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02 Sep

Fujifilm XF 23mm f/1.4 R LM WR First Look – Street style Perfection

By now it should be no secret to the long time readers of this blog that I started my Fujifilm photography career with the X100 in 2011 and added the X-Pro1 with the XF35mm f/1.4 shortly after. I have been using that combo of focal...

02 Sep

Fujifilm XF 33mm f/1.4 R LM WR first look – Lifting the Heritage

If you ask any diehard Fujifilm X series photographer what their top 3 favourite lenses for the system is, there’s a very good chance that the XF35mm f/1.4R will be among those lenses. It was the first lens I bought for my X-Pro1 back in...

14:13 / 33mm / 33mm f/1.4R LM WR / 35mm / b&w / black and white / color / feature / Featured / FUJIFILM / fujifilm nordic / fujinon / Photography / Review / Street / XF33mm / XF33mm f/1.4

24 Aug

Pic(k) of the week 34: CHASING THE VOLCANOS – MOUNT ADAMS

In 2009, we rented a 4 seat Cessna C172 in the San Francisco area and flew along the Oregon coastline towards Seattle. The return of the 8 day trip, was flown inland over the cascade range of volcanos such as Mt Rainier, Mt Helen,...

19:19 / Aerial / black and white / cascade / chasing volcanos / dramatic / mountain / oregon / snow / volcano / Washington

13 Aug

Shooting Local

Well it’s becoming a thing ! I started shooting local a few weeks back and must say it’s become very interesting. I decided to start exploring my local area on foot as my previous blog posts have mentioned but instead of going out all...

13:51 / Allerton Road / black and white / Colour / FUJIFILM / instagram / Liverpool / Matt Hart / Matthew Hart / People / Photography / Street photography

03 Aug

Art v Photography

Just as I was getting back in to my street photography the weather changed. It’s one of those things that are character building. Colour Street Photography requires consistency and getting the lighting right means I get the image consistency in camera. So a...

06:10 / Art / black and white / coffee shops / draw / Liverpool / Matt Hart / Photography / sketch / Street / Street photography / Windows

31 Jul

Steep Learning Curve !

Apples ! Lesson 1 Apples ! I am resisting all temptation to jump ahead to what I want to do and forcing myself to follow a few books. It’s not easy because you have to draw things you don’t really like. I don’t mind...

16:07 / apples / Art / black and white / drawing / Matt Hart / Matthew Hart / pencils / sketch / Sketching / Still Life

16 Jul

Instagram Gentrification !

With the recent announcement from the Instagram CEO we now have big changes coming for video and algorithms on Instagram to push video and promote video and push out the other creatives. I guess it was always going to happen, it’s always the...

06:34 / black and white / Facebook / gentrification / instagram / Matt Hart / Photography / Twitter

15 Jul

Today I Quit Twitter !

Real LifeToday I quit Twitter I also quit TikTok, last month I quit Facebook. I had always planned to quit social media at 60 Years old when I fully retired, but I can’t see the point in holding on for another couple of years....

19:19 / anxiety / black and white / detoxing / Dyslexia / Facebook / Matt Hart / mental health / Photography / Social Media / TikTok / Twitter

12 Jul

Carla Monaco in Bristol

This is a collection of photographs of Carla Monaco taken in Bristol during my Urban Portraits workshops in July 2021. The aims of the workshops are to teach how to find and use great light in the urban environment and...

13:12 / black and white / Carla Monaco / damien lovegrove / flash / Fujifilm GFX50s / Godox AD200 / Location / luts / Railway wagons / Scatterflash / tunnel lighting / Urban portraits / workshop

26 Jun

Pic(k) of the week 25: STORMY SKIES OVER FLANDERS FIELDS

One of the things, I appreciate when traveling to my home country Belgium, is the variety of the weather during the course of a single week, sometimes even a single day. In late spring it is quite common for thunderstorms to develop in the...

07:54 / black and white / bow / cloud / dramatic / FUJIFILM / landscape / Roeselare / Staden / storm / X-E4 / xf18- / XF18f14