About Xsightn Photography:

Xsightn Photography is a Nigeria based fashion, wedding and lifestyle photography outfit. We love to think our approach to wedding photography is both fresh and urban. We pride ourselves of being one of the top wedding photographers in Nigeria, shooting high-end weddings for Nigerian couples based outside Nigeria. In 2010 we were privileged to shoot weddings for Nigerian brides based in the USA, UK, South Africa, Canada and Cameroon . While I started off shooting weddings, I have discovered a brand new love for fashion photography. "I love the fact that i am a wedding photographer and I feel so incredibly lucky to be able to capture and document, the memories, love, look and the happiness in my work" "I approach my wedding photography in a way that leads to an intimate and artful expression resulting in images that reflect your unique personality, capturing the natural mood of the day that will be cherished in your family for years to come." Kayode(the lead photographer) started his career in IT before training under some of the world's best known photographers. Throughout his photography career, Xsightn has developed a unique style of creating timeless imagery. He draws inspiration for everything around him, from movies and television, to literary figures and, of course, journalism. Email us at bookings@xsightn.com or Call +2348097899454 or +2348023702640 Xsightn Website

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    The Beautiful Wedding of Titi and Ibrahim (Nigerian Traditional Wedding)

    Monday, October 10th, 2011

    Its nice to be blogging again.

    I have been offline for quite a bit I know , I was just too plain lazy to blog.

    I was recently out of the country again, attending a photography workshop by Egyptian award winning photographer, Toufic Arman. I will be dedicating a blog post to that travel and expereince but let me just say this now about the workshop, it was one of the best learning expereinces I have ever experienced. Toufic Arman speaks in lights !!! Workshop was on Beauty and Fashion Photography, I am hoping I will be able to integrate some of my learnings from the workshop into my Nigerian wedding work.

    Back to my beautiful Nigerian wedding blog post.

    Titi and Ibrahim’s Nigerian wedding is the sort of wedding we Nigerian photographers crave for and other international photographers take for granted.

    Firstly, I was the only photographer of the day , yeah you heard me right, I didn’t say official photographer, I said photographer, meaning no other photographer was even visible. For those of you that shoot Nigerian weddings you know this is extremely rare, especially when its a wedding for such a  high end couple. The experience was nothing short of spectacular. No photographers to dodge, no photographers to get in my shot, no photographers to …. I had a swell time, I had all the time in the world to be creative for both days. This is what I believe has translated to really beautiful wedding images.

    Secondly, it was a small affair (not a lot of guests at least by Nigerian standards) and the hall was also moderately sized and beautifully decorated. I was able to cover the hall quite quickly and easily and this is quite  important to me.

    For both days, I was all over Lagos, from getting ready in Banana island in Lagos, to Yetunde Apartments in parkview Ikoyi, then to Anthony Village for day 2 and then back to parkview for the reception.

    Titi, the bride started up playing the shy bride but my o my, boy did she groove when we got to the reception, she totally got out of her shell and moved to some “WINDECK”.

    Ibrahim, was the perfect smiling, emotional, handsome groom, I totally enjoyed shooting him cry in church just when he caught the very first glimpse of his wife to be, it was the ultimate wedding photography moment.

    I had a swell time shooting this awesome couple.

    I will let this pictures speak for themselve.

    Special thanks to Titi and Ibrahim, God bless you both and thanks for having an Xsightn wedding.

    Here are just very few images from their wedding, in all about 2000 final images were delivered to client icon smile The Beautiful Wedding of Titi and Ibrahim (Nigerian Traditional Wedding)

    My photography is all about capturing emotions.

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    We took a few pictures  just after the bride’s makeup was ready. She looked perfect and I just had to steal her away from the crowd. I tried not to direct her as much as I could and really just allowed her to do her thing. Ibrahim will be enjoying this pictures for years to come.

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    Royalty ….

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    Announcing the arrival of Ibrahim…. He arrived the venue like a Kind would with a a lot of well wishers. Using a wide angle lens and shooting from the ground up, helped to exaggerate the whole scene. I love it..

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    Bride arrives as discretely as you could imagine .. well not really but …..

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    The couple worship and pray to God, picture taken from quite a distance….

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    The beautiful couple ….

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    Mr and Mrs Aliyu show off…..

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    Ibrahim steals a kiss …..

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    Titi blows a kiss …

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    The dashing groom ….

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    The Xsightn Couple …..

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    God bless you both and congratulations from the Xsightn team.

    Kayode is a leading photographer based in Lagos, Nigeria.

    Give me a call on +2348033051621 or mail kayode@xsightn.com and let’s see what we can do together.

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    Nigerian Photographer : My South African Shoot – Equipment Review

    Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

    This is just a short video showing the equipments I used for Day one of my Photo assignment in Cape Town South Africa.
    Video quality could have been better (This I know now). Apologies for the very loud auto focus sound from the Nikon D7000.
    Hope some of you aspiring Nigerian Photographers find this useful.

    My name is Kayode and I am a Lagos based Photographer.
    I love shooting weddings.

    Feel free to shoot me an email at kayode@xsightn.com

    Nigerian Photographer – Quick location photography gear review

    Friday, April 22nd, 2011

    This is a quick video I made without really thinking about it. In this video I talk about a location photography shoot I will be having and the sort of photography equipments I usually take on such shoots.

    Most of my equipments are manufactured by a company called Paul C. Buff in the USA, I ordered most of the equipments some 9 or so months ago and only just got them delivered to Lagos Nigeria a few weeks back, been using them ever since they landed. It’s extremely difficult if not damn right impossible getting great quality equipments here in Nigeria, I usually have to order most of them from the states (and at times from Hong Kong).

    My camera of choice remains my trusty Nikon D700 and new sidekick, the Nikon D7000.

    My name is Kayode Martins, I am a Nigerian photographer based in Lagos, Nigeria. I am available for Nigerian, African and International Photo assignments. I have a passion for Wedding Photography.
     

    EDIT : Audio was a bit crappy so I re-encoded and re-uploaded. on the 26th of April, 2011

    Nigerian Photographer : Pictures by Mike

    Thursday, March 17th, 2011

    I was at the Maryland studios of my very good friend, big brother and mentor, Micheal Inyang.

    Micheal is one of those Nigerian photographers that help lay my foundation in this industry, he is extremely talented and easily one of the best photographers of our generation, lol, sorry, his generation o.

    I was just there to hang out with a friend. He had recently just got one of the new nikon 85mm lens and was eager to try it out on a model, enter Xsightn. So I volunteered my modeling services and he politely accepted. To get behind the len of one of Nigeria’s top photographers was always a wonderful expereince for me, the last time I did that, I remember coming out with some breath taking images, one of those pictures is framed right now if my memory serves me correctly.

    So we fooled around in the studio for quite sometime and this are the images we came out with, as usual amazing images.

    I have tried to do as little processing as possible to keep this pictures true to what they were intended to be.

    We did not have the luxury of a makeup artist but I think the shoot went pretty well, what do you think ?

    Thanks a bunch Micheal, I owe you one big time.

    All pictures in this post were taken by the amazing Micheal Inyang.

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    Kayode is the lead wedding photographer for Xsightn Photography, a Lagos based wedding photography outfit specializing in shooting high end brides.

    Nigerian Weddings – Oyinda Getting Ready (Video)

    Sunday, March 13th, 2011

    The Nigerian wedding of Oyinda and Andrew was one of the first weddings I shot this year. Bride and groom were such fun to work with. Too lazy to upload images from the wedding just yet but here’s a sneak peek. Here’s a small video I made of the gorgeous bride getting ready. Let me know what you think.

    If you haven’t seen my other video posts, please check them out here

    My name is Kayode and I shoot Nigerian weddings.

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