Let’s take a mini-break from the usual rumors, reviews and news flow, and share a little tips and tricks roundup, courtesy of Explora BH, who has been very active to release content like this over the last few months, from youtube videos, to podcast and blog posts.

And since summer is travel season, I will include a dedicated landscape photography section.

Landscape Photography Tips

• BHphoto Explora – 7 Essential Tips for the Landscape Photographer
• BHphoto Explora – Beginner Tips for Approaching a Landscape Scene
• From Good to Great: 7 Tips for Better Landscape Photos
  Authored by Robin Laurenson, this helpful guide covers some compositional ideas to help achieve more striking imagery.
• Tips for Landscape Photography
  Highlighting some quick and easy techniques that should benefit novices and advanced shooters alike
• How to Choose a Lens for Landscape Photography
  Lenses are one of, if not the, most important tools in photography; this guide focuses on picking a lens for landscape shooting.
• A Guide to Accessories for Landscape Photography
  Looking beyond the cameras and lenses, accessories are how you fill in and customize your kit, and this article focuses on some landscape-specific ones.
• Gift Guide for Landscape Photographers
  Even though this is called a “gift guide,” you can also use it as an inspiration guide for expanding your tool set for landscape shooting.

More Explora Tips and Tricks

• BHphoto Explora Podcast: The Secret Ingredient in Wedding Photography
• BHphoto Explora – Do Tripods Make a Difference? You Betcha!
• BHphoto Explora – Tips For Purchasing Your Next Camera Bag
• BHphoto Explora – 5 Corrective Posing Tips
• BHphoto Explora – Handheld Close-Up Focus Stacking Guide
• BHphoto Explora – Recommended Lenses for Shooting the Solar Eclipse on Any Budget
• BHphoto Explora – Best Accessories for Cold-Weather Photography
• BHphoto Explora – f/8 and Be There: A Beginner’s Guide to Zone Focusing
• BHphoto Explora – 5 Tips for Photographing People through Reflections, with Monaris
• BHphoto Explora – Essential Gear for Nailing Focus in Macro Photography
• BHphoto Explora – A Guide to Birding and Digiscoping

In their latest episode, DPRTV looks at the best Fujifilm prime lenses, more precisely at the following ones:

• XF18mmF1.4 vs XF18mmF2
• XF23mmF1.4 vs XF23mmF2
• XF35mmF1.4 vs XF35mmF2

So which one is the better pick? And is bigger, more expensive and faster always better?

I want to know your opinion, but so far I personally went for the f/1.4 lenses, plus I sold my XF18mmF2 in favor of the even more compact XF27mmF2.8 and now I am a happy owner of the XF27mmF2.8 R WR.

And while I think I could be perfectly happy also with the XF23mmF2 instead of my XF23mmF1.4 (the lens that took the first image of my son), I think I can simply not trade in my XF35mmF1.4 for the XF35mmF2, as I simply love it. The XF35mmF1.4 is always with me on travels (for example here in the gothic streets of Barcelona) and it has that character that also Chris from DPRTV loves so much.

Gosh, I even had to take an emergency jump into the Mekong river one day with all my gear, XF35mmF1.4 included, to avoid to die in the Mekong waterfalls on the border between Laos and Cambodia (I had the brilliant idea to explore alone with an old cr*p wooden Kayak a point where the Mekong gets at least 5 miles large, commonly called the 4000 island).

The mighty Mekong claimed all my gear in exchange for my life. All my gear, except for the XF35mmF1.4, which was the only gear to survive and still today works like a champ.

But enough of that crazy stuff I do on travels.

Down below you can read a summary of what Chris thinks about these lenses.