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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    Nigerian Photographer : Building a better Photography Blog Experience.

    Thursday, April 28th, 2011

    It’s been a while since we made any sweeping changes to the look and feel of our blog. As a brand that is still very much evolving we want to know what our readers, visitors and brides want to see more on our blog. So we are conducting a survey which you could complete in 5 minutes. It’s totally anonymous and will go a long way in really helping us get our content right. Wedding Photography in Nigeria is now big business and the competition is now so intense, technology has really bridged the gap between amateurs and professionals. At Xsightn we want to become the professional’s professional so we need to keep evolving with the times and with your help we can only get better.

    So please take out 5 minutes of you time and help complete the extremely short survey below.
    Thanks a bunch.

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    Thanks for taking out the time to complete this form, We appreciate you.

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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

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    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

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    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.

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    Nigerian Photographer – Pictures from Cape Town – Continued

    Saturday, March 5th, 2011

    Ok, so I promised more pictures from my South African trip and when Xsightn promises, Xsightn delivers.

    The picture below is from my “Strong ” Collection, I was looking for an edgy look, something slightly outside a normal look.

    It was about 2 pm and the sun was out at full blast and normally you wouldn’t be able to make a good shot under the condition but many thanks to my Profoto gear, I was able to do just that.

    Picture was taken with my amazing Nikon D700. (The best camera in the world by far and am not kidding)

    Lens was my trusty Nikon 70-200 2.8 @ F20 ( Sometime back on Twitter, I complained about not using this lens much when I shoot Nigerian weddings lately, I wouldn’t venture on any location based photography session without this baby)

    Shutter was set to a ridiculous 1/320s

    Flash was Profoto 7b unit with 2400 battery pack fired at full power.

    Am not the most amazing of “photoshop-ers” (if there’s even a word like that) but for this images I had to rely on a bit of photoshop to get out that strong feel, working mostly with blend modes, I was able to achieve the look I like. If you have ever attended one of my seminars or seen one of my albums, you will know when it comes to wedding photography am not really big on “too much photoshop”, but that’s for wedding photography, location and commercial photography are a totally different business.

    My models for this look are Max and Nadia both models from Europe.

    My name is Kayode Martins, I am a professional photographer based in Lagos Nigeria. Please feel free to send me an email at kayode@xsightn.com if you think you have an assignment for me.

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