Archive for November, 2009
Sunday, November 29th, 2009

See his genius at work here -> Uchujin
While I was in the film archives the other day I found a few shots I forgot to scan. A case that so often happens to me “ah, not bad, I’ll do that one last”. As usual, I forget or run out of time.
Figured it would be nice to add to the rest of the shots considering everyone else got a look-in a while back on the blog.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Contaxt 645, Fuji, Japan, Medium format, Portrait, Tokyo, Uchujin, Yoyogi park | View Comments
Monday, November 23rd, 2009

This is what I love about old cameras and film. You can’t plan this type of old feeling you get from this type of combination. The random combination of film age, film type, developer, fix, fix age, fix duration, developer duration etc. etc. all add up to a look that makes film special. You can photoshop all you want but you’re not going to get the same happy accidents you do when you play with the real thing.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: B+W, Film, Film grain, half frame camera, Olympus Pen-s, Rodinal, Tmax, Tmax400, Tokyo Tower | View Comments
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Too busy to go out and make an effort to shoot anything.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 100asa, 80mm, B+W, Contaxt 645, f/2, Flower, Japan, Macro, Rodinal, Tokyo | View Comments
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Another archive shot while I work my way very slowly through a roll of film.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, blur, bright, Film, Flowers, Hasselblad, Japan, Medium format, Pink, Purple, Sakura, Square, Square format, Tokyo | View Comments
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Shot taken from around here while on a bike ride around the mountains.
The Hasselblad is a bit heavy to lug around while trying to race up mountains so the Holga has become the substitute on rides. Can’t have great views and not shoot medium format!
Thanks to Manny Santiago for the REALLY old expired (march 2000) Fuji once again.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, Bike ride, Colnago, Expired film, Film, Fuji, Fujichrome, Holga, Japan, Medium format, Misty mountains, mountains, Sagamihara, Square format | View Comments
Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Caught him early one evening on the way home.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: B+W, Candid, Hasselblad, Japan, platform, speed, Subway, Tokyo, train, train man, Tri-x400, underground | View Comments
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Man reads a morning newspaper. Caught on the edge of the frame with the Rolleiflex as I went to work.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: @1600, B+W, Candid, Film, Japan, Newspaper, Old man, reading, Rolleiflex, Subway, Tokyo, train, Tri-x400 | View Comments
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Clemens shot in yoyogi.
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Monday, November 9th, 2009

AKA Manny Santiago, AKA…
Go see his new site here
Shot pulled from the archives.
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Monday, November 9th, 2009

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Sunday, November 8th, 2009

From an ongoing series that doesn’t seem to have a beginning or an end. This guy at first glanced looked drunk but after closer inspection seemed to have something else wrong with him.
This was taken at about 8:45am which, as you can see from the onlookers reaction, gained a bit of attention. He managed to get on the train and pass out again and then somehow remembered his station and got off only to pass out again on the platform.
Never a dull moment in Tokyo.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: B+W, Candid, Hasselblad, Japan, morning, Sick, Subway, Tokyo, tragic, Tri-x400, underground | View Comments