For what could possibly be a happy title I've managed to make a pretty dark image.Went out after a few drinks this evening and found myself a few Ponies with owners. Somehow through the rain and umbrellas I managed to get something I liked. Or maybe it's because I haven't shot this way for more than a year it feels new again. Either way it's different to the clichés I'm known for apparently.
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Mirror realities
I started to shoot this series and felt it lacked depth but it has been siting on my computer for a while and I thought it should see the light of day. Inspired by Jon, it's trying to find a different way to look at the same space I use to visit many times a week. Anyway, now that it's out I can leave it alone and get on with trying to find a new subject (which is seeming to take a very long time).
Keep walking
Another medium format Kabukicho shot. This one with the Contax 645 and Fuji Provia 400x.
Gathering
I have not shot a lot of candid street images for a long time. I've needed a break and a steady income to be able to have time to spend for this part time. This shot literally fell between the cracks. I missed scanning the whole roll and it's about 2 years old. Nothing else really worth keeping. I think I'm posting this for nostalgic purposes more than it being a shot of any substance. I might have to make a regular attempt to shoot a bit more of this once my other series' are done.
The look of love
Reflected
Multitasking
A skill you acquire here over the years. Takes practice but completely possible.
Frozen
Sometimes in the craziness of a Friday night at Shinjuku station you need to just stop or slow down. The man is caught in the moment where he just needs to stop and take stock of where he is, where he is going...just to think for a minute. If he was closing his eyes to the madness, that would be the shot to get.
The attempt
The Chair series
Took the same train to work for two years and started to notice the different thing's people did while seated in a chair that seemed to be quite out of the way of any trains. What I like about the collect is the randomly different thing's most people are doing at any one time. The series has only been edited to keep the basic format the same (seems I shot more using 35mm than asselblad 120).
Team Mask
Most people in this 13 millions person city do thing's in groups. Wearing masks I guess is one of them.
Red night
Another take on the previous version of the image with a different colour pallette. Which do you prefer?
Scene from a film
The difficult part about these shots is the colour pallette. I don't particularly like the pallette in this shot but you need to start with something and finding a minimal pallette on the street is not an easy task let alone hoping the right subject matter will enter the frame with the right attitude. I'm interested to know if anyone who reads / looks at this blog considers such thing's.
The focused traveler
Another shot from the many many yet to be published shots.
Madness
One from an up coming collection
Tokyo stations at night - cont.
Taking a break for medium format I went back to shoot with the rangefinder for a while. These shots are a mix of 35mm and 50mm all shot at night in various locations but on the subway and the JR.
Drunken smiles
Another Friday night at the station
Relaunch of 50mm.jp site
So I have re launched the 50mm.jp website.After a lot of playing around with different options I decided to keep pixelpost as the platform. Would have built it in wordpress but it was too difficult to make a seamless experience that handled images well, didn't use flash, worked on the iphone and allowed you to track individual photo views on Google analytics. The site does not contain all work I have done and I have not yet decided how I will approach the upload of new work but I'm hoping to keep it fresher than it has been in the recent past. If it (photo's you have seen before by me) can't be found on 50mm it could be located either on flickr or here. If there is an image you have seen that has gone missing please contact me and I'll upload it to one of the 3 locations. Any and all feedback more than welcome.
Crossing Kabukicho
This shot is one I dug up from the archives again. To be featured in the upcoming update of the 50mm web site which hopefully should launch before the end of the year.
Night moves
Sometimes you have to revisit the past to see if you missed anything. I think after a LONG hiatus I might be ready to revisit this genre. We'll see. Anyway, was a bit of fun to hang with the lads and shoot a few pictures.