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Character portraits for a Tokyo actor
A young actor living and working in Tokyo approached me to do some ‘character’ shots. We ended up having a lot of fun around the streets of Yurakucho one night….. Nozomi Orlando de…
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Last week’s torrential rain: down by the station
Last Sunday evening I was on my way back from doing a photography lesson with one of my students. By the time the train reached Kawasaki, the sky had turned black. As we…
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A walk into Tokyo from the Rainbow Bridge
The other week I took a contact of mine, who was in Tokyo from Sakhalin, out for a photowalk/lesson. We started in Shiodome, took the Yurikamome Line across the Rainbow Bridge and later…
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Ten-page feature in Air Mexico’s magazine
The thrill of seeing work in print never goes away. It’s always a great buzz to work on a feature for a magazine and this is my second collaboration with ‘Accent’ magazine; the…
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Photography in Tokyo: In Praise of Shinagawa Inter-City
I spent a lot of years visiting Japan and subsequently living in the Shinagawa area before I ever though there was much to see or do in Shinagawa, except use the train station….
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June 25, 2014On location with William & Noriko
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June 24, 2014
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June 8, 2014
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October 10, 2013
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October 10, 2013
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June 3, 2014Mamiya RB67 Lenses on Nikon D800E
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February 17, 2014
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February 12, 2014
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February 10, 2014
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January 28, 2013
How a Bruno Aveillan book led to a day of giggles & some great photos
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February 5, 2013Some thoughts about Hockney & the end of chemical photography
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November 30, 2012
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November 7, 2012
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October 27, 2012
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July 1, 2011
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June 8, 2014Fashion portraits in Tokyo: Mari Nishimura
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April 7, 2013
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January 23, 2013
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November 30, 2012
Protector filters are a sales gimmick: my tips for lens protection & use
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November 25, 2012
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Composition 101: The Basic ‘Rules’.
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Building visual literacy
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Composition 101, Pt.1
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Simple depth of field excercises
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Using a semi-auto mode to get to manual
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A thing called ‘pre-visualisation’…
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Photography for beginners: understanding aperture, Pt.2
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Photography for beginners: understanding aperture, Pt.1
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Photography for beginners: understanding ISO
Masao Yamamoto: The Space Between Flowers
Not a photographer I was aware of but I enjoyed watching the short film about Masao Yamamoto’s work. The way he displays his shots, the way he talks about scale and size. The…
The Making of ‘Dogs in Cars’
A behind the scenes look at a wonderful series of shots. Enjoy.
Google Hangout with Trey Ratcliff & friends
Good chat today with Trey and a bunch of his regulars, for the ‘Variety Hour’ he does for Google Plus and YouTube. You can see a recording of the show on You Tube….
The Woodburytype: a ‘cast’ image, not a photograph…
Fascinating video here at The George Eastman House channel on YouTube, charting a little of the process of making WoodburyTypes. I know my way around a fair few of the old processes, having…
Street festival in my neighbourhood
The other night I spent an hour over the road from our flat, at a little street festival around the temple in Suzagamori. This was the area used – from about the mid…
Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light (1/9)
Richard Avedon is considered one of the foremost portrait and fashion photographers of the modern generation. His book ‘In The American West‘ was a substantial influence on my work in the 1980s, when…
Photo history ‘follow Friday’: Andreas Feininger
The second in our series of articles about iconic photographers who, if they were alive and had a Twitter account, you’d want to follow. Part Two of the video here Part Three of…
Potraits of Contemporary Photographers: Nobuyoshi Araki
This is Part One of a two-part film on Araki, from Contacts Vol. 2, Portraits of Contemporary Photographers. A project initiated by William Klein in 2000. It’s not him narrating….. I prefer to…
William Klein & the contact sheet
Gotta say, I like Winogrand but Klein is the man for me when it comes to American street photography of the 1950s and 60s. Not just his work but the man has an…
Shore on Eggleston
This was a bonus part of the DVD version of the documentary about William Eggleston “In the Real World’ and features an on-stage interview with Eggleston by photographer Stephen Shore. For those of…
July 30, 2014
LUIS E. RAMIREZ — Q maravilloso paisaje... good good
July 29, 2014
Ponte Ryuurui — yeah, that quake woke me up actually. great shot.
July 29, 2014
Alfie Goodrich — Thanks Hans. I was mainly trying to use the headlights to get light through the rain and create nice dynamic...
July 28, 2014
Alfie Goodrich — I dont really know 'Change'. sorry...
July 28, 2014
Andrea Borgia — +Alfie Goodrich yep, the one featured in the credits with Madonna singing.
July 28, 2014
Hans ter Horst — Excellent atmosphere to these shots, the leading lines of the headlights make the composition really come together.
