"I really miss 4×5 – it’s beautiful. The slowing down of the process; taking time to make a composition, lining things up, doing Polaroids (I love that smell – I wish they made a men’s fragrance)."Taekn from the end of this post.
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The photographic blog of Sean Wood (aka motionid)
Possibly the end
Well, that was fun.Lots of work. Not a great deal of reward. A lot learned. A few friends made. LOTS of time wasted. Photography, I need a rest. Thanks for all the kind words over the several years. Time to get on with my life. Bye.
Tokyo Tower
So I modified a Kodak No. 2A Folding Autographic Brownie so that it would take Fuji instant film. Lots of electrical tape and a few tests later I worked out the 3 fstop settings and the basic focal lengths. I've not shot a lot with it yet but as it's a bellows camera a thought occurred to me while trying to shot with it this weekend. If I could some how take the thing off it's rails I might be able to twist the lens around a bit and get something different. So I now have a very random tilt shift lens. Took several shots to get one steady enough to use.
Rain crossing
One from the archives while I take time out to process a bunch of pics I took the other week.Shot in Shinjuku during the rainy season I guess. Provia 400x pushed to 1600 as always.
Mini worlds
A shot from the mini world series from tha archives. This one has not seen the light of day yet.
Ghost in the machine
Shot (like usual) on the way to work.
Killing time
This particular shot I like because of the light on her face and the softness of the shot in general. Difficult to find in stations.
Shibuya girl
Random girl found of the street that would pose (with assistance from friends)
Shinjuku 3am
An outtake from a little assignment I was given by tv network you would have heard of. You'd think that it would be easy to shoot the streets of Shinjuku with no one in them. You'd be surprised at how busy it is at any time of the day or night. Word of caution. Try not to do this in the summer. The entire place smells of urine and it's not because of the poor sewage system. It's literally because so MANY people are peeing in the streets. And you thought Tokyo was hi-tech and trendy!
Reflection
He started it. I'm only following.
Gaze
Sometimes you have to really hunt for these types of shots.
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
Connections to title...
This created by Peter Saville reminded me of this (wrong song for cover art...still...) which is where I stole the title from.
Hydrangeas
Figured I needed a bit of colour on the blog. As you can tell, Haven't been getting out much on the weekends for the last year!
G-men
Well, government men but they are not really G-men as referred to in Wikipedia (FBI). When I shot this the hasselblad back was dying and was causing a lot of overlapping of frames. I like the picture but have never used it cause of the overlap at the top of the frame. Obvious solution if not very pure.
Looking to escape
Looking for a way to escape, he looks back only to discover the best possible route blocked.
Look no one in the eye
No eye contact, head down, no speaking with anyone. 8.3 million people in this town (source - probably more now) and my version of Tokyo seems like an endless stream of the same.
Makeup
See this kind of thing every day. Hard to photograph at this angle though.
Sleep
It's so easy to go to sleep on the train in Tokyo.
Sinister
Sometimes you point your camera in a direction and just hope something will fall into the frame. You don't expect to feel like your about to get killed (in Tokyo anyway) in the process. This could have been one of these times :-)
Resting
Resting up outside Bic Camera in Shinjuku.