to get, except at an extreme markup, I decided if they ever released a newer version, I would purchase it since I am a huge fan of Fujifilm’s cameras and having a travel-friendly rangefinder style digital camera would be ideal for…

I had a grand vision of creating huge prints of my own. My experimental journey into panoramic photography began early 2022 and has taken many paths through a few photographic methods. After messing things up and testing things out, I’ve come to several conclusions that I am eager to share in this entry…

Long-exposure photography (as a subgenre of the larger genre of art photography) follows the same basic principles as non-long exposure-photography. In fact it has almost everything in common with it. The main (if not only) difference is that the shutter speed is lengthened past “proper” exposure to purposely create motion blur.

…I wanted to start using film and completely manual vintage cameras. This resolution would help me overcome a crutch I had become aware of. I felt that I had grown dependent on camera technology. Conveniently, I already owned an old Minolta SRT202 and a Pentax 6x7, but I had not really made much effort to…

The lens’s aperture is a mechanism that, like an eye’s pupil, dilates and constricts to let more or less light pass through the shutter and into the camera body where the sensor is housed. The aperture has two major effects on a photo. Firstly, it will…

As outdoor photographer/filmmakers, we have an added obstacle in that weather rarely cooperates. This is particularly the case during fall, winter, and spring (my preferred seasons for landscape photography). In this journal entry, I want to discuss…

I have a theory. Today’s landscape photographers are experiencing a similar situation to the early landscape photographers in that it is challenging to get noticed.

Back in the early days of…

There is so much potential for wonderful lighting conditions during this time of day, so you definitely don’t want to waste it by photographing the wrong direction which is why…

My personal landscape photography gear list is by no means budget friendly, but it has served me well and will continue to serve me well for many years to come.

Why do I wake up at 5am to photograph landscapes at dawn whether I'm getting good light or not?…

…you might be asking yourself "What the heck is a portfolio anyway? Isn't my Instagram feed my portfolio?" Yes, and no. In one sense, your collection of images captured, posted, shared, etc. is the progress you've made in your personal artist's journey, but to call it a "portfolio" is potentially limiting yourself.