I spent a good day with a photographer Kayo Yamaguchi . She took my photo. It was a good experience to be in front of her camera. Her attitude and manner really moved me.
Photography is like a silent conversation.
Photos by Kayo Yamaguchi
Amy
With Amy in one rainy December afternoon in Tokyo.
Weekend of Photos
I enjoyed taking photos of my friends during the weekend. I felt there was no need to explain much by words. I was just there.
Then, this invisible communication made me feel warm.
Araki said once that photography needs femininity. I don’t think he meant that we need to take photos of women, but we should take photos having woman’s mind.
Portrait Works
I had pleasure to shoot bariton Masato Inoue some years back. This photo is one of my favorites from that session.
Facebook Profile Picture
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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.
"Photographer"
Here is one more shots from my session with photographer Masashi Furuka.
© Masashi Furuka 2013
Oceanic
This might be the best image I took in 2012. Maybe this image is kind of the reason why I am taking photos.
The Answer to my Question
Shot with Bessa R3M / Nokton 40mm / Tri-X 400.