The FujiCast: Photography Podcast

Neale is trying to cheer Kev up, who is sitting in a blacked out room in beautiful Malmesbury, counting down the hours, minutes and seconds until he can escape the UK for the sunnier climes of España! On the show, the boys discuss using Pictime as an art gallery, software solutions for back-up, the foto app, fixing up a retiring camera, the best compact camera in the Fujifilm range to travel with, switching to video using an X-T4, and we also feature the Zine work of Adam Ramjean, as he photographs the Notting Hill Carnival. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Neale invites Kev to street photograph and adventure with him in Kolkata and Varanasi as he prepares for the next 2026 Photowalk adventure in India, but will he say yes. Also on the show a VERY special offer from our wonderful sponsor Pictime, called 72, plus an invite to come and join us on a special Pictime Zoom show on Wednesday 14th May at 6pm UK time, invite URL below. Questions into the show about lost custom settings, website picture layout nightmares, finding a discreet camera system for shooting unobtrusively, the classic Fujinon lens line-up for the X-system, protecting gear from bangs and knocks in the bag, ChatGPT accuses Neale of stealing Kev's 35mm, a 500mm beast, and battery talk.  THE BIG ZOOM INVITE for 14th March 6pm UK time: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/pictime  Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Neale's getting nervous about the footie and Kev's celebrating picture sales to clients who forgot to order ANY pictures when they got married almost a decade ago! Also on the show, trading in all the lenses you don't use for one excellent lens you will, more on the GFX IBIS-gate story and cropping in camera, being honest in reviews, wedding-centric glass, learning to shoot candidly for day-in-the-life shoots, and what is your camera doing while it's sat in your camera bag?!? The book of the week is Queer Happened Here by Marc Zinaman. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

When we recorded this episode, the tariff situation was locked in, firm as a rock, ‘You know who' said absolutely no U-turns. So naturally, by the time you hear it, the rock's done a cartwheel and landed in a hedge. All the same, just in time for Easter, questions in to the show include how to egg collect and take pictures at the same time, although all is not as it seems! Also on the show, can Pictime be a replacement for your website, are mentors important to your development as a photographer, and should you pay for their services? Touch screen controls, do they drive you bonkers too? We talk about eye-tracking, a new pancake lens for the system and how to respond to unhappy clients. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's talk at The Photography Show draws more than a few admiring glances, and it's now a film! The GFX 100RF has been announced and we ask, is it a camera you need for your kitbag? Who is this camera really for, and why does it leave some photographers vacillating between curiosity and a quiet sense of unease? Kev answers these questions and more, whilst attempting to keep his blood pressure within safe limits. Also on the show, finding a small interchangeable lens camera for street work in the Fujifilm range, manual focusing for astro photography, a documentary magazine collection introduced to us by Ashton Zala, sneak peaks of galleries for clients, and a new genre possibly: chicken dinners!? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's been to Cheltenham to take pictures of people losing money at the races, although he has a secret, not-so-secret strategy! Also, on the show today, do you do colour calibration (?!?), back-button focus-gate, what's happening with my X-T5's ISO on all-auto, is there a good free alternative to Adobe products, there's a hole in my lens hood - what should I do, and how do I cope with guests at weddings instructing me not to take pictures of them? Plus, dealing with working outside your style for clients, the fabled 18mm f2 lens, and should you use your own name as your business identity. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev returns from Spain and seems to have found a new career as a handyman, finding a particular passion for cutting stuff down to size with a chainsaw!!! Also on the show today from the mailbag, Neale and Kev answer questions about photographing solo professionally, shooting video alongside stills, showing unedited material to clients, posing v doc, choosing email and mailing list providers, Substack, invoicing software, and why do people think Kev looks like David Brent??!? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev is wondering who sent red roses last Friday, was it you? On the show today, recommendations for a good zoom lens sub £400, just how good is the new Fujifilm X-M5, starting from scratch as a photographer, X100V as a powerhouse, audio kit to accompany your photo storytelling, perfect lenses for travel photography, Kev's post-retirement plans, can you become a pro wedding photographer in your 50s, and a peak inside Neale and Kev's kit bags. Plus there's a bonus question on Judo! Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Don't tell Kev, but Wales lost the rugby - at the time of recording, he was completely unaware! Shhh. Neale finds himself on a commercial shoot where things go bump in the night. Also, on the show, why are so many pictures shot in a vertical fashion? Kev isn't convinced the world needs vertical images AT ALL! We talk about the number of pictures shot at weddings, gallery stats, the best time to send images to a client, taking a tripod v shooting using IBIS, updating your website to court search engines, showing pictures online that have feeling, understanding how to use ai and upselling social photography packages. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev gets dewy-eyed over the music of Ralph McTell, remember the Streets of London, and Neale is feeling hopeful and buoyant about people and business in 2025. Questions today about the best camera for sports photography from the Fujifilm range, the quirks of Auto ISO, content insurance for kit away from home, more issues, photo challenges for 2025, content creators snapping your original ideas, and what software the boys use for editing video. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

The boys hit the resolutions road running and answer questions about their photographic callings and choices in life and ‘employing' your partner as a second shooter. Also, today, should you let your camera choose ISO for every condition, facial recognition and battery drainage, focusing on eyes through reading glasses, Squarespace websites, HEIF format speed issues in post-production, the pictures that affected us from 2024, battling muddy images and how do you squish photos for optimal web use? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

The boys cancel Christmas, well, the pre-Chrimbles planned episode at any rate, with Kev's home town hit by the Malmesbury Malaise, so our exploration into the cavernous Cupboard of Doom will have to wait until '25. In the meantime, we have the winner of the Lowa boots; discuss how to expand your Insta reach and answer, “Why does my Fujifilm camera keep asking me to recycle the power?" Also, how to wear the cloak of invisibility when trying to act unobtrusively as a candid photographer, what defines a strong black and white image relative to the technical approach and a Zine of the Week by Kenny Gordon from Glasgow - a celebration of football. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev is photographing in the boxing ring with a GFX; hope he can duck out the way quick enough! Questions today into the show about making a macro investment, finding a perfect workflow that isn't complicated when it comes to saving our precious pictures for all time, will more and better ai editing software reduce the need for personal presets, in wide-angle land - what's too wide when it comes to hitting the dance floor at a wedding to get super expressive shots, what does it mean to drag a shutter, and am I wise to register a domain more locally sounding that a dot com? The book of the week is You Rebel Scum by Daz Smith, a ten year project to document ‘rebels in society.' Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Neale's entering the yuletide spirit early, Kev's fine tuning the recipe for humbug, but they're both keeping their heads down when it comes to current affairs. Thank St. Nicholas for photography as today on the show we demystify the questions of tech that bamboozle you, whilst Kev explains why he is de-Muskifying at the same time. Why did Threads not quite make the noise creatives thought it may, how can I tell my client that the events pictures I have made are not to be presented free of charge to other parties and what's the proudest achievement of your photographic career, so far? Also today, buying third party STUFF for your Fujifilm camera kit and enjoying vintage lenses. The book of the week is Pentwyn No. 3 Colliery from one of our supporters, Martin Ellard. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev and Neale return from their holidays, straight into the questions you've been sending in about photography and Fujifilm cameras. Questions today about learning from photobooks and what sorts of titles offer an opportunity to improve your photography, uninvited shutter speeds in auto ISO, a 56mm that won't manually focus, how the change of seasons changes our personal photography, finding truly original creative paths, discontinued cameras we lament the passing of, the rise of content creation - is it a worry for professional photographers? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Is wedding photography still a viable business for somebody setting out today and can/are content creators spoil the party, should I be using ChatGPT instead of Google, and how do I stop people smiling inanely in portraits? Also on the show, in-camera recipes, mobile Lightroom, packing light for a trek, compatible lenses for higher resolution camera sensors, thoughts about wide angles, Fujifilm's 10-24 and Sigma's alternative, the real reason why battery chargers no longer come with cameras and smart investments: and what's the smarter investment, a new camera or new lens? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev and Neale discover the powerful secrets of 'the buried sausage' and start to think about a new HoP event! Also this week, buying replacement STUFF, what to do when someone at a busy event asks you to avoid photographing them, Neale gets pinned against a wall by a Legionnaire, what guarantees can your contract provide in case of an unintended early demise, live view quandaries, setting up a new X100vi, Kev's workflow, X Raw Studio and why is my tone out of LR a little muddy?  Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev and Neale get a proper ai roasting, though all is okay, as Mullins has received a windfall thanks to being a Pic-Time customer! Also today, the joy of using Godox on tour, is autofocus a reason to swap camera systems, GAS, brand loyalty, keeping your pictures safe on tour and shooting through prisms! We also have a book of the week, one close to Mullins' heart: Great Bars of New York City by James and Karla Murray.  Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev muses about what to photograph next as he moves away from regular wedding photography gigs, whilst Neale is travelling the opposite direction having now launched his NEW podcast especially for wedding photographers called 1000 Weddings. Also, on the show, it turns out that Mullins found a level of real anxiety shooting weddings, although it seems he's not alone. Today we appeal for new questions to the show to take us into Winter '24, Kev has some suggestions on how to digitise old slides, best practices for capturing candids at social events, the ethics or ‘rules' of privacy when publishing candid photos online, branding v style, shooting weddings as a guest, how Instagram works under the hood, and using a smartphone for street work.   Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

There's joint relief in the houses of Mullins and James, and we're not talking knees and back, as our eldest kidlings both pass their first major school exams with flying colours. Meanwhile in the land of photography on the show, lens weights, white balance best practices, will LR lose my images if I cancel my subs, what is this obsession with tech, making pictures that aren't perfect, using one camera with one lens for one year. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's sat under a storm cloud, literally - and not just because he's back from his holidays! On the show, will Fujifilm ever produce a monochrome camera, just how good is the X-S camera, what are our favoured focal lengths and to convert or not to convert (focally) on the X100 range of cameras? Also, we discuss JPG simulations, the best/easiest way to archive a stack of film and building your main website on the Pictime platform. There's a book of the week too, The Little Book of Camden Passage by Gary Williams. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev is still frazzling on his Spanish sunbed, though the show goes on. We have questions about Lightroom and whether it's necessary to upgrade your computer to cope with ever larger file sizes, swapping online sales galleries, can art prints actually sell and should I invest in primes? Also small cameras for street work, how shooting style changes as you ‘mature' and the book of the week is Gregory Crewdson's latest self-titled monograph.  Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

As Kev heads for sunnier climes we talk about life after weddings for Mullins Inc. as he counts down to his final nuptials gig, although he's considering second shooting in a lomography style, maybe, perhaps. Also on the show, commercially and creatively making life simple, shooting professionally with the oldest digital cameras you can source, finding a replacement for the X-Pro3, what we'd like to see on an X-Pro4, the best camera system to switch into for fast moving monsters (or dogs), there's some website advice from Kev, cleaning your camera with electrical contact cleaner (!) and hitting a mental brick wall creatively. We also have a book of the week and this one is a wonderful documentary about music photography by Robert Birnbach, called The Silence Between. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's been doing what can only be described as speed-head-shooting, though his passion for country music is at last paying off as Neale eulogises about a Mullins favourite, Hank Williams. Also on the show, a shed-load of darkroom kit has turned up at Mullins HQ, the difference between dentists and photographers, using second shooters and assistants, going strength to strength with Viltrox, buying an X100VI alongside an X-T5, trying too hard and not feeling your picture making is improving, how tinnitus has cut short a career and how to photograph locations that aren't necessarily so photogenic.  Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's got extreme hay fever, which serves him right for cutting crop circles, and he's considering his next photographic genre, which may just bring his love of martial arts and photography together. Today on the show, how powerful does your laptop have to be to handle GFX files? We have a strong case of flippy or tilty screen-gate, where one of our listeners has even been considering moving to Nikon to solve the problem, how to repair sticky buttons, is it worth sharing shooting data if you don't have the context of the ambient lighting, and we have a book of the week from Gonzalo Mullen which highlights his photographic life between 2021 and 2023. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Neale is celebrating 20 years of shooting weddings and planning for the next 20, whilst Kev counts down his final three! Or are they? However, he reveals some big judo plans! Questions and mails today on how to choose Fujifilm simulations when editing in Lightroom or X Raw Studio, whether it's time to upgrade from the V to the VI in X00-land, a perfect lineup of lenses to cover all bases, thoughts about Nikon's vintage flavoured Zf and content authenticity in this age of ai. There's also some hot off-the-press Pic-time news. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev tries his hand at horse photography at one of high society's biggest events, and Neale signs the boys up to set sail on a pirate radio ship. This week, the big Netflix shows currently being watched in the James and Mullins households, looking for a new professional photography career, do lenses need to be perfect or are some of the classics of the Fuji roadmap still a great investment, what's the wait for a new X-Pro body all about, releasing a book of boudoir, a whisper of focusing issues after a latest X-series firmware update and dream photographic jobs.  Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's been wrecking vans but all for a good cause, meanwhile Neale has announced(ish) his latest idea in a long line of ideas from the ideas factory. Today we talk about a Viltrox lens so impressive, it also doubles as a speed-radar(!), swapping back to Adobe products after a time away and why we prefer the tech ecosystem, keeping up with the latest software to edit X100VI files, seeing in black and white, to spot or to evaluate as Shakespeare didn't actually say, turning pro, in-camera recipes for looks, X RAW Studio, brands logos and fonts and the twenty-two immutable laws of marketing, plus MORE long focal length primes please. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Neale has his website homework marked by Mr. Mullins, who has spent the last month learning about the most dangerous job in the world - which will be revealed. Also today, a setting that could be slowing your shooting down, an ideal camera for studio strobe work, constant light source is your friend, Instagram's most cliché shots, using two camera systems alongside each other, changing the way you focus, writing content that will keep Google happy and should you embrace ai to write your content? Plus Kev reviews Sandra Cattaneo Adorno's new book, Ten Years. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev wonders whether his new X-Pro dreams have filtered through to the ‘We shall consider' file. Meanwhile, switch on your ai face recognition, it has arrived on Pic-Time's platform, our sponsors and the finest online gallery space. Also today on the show, upgrades, do you need to upgrade from the X-T4 to the X-T5? We also talk about film photography and darkroom printing, having a style about your Instagram grid that is brand recognisable, uploading images to websites and sRGB versus AdobeRGB. Plus it turns out that the boys have alternative skills should they ever need to call upon them; Kev was a Welsh milk boy, and Neale was one of the last petrol pump attendants in Hertfordshire! Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's nervously optimistic ahead of the Welsh qualifier against Poland, considering an unusual Tikkety Tok channel and musing over the number of holes in an average crumpet, but he's still single-handedly campaigning for the new X100(6) to be known as the V.I. Neale remains to be convinced. Also, YouTube trolling, camera supply issues, desired articulating screens for a new XT generation of cameras, monochrome recipes for family photography, an offer to see Mr. Whisper share his secrets of street work, presenting commercial work the client likes but you don't and should we still be using JPG with HEIF now available in-camera? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Special guests street photographer Mr. Whisper, the latest Fujifilm X-Photographer Emily Renier and Fujifilm's Marketing Manager Andreas Georghiades, join Neale in Covent Garden, London at Fujifilm's House of Photography. Questions to and thoughts from a live audience today include thoughts about on personal authenticity, whether photographers need to concentrate on getting the picture right in camera as opposed to post-producing to save or create a picture, high ISO shooting, the rules of realism, the inconsistency too many presets can present, unfashionable tints, the reputation of Fujifilm in the profession and flash products. Also, third-party glass and how available the mount is for those wishing to provide an alternative to Fujifilm lenses, phone-like features within an X-series body, how long can the X100 model keep developing, the thought process behind shooting street from Mr. Whisper, choosing music for films and photography slideshows, how to become an X-Photographer and the state of the portrait industry. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

It's new camera week! The boys are excited over the launch, at last, of the latest Fujifilm X100 camera; the X100VI, or SIX! Aside from the thoughts about the numbering of the camera, we hear about the upgrades, the sensor and the reason to consider this a serious contender for inclusion in that pocket of space you may have in your kit bag. Also today, the photographers (past or present) Neale and Kev would choose to spend quality time with, our thoughts about using third-party lenses, final details about the 2nd March event at the House of Photography in London, supporting each other during times of trouble in the industry and advice for shooting your first professional gig in low light. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev's knee is on the mend at last, fresh from recording an interview with Neale about his life as a working Mullins! Also on the show, buffer speeds slowing down your camera, buggy mechanical shutters, the ideal lens for photographing indoor sport, a firefighting proof camera, logging where you make your pictures with GPS, photography galleries in London and more. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Neale is on his African odyssey, whilst Kev is left shivering in Malmesbury but the show goes on as normal. Today on the show, the full agenda for our special FujiCast event at the House of Photography in London on the 2nd March this year, camera repairs, Lightroom user tips, squishing and squashing images for the web, learning to love your own pictures, being hard on your creative self, SEO for a new photo business website, custom camera settings and the perfect lens for a perfect job; an Indian wedding. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Happy New Year: is it? The question Kev's friends are asking in Malmesbury - we think it will be, as we look ahead a little more to the FujiCast Live event in London on March 2nd. Today on the show, what the boys would like to find if there is to be a new X100 successor to the V, how to beat the buffer blues when your camera slows down in burst mode, can Red Bull give your camera wings, stealing canapés, social media authenticity, third party lenses for the Fujifilm systems, single slot shooting, and a big engine under the hood of a future X100 model - one of the desires the boys have for the future of Fujifilm's favourite EDC. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

The boys find a new fitness guru in Eddie Abbew, so the gauntlet is set for 2024's health mission! Today ROLL UP ROLL UP, grab your tickets for the FujiCast Live event at the House of Photography in London on Saturday March 2nd featuring us, Mr. Whisper and Emily Renier. Also, when is a camera upgrade due, should we produce a zine, should they even be called zines, what attributes do you need to be a professional photographer, what can I do to solve lack of confidence, what is the five second rule, why are some second hand photo volumes so valuable and other questions? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

The Christmas pressies are arriving into the show. For Kevin, it's mince pies and for Neale, mushrooms (although not what you're thinking!) This week the boys open the ticketing for you to come to the special FujiiCast workshop event at the House of Photography in London on Saturday 2nd March. Also today, XH-2 lock-ups and a theory of card husbandry to sort the issue, the trinity of 2024 camera rumours, large v small sensors, blue-tooth headphone suggestion, desks that actually help you lose weight as you work, camera cleaning tips, even more Capture 1 chat, phones that can't take pictures (!), and where did the clutches go on the Fujifilm lenses? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev has a dental appointment at two-thirty, TRUE, he really does, so we're recording this before he finds “Drinks Reception” even harder to say! One thing that's making him feel better is the big announcement for our FujiCast event at The House of Photography in London on Saturday March 2nd, which we an now officially reveal. At the event, we'll be hosting workshops on the business of wedding and social photography, using sound within your documentary wedding work, plus special guests Mr. Whisper and Emily Renier will be hosting talks on street photography and wedding work respectively. Today we also talk about how to fit your GFX camera with a modestly priced lens, suggest an X mount lens for a birthday budget, a Capture One white balance issue with Fuji files, what you'd shoot with your last roll of film or digital equivalent of, lavish Italian weddings and, “Should I sell my X100V” asks one listener in confusion? Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

How much are your photobooks worth, and where can you get an idea of their value? Today, the investments that are, photo books, how to use pic-time to sell your work as fine art prints, understanding native and base ISO, the wonder Lightroom's Denoise, why professional photographers won't want to use in-camera ai to process pictures on the fly, which focus method should I use in my X-T5, or which works best? Also which pictures good enough to deliver would you hold back from a client due to the content, a question of Nikon that only the Internet can answer on our behalf, personal project advice and resolution needed to make ‘mahoosive' prints. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev and Neale debate the appropriate nature of street photography with more and more people becoming private about the use of their images on line and in social media, plus they wonder if ‘real' storytelling pictures have been replaced by shadow play and ICM? Kev reminisces about fav wedding images as he prepares to depart ‘Planet Nuptials' in terms of his professional photography, and the boys select from the incredible list of international venues they've photographed at and in. We also talk about candy shop eyes, the way you see a place or something for the first time, as opposed to the 170th, bad supplier food, and staying true to your style. The book of the week is Uplooker by Paul Charles Bartlett, a potent and very personal project focusing on the humanity and struggle of life on the streets of Adelaide during the Covid pandemic. Email the show with your questions: click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply For links go to the showpage.

Kev recalls, let's just call it, his Hulk moment and Neale's trying to swap his new 18mm for a 23mm and 35mm - dream on sir! We also talk about the beast that is the 50mm f1, Kev's cupboard of doom, the return of a Facebook business page, a mini-guide to choosing Lightroom presets, essential non-photographic camera bag kit, and should I buy a new phone with amazing camera or a mirrorless? We need more questions into the show, so contact us via the Facebook group page or email click@fujicast.co.uk  Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply. The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-257

Kev's having a yard sale! Neale is planning a lens raid of his tardis like cupboard of doom looking for Kev's spare 23 and 35mm lenses as today we ask, can zoom lenses hold a candle to a prime, and what's better for documentary work plus overall quality? Also camera strap love for Peak Design and Spider Camera Holsters, whilst lamenting the change of design of the latter, electronic and mechanical shutter selection choices, the most extraordinary wedding disaster story, the best kind of time capsule for showing and sharing important family photographs, the Dutch film factory that is or isn't there in '23, photographing football and the Beluga whale striker. Be sure to send your questions into the show via our Facebook group or be email to click@fujicast.co.uk  THIS WEEK'S LIST OF LINK GOODNESS... Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-256  Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk  Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com  Guy Clarke: Stuff that works Peak Design: https://www.peakdesign.com/collections/straps Spider Holster systems: https://spiderholster.com/ 

Neale returns from Nessie hunting in Scotland and Kev prepares to wind up the motor on Rubber Band Airways as he goes to have a fight in Jersey! Today, how to set your Pic-Time account to your region and charging for downloads, the X100V advantage and do you want to buy Kev's, slow shutter speed pictures, new fads in wedding world, interview technique, stepping out of your genre zone, develop problems in LR, why flash could separate you professionally and focusing technique.

Neale is getting nostalgic about the old school days, giving money away (maybe) and Kev returns from Spain with family news, plus it seems the break has convinced him to retire?!?!? WHAT??? But what from? From photography, from The FujiCast? Is it really the end of the road? We talk about his life decision, how the wedding industry has changed and will change further wedding photographers in the UK. Also this week, Photosophy, the philosophy behind photography, Neale is spotted climbing Mont Blanc or is he, is the X100V a decent professional wedding camera, are we photographing more hours for the same money, and are Tikkety Tokkers really stealing pro photographer's shots from over their shoulders to make influencer shorts? There's also a book of the week; Store Front NYC by James and Karla Murray. Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-254  Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk  Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com  Justin Goulding think's Neale is climbing Mont Blanc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw8T8T257mQ  Photosophy by George Fakinos: https://medium.com/@georgios.fakinos/photosophy-857654c835f4  Store Front NYC: https://www.jamesandkarlamurray.com/JAMESandKARLAMURRAYBooks2015.html 

Note for your diary, there's something special coming up in 2024 in the first week of March; a FujiCast event!!! Also today, how long it takes to edit a wedding, advice we received at the start of our careers, blogging tips and the importance of it for marketing, why your ai de-noiser thingie may be sending you pink pictures, cataloguing family photos in Lightroom, valuing your photography financially, workflow tips, physically looking after yourself during long shoots and is our best work behind us? THIS WEEK'S LIST OF LINK GOODNESS... Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/  - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-253  Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk  Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com 

Guess who's turned 50? Kev's celebrating his half century in España, but proving the hardest person to buy a gift, so FIFTY NOT OUT, but don't mention the cricket - and that's not the secret by the way. We talk about the ideal camera resolution required for high quality studio portraits, how and where to store your precious back catalogue and another where; where do you read and enjoy your photobooks? Also, post-photoshoot and backup rituals, which presets to use and how often do you make a picture you TRULY love? THIS WEEK'S LIST OF LINK GOODNESS... Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/  - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-252 Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com

Kev sips his first ceveza by the pool serenaded by several thousand cicadas in the midday sun upon a hillside somewhere in Spain, but fortunately, we recorded episodes in advance, so this week; changing out from a DSLR to a ‘vintage' Fujifilm X-T1, will it be good enough considering its age? Also, choosing your first lens for the Fujifilm system, Kev's old cameras keep turning up thousands of miles away in Africa, inspired by artwork, hyper-realist portraits, turning professional in 18 months and just why is there a sepia-toned preset still??? THIS WEEK'S LIST OF LINK GOODNESS... Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-251 Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com Ian Bourne Art: https://ianbourneart.com/ and on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/ianbourneart/ Kev on Kelby's blog: https://scottkelby.com/its-guest-blog-wednesday-featuring-kevin-mullins/ 

Kev's demob happy, counting down the days with even more relish to his five and a half weeks of vacaciones as they say in España. We talk about our forever cameras, shooting pro with the 100V, there's a Summer appeal for questions, the latest Fujifilm camera phone app; it seems not all is well in app land, more thoughts and ideas for camera shooters who photograph wearing prescription glasses, even more back button focus and exposure tips, the lifetime of hard drives, what makes a natural photo natural, making podcasts, backing up pictures on your travels, quick culling tips, Kev's diet and where has the GNARBOX gone? THIS WEEK'S LIST OF LINK GOODNESS... Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/ - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply   The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-250   Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk   Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com   Loading Zone podcast productions: https://www.loadingzone.co.uk     The Zoe Project: https://joinzoe.com/   More ideas for backup on the move: https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/buying-guides/best-portable-hard-drives-for-photographers

Kev deliberates over a close family call, and looks forward to a five week Mediterranean road trip, or at least a seat by the pool, where he'll learn to look through a camera eye piece wearing specs and spend some time with his latest Fujifilm camera purchase! Also today, bringing vintage film alive decades after it was originally shot, advice we've collated across the years of professional shooting, a 'sort of' announcement for a FujiCast event in 2024, exposure compensation, file formats including HEIF, the truth about videographers and other stories. The book of the week is Daido Moriyama's Retrospective, ‘Imperfect'.  THIS WEEK'S LIST OF LINK GOODNESS...   Pic Time: https://www.pic-time.com/  - use FUJICAST when creating an account for discount offers to apply   The showpage: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/episodes/episode-249   Daido Moriyama's retrospective book: https://photobookstore.co.uk/collections/recent-arrivals/products/daido-moriyama-a-retrospective-imperfect   Spencer Wynn Photography: https://www.spencerwynn.com/ and Huron: https://huroncandleworks.ca/   Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk   Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com   Loading Zone podcast productions: https://www.loadingzone.co.uk  

The edition of the FujiCast scheduled for release on the 26th June, is postponed. Here's a short announcement to explain why. Kev, all the best to you and your family and we're all looking forward to welcoming you back to the studio soon. x