Category: Photography

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Session with Beautiful Kayo

I had great chance to have a little photo session with my friend and fellow cameraman Kayo. She turned out to be such a cute model with great intuition. Perhaps her intuition for being model came from her own experience as a photographer.

This image turned out to be the winner of yesterday’s shoot; there’s something that just turned right about this photo.

I used off-camera speedlite to add a bit of illumination to the subject with TTL turned off and manually dialing down the power of the flash so that it doesn’t overpower the ambient light which was already good to start. I removed flash spots from her eyes in Photoshop as they were a bit distracting from that angle.

I learned that in this situation, a bit off-camera flash can actually help to raise the overall exposure a bit, and remove some of the darker shades of the face which often result when shooting in outdoor shade. I always bring either flash or reflector as it can really help to add bit of necessary light to the subject.

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State of Flickr App in Japan

Now that the new Flickr refresh is out, you’d wonder if Flickr is going to do anything about the Flickr iOS App availability in Japan.

Those adds to the app “Wherevr” that appear when browsing with iOS devices are so annoying since they take you nowhere, you get alert which reports that the item is not available in the Japanese store. Not quite wherevr.

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"Photographer"

Here is one more shots from my session with photographer Masashi Furuka.
© Masashi Furuka 2013

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Evening Moment

Here’s one of the non-flash images I shot with X100. Had some big troubles with autofocus in this dim light. ISO3200 is really clean what comes to noise. In fact I added some grain to this in Lightroom to make the image look more dynamic.

I realized however that having flash is a must for this type of outdoor night photography.

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Printing Lizard Point

I had great time making first prints for Lizard Point photos in Dark Room Intl. in Yokohama. I was really glad to get advice and guidance from the kind people there.

I really love the look of real silver-halide prints. They look substantial and delightfully analogue. Since I was after the high contrast, I felt I really chose the right medium this time by choosing film versus digital.

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Hänelle joka kuihtuneita kukkia kastelee (Part 2)

Second part of my work “Hänelle joka kuihtuneita kukkia kastelee” (For her who waters emaciated flowers).

This line is actually one of my favorite lines from movie “Hana-bi” by Kitano Takeshi. I really like how it sounds in Finnish and I think the translation went somehow like this. This appears in a scene where the main character’s terminally ill wife is giving water to dead plants and is interrupted by a passersby who asks her something along these lines, “are you stupid? Who waters emaciated plants?” Takeshi beats crap out of the guy.

Flowers never lose their gracefulness even after their death.