Category: City Photography
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August 7, 2022 – Welcome To Las Vegas Again.
One simple strategy that has helped me when shooting landscape, city or street photography is revisiting a location often. This seems obvious but I think it’s easy to dismiss a place that seems familiar and that you have a lot of shots of already. This area around the Welcome To Las Vegas sign is a…
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August 5, 2022 – Neon Signs And Gatekeepers
Hey! It’s Friday morning where I live. So good morning and happy Friday. I posted these pics on Twitter following that trend where people post the camera then the photos. I normally post B&Ws so it’s fun to share some color work. I don’t have a ton to say today because I have a lot…
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Dehancer Film Emulation Review + 2 Free Presets (Plus 10% OFF Dehancer Discount Code: CBPHOTO22 )
Last week I uploaded a new YouTube video reviewing and showing the Dehancer plug-in. (I have discount code for Dehancer at the bottom of this blog) I get review offers from some small companies often but I don’t want to accept just any partnership. Any sponsorship or review I do has to make sense with…
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“STREET SAGE” – FUJIFILM FILM SIMULATION RECIPE
As with many of my recipes, Street Sage is a result of experimenting. I wanted to see what would happen if you took the rich Velvia and reduced color, contrast and gave it a slight green tint. I like these experiments. I think you can get some interesting results depending on what you’re shooting with…
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“RADIANT CHROME” – NEW FUJIFILM FILM SIMULATION RECIPE
UPDATE JANUARY 2023: Hey guys, I just wanted to say Hello and welcome to new and returning visitors. Just a reminder, I don’t charge for any of my recipes. But any donations or “coffee tips” through my Buy Me A Coffee page are greatly appreciated!! Also visit my affiliate links. Anything that gets purchased through…
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MY FUJIFILM X-H1 (Update: I’m Keeping It)
Last week I posted a video that was just a long rambling video of thoughts about my Fujifilm X-T4. This week I decided to make a similar video about my X-H1. Last month I had posted that I was thinking of selling my X-H1 and getting a different “second” Fujifilm camera. Last year I owned…
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ME AND MY NEW FUJIFILM X-T4
A couple of weeks ago I decided to trade in a handful of photography gear to trim my collection of stuff down a bit. With my trade-ins I was able to get a Fujifilm X-T4. I didn’t originally set out to get one but it just worked out. This camera was on my wishlist for…
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“E6XD” – Film Simulation Recipe for Fujifilm X-E1
“E6XD” BASE FILM SIMULATION: VELVIADYNAMIC RANGE: DR400HIGHLIGHT: +1SHADOW: -2COLOR: -2WHITE BALANCE: 5600KWB SHIFT: R: 3, B: 3NOISE REDUCTION: -2SHARPENING: -2 Some recipes I create seem really subtle and often times takes some before and after comparisons to see the difference between the recipe and the original. “E6XD” is one of those recipes. I wanted to…
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“SILVER CYAN” – Film Simulation Recipe
“SILVER CYAN” BASE FILM SIMULATION: PRO Neg HiDYNAMIC RANGE: DR100HIGHLIGHT:-2SHADOW:-1COLOR:+2WHITE BALANCE: 5300KWB SHIFT: R: -4, B:6NOISE REDUCTION:0SHARPENING:+4GRAIN EFFECT: WEAK This recipe was created on my X-H1 but you should be able recreate the main aspects of it on many of the X-Series cameras. The key parts being the base film sim, the WB and WB…
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“PATINA PASTEL” – Film Simulation Recipe (Created on my X-H1)
“PATINA PASTEL” BASE FILM SIMULATION: Classic Chrome DYNAMIC RANGE: DR200 HIGHLIGHT: 1 SHADOW: -2 COLOR: -4 WHITE BALANCE: AUTO WB WB SHIFT: R 2, B -5 NOISE REDUCTION: -4 SHARPENING: 1 GRAIN EFFECT: {OFF} This is my latest recipe based on Classic Chrome. I was just playing around with some variations on some vintage looks…
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