I’m selling a bunch of gear, so I’ll be posting some of my fav images shot with that equipment, sort of as a farewell or a homage. This one is shot using the budget XC 50-230mm lens. It is a very underrated lens, doubly so because it suffers the ignominity of being the mk I …
Using GF50mm for Portraiture
Portrait of Mr. Phua: Making Space Where There Is None — with the GF 50mm Some portraits stay with you long after the shutter clicks. This one — of SK Phua, the master craftsman carpenter in his impossibly packed workshop — is one of them. The space was tight. Every inch of wall, floor, and …
What to Expect for your Portraiture shoot?
This is not a photoshoot in the traditional sense. It’s not about looking TikTok fake. But it is about look the best you. It’s about being present. About arriving just as you are — with your stories, your scars, your strength — and creating something meaningful from it. My Emotive Fine Art Portraiture sessions …
Photography 101: Start Here!
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 …