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Back to my roots with the Epson R-D1
A little update, as there are some things I missed out of the initial post – which was written in haste before heading out to teach: 1. The Viewfinder on the Epson is…
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A Different ‘Coming of Age’ Day
Yokohama on Coming of Age Day makes visiting the Meiji Shrine for the same event seem rather tame. I’d always heard that Yokohama did a good ‘seijin no hi’ or ‘Coming of Age…
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Photo workshop: shooting music CD artwork
It’s great fun to go out, discover new places and shoot. It’s a lot more interesting to do this if you also have some sort of theme or project to focus on whilst…
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Workshop Report: A Bit of Park, A Bit of Street
A crowd of us took to the streets of Tokyo on 11th December for a workshop that would include some nice park action, some street photography and some street modelling. Getting out into…
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Lexar Professional Photography Competition
We have a new collaboration and partnership with Lexar Japan and are very pleased to announce a photography competition on the theme of ‘Memory’, with around $2000 worth of prizes. Memory: how would you sum-up…
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Google Plus Tokyo Photowalk, No.1
I joined Google’s social networking site, Google Plus [G+], on the 8th July 2011. It’s been ten weeks of making some great new friends, having some great chats, hanging out live on webcam…
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Typhoon 15 [Roke] hits Tokyo
The Japanese typhoon season has been pretty rough so far. A couple of weeks ago a typhoon left a trail of destruction and 87 people dead as it swept across the south of…
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Anti-nuclear demonstration, Tokyo: 19th Sept. 2011
[Kenzaburo Oe (2nd from left) and Yamamoto Taro(right) lead the demonstrators off...] The Sayonara Nukes event was held today in Tokyo, a demonstration and march which it was hoped would attract 50,000 people….
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“Two Days Out With Liam” or “Why I Teach”
Getting great shots myself is a buzz but nowhere near the buzz of teaching others to get great shots. When I started teaching photography, I was asked by a few fellow professionals ‘…aren’t…
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Some pearls of my photographic widsom: Part 1
One of the things that makes me chuckle these days is the inordinate amount of websites based solely around lists. They also all use plenty of hyperbole and melodrama…. The 50 Best Black…
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Photography history ‘follow Friday’: Bill Brandt
“In my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot.” For me Brandt typified mastery of monochrome in a way that made me determined to learn the business…
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Photowalk: Yurakucho to Kanda in the rain
Shooting some street photography, catching the typhoon rain and showing Liam from Australia some good spots to shoot with telephoto lenses. A great afternoon out with the cameras and a chance to catch…
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Composition 101: The Basic ‘Rules’.
Composition truly is, IMHO, the foundation of good photography. You may have great gear and know all the basics of ISO, aperture and speed [exposure] but if you’re not paying attention to some…
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Photography history ‘Follow Friday’: E for Eisenstadt
Alfred Eisenstadt was a photographer I was required to study as part of my history of photography classes at college. I was already very aware of his work, through the photo that –…
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Contemporary photographers: Gabriela Bulisova
Gabriela Bulisova is a documentary photographer from the former Czechoslovakia, currently based in Washington, DC. She has received numerous recognitions and awards, including: the Corcoran School of Art and Design Faculty Grant Award;…
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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…
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Using history to shape the ‘now’
My project for this week is focused on typologies and swanky shops in Tokyo, air-conditioning the streets by leaving the doors open, could be the perfect subject to focus on. History has lessons…
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Lights, camera, snap
Walking onto the ‘set’ of a Gregory Crewdson photograph one could be forgiven for thinking it was a motion-picture that was being made. His pictures sell for upwards of $60,000 each and usually…
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Telling stories with one photo
‘Every picture tells a story’. It’s an old cliche. In fact, it’s a proverb – apparently. But whatever the origin of that phrase one thing is for sure, some photos tell stories better…
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Simple photography projects: The Square Kilometer
Photography is a wonderful hobby which gives us all the opportunity to have some fun, share our view of the world with other people and – if we can – learn something about…
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Wallpaper for the iPad & iPhone
This latest free Japanorama wallpaper is only available for the iPhone and iPad. Sorry to all you desktop folk but the photo really doesn’t suit a landscape orientation. There’ll be another cool one…
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Tokyo mash-ups, getting ‘signed’ & some news from Blurb.com
And on the second day, Alfie created a book cover. Yep, reckon this shot [above] is gonna be the cover of a book about street photography I am preparing. Only shot another six…
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Multiple exposures with the D300
Film-land was, among other things, a land where delightful accidents could occur when you didn’t advance the film and shot twice on one frame. Or shot over a roll of film you’d already…
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On and off the rails: a day on the trains in Tokyo
Just subsequent to writing an article about trainspotting in Tokyo, I took a group of photographers on a workshop around the Yamanote Line and onto the shinkansen platforms of Tokyo Station. The idea…
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Free wallpaper: Tokyo Rain Pt.1
It’s rainy season. So, in celebration of this welcome precipitation I have decided to rain down on you the first series of free wallpapers for your computers, iPad and iPhone. Every so often…
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Norwegians would….
I’ve shot a few wedding ceremonies and ‘shots about town’ for Norwegian couples visiting Tokyo to get hitched in the Norwegian embassy. Every time has been immense fun. Did somebody once say Scandi-wegians…
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Photowalk: Monochromatic Visions
I find myself these past few weeks being increasingly drawn back to monochrome. If film and processing were free, I guess I’d be back on the gelatin. I’d need a bigger place to…
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Shooting in Tokyo at rush-hour
Being a freelance photographer means that – when things are going well – the average week ends up being far from average at all. Such was the week I got a call from…
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June 5, 2011Matsuri madness
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June 21, 2011History of Photography classes in Tokyo
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June 28, 2011Photowalk, July 2nd: Texture
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June 28, 2011Masters of Photography: Jacques Henri Lartigue
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Masters of Photography: Jacques Henri Lartigue
This is the first part of the BBC documentary, filmed with Lartigue in 1983 as part of the ‘Masters of Photography’ series. The photographer died just three years later. Lartigue started taking photographs…
Lomo: Cult of the Plastic Camera
Nice film detailing the rise and use of the cult plastic camera: the Lomo. Traces its origins from the Lomo company in Russia, which from 1914 was the leading maker of optical instruments….
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…
What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann, part 1
Sally Mann’s work was something I first came across in the lat 1980s, whist I was studying photography & film at art college. Mann’s photographs of her family continue even now her children…
Manufactured Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky
Jennifer Baichwal’s cameras follow Edward Burtynsky (1955- ) as he visits what he calls manufactured landscapes: slag heaps, e-waste dumps, huge factories in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces of China, and a place…
Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
Excerpt from Palm Pictures releasing of “The Impassioned Eye”; the story of famed photographer Henri Cartier Bresson. In this excerpt from the documentary about the iconic French photographer and his work, Cartier-Bresson describes…
Cindy Sherman: Characters
This video, from Art21.org, is an interview with Cindy Sherman who has been getting into ‘character’ for the last 30 years. At first people commented these were ‘self portraits’ but the ‘self’ that…
Making a tin-type
I showed this video to students last weekend as part of the Introduction to the History of Photography Pt.1 class. I’m sure everyone will get something from watching it but for those who…
Basic Digital Workflow: Nikon ViewNX
I’ll be making another video soon about the RAW format and the choices you might want to consider about starting to shoot RAW in the first place. But to give you the quick…
Camp Japanorama!
Some new layouts from our first weekend photography field-trip
Ooh me ring(flash)!
Irwin Wong takes a look at the Orbis ringflash adapter. This is one ring that shan’t be cast into the fires of Mount Doom. Insert other ring-related gags here. Then Frodo stirred and…
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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
January 26, 2012
Chatchawan Meepien — oh! I'm sorry Hahahaha
