The FujiCast: Photography Podcast

Your questions answered from the mail bag and one of those is all about a new cinema camera to complete the X series line. Is it on the horizon and what could it have? Also today, school photography during lockdown and the new caption competition launched.  Send your questions in to click@fujicast.co.uk  

Our Sunday guest is established commercial shooter Stuart Bingham, who has not just bought and worn the teeshirt, but shot it too. He talks about the tentacle like nature of commercial work where one commission can lead to so many others. ALSO, how to shoot Day in the Life sessions with Kev. Remember to keep sending your tech and non tech photography questions in so that we can chat about your pas...

It's Saturday so we have a guest on the daily show. A gentle weekend meander with Donna Svennevik, a New York based photographer who has photographed presidents, gang leaders and showbiz personalities. Equally Donna is a personal project story maker, so we touch on the subject of making the everyday your canvas.  Donna's site: http://donnasvennevik.com/ Full details of all topics: https://www.fuji...

A superyachts photographer who shoots weddings by the weekend? Intriguing combination and proof that our listeners are a varied collective. Also today, vintage lenses, how long SHOULD my camera batteries last, the Daily Photo Challenge and finding extraordinary in the ordinary on the street.    The new site: www.fujicast.co.uk   Send your photos for the caption comp to: click@fujicast.co.uk  

One hundred shows! And still climbing. The weekly podcast about photography went daily as lockdown stopped our commercial photographic activity and so today we've reached, earlier than planned, one hundred episodes. Today a special, a different kind of show from the usual photographic Q&A. We talk GRATITUDE and get personal. Also today NEWS... the launch of the NEW website. www.fujicast.co.uk  

Today, black and white presets, a new Daily Photo Challenge, Kev's affordable photography book you should buy when it's safe to start spending money again, how will we eat at weddings wearing masks and that question; is your camera merely a tool? Oh and the complaints phone is ringing off the hook following Kev's loose talk. ;-) AND we launch next week's new challenge. Send your questions and capt...

It's Tuesday, so for the second week it's Tech Free Tuesday, anything you like, as personal as you like. This week Kev admits to missing the start of a wedding, people with GAS, folk who click their fingers for portraits, the Bokeh Chicken makes an appearance, and sort of, sort of, news of the next conference, or gathering, or whatever it's going to be called! ;-)  Send your questions for next wee...

Start of a new week, so Kev and Neale have the results to last Friday's penultimate Bar Nuts Quiz, there's a new Daily Photo Challenge and questions on sanity, face masks and calibrating your screen for all monitors everywhere. Is that really possible? Artlist music for creatives: https://artlist.io/Neale-58765 Write to the boys with your questions, tech and non tech: click@fujicast.co.uk  

The UK based photojournalist Ian Forsyth joins us on the show today to talk about the freedom to shoot, the ethics of shooting news, press freedom and being a stringer in the competitive field of photojournalism. Also today, making a leap of faith, and finding your confidence to ask strangers for a portrait. Ian Forsyth: https://www.room2850.com/

The weekend has arrived and with it an interview. So prep a coffee and get some strong working advice on what you need from start to finish to go shoot real estate. Sincere thanks to Jon Buscall for his amazing help and time in making this episode and providing a Dropbox link to images you can practise on and sites to visit plus complete breakdown of focal lengths and kit required. Oh, and an invi...

What? A complaint? Seriously? What two? Double seriously? Today we talk infrared, Lightroom, X-T3 v X-Pro3, there's a studio invasion Kevin's side and we introduce a thumpingly good photo challenge that you may want to take into the weekend. Thanks to Gabrielle Motola today for solving the IR question. Gabrielle's IR page: https://www.gabriellemotola.com/i-r FujiCast site: https://www.fujicast.co....

A real mixed bag today. Get it? Bag. Camera bags. Oh suit yourself. So, we talk camera bags, how to set up your X100 flavoured camera, winners in the World Press Awards and invite you to submit your best black and whites to the Ministry of Shadows. There's also a new Daily Photo Challenge. Submit to Ministry of Shadows: https://www.ministryofshadows.co.uk/submissions Send your questions: click@fuj...

Back to a smidge of tech talk today. We talk batteries, street work, and audio to make your stories sing! Also it being a Wednesday, Kev has another book to tell you about from his BOOKS YOU NEED TO BUY WHEN IT'S SAFE TO START SPENDING MONEY AGAIN feature, though we think you'll need to save a few pennies for this particular one - and of course there's another Daily Photo Challenge. Send your ques...

First of our No Tech Tuesdays where you get to ask Neale and Kevin anything that comes to mind as long as it's tech free. A real mixed bag and the boys almost come unstuck immediately with the question; have you ever fallen out? There'll be a new Daily Photo Challenge too. Send in your questions about photography to click@fujicast.co.uk  

Today, the multi award winning photojournalist Adam Gray on his access to hospitals and the streets of NYC during Covid-19. This interview is also in vision. We'll have the answers to last week's Friday quiz and a new Daily Photo Challenge plus your questions on macro lenses and fights at weddings! Adam Gray: http://www.adamgrayphotography.com/ Adam in vision: https://youtu.be/sxtJYULoGdc   Artlis...

There are various milestones on the Podcastsphere. And this episode is one of them. Getting past just seven episodes is often cited as the first achievement. 75% of podcasts are no longer in production. Reaching your first 10K downloads is another. Today, with your help and that brick by brick approach, we reach our quarter millionth download. Who that actual person will be, we just don't know, bu...

Today's Saturday guest on the daily show is proof that if you have a passion for a genre, anything really is possible. Football or soccer photography is one of the most competitive genres of sport shooting to engage in, so within a matter of a few years, how has Martyn Haworth gone from shooting non league to THE BIG LEAGUE? Also today a slight hint, only slight, of things to come. Martyn's websit...

Well the questions get personal today. We also talk GAS and whether it's really necessary to have every piece of new kit plus it's the Friday Bar Nuts Quiz to test your photo knowledge. Answers Monday plus Kev brings the final Daily Photo Challenge of the week. Don't forget to keep emailing your questions and what you're doing during lockdown to click@fujicast.co.uk  

Today a more general Q&A after the mammoth episode of yesterday. Is the GFX a good wedding camera? What kit do you wish you'd never sold? Real estate photography, do I have the right glass for it? There's a new Daily Photo Challenge too set by Kev. Contact the show with your lockdown questions and comments click@fujicast.co.uk  

Well maybe not Hollywood per sae, but on film sets around the globe (when we reopen for business). Today Keith Bernstein reappears to answer the questions you've sent in about being a television and films set and stills photographer. And Kevin sets the most daring DAILY PHOTO CHALLENGE yet! A monster sized episode. Keith's work: https://www.keithbernstein.co.uk/

This lockdown thing. It's hard to record a podcast when you're studio is constantly invaded? Also today, probably one of the best photo disaster stories we've received, an invite to submit to The Ministry of Shadows and why Neale shouldn't be allowed any more Easter Eggs!  MOS: https://www.ministryofshadows.co.uk/

Today's show features Tim Johnston, a minimalist Brand and Editorial Photographer based in London. He talks about how photography has helped his anxiety, particularly helpful during lockdown. We also have the answers and winners to last week's photo challenge and Friday's Bar Nuts Quiz. That Mullins has an important announcement too about a new website. Tim Johnston: https://www.shrimbo.com/ MOS:...

Hong Kong Fujifilm X-Photographer Gary Tyson features on the Easter Sunday version of The FujiCast Daily. Life in Manila is quite hardline lockdown and Gary lets us know how the photography business in Asia has been affected. You'll hear a super tip too on how to interact with subjects on the street. Keep sending your questions, thoughts and interactions to click@fujicast.co.uk   Gary Tyson: https...

The daily photo podcast goes a little more on brand today although we think it's a great listen for all flavours, in terms of understanding what the camera companies are doing at this time for their customers. Andreas Georghiades the Marketing Manager for Fujifilm UK takes questions that you wrote in with. Also a throw forward to a second special tomorrow as we speak to 'our man' in Manila, photog...

You've been particularly great with your questions of late and today, one for Kevin he wasn't quite expecting; pictures that should never leave the edit suite. There's another Daily Photo Challenge and it being a Friday, the new photography quiz. Keep your questions, thoughts and lockdown stories coming in to click@fujicast.co.uk