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Mauricio Reis returned to the familiar shores of Figueira da Foz, Portugal, where he had captured many sunrises and sunsets over the years. As soon as he set foot on the serene banks of the Mondego River, memories flooded back of his photographic journey and the evolution of his equipment.…
Street photography in Portugal
(When the lines between genres are blurred and the rules don’t work) Many, perhaps most, of my photographs were taken during my travels. Traveling presents great opportunities for different types of photography. Considered, these can be portraiture, landscape photography, food photography, nature, wildlife photography or architecture photography. You can find…
Fujifilm X-T3 – It consistently delivers the results I need
It’s noon on a Tuesday in the South Lokichar Basin, and even though it’s a general rule to never shoot this time of day, directly under the sun, sometimes these things just aren’t in my control. I’m up here in northern Kenya, working on a story about how oil drilling…
Fuji X Passion Photography Magazine – February 2024
Hello everyone!The February issue has arrived. This edition features four fantastic and talented photographers and highlights their beautiful imagery, from portraits to landscapes. As always, each piece of work, each photograph, was made with a Fuji X camera.Contributors | SummaryA personal perspective through photographyby Fran BalseiroChasing light and vintage treasuresBy…
The Heart’s Shutter
Hey everyone! My name is Lina. I am half French, half Japanese – and I’ve been doing photography as a hobby for about 10 years now. There is this very poetic saying in Japanese – “心のシャッターを切る” or “pressing the heart’s shutter”. It means imprinting the scene you are seeing onto…
Embracing it all
I’m originally from Lancashire, but I’ve been living on the Isle of Anglesey for the last nine years, working in the hospitality industry. I live with views of the Menai Strait, looking out to the Carneddau Mountain range and, on a clear day, the peak of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) can…
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Photographing London with the Fuji XF35mm F2
Up until about a year ago, I suffered from a condition I can only describe as “Lens FOMO”. The notable symptom is the fear of missing out (FOMO) on the perfect photo because I don’t have the right lens with me. To combat this, I would always carry a full…
Fuji X-Pro1 “Leather Edition”
Hello everybody, let me introduce myself. My name is Jakub Gráf, but you may find me as @zahorizont and @grafworks_leathergoods on Instagram. My main focus is portrait photography, but for the last two years, I am also trying to improve my leathercraft skill. It has all began with the switch…
My Camera Set-Up and Settings for Fuji X Cameras
Hi everyone, and welcome to this blog post on the camera settings I use with the Fuji X System. This is a question I have received several times and it often comes up during workshops where I see so many folks struggling with their cameras and settings. Now, while the…
Shooting hybrid events with a Fuji X-T4
My name is André Wagenzik and I live as a photographer in Berlin. My main areas of activity include congress and conference photography. However, due to the corona pandemic since March of this year, almost all the events booked have been postponed or cancelled entirely within a few days. Fuji…
Travelling with the Fujifilm XF16-55mm F2.8
Hi Fuji X Passion, thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my passion and vision of photography. My name is Shinichi Kuroda. I’m Japanese and have been living in British Columbia, Canada, since 2006. I’m an amateur photographer, specializing in landscape and street photography. Fuji X-Pro2 . Fuji…
Fuji X-T family
Fujifilm F2 Lens Trinity: It’s time
Back in the early days, regardless of zoom lenses or prime lenses, Fujifilm had a very clear separation of the lens lineup, and they designed the lens with the photographers in mind. If you are a prime lens user, your “common” weapon of choice will fall into two different categories. The “Ultra-Fast Prime” and the “Compact Prime”. Left to right: XF50mm F2 . XF35mm F2 . XF23mm F2 In the…
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Premium/ Fujifilm Deliverance
As many of us already know and feel, making photography with Fujifilm is a powerful, pleasant and liberating experience. I will try to explain the best I can what is this sort of freedom and why is it so. However, I think this story can apply to those photographers who…
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Facundo Santana, one of the most acclaimed Wedding Photographers today, granted us this interview, in which he describes his career, the development of his style and his approach to this genre.You will find also a series of important tips and advice – simplicity is the keyword, his motto. And you…
Premium/ What makes a good photograph?
What makes a good photo is one of the essential questions when talking about photography. No matter the degree of proficiency in understanding and feeling the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.), we all have an inner compass which indicates (on a subjective level, of course), what photos are good,…
Visual Stories
Slow Salento
Let’s try to explain Salento, and to try, we need to take into consideration its nature as a peninsula – tending towards a cultural island – of a territory that…
Circus Madagascar during Covid-19
I live in Ascoli Piceno, a small town in central Italy. Here, too, the pandemic crisis’s effects were felt in all work sectors, blocking many activities, including mine. As a…
On the Tracks of the Krampus
“Like trying to hear snowflakesNo one can hear my callConsuming all the voicesDampened by the snowYou’d better not cheat and you’d better not cryAnd you’d better not lie, I’m telling…
When the mountain calls, I won’t pick up
It’s midnight in the mountains. A storm is raging around us. Lightning and thunder are shaking the earth. Small stones are crumbling from the ceiling of our cave. I can…
Ritesh Ghosh – The Making of a Photographer
Hello Ritesh Ghosh! It’s a pleasure to have you again in the Fuji X Passion project, this time to be interviewed. Could you make a brief presentation of yourself? Hello and Thank You for having me once again on Fuji X Passion. My name is Ritesh Ghosh and I am…
Beauty right in front of your eyes
I’m Sam and I am based in Kent, England. I work full time but spend my free time as a landscape photographer. When I get the chance, I also love to travel and capture some beautiful locations across the world. I was always the one to have the camera with…
Small Towns, Great Impressions
When we planned to visit Portugal again in 2022, we wanted to travel through the territory north of Lisbon. I turned to several friends to help us decide where exactly to go, and in response, I received lists of small cities that would be worth visiting. Also came some recommendations…
Panic Switch
From time to time, Fernando travels to the south of Chile for work. This time he contacted me to take some photos in Valdivia. We only had a couple of days to think about the place while Fernando got the dancers. I thought of a place that is central and…
This week’s best on Instagram
We hope everyone is doing well and with a huge desire to photograph. To help you with your inspiration, we’ve made the weekly selection of the best photos tagged @fujixpassion on Instagram. Grab your camera and enjoy your weekend! Geoffrey G – @dyptre Lars Urbas – @_lighthunter_Fuji X-T4 Marcelo de…
The Untold Stories
Thank you David for accepting this invitation for an interview. Could you please start by introducing yourself to our readers? I am from Belgium where I studied photography in the beginning of the nineties. Since 1993 I have lived abroad and I am presently based in Budapest. Although dedicating all…
The tools of my trade
For several years now, I have used laptops to process my RAW files. I started with a PC and moved on to a Macbook because many professionals were using it.…
Great stories need great pictures – Fuji X and corporate influencing
People love stories, but stories need good photos – at least when it comes to corporate stories. I work in product management for Siemens’ industrial division in Nuremberg, Germany, and…
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If you could only choose one focal length to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? Fortunately, it was not for life, but only for a…
Skateboarding, Photography and Life
My name is Warwick Cairns. I’m 57 years old and I live in Windsor, in England, with my wife, my two daughters and our two dogs. I work in advertising.…
Premium/ I like to become invisible at weddings but at the same time be a part of them
Facundo Santana, one of the most acclaimed Wedding Photographers today, granted us this interview, in which he describes his career, the development of his style and his approach to this…
Peper Harow, the Fuji X-Pro2 and the Fujinon XF100-400mm
Even the very name is redolent of past times, often characterised by sticking an e one the ende ofe everythinge. It’s a small, picturesque pre-Domesday Book village in the Surrey…
My “40mm” Point of View
In 2012, Canon announced the EF 40mm F2.8 STM. It was one of the most affordable and compact lenses in the whole EF lenses lineup. As this lens could allow…
Artificial Paradise
The oldest vivid photography memory I can recall – is a shadowplay photo I took in Switzerland with my dad’s analog Canon Rebel. The guillotine shutter sound really hit me.…
Top five Fujifilm mirrorless cameras
The camera world has been completely turned upside down in the last few years and though about 90% of the content we create is written to prospective brides or clients,…
Fujifilm and the return to photographic Zen
Hi fellow Fuji X Passion readers. My name is Laurie Cohen, a Fujifilm X system user, street photographer and the founder of Barcelona Photography Tours & Israel Photography Tour. I…
The Untold Stories
Thank you David for accepting this invitation for an interview. Could you please start by introducing yourself to our readers? I am from Belgium where I studied photography in the…
Fuji X-Pro1: Still a viable choice in 2022?
Since we are just a few months away from the end of the year, please allow me to jump into 2022 instead of 2021. First thing first, yes, you can…
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