Episode Archive
It’s not just for Fuji shooters you know….
A Light Entertainment Photography podcast.
Episode #236 Nostalgia, rock ’n’ roll and the missing mince pies
It’s Boxing Day 2022, there’s no let up for ya from the boys, as they meet for St. Stephen’s Day in the Podcastsphere. Today Kev receives preset orders from unlikely places, reveals his top movie of all time, we discuss the magical X100V ‘zoom’, new critiques for ’23, more on delete and sharpening-gate, street photographers with attitude, X-H2s or the H2 and Kev delves into Eric Luke’s Changing Faces of Ireland book.
Episode #235 Kev is selling his camera! Plus getting the 'filmic look'
Neale laments another England footie exit, though gets over it within 15.7 seconds, whilst Mullins is too full of cold to even know the result. This week, assigning buttons, even more shortcuts and why Kev is selling gear! We muse over which design elements of the cameras and lenses we use today could be the result of Mullins’ contributions to the suggestions box at Fujifilm HQ’s design floor in Japan, we discuss which sensors have more of a filmic feel in the Fujifilm range and photo processing to achieve that look, original X100 values, first and preferred lens choices, IBIS and another case of ’The Worms!’ Beware sharpening levels. Our guest is Chris Orange on food photography and his special assignment!
Episode #234 Touring the Fujifilm factory and to grain or not to grain
Kev attempts an unboxing, camera short-cut secrets, how to clean your cameras, using Affinity Photo and we talk about grain; what’s the best way to apply it and is it really necessary? We find out that Kev has a new ‘not so secret now’ Instagram page for lovers of black and white photography, what do you say to famous folk you meet in the bathroom, syncing your camera clocks part 2, copying settings between camera bodies, why you shouldn’t delete in camera and more. Also, this week Kev and Andreas get behind the scenes in Japan at ‘the factory’.
Episode #233 Becoming Fujifilm ONLY and I just want an X100V!
Kev refuses to start the show until the rugby final whistle blows, but once underway we talk about getting insured (not as dull as it sounds), should you buy an X100F if you can’t get hold of the V?
Episode #232 The X-T5 has landed here’s why you may need one!
Kev is back from Japan with news about new cameras and lenses and he’s pondering a clear-out of his camera bag - quick it’s a Mullins everything must go sale!
Episode #231 WTF is an NFT, plus EDCs: HELP it’s the attack of the acronym!
Where in the World is Kev as this episode goes out? Somewhere it seems on an airliner. Today, having your pictures cropped by a third party, is it a problem? Also knowing your camera, editing processes, digital workflow, charging and contracting for charity commissions, memory card housekeeping notes, X100V focusing advice, your everyday carry cameras, what is digital art and what is photography, and can they be one of the same? Robin Morgan is back as our guest from Iconic Images for part 2 of a conversation that today tries to unpick the NFT market.
Episode #230 Iconic Images and THE iconic Fujifilm camera
Kev tries to educate Neale on National Lampoon, we talk contracts and compassion in the face of cancellation, digital marketing and the dos and don’ts of optimising your website for more traffic, Pinterest, why you need to keep up to date with your website security, X100V troubleshooting, wedding etiquette, image stabilisation, EVF problems, exposing for varying skin types in the same group, the most important Fujifilm camera produced and other stories. The founder of Iconic Images, Robin Morgan is our guest.
Episode #229 Finding your ‘abstract’ and Chrisman part 2
A Tuesday edition following a day of observation and reflection yesterday upon the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II. In today’s edition, we’re happy to welcome back for the second part of his conversation with Kevin, Ben Chrisman.
Episode #228 Award-winning Ben Chrisman and where can I find an X100V?
Kev is back from Spain and has already planned two months away for next year! Questions include how focused a website should be, Lightroom flavours, new colour profiles within the X-H2s, focusing on X100 cameras, trying to find an X100V
#227 What could a newer 56 bring and VANLIFING with an X-T3!
As Kev jets out to Spain for the month to escape the school Photo Booth, the boys decide to take a leaf out of X-Photographer guest Emily Endean’s life-book and consider vanlifing for a month together as we lament the loss of a showbiz legend who is now Wombling Free forever more.
Episode #226 The FujiCast Live from the House of Photography
We're BACK ON THE ROAD at Fujifilm's House of Photography in London's Covent Garden with a live studio audience and special guest Andreas Georghiades, Group Marketing Manager.
Episode #225 The X-H2 has landed and ONE LIGHT portraits with Glyn Dewis
It turns out that Kev had the X-H2 in his hands all along and… wait for it… he LOVES it, well, nearly all of it. The London meet up is nigh and the boys announce the finishing touches, we talk PASM dials and their place on Fujifilm cameras, new lenses, photographic cancellation policies, going above and beyond for clients, the laws of street work, thoughts on wide angle lens choices, Photofilms and is a wed-apocalypse on the cards? Our guest is the photographer and post processing expert/legend Glyn Dewis and the book of the month comes from Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, called Scarti Di Tempo.
Episode #224 New shiny toys and NEWSFLASH... We’re back on the road again!
This week Kev tries to remain very tight lipped on the shiny new things Fujifilm has coming, the show is back on the road with an announcement for a London recording in June at the House of Photography - and you can claim your ticket. X-T4 or X-T2, what do I choose? Why Kev hasn’t been on YouTube so much of late, why you could/should consider shooting P mode, the pitfalls of shooting too much when it comes to the edit, how the magical Tascam audio gizmo works that we’ve been discussing and more. This month’s guest is Fujifilm X-Photographer Kirth Bobb talking about social and street work and the book of the month is Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Byker Revisited.
Episode #223 Street photography, learning from the best featuring Matt Stuart
Kev is trapped in Malmesbury, no petrol, no heating, no oven even! Send pizzas now! We talk about seeing in black and white, what clients think of our ’smaller cameras’, the new miracle sound box from Tascam, having your camera converted for infrared and camera system looks.
Episode #222 Organisations. To join or not to join??? And Kev goes green with rage!
Today Kev gives wedding advice, but not necessarily the photographic kind. The last of the current weekly editions before the show reverts to a monthly from April. We talk about the monotony of some business tasks that sap the joy from creativity, forgetting clients’ names and raising the ‘Should you belong to an organisation or society’ question cautiously.
Episode #221 Does Black and White make my pictures look more pro? Plus IMPORTANT SHOW NEWS!
There’s news to announce today about the show’s future! We also talk about the march of technology and ask; "Does it de-skill photographers?" AI culling software - it’s here! How should I behave when I’m at a wedding with a camera? What films inspire us? Designing a new website, how multi genre should it be? We talk perfect laptops for editing and choose a camera combo for working in environmental portraiture, plus ask if Facebook is a better place for your new blog. Our guest is Charles Brooks, back for part 2 of our discussion about making the most extraordinary pictures inside musical instruments.
Episode #220 What’s in the box? And can we have a movie camera, please?
A mysterious box shows up for Kev, is it, could it be the… (all will be revealed). One of the regular favourite discussions; we talk X-H2, add a video camera to the wish list and look ahead to a new sensor. We
Episode #219 Will my camera float? And Kev’s in an Amazon Frenzy!
This week, are some photographers less ‘relevant' with time? Showing respect on the street, Kev shares why he upgraded to the X-T4 when he thought he wouldn’t and is the updated 10-24 lens worth the additional investment?
Episode #218 Upgrading to the X-T4 and kinder street photography
This week, are some photographers less ‘relevant' with time? Showing respect on the street, Kev shares why he upgraded to the X-T4 when he thought he wouldn’t and is the updated 10-24 lens worth the additional investment?
Episode #217 Does my tail look big in this? Zooms and portraits.
Kev plays Mystic Meg with the rugby scores from the weekend just gone, but did he fortune tell correctly? This week, the IBIS debate continues; just how useful is it?