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  • Secret Gem – Kipon Iberit 75mm f2.4

    Secret Gem – Kipon Iberit 75mm f2.4

    The Kipon IBERIT 75mm f2.4 is a relatively unknown third-party lens, but is a true gem and a street machine! I’ve written about this lens a few times but it’s sort of fallen out of the general discussion of special secret sauce lenses, so here I share some experiences and photos taken recently with it…

  • Fujifilm 90mm f2 | Streets In The Snow

    Fujifilm 90mm f2 | Streets In The Snow

    It’s been snowing like crazy the last few days here in southern Japan which is rather rare. It’s also been a while since I’ve shot in the snow, so the other night I grabbed my X-T3 and 90mm and took this opportunity and go out in the usual fashion as a creepy foreigner to wanders…

  • How To Create A Better Film Grain In Lightroom

    How To Create A Better Film Grain In Lightroom

    This is a quick little tutorial on how you can improve your grain in Lightroom. There are limited grain controls in Lightroom, but if you use them correctly you can do some pretty cool things and create some very film-like grain.

  • Mochitsuki Mochi With The Fujifilm X-T3

    Mochitsuki Mochi With The Fujifilm X-T3

    It’s the end of the year and it’s time to smash mochi rice into little rice cakes. In Japan, it’s called Mochitsuki, or Mochitsuki festival. Friends, family, or neighborhoods get together, bring mochi rice and everyone works together to smash the rice into a mochi paste after steaming it.

  • The Secret To A Better Film Look

    The Secret To A Better Film Look

    In this tutorial, we go over how to use the Lightroom calibration tool to help achieve a better film look. 

  • Canon R6 Impressions – It’s Just A Ton Of Fun

    Canon R6 Impressions – It’s Just A Ton Of Fun

    The Canon R6 is easily one of the best hybrid cameras you can buy today and it’s a ton of fun to shoot with. Here is why.

  • Shutter Speed, Why You Should Stop Ignoring It

    Shutter Speed, Why You Should Stop Ignoring It

    Shutter speed is often one of those settings on a camera that photographers overlook. Most photographers these days just put their camera in aperture priority mode and let the camera decide shutter speed for them. While doing this is fine for most people and most situations, you might be ignoring some artistic potential, some mood,…

  • 3 Big Improvements to the Nikon Z6 II Autofocus

    3 Big Improvements to the Nikon Z6 II Autofocus

    Here are the three big improvements to the Nikon Z 6II’s autofocus system compared to the older Z6.

  • Lightroom 10.0 – New Features Are Game-Changing

    Lightroom 10.0 – New Features Are Game-Changing

    Lightroom has just released a nice update that brings in a few new features and performance improvements. Typically when Lightroom does their updates they are usually small little baby steps to a better product, which is great as it allows us to adjust and get used to the new features gradually, compared to if they…

  • Beach Volleyball – Nikon Z6, 85mm f1.8 S Samples

    Beach Volleyball – Nikon Z6, 85mm f1.8 S Samples

    Last night the Volleyball bros were at it again. It’s like 90 degrees out in the middle of October and the water is 72 degrees so it’s been pretty amazing down at the beach. I went down with the fam and brought along my Z6 to shoot the kids and some of the guys playing.