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A Very Brief Review of the Fujinon XF 35mm 1.4 lens

I'm just going to focus on the lens for this review, so the same goes if you have this on a XPro 1, XE1, XM1 or any other X camera, either way this lens is awesome, just incredible.

As with the other reviews I'm gonna go mostly images on this one with a brief bit about why you should get this lens and just how awesome it is. It is sharp, damn sharp even at...

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Fuji X100 Review
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Fuji X100 Review

The Fuji X100, what is it?

The Fuji X100 is a mirror-less APS-C camera with a revolutionary hybrid viewfinder fitted with retro styling and incredible power for its size. 

What does that all mean? Well in short it has a sensor the same size as most standard DSLRs, but it is much sharper than anything you can...

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Sam & Thom | An Awesome Cardiff Wedding

My first wedding of the 2014 was Sam & Thom's down in a very sunny Cardiff, the weather was fantastic for a January wedding and I couldn't be happy to look out of the windows when I woke up to see clear blue skies. Awesome.

This wedding started at Cardiff City Hall, which is a beautiful building inside and out, and made for a great setting for a wedding, just after...

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Fuji Lens Tests | 14mm, 23mm & 55-200mm lens samples + review

So the past weekend I headed down to London for the annual SWPP convention, the convention goes on the whole week and has talks, classes and a trade show, its a good event to check out new products and see some great speakers.

I had a class booked with Kevin Mullins which was really great, it took a look into the business side of things and really gave me...

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Kate & Will | A Hereford wedding at Lyde Court

I photographed Kate and Will's wedding in December 2013, it was one of my last 2 weddings for this year and one which I was massively looking forward to shooting.

The day started off at the incredible Lyde Court in Herefordshire, where Kate and her bridesmaids were getting ready, then moved onto a wonderful service at Belmont Abbey.

The Abbey was a wedding photographer's dream to photograph...

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My First Year as a Wedding Photographer. Pt 3.

-This post is part 3 | Part One | Part Two-

The next wedding of the year after Lucy and David’s was Kevin and Karen's. They had found me through their daughter who had seen my advert on gumtree, after going down to Caerleon to meet them they were happy to book. 

Their wedding was a really beautiful day...

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My First Year as a Wedding Photographer. Pt 2.

-This post is part 2, check out part 1-

So I had shot two weddings and learnt a heck of a lot in a very short amount of time, a trial by fire sort of thing, I had started to refine my gear and shooting style as well as learning the non-photographic skills that are needed, such as managing people.

It was at this time I read about a man called...

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