With Amy in one rainy December afternoon in Tokyo.
Shooting Lizard Point
Here is a short documentary of the process of shooting Lizard Point. Music by Kurumaken.
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.
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.
Autumn Leaves
Oh, it’s December already.
We Heard Music
I had pleasure to shoot formal profile photo if baritone Inoue san in Shinjuku park. This one turned out to be the best.