Did a great photowalk in Kamakura last Saturday with a lovely bunch of people. Superb shots from all [which will be up on japanorama later this week] and a great barbecue to round the day off.
This lady was in the street with some of her family, just near to a little shrine we were shooting at. I had the tilt-shift camera on me and grabbed this quick shot of her.
Seems to be a week for me shooting girls in orange kimonos.... currently sitting here editing up shots of Akiko from our shoot in Tokyo last week, which are for a new sushi restaurant in San Francisco. Will post some of them once the client has signed-off on the job :-)
Mamiya 645AFDii
Mamiya auto-bellows
Mamiya ZD digital back
127mm f/4.7 Kodak Ektar lens
Forward tilt to get this plane of focus.
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One of the 10 times a year that the volunteers put up all the sails on the tall ship, Nippon Maru.
Hasselblad 503CW
CFV-50c digital back
Zeiss Sonnar 250mm f/5.6
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Recent shot from the top of the Landmark Tower in Yokohama.
Fuji X100S
WB set to 3000K
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Worked with a new model today but someone a lot of the photographers I know in Tokyo have shot with before: Irish Kashima. Great lady, very nice to work with. We had a lot of fun around China Town and Yamashita Park in Yokohama. This is the first of a lot of great shots we got today.
As regards the 'flare' around her face, read on....
And there is a mock-up here of one of the proposed end-uses..
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Nikon D700
Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8
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22nd March 2011
We'd spent the night before with friends in Izumino, about 20km out of Yokohama. I'd got drunk. So had Sam. Actually, so had everyone except the kids. This is the way of Taka - our host and the first male friend I had made in Japan back in 2000: you arrive, you drink, you drink everything til it's gone. I knew better and stuck to a set of drinks that I stood a chance of mixing. I was feeling pretty chipper but Sam was nursing a biblical hangover.
The three of us - Sam, Taka and I - had been over to Samukawa Shrine and were heading back to Taka's place, to pick up the rest of the families and head to the hot spring for a bit of much-needed relaxation in the baths.
Shot this through the windscreen of Taka's car. Power-cuts were occuring all the way back to their home. This area had power but half a click back down the road the power was out and had been most of the day. It felt like a Sunday. Maybe it was. It could easily have been a Tuesday. The first two weeks.... hell, frankly the only thing I knew was that it was a day with the letter 'Y' in it.
Such is the reality of life now: rolling blackouts - mostly outside of Tokyo - and an element of edginess to the day.
We're all in it together though. Never been happier to call Japan my home.
Mamiya 645 AFDii
Mamiya 80mm f/1.9
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