Archive for the ‘Film Dev’ Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Making of Daguerreotype by Takashi Arai from Takashi Arai on Vimeo.
I’ve just returned home from work and I’ve checked Uchujin’s tweet of the making of a Daguerreotype. Started watching it and was really impressed by the amount of work, preparation and tools needed to create one.
And I thought regular development was a challenge.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: daguerreotype, daguerreotypist, Japan, Japanese, Old photographic technique, Takashi Arai | View Comments
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Another shot from the many many yet to be published shots.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: B+W, Candid, Distagon 40mm, Hasselblad, Hat, Japan, Night, Old guy, Subway, Tokyo, Tri-x400 | View Comments
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

So my mate mark finally kicked me very hard and managed to get this story he wrote in winter out yesterday. I was along for the ride to take the pictures. Was fun at the time. Would have liked to have spent more time shooting a more comprehensive set, but it seems life got in the way. Article is well written so check it out if you are into bikes.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: bicycles, Canon 1d mark 3, morning, ourworld, ourworld 2.0, Tokyo, United nations university, winter | View Comments
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Normally I don’t post these kinds of snap shots but I need an easy way for a few friends to find the odd snaps I take. My mate Oleg was over from the Ukraine and Citt is about to leave our little team where I work as well as Stephan I guess soon too. So I figured I’d better shoot them all together before everyone runs off to new adventures. So I vow to shoot them all again at some stage, just maybe not all at once.
hmm. I just realized that I feature somewhere in here by accident.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 1d mark 3, 24-70, 35mm, 5d mark 2, B+W, Citt, digital, Japan, Oleg, Stephan, Tokyo | View Comments
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 50mm distagon, Australia, beach, Birubi beach, Film, Hasselblad, Medium format, NSW, Provia 400x, Square format. Afternoon | View Comments
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 400B, Australia, B+W, Distagon 50mm, Film, Fuji instant, Hasselblad, Macro, Medium format, Square format, Vine | View Comments
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, @1600, Australia, B+W, Back street, bright, Distagon 50mm, Film, flare, Hasselblad, lens flare, ND400, rays, Square format, Street, sun, sunny, Sydney, tri-x 400 | View Comments
Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Also from the wetlands (as is the one below) that I visited while I was in Australia. Missed the ladybug with the focus but the magic tones and the crazy background made up for it (for me anyway).
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 50mm distagon, Australia, B+W, Film, Hasselblad, Medium format, Plants, Square format, TMax 100, Tones, Wetlands | View Comments
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Visited a wetlands the other day. Was this amazing little 3km of land dedicated to the natural biodiversity.
Shame that power lines have to spoil the environment. Still, I guess this is why the land was handed to them in the first place to create the wetlands. No one else wants to be around them.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Australia, B+W, Canon 1d mark 3, nature, Wetlands | View Comments
Thursday, July 8th, 2010

I was looking at my archive today and found this shot hidden away. Sometimes it take a year or two for me to finally see something in a shot. In this case it was not the foreground at all but the background craziness I had ignored up till now. Shame there is not more interest but still, I quite like the painterly feel.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 6x6, closeup, colours, Distagon 50mm, Flower, Hasselblad, Japan, kodak GP 100, Macro, Medium format, Painterly madness, Square format, Tokyo | View Comments
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

It’s an old shot that I guess I’m re posting. Shot late afternoon near my house at the park with a Rolleiflex and a Rollinar 2. (more…)
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, B+W, Blossoms, f/2.8, Film, Fine Art, Japan, Medium format, Rain, Rodinal, Rolleiflex, Rollinar, Square format, Tmax400, Tokyo | View Comments
Monday, July 5th, 2010

This is one of my failed kodak T64 shots that needed a LOT of contrast to give it any kind of personality. Not having a lot of luck with these 20+ year old films
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, contrast, darkness, Distagon 50mm, Film, Hasselblad, Japan, Kodak T64, Night, Shinjuku, Square format, Tokyo | View Comments
Thursday, July 1st, 2010

So the sharp eye will notice that the book is not covered nor is the regular shape of a Japanese novel. The guy reads English! It’s the little thing’s like this that make the train journey interesting (for the most part).
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: @1250, f/1.4, Japan, Japanese guy, Mask, Metro, Nokton 35mm, Novel, reading, Subway, Tokyo, train, tri-x 400, Voigtlander Bessa R2A | View Comments
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

The almost failed B+W shot on my last adventure to Kawasaki. Gotta go back soon.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 6x6, @1600, B+W, Distagon 50mm, Hasselblad, Japan, Kawasaki, Medium format, Night, oncoming, person, TMax-400, truck | View Comments
Friday, June 25th, 2010

So I’m looking for faces to shoot. I will be shooting in black and white with film so the image above is not really true to what I am trying to achieve. (more…)
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 50mm, Canon 1d mark 3, faces, girl, Japan, Matsumoto, portraits, Tokyo | View Comments
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Asked this guy if I could take his picture. Still like the contax lenses even if it is non square. Shame I can use the lenses on anything else.
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 140mm sonnar, 645, @1600, B+W, contax 645, Japan, Medium format, Night, Portrait, Shibuya, trix400 | View Comments
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 80mm, @1600, B+W, Candid, city, Hasselblad, Medium format, Night, planar 80mm, Shibuya, shibuya crossing, Square format, tired, Tmax400, weary | View Comments
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: Analog, Canon 1d mark 3, digital, dress, Japan, MiuMiu, Night, Omotesando, Shop windows, Tokyo, TV | View Comments
Thursday, June 17th, 2010

One from an up coming collection
Posted in Film Dev | Tags: 120, 6x6, @1600, B+W, Candid, Crazy old man, Distagon 40mm, Film, Hasselblad, Madness, Medium format, Night, Shinjuku, Square format, Station | View Comments