Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009

Random girl found of the street that would pose (with assistance from friends)
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 6x6, B+W, Film, girl, Hasselblad, Japanese, Japanese girl, Medium format, Shibuya, Shibuya girl, Square format, Tri-x400 | View Comments
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
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!
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 3am, canon 1d, Canon 1d mk3, Colour, digital, late, morning, Night, outtake, Shinjuku, tv network, very late | View Comments
Saturday, August 29th, 2009

He started it. I’m only following.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Bessa, Department store, Film, Japan, Mirror, Rangefinder, reflection, Tokyo, Tri-x400, Voigtlander Bessa R2A | View Comments
Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Sometimes you have to really hunt for these types of shots.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 6x6, B+W, Candid, Film, Gaze, girl, Hasselblad, Japan, Japanese, Japanese girl, Kabukicho, Medium format, Night, Shinjuku, Square format, Tokyo | View Comments
Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, B+W, black and white, contax 645, f/2, Film, Japan, Leaf, Medium format, morning sun, planar 80mm, Tokyo, Tri-x400 | View Comments
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009


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!
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 6x6, closeup, Film, Flowers, Fuji, Hasselblad, hydrangeas, Medium format, planar 80mm, Pro 400H, Square format | View Comments
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Candid, Cropped, Distagon 50mm, G-men, Hasselblad, Japan, Newspaper, Night, Salary men, Station, Subway, Tokyo, underground | View Comments
Monday, August 24th, 2009

Looking for a way to escape, he looks back only to discover the best possible route blocked.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Candid, Film, Japan, Nokton 50mm, Ojisan, Salary Man, Subway, Tokyo, train, trapped, Tri-x400, underground, Voigtlander Bessa R2A | View Comments
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

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.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Bessa, Candid, Film, girl, Japan, Subway, Tokyo, train, Tri-x400, underground, Voigtlander Bessa R2A | View Comments
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

See this kind of thing every day. Hard to photograph at this angle though.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Bessa, Candid, f/1.5, girl, Japan, Japanese girl, Makeup, Nokton 50mm, Tokyo, train, Tri-x400, underground, Voigtlander Bessa R2A | View Comments
Thursday, August 20th, 2009

It’s so easy to go to sleep on the train in Tokyo.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, Film, Hasselblad, Ojisan, Olg guy, Planar 110mm, Sleep, Subway, Tri-x400 | View Comments
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

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
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: B+W, Bessa, Dark, Evil, Japan, Mask, Masked man, Night, Rodinal, Tmax400, Tokyo, train, Voigtlander Bessa R2A | View Comments
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Resting up outside Bic Camera in Shinjuku.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: B+W, Candid, Hasselblad, Hat, Japan, Night, Old guy, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Tri-x400 | View Comments
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Daytime photography. Something I really don’t do much of in Tokyo. Tokyo by day is ugly. Real ugly. Ugly enough to have to shoot in black and white. So, being a night shooter I’ve always got my camera loaded with 1600 asa (iso to you post film people). During the day this means f/16 and hope like hell the shutter speed is fast enough. The magic thing about f/16 is no focus! Which is why I can point the camera behind me, hope like hell and take the shot.
I think the strap adds a level of genuineness to the picture
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Bessa, Candid, Film, girl, Japan, Omotesando, Street, Summer, Tokyo, Tri-x400, Voigtlander Bessa R2A, Wind | View Comments
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Sometimes a girl needs accessories in her bag. This one seems to be bigger than most.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Candid, Dog, f/2, Film, Hasselblad, Japanese girl, Planar 110mm, Shinjuku, Station, Tri-x, Tri-x400 | View Comments
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Last Xpan II shot for a while. Candid shot of an old guy looking a bit worried about the storm that was coming.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: B+W, Candid, Film, Hasselblad, Japan, Rangefinder, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Tri-x, Wide, Xpan, XpanII | View Comments
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
This is another shot taken with Jon’s XpanII camera. The fun thing is that it’s a rangefinder not unlike my Bessa R2a or Brian’s Leica M6 albeit a lot wider and slightly harder to focus. Having said that it makes taking panoramic or wide shots much easier than say the Horizon Perfekt and you tend to get a MUCH nicer, more cinematic feel from the shots than a regular rangefinder (likely the format of the shot and the lack of distortion (horizon problem)). The only downside, and it’s a biggy, is the price. Be sure to pick yours up when you have a few thousand dollars spare
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Film, Hass, Hasselblad, Japan, Kid, Review, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Tri-x, Xpan, xpan II | View Comments
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower. Shot with Jon’s XpanII.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Hasselblad, Japan, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Tower, Tri-x, Tri-x400, Xpan, xpan II | View Comments
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Girls hanging out in Shibuya
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Candid, contax 645, Film, girls, Japan, japanese girls, Night, Shibuya, Tokyo, Tri-x | View Comments
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
On a recent trip to Australia I managed to find these little spores which I’d previously spotted in Japan. Thanks to Brett for giving me one of several random rolls of expired film which I (for only the second time ever) cross processed.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 6x6, Australia, Cross processed, Distagon 50mm, Expired, Fuji film, Hasselblad, Macro, Medium format, Photogra, Photography, Spores, Suqare format, Xprocessed | View Comments