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Shibuya Crossing at Night with Hasselblad H4D-40
Those of you who have seen my work before will know I have a little bit of a soft-spot for Tokyo’s taxis and taxi-drivers. I’ve been shooting the subject on and off ever…
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Blue hour around the Tokyo Tower with Hasselblad H4D-40
A few shots from a walk I recently did from Roppongi, past the Tokyo Tower to Hammamatsucho. I’d finished a shot around Roppongi’s MidTown and rather than take the train down to Daimon/Hammamatsucho,…
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Coming of Age Day in Tokyo
Monday was Seijin no Hi, or Coming of Age Day in Japan. It’s a day when 20 year-olds engage in a ceremony to celebrate their coming of age. The ladies typically dress up…
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Jonathan Jones: Stunning U-Turn
Jonathan Jones is a critic. QED he criticises. Today he wrote about the sale of a photo for $6.5million and at the same time pronounced that photography is not art. Photographers are not artists….
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Expressing oneself in monochrome
The subject of the workshop I recently did was ‘Expressing Myself In Monochrome’ and for the day we concentrated solely on shooting in-camera black and white with our digital cameras. Here’s a little more…
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September 28, 2014‘Drive': ebook featuring Hayate, Shinyong & Alfie Goodrich
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August 25, 2014
Music Photography in Tokyo: Genie Lynx & Little Dynamite Sex at Morph
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August 22, 2014
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July 27, 2014
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July 14, 2014
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September 14, 2014A day out in Chichibu and Saitama
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August 7, 2014
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July 26, 2014
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July 20, 2014
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June 3, 2014
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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…
March 4, 2015
Tania Susana Cardenas Gutierrez — Well done!!!!!!!
March 3, 2015
Drew Northup — The other one is good, but I really like the way this just glows.
March 3, 2015
Thuan Kim — It's so beautiful!
March 3, 2015
hikaru starr — just noticed, is that +Scott Larson in the shot too? haha
March 3, 2015
Caspar Thomas — Splendid news old chap, that sounds simply spiffing - what an experience. And what an incredible piece of good...
March 2, 2015
Eric Seaholm — Whoa, that is something! I’d be curious how you landed that gig; your skill surely had something to do with...
