The FujiCast: Photography Podcast (Neale James & Kevin Mullins)

It may be a FujiCast, but one thing we've wanted to do from day one is welcome listeners to the podcast from all flavours of brand. Today's special guest on the interview part of the cast is Canon ambassador Sanjay Jogia. We also talk photo books, introduce the work of Sara Lando, answer more questions about cameras and photography and give away some Simplr camera straps.

Sanjay Jogia: https://www.eyejogia.com/

Sara Lando: http://www.saralando.com/

Simplr Camera straps: https://simplr.us 

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/

It's Saturday, so it's interview time! Today, Russell Ord, a Fujifilm X-Photographer who is one of the world's best loved surf photographers. He's fearless and shares his tips for making pictures in the harshest of environments. Also, black and white, can you make a living from it?

Send your questions to click@fujicast.co.uk

See Russell's work: https://www.russellordphoto.com/

This week Kevin and Neale's special guest Patrick La Roque takes to the road to reignite his passion for photography in part one of a two part mini series. The lads cover everything from Victorian death pictures, to zooms versus primes and a surprise contact from one of the subjects in Darcy Padilla's seminal work; Family Love.

A very special guest joins us this weekend on The FujiCast Daily. John McCarthy was held hostage in Beirut for 1,943 days, so knows a deal about isolation. Today a story of hope and tackling the effects of being isolated from an outside world. Part one of a two parter this weekend. Also your positive stories of what you've been doing photographically during this extraordinary time.

John McCarthy speaking engagements: info@room54.co.uk

The book: 'Some other rainbow,' Jill Morrell and John McCarthy

The Brighton listener meet up recorded live on location in the south's most vibrant seaside town on the Palace Pier. The show features interviews with one of the UK's most well known street photographers Nick Turpin, photographer and You Tuber Sean Tucker plus Fujifilm's Exec helping to head up the X-Photographer ambassador scheme; Laura Ross. Those who came to the live show also get a chance to ask questions from the floor and we find out just what the law really is about photographing in public.

Sean Tucker: http://www.seantucker.photography/ 
Nick Turpin: https://nickturpin.com/ 
Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/ 
Neale James: https://www.nealejames.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.

It's most certainly an eclectic experience today on the Sunday Service edition of the show. We talk music, we talk websites again, there's some more Platon chat and we attempt, attempt, to answer that question about whether photography is our life's mission? Email the show of course with your thoughts, questions and feedback: click@fujicast.co.uk 

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 week's TFT: click@fujicast.co.uk 

Kevin is back from Spain, normal service is resumed and we have a great special guest as our first one of the Autumn season. Portrait photographer to the stars and a film maker. He's shot advertising campaigns for Apple, Sony and British Airways; we welcome Chris Floyd. As always more of your questions and a chance to win a Simplr camera strap.

Chris Floyd: https://www.chrisfloyd.com/ 
Simplr camera straps: https://simplr.us/ 
Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com 
Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/ 

Today's show features Brad Wakefield who talks about shooting press work and how in many respects it's similar to photographing a wedding in terms of story capture. Why don't we talk about micro two thirds? And other questions, all in The FujiCast Daily. Remember the show lives by your questions and thoughts on photography, so keep sending them in to click@fujicast.co.uk 

Brad Wakefield: https://www.bradwakefield.com/ 

Brian Shul's spy plane photography: bit.ly/brianshul 

Today's guest Joe Houghton has just fulfilled his dream of having a photo book published. Streets of Dublin is proof that if you have a great idea, in 2020/21, there really isn't a barrier to seeing your book grace the shelves of Amazon and book stores. Also we talk X-Pro3 design, how to shoot small weddings and what Fuji kit to pack if you're filming overseas and need a carry on bag weighing less than 10kg!

Streets of Dublin: https://www.houghtonphoto.com/ 
Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/ 
Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com 
F16: https://www.f16.click/ 

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.

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 
Artlist: https://artlist.io/Neale-58765
The hosts: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/theboys/

Neale is hiding his new camera purchase, the boys dip back into their Irish heritage for a green passport that may allow them to shoot weddings in Europe and Kev gives more X Raw Studio advice. How do you keep on top of the myriad of ways people now use to keep in touch on social media and what’s the best productivity tool? We talk scary and proud photographic moments, the way sensors treat colour, camera design gripes, sound tips and what makes a good Kickstarter book. The book of the week is the Thames and Hudson Photofile book on Elliott Erwitt and our guest for part 2 of using your video button is Carl Hare.

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; is there such a thing? BIG show news for an event coming up we’d love you to join us at, Kev sorts out some exposure lock problems and we talk about making pictures during times of crisis in the news. The extraordinary street photographer Matt Stuart is our guest and he also is the feature of Book of the Month with ’Think like a street photographer'.

In today's episode we answer the five 'big' questions posed by a new photographer two years into his business. We have Kev's 'Book you should buy when it's safe to spend money again' and there's another Daily Photo Challenge.

Send your questions for the show to click@fujicast.co.uk 

This week, Mullins under the spotlight, twice. He shares his real working knowledge of social media and how to use it well in photography and takes a trip to Devon to talk to Robin Ravilious, widow of the late great James, social documenter, lauded by Cartier-Bresson for his authentic storytelling of life in the south west of England.

James Ravilious main site: http://www.jamesravilious.com/ 
Archive: https://beaford.org/about-james-ravilious 
Simplr camera straps: https://simplr.us/ 

Leonard 'Lennie' Neumann has been photographing life in The States, South Africa, England and France. A candid photographer, he works the streets with a short focal length lens and generous spirit. He is today's special guest on the daily show. Also today, when can we start to advertise our services again? And what happened at midnight last night in sleepy Malmesbury? All the links to today's special will be on the show's website page: www.fujicast.co.uk 

Kev is losing it, well he’s lost his memories cards, batteries and a whole X-Pro2! Lockdown losses. Some ’sound’ advice for budding podcasters, we talk URBEX (urban exploration photography), zooms versus primes, attending college to learn photography and workshops, using Instax printers at events and is Twitter the new way to share pictures? Are you patient enough to print? And a conversation about a monochrome only X100. In the Shadow of Cleve Hill by royal racing photographer Bernard Parkin is book of the week and we meet another friend of the show, Dennis Lee.

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: https://www.ministryofshadows.co.uk/

The first FujiCast. Meet Kevin and Neale as they review Bob Mazzer's potent photobook about London's iconic underground culture. Neale goes on a Sydney photowalk with Fujifilm X-Photographer Markus Andersen and the new mailbag feature answers your questions about all things Fujifilm.

Contact the show click@fujicast.co.uk 

Kev needs a new photographic keep fit regime that doesn’t hurt his knees, we chat about emotional images and how they affect us as the photographer, what we’d choose given a one camera one lens choice, we talk Zuckergate, secure logins and Twitter sharing. What is the age ceiling of wedding photographers and camera club competition judges, discuss!?! The book of the week is Sally Mann’s Hold Still and Peter Dench returns for part 2 of his conversation with Mullins. 

This week on the show Kevin and Neale play part 2 of special guest Patrick la Roque's story on finding your photo mojo. Kevin talks about the legality of street photography and there are Q&As on destination weddings.

Contact the show: click@fujicast.co.uk

See more of Kevin's work: www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk 

The resource for Fujifilm photographers: https://f16.click/

See more of Neale's work: www.nealejames.com 

Kevin makes number 11 in the hip hop charts and plans to go on tour! A new career perhaps? Neale's bleep machine is on fire this week as Kev gets proper irate about politics. Over in photo making land though, we talk Snapseed, destination wedding work, editing on iPads, design foibles, white balance, HDR shooting, sensor cleaning, switching from Nikon to an X-E3 and how wedding photography has changed? The book of the week is the World Atlas of Street Photography and Michael Beecham is our guest talking about putting on his first solo exhibition.

"Would you like to second shoot a wedding for me?" The question UK wedding and commercial photographer Rebecca Faith posed to Magnum legend shooter Martin Parr. Hear what happened after he agreed. Also today, should you be photographing on the street during lockdown? 

Rebecca Faith's site: https://rebeccafaithphoto.com/

https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/

Send your questions to click@fujicast.co.uk 

Kev’s still doing the walk of shame following his phone ringing at a funeral, though it seems Neale is to blame! Today, film simulations and how they work in that magic box we call a camera, keeping up with corporate speak, the blueprint for a new photography business, website advice, simple ‘CRM’ and embracing free marketing platforms. Also, we’re poking the bear on the Instagram theme, let’s call it ’the rematch,’ photo books or YouTube, which works best in terms of tuition, colour casts in Lightroom and is an X-T3 still a good purchase. It’s also the second concluding part of our conversation with Kristina Varaksina, UK Fujifilm ambassador.

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 

This week's special guest on The FujiCast is Andrew Hellmich, whose PhotoBiz X podcast was one of the first photography podcasts to focus on the business side of making pictures. He shares how he got started and some gems of advice given on the show to him. Also this week, finding your photography confidence, making a choice between the X-T3 and X-T4, the focal length you shouldn't be without and another photo disaster story.

Andrew Hellmich PhotoBix X: https://photobizx.com/
Contact Neale and Kevin: click@fujicast.co.uk 

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 considers how he no longer has time to be a photographer now his radio career is lifting off, we tackle the new street photography and YouTube clauses when it comes to identifying people in your pictures and films, dealing with over zealous amateurs ’stealing your shots,’ self timer presets, the perfect first Fujifilm family camera for a pro and choosing between the X100V and X-H1 for video work. We ask, “Is burst mode cheating when you’re shooting street work and will we have to start requesting permission on the street for pics?” Kev’s Book of the Week is from Belgian photographer Stefan Vanfleteren and Our Friend of the Show guest is Alex Frederickson.

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 raise the ‘Should you belong to an organisation or society’ question cautiously. We talk about settings for making video shooting out of the box, editing software, focusing issues, workshops and tech in cameras; is it getting just a little too clever? Get your questions in to click@fujicast.co.uk or through the private Facebook group.

In part 2 of our weekend daily show, John McCarthy talks of his release after 1,943 days captive in Lebanon. As we encounter our own isolation and think of what lies ahead, John shares how his hopes for freedom led to new horizons. Today is about embracing our futures. We'll also hear more of your photographic daily stories of what you've been doing at this time.

John McCarthy: info@room54.co.uk 

Contact the show: click@fujicast.co.uk 

This week three special guests; Ian Weldon, Cat Ekkelboom-White and Nick Church join Kevin and Neale to sort out what's happening in wedding and social photography world. We also ask if Fuji may produce a black and white only camera one day and talk about the importance of personal projects.

Ian Weldon: http://ianweldon.com/
Cat Ekkelboom-White: https://www.wildconnectionsphotography.com
Nick Church: https://www.nickchurchphotography.co.uk/
Neale and Kevin: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/theboys 

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.

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.

Kev and Neale take a jaunt to London and it results in a later release, well that’s the boy’s excuse - and they’re sticking by it. Today on the show, life cycles of mirrorless versus DSLR, front command dial problems and is ai going to cause as many problems for photographers as we fear? Also, changing Adobe subscriptions while keeping photos in the cloud safe, attaching vintage lenses and online sales advice. Our guest is Amy Milstein, a documentary wedding photographer in New York and the book of the week is Stones from the Inside, with photography by Bill Wyman.

Today documentary photographer Jim Grover on photographing the stories in your community and creating exhibitions from them. Also, what happened to the X-70, should I have a Covid clause in my photo contract as we begin to mix again, how many galleries SHOULD my website have? Book of the week features Martin Parr and there’s another of your photo disaster stories. 

Send your questions into the show: click@fujicast.co.uk

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; are there any left and which lenses would you like to see new versions of? The award winning documentary wedding and portrait photographer Ben Chrisman is our guest for part one of a chat with Kev and we look at published work by Hiperfocales member Luis Alberto Padilla González. With thanks to Pic-Time who support the show and our patrons. 

Do they have Polar Bears in Argentina, how much is Kev’s vet’s bill, what is a shutterless camera lifespan, should you have a 'scaffold in pictures' contract clause, can you future proof a photo business for another pandemic and why do people humble brag? We imagine a world without film, talk about travel and backups, dream of a BW sensor and discuss how the new larger sensor size may affect lens purchases. The book of the week is Fred Herzog’s Modern Color and Darren Goldstein returns to talk about stills unit photography.

The FujiCast Daily, Kev's back with Neale and we have a photographer/teacher on to tell us how to cope and deal with the kids being at home during lockdown. Your photo questions as ever to click@fujicast.co.uk 

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 

Imagine this. Your first professional gig is shooting The Clash at the launch of punk music. Next you're with Elton John. Then you're on assignment in lawless Mogadishu followed by an invitation to be Nelson Mandela's personal photographer. Clint Eastwood chooses you to photograph on set. This is the stuff of dreams surely? Meet Keith Bernstein, the man behind the stories above. Also today, dealing with low light, how to start in street photography and X-T2 or X-T3, what should I buy?

Keith Bernstein: https://www.keithbernstein.co.uk/
Neale and Kevin's websites: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/theboys 

In 2020, book less but charge double. Is that as simple as it sounds though? How can you achieve success? Is it hard work or luck? Also this week we talk with James Lawrence who has the job of training clergy at the Church of England. Finally a man who can help us as photographers when it comes to that frosty welcome we sometimes find when entering church as a professional. And, should you hire a retoucher?

James Lawrence: https://jcl-photography.weebly.com/
Kevin and Neale's sites: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/theboys/

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.

This week Kev buys a horse, the boys consider their photographic coffee shop business, we talk lens correction issues for Fujifilm in Lightroom, Neale ducks answering personal questions, photographing The President, getting better at culling, why the boys love Photo Mechanic, using vintage lenses and adaptors for that purpose. The boys tackle starting up on YouTube again, shooting single card camera systems and pre-wedding meets; are they important? Kev’s book of the week is a proper limited edition by Valentino Barachini and our guest is Fujifilm’s UK Marketing Manager, Andreas Georghiades for the latest Ask Andreas feature.

Fujifilm X-Photographer Jeff Carter joins us on the show today. Respected for his industry leading motorsport pictures, Jeff is equally a talented landscape shooter and he shares his advice for working in these genres. Also this week a new photo challenge for any listeners in the FujiCast Facebook group, Kev's book of the week, your photo disaster stories and we'll attempt to succinctly answer a tax question too. You can't get more varied!

Jeff Carter: https://www.macleanphotographic.com/ 
Connect with us: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/theboys 
Send questions to: click@fujicast.co.uk 

Kev is luxuriating in Bunker Malmesbury, Neale is in the studio, though it’s business as usual with your questions. This week, is there any point to IBIS when films today are as ‘Shaky' as an 80s pop star singing Green Door? We talk about taking on a part time job if wedding work gets shifted again, whether we could return to a time which necessitates shooting with film cameras only, Clubhouse, the banning of street shooting and we debate fine art photography; what is it? The boys tempt a lifelong Nikon shooter with a shopping list, we sort out the black and white simulation options in camera, and discuss perfect pancakes of the lens variety. The book of the week is Todd Hido’s 'On Landscapes, Interiors and The Nude' and our Friend of the Show interview is with Steve Vaughan.

Neale and Kev ponder whether to believe in Father Christmas over the politicians, we discuss the new lens roadmap and Viltrox lenses, the value of signed photography books, we tip our hats to Salgado’s latest exhibition, discuss the charges made to videographers in UK churches, lightroom rescues, drones and X100 cameras; are they the perfect all round travel companions? Book of the Week is Jim Marshall’s 'Show Me the Picture' and our guest is unit stills photographer Darren Goldstein.

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.

Street photography is a theme we return to and today's episode takes on a potent tone as we hear photojournalist Jason Florio's account of working on the streets of New York on the day of 9/11. Your Fujifilm questions and an opportunity to win Simplr straps.

Show notes and competition annos: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/ 

Jason Florio: https://www.floriophoto.com/ 

Florio Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jasonflorio/ 

Simplr Straps: https://www.simplr.us/ 

Artlist music: https://artlist.io/ 

Blue Wednesday: https://soundcloud.com/bluewednesday 

iN-PUBLiC: https://in-public.com/ 

Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/ 

Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com/ 

Are wedding awards important? Are any photographic awards for that matter worth entering? Also, wedding photographers may be suffering financially during this period, but have they forgotten what the day is really about? Is there a need for an X-T5, what is left to improve upon? How can you motivate yourself day to day photographically? This week’s book of the week is John Chilllingworth’s Picture Post Photographer and our guest is a Ian Treherne, a photographer who is 5% sighted.

Kev’s overheating and he’s had just four hours sleep in as many days! Neale is pining for Africa again as the boys talk about where they’d like to make photo stories when the world opens up. Tamron has a new lens for us to look forward to, packing a bag for 24 hours in New York City, The Great British Photography Challenge, watermarking, a tool that can select our best pictures by ai, self publishing, why Kev has fallen out of love with Wordpress and street shooting legally; good news! The book of the week is Do Photo by Andrew Paynter and our guest is Northern Ireland’s only independent camera store owner, photographer Pascal Diamond.

This week on the FujiCast, as well as your Q&As about Fujifilm gear and photography business questions, back for the second part of his two parter, John Swannell talks about the famous Princess Diana Christmas card shoot, as well as how he tackles nerves when photographing famous portraits clients. An episode not to be missed for those looking to work in the business of celebrity. There's more news too of this year's upcoming X-Weddings Conference in Bath.

X-Weddings: https://www.x-weddings.co.uk/
Simplr Straps:https://simplr.us/
John Swannell: https://iconicimages.net/photographers/john-swannell/

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.

Would some of the world’s finest known heritage photographers be as big as they are, if they were starting out in today’s Insta style World with a million voices challenging for the space? A new feature with Fujifilm product specialist Carl Hare tackling the BIG tech questions! The boys discuss the things they have forgotten to take to shoots, the best Fujifilm lenses for live sports action, we celebrate ten years of the X100 and Andrew Hall, motorsport photographer and Fujifilm X-Photographer in Australia joins us.

Look under your car seat, peep behind the sofa, Kev’s looking for his X100V! Perhaps it’s been used by his interior decorator - all will be revealed. Also on the show, getting more bang for your buck in backup-land, photographing in a pyramid, displaying your pictures in the myriad of aspect ratio frames available, why wedding cake makers are miffed with Bake Off, best skin tone film simulations, jpeg compression and choose your favourite ever lens chaps! Also a new feature this week about photography films on YouTube. This week, The Photographic Eye channel’s film about William Eggleston’s approach to photography, the 'dilemma of boring photographs'.

Kev is installed at last in the new office, Malmesbury Bunker 2.0 and we ask the questions; will the show ever be filmed, when are you too old for street shooting, should you choose an X-Pro1 or 2 used, who needs a camera in a cardboard box, should I supply all my clients with TIFF instead of Jpegs, has Covid made photographers give away their knowledge too readily too cheaply in too many online courses and if you had 5K to invest in a camera that would hold its value, what would you choose? Former British National Press Awards Photographer of the Year, PA Media photographer Danny Lawson is our guest and Kev’s book of the week is Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook.

Fighting Australia's wild bush fires would seem like a challenge enough, but photojournalist Cam Neville decided to fight and photograph at the same time. We also talk wedding photography and answer your Fujifilm questions.

Cameron Neville: https://www.camneville.com/ 

Full Cam Neville Podcast: https://breathepictures.com/cam-neville-firefighting-photojournalist/

Kevin Mullins Photography: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/ 

F16 website: https://f16.click/ 

Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com 

FujiCast homepage for quiz answers: https://www.fujicast.co.uk 

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! It’s a special FujiCast week with new kit announcements, plus we talk about entrusting your post-processing to a computer; is artificial intelligence good enough to process a look and feel into your precious photographs? Also, are cameras becoming too small for comfortably holding, do you wear ear protection on loud jobs, what spare items do you carry in the kit bag that are not photographic but possible ‘life savers’, how long do you really need to hold on to raws, do your LR pictures need deworming, is Twitter the new ‘best’ way to share our pictures, and would you like a GFX and a stash of cash for the year to go and make the best photo story? On top of this, special guests from the UK and Japan to celebrate what Kev believes will be the best selling X-T of all time!

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.uk 

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 

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Martin Parr discussed following his role in a book now recognised to have a racist undercurrent. Guest Chris Orange talks of the benefit of being a real all-rounder in the first of a two parter; today commercial and PR work. We also talk about writing business letters and ask for the second time; “Is wedding photography dead, and what next for destination weddings?" Facebook advertising, does it work for your genre? Some more on macro and loss of images through card corruption.

Send your questions to: click@fujicast.co.uk 

Entering the last week of dailies, Kev and Neale contemplate their feelings nine weeks into lockdown as measures start to lift. The X100, F or V? Which is the one to buy? Cookie notifications also under the spotlight and Kev isn’t too keen on pop-up-tastic sites it would seem. What makes a good photo? Well, where do we even start? And then Neale has news of his new photography podcast starting Monday 1st June. It’s all in today’s daily.

A different kind of exhibition this week as during the second part we go on location at the McCullin retrospective exhibition. Hear Neale and Kevin with guest photographers Sanjay Jogia and Michael Shilling discuss and experience one of the most important photographic exhibitions the Tate Britain has hosted.

Fujicast website: www.fujicast.co.uk 

McCullin website: https://donmccullin.com/

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 also answer questions on insurance for photographers, where to self-publish, what life experiences or courses have added value to our creative lives or outlook. Our guest is the remarkably talented photographer and musician Charles Brooks who makes pictures within instruments that are simply out of this world!

Swapping from Nikon to Fujifilm for professional work. What camera would the team suggest? Carl Hare Product Specialist for Fujifilm is back again to answer your tech questions, this week:  tethering your Fuji camera for using as a webcam, is ISO real in Fujifilm cameras and more. We talk about photographing on Alcatraz with listener Ryan Katsanes. What do Kev and Neale feel about socially distanced picture making? Book of the week is Vintage 80s, London Street Photography by Johnny Stiletto.

Write into the show: click@fujicast.co.uk 

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.

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.

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, but maybe, just maybe it's you. It's not a pomp and ceremony show today, but we might just mention it, along with the perfect first mirrorless and a recipe from Chef Kev!

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 

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For links go to the showpage.

This week's special guest is the celebrated photo story teller Tom Stoddart. His advice is gold for anyone wishing to be a photojournalist. We also talk about getting in close with wider angled lenses to tell a story.

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 website: https://mhaworth.co.uk/

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.

Nine weeks of lockdown has softened our feet and, for some folk aided a little weight gain. So are we fit enough to return to work? Shhh, a little more F versus V. Duplicating web content on Facebook or Instagram; good or bad practise? If you have a business page, listen to this. Kev has an idea how to find who is blatantly copying your hard work on their website. And what stops us from achieving our ambitions?

Today’s show is about lockdown projects and we visit and revisit in one case, listeners and friends of the show from north, east, south and west to hear about what they’ve seen, recorded and photographed over the last few months. We also talk about blogs and if they’re still important for your business. All links to the photographers featured today are on the #110 show notes at www.fujicast.co.uk 

Reuters photographer Cathal McNaughton talks about winning a Pulitzer for his work in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The book review is back featuring Nan Goldin, we talk personal projects and share more plans for 2020.

Cathal McNaughton: https://www.cathal-mcnaughton.com/
Nan Goldin: http://www.artnet.com/artists/nan-goldin/
The boys: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/theboys/
Support the show: https://www.fujicast.co.uk/tip-jar/

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.

Today the graphic and important photographs of war and protests. Essential documents of history, but would you hang them on your wall as art? Also we hear the second part of an interview with landscape photographer Paul Sanders who embraces his work as a part of mindfulness. And moving Lightroom catalogues between computers, organising your Instagram grid with a book of the week from the Hoxton Mini Press.

Write in to the show: click@fujicast.co.uk

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.

Sean Tucker, rising YouTuber in the photo community is our guest this week on The FujiCast. Your questions as always and Kevin and Neale deal with how to tackle the more negative side of social media. Email your questions to the studio click@fujicast.co.uk 

Sean Tucker: https://www.youtube.com/user/seantuckermerge
Breathe Pictures: https://www.breathepictures.com
Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/
F16 site: https://f16.click/
Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com 
Simplr Straps: https://simplr.us/ 

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 questions to click@fujicast.co.uk  

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 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 

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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 

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Neale is getting dewy eyed over Chris Killip’s nostalgic photography, meanwhile Kev is sidetracked by his black belt grading and banned rugby anthems! By the way, if you’re a rugby fan as our Kev is, steady and ready yourself for some hopeless score predictions! Meanwhile in photography world, transitioning from portraits, finding street photography, editing larger raw files, smaller lens sizes and can we have a percentage symbol for battery strength instead of bars? Also, giving feedback to Fujifilm, bring back your mojo, X-E2 focus features and Lightroom sharing. John Dolan is our special guest returning for part two of his chat with Kev, and the boys are looking for more show questions; tech, creative and anything in-between, so email our website or Facebook group.

Neale is literally mining for questions and Kev is inviting a star studded list of photographers to take turns in photographing his big day; just another week really. We talk camera button layouts, dealing with trolls and negative comments, looking after your back when hauling gear, planning your own workshops, photographing Mrs. Stephenson, camera tech versus phone manufacturing, being fed as a supplier and drinking gin by the pint, by accident! Book of the week is Chris Ferreira’s incredible art/doodle/photography book, Journal: To the Mayon Volcano and Beyond and our guest is Robin Ravilious.

Animal rights activist and photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur talks about fifteen years of work photographing across all seven continents, telling difficult and rewarding stories about the plight of animals. Also this week, radioactive lenses that you may just have in your home, and what settings to use if your youngest wants to start borrowing your prized pro camera. Lots more questions and Simplr camera straps to give away.

Jo-Anne McArthur: https://joannemcarthur.com/ 
We Animals: https://weanimalsmedia.org/ 
Simplr straps: https://simplr.us/ 
Neale James: https://www.nealejames.com
Kevin Mullins: https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/

All manner of subjects today as we co-present once more with a live studio guest, this time; long time friend and peer Allister Freeman. Known as one of the leading documentary shooters in the UK, Al also introduces us to personal projects and why they're important. Your questions and more Simplr straps to give away. Join us on The FujiCast.

https://www.allisterfreeman.co.uk/

https://www.simplr.us/

https://www.kevinmullinsphotography.co.uk/

https://www.nealejames.com 

Kev is recovering after his marathon of weddings, so it’s a welcome sit down for a coffee and chat about what makes the perfect photo book design. We also talk about swapping our X-Ts and X-Pros for a GFX, the latest Fujifilm Summit, Kev gives dubious flying advice for nervous fliers but sterling advice for a sixteen year looking at a photographic career. We ponder whether cloud back up is safe enough and expensive, if Fujifilm could add shutter sound effects to bodies to resemble favourite classic camera sounds, protecting the X100 series lens, using the X100V’s digital zoom and what 'non-photographers' appreciate in a professional picture. 'Hey look at this' by Dennis Skyum is the ‘book of the week’ and it’s part one of the latest Ask Andreas, where the Group Marketing Manager for Fujifilm answers your brand questions.

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?

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://www.f8.photography/

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/ 

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 

Kev’s still in Bunker Malmesbury as Covid restrictions prevent the boys being in the same airspace as one another, but they still manage to tackle X100V questions, how they intend to get match fit for the return of weddings, their feelings about Instax products, recovering lost files, Martin Parr’s old and new work, the importance of testimonials, messing up mid job, presenting a photo TV show and stitching panoramas. Pete Reed is our special guest and Josef Koudelka’s ‘Gypsies' is the book of the week. As ever send your questions in to: click@fujicast.co.uk 

Today on the show, probably the hardest challenge we have ever set plus a question on what floats our boat, spiritually and artistically in a picture. Kev gets some Instagram lessons and Neale reveals what he's holding out for once lock in is done and we tentatively all return to that place called work.

Daily Photo Challenge page to visit: https://bit.ly/JohnDowning-quiz

Write in to click@fujicast.co.uk