Brandon Ballweg 
There’s a lot to like about Fujifilm mirrorless cameras for street photography with compact form factors, low weight, intuitive manual controls, and sleek designs. Fujifilm digital cameras do a great job of being an extension of your eye and just getting out of the way so you can focus on creating photos. In addition, their …
The Fujifilm XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR is a wide-angle, 15-36mm full-frame equivalent X-series cameras. It’s an update to the previous version of this lens, which was released in 2013. New to this version is weather sealing, markings to its aperture ring, and slightly lower weight. I haven’t done much landscape photography in my …
The Viltrox 56mm f/1.4 for Fujifilm is a budget-friendly, compact, lightweight, 85mm equivalent focal length prime lens for Fujifilm’s APS-C cameras that offers excellent image quality when you get the focus right (more on that later). It has a maximum aperture of f/1.4, making it a capable lens even in low light conditions. I like …
The Fujifilm Fujinon XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS is a wide-angle to mid-range zoom lens that is sold as a kit lens with some of Fujifilm’s cameras. There are very few bad new lenses sold these days but to think of this as “just a kit lens” doesn’t really do it justice. This lens …
The Fujifilm XF 60mm f/2.4 R Macro is a 90mm full-frame equivalent lens with very good sharpness and image quality. I’ve had this lens for a couple of years now, so I have a good idea of what it’s best suited for. If you’re looking for a lens that can do both macro photos and …
The Fujifilm XF 18mm f/2 R is a compact and lightweight wide angle prime lens with a 28mm-equivalent focal length. Its compact size and low weight makes it a great lens for street photography or other types of photography where you’re on-the-go and you need to be light on your feet and stealthy. The lens …
The Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2 R WR is a relatively compact and lightweight lens for Fujifilm’s X series APS-C cameras. It has a 35mm equivalent field of view. The size, weight, and weather sealing of this lens make it a great lens for street photography, documentary photography, or your every day carry lens. The slightly …
The Fujifilm XF27mm f/2.8 WR was released in March of 2021 and is available in a package along with the Fujifilm X-E4, which I reviewed here. The 27mm f/2.8 is a compact, pancake-style lens. This is the second version of this lens and although it has good image quality, Fujifilm, unfortunately, didn’t update the optics …
If you’re looking for a capable small camera for street photography, documentary photography, or your everyday carry, the Fujifilm X-E4 is a really satisfying camera to use and definitely worth considering. The Fujifilm X-E4 is the fourth iteration of Fujifilm’s compact, rangefinder-style APS-C sensor X-E line of cameras. It was released on March 4th of …
The Fujifilm X-T3 was a big hit when it first came out in September of 2018. It was praised for its jack-of-all-trades performance, as it does everything pretty well and doesn’t have many weak spots. Now that it’s been two years since its release and the next generation of this camera in out in the …
Taking Christmas images is fun and challenging and the photos are something you can look back on and appreciate for years to come, not unlike taking Thanksgiving images, which is a good opportunity to brush up on your photography if you’re rusty. But what you should focus on when it comes to taking Christmas images …
Now that Halloween is in the rearview mirror, Thanksgiving is that wonderful time of year when we count our blessings and get together with family. Who then promptly drive you crazy. Whether your family drives you nuts or not, Thanksgiving can be a fun time to get your camera out and make some photos. Making …
If you’ve read any beginner photography book or taken any courses, you’ve probably had the importance of the ‘golden hour’ drilled into you. Golden hour light, right around the time the sun is rising or setting, is a beautiful, soft, reddish-orange light that makes people look great. If you’re shooting portraits I think it’s a …
When hashtags first started being used, I thought they were tacky and annoying. I didn’t thing there was any good use for them, aside from annoying me. However, at least for promoting photography, I have come around to realizing that they can be used effectively to promote your work or a certain cause. On this …
Using fine art photography hashtags can give you a little boost in getting your foot in the door of the fine art photography world. I don’t think any up-and-coming fine art photographer is under the delusion that fine art photography hashtags aren’t the be-all and end-all of getting a fine art photography career off the …
Looking to get your astrophotography out there to a wider audience? Luckily, using hashtags is a really simple and totally free way of doing just that. All it takes is a couple extra steps when you publish your photos. Below, you’ll find all the best astrophotography hashtags and other related hashtags to get more likes …
Looking for some black and white photography hashtags to get your work out in front of more people? Using hashtags is a simple and free way of doing just that. If you want to do photography at the professional level, there are plenty of other marketing strategies you’ll need to do but using hashtags when …
Ricoh cameras are small, lightweight, and unobtrusive — just the way I like to shoot. Ricoh may not be as big as the likes of Canon, Nikon, or Sony, but Ricoh has carved out its own niche among street photographers and casual snapshooters who want better image quality and camera functions that cell phones can’t …
If you’re a photographer who shoots Sony gear, you probably want to get your photography out there to as wide of an audience as possible. To people who really want to see your work. A good way to do that is to use sony photography hashtags when you post your work to social media. It’s …
Fujifilm gear provides a unique photography experience that you don’t get with other brands. You get manual controls that give you a tactile feel that really let you connect with the photography that you’re doing. If you want to promote your photography shot on Fujifilm gear out there to a wider audience, using Fujifilm hashtags …
