I heard that recent Godox triggers will work on all recent Godox flashes. Even across brands. For example, a X2T-F trigger (which is for Fujifilm hotshoe mount) can fire a TT685S flash which is for Sony hotshoe mount). I saw a few onsale on Carousell. Hmmm… buy and try! What can go wrong? …
The X-Pro1 in 2025 — Still My Quiet Workhorse
Self-portrait (I'm in the sliver in the centre of the revolving door, right where the arrows are pointing) shot with x-Pro1 and XF14mm f/2.8. The ISO was 200. I slowed the shutter to 1/17s so that I can get motion blur on the lady. Being set on AE priority, the computer inside X-Pro1 worked out ...
Modern Mayhem
The Summarit 5cm f/1.5: Old Soul, New Body There’s something beautifully rebellious about putting a 1950s Leica lens on a digital Fuji body. It’s a quiet protest against megapixels and MTF charts. A reminder that character beats clinical every single time. The lens in question? The Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Summarit 5cm f/1.5, proudly perched here on …
The Nifty Sixty (Three) GF63mm
Let’s talk about the GF63mm lens. If you shoot GFX, you probably already own it because was the "normal" lens that was paired as the "kit" lens with the early GFX bodies. The later bodies, like the GFX 50S II I own, are paired with the GF35-70mm lens (another great lens). For the longest ...
Portrait Photography
My Fine Art Portraiture photography sessions are designed for artists, survivors, seekers. You may be marking a transition, commemorating a milestone, or just be needing a new Linkedin pic. But together we can create something special. Before the Shoot: A Conversation, Not a Questionnaire Before we ever pick up the camera, we’ll schedule a reflective …
Myth of the “Intuitive” Photographer
I was watching (something online, can't remember) recently and I saw a very famous photographer saying something like: “Oh, I’m not a technical photographer.” while palming off their $20,000 Phase One to one of their many assistants. And every time I hear a famous photographer I admire proclaim that they are "not technical", a little ...
What a Fine Arts Degree Didn’t Teach Me (And What David Hobby Did)
I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the University of Washington. Four years of critique sessions, darkroom fumes, conceptual frameworks, and endlessly fascinating discussions about whether photography as art. And to be clear - I’m grateful for all of it. Those years shaped how I see, how I think, how I ...