About Thomas Fitzgerald

Thomas is a professional fine art photographer and writer specialising in photography related instructional books as well as travel writing and street photography. 

The Return of Street Photo Diary - Street Photography with the Fuji X-E4

The Return of Street Photo Diary - Street Photography with the Fuji X-E4

My most popular series of videos on YouTube by far was “street photo diary”. It’s a series that I loved creating, but it has been on hiatus since 2019 and the pandemic hit. Well, I’m delighted to say that I’ve finally created a new episode, and it’s up on YouTube now. In this video I take my new Fujifilm XE-4 on a photo walk around Dublin City to see how well the camera works for Street Photography, and to see how it will fare as a replacement for my ageing Sony A6000

I thought it had only been two years since the last time I shot one of these, but it has actually been nearly three, which is weird to say the least. It was hard to get back into doing this. It used to take me a day or two to create one of these, but this time it took me the best part of a week (on and off). I was using different equipment so that was a factor, but it was also a case of everything hat could go wrong did go wrong. I nearly didn’t post it, but after taking a step back, and coming back to it, I put together something I was happy with. I hope you’ll enjoy it too, and if you do, please stop by my channel and subscribe and check out the other episodes of the series.

I’ll have a corresponding post over on my Photo Stories blog soon, but below are a few of the photos from this shoot for now. I posted all of these using my T-Pan for Lightroom presets, which aren’t currently available, but I’m in the process of putting them up on my GumRoad store, so they should be there in the next few days. (I want to make sure they’re compatible with the current version of Lightroom)

My T-Pan Lightroom Black and White Film Presets are available for sale again

My T-Pan Lightroom Black and White Film Presets are available for sale again

How to do the “desaturate lows” cinematic grading technique in Lightroom

How to do the “desaturate lows” cinematic grading technique in Lightroom