| 28 May 10 |
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Just a little experiment in focusing and firing multiple frames.I was out with a student last night, John, and after doing a little street work around Yurakucho we retreated to the International Forum...
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| 26 May 10 |
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From the end of June, Japanorama has a new team-member.“Hey guys, I’m Yuto and I’m going to be helping out Alfie with his work this summer. Actually, Alfie hasn’t told me *exactly* what I’m ...
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| 21 May 10 |
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A whole load of great shots in the pool this week. With over 160 members and more than 2000 photos, the Japanorama group on Flickr has really quickly grown into a superb showcase of photographs of Jap...
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| 21 May 10 |
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Gallery of photos from the areas we’ll be exploring this weekend.Yokohama has some great spots to explore with a camera and, like any city, it has its well-beaten paths and it has quieter neighbourh...
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| 21 May 10 |
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One more person who caught the right-angle finder bug from me tells his story.My first camera was a box camera. I was about eight years old, and all I knew about it was that it took rolls of film, whi...
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| 18 May 10 |
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Japanorama’s Irwin Wong took some time off to visit Aomori and Hokkaido. Click through for leg one of the journey.Some of you may have noticed that one member of the Japanorama team (me) had gone ...
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| 13 May 10 |
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Create three shots on a theme of ‘time’ with this new project.Sometimes it’s good to have a project brief that is really tight, prescribed and that leaves no room for lengthy thinking and many p...
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| 13 May 10 |
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An afternoon wander around the interface between Tokyo & Kanagawa.What more pleasant way to spend a Monday afternoon than trundling around on foot in a part of Tokyo not too far from home, but that wh...
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| 07 May 10 |
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Our recent workshop produced some great shots. We showcase a few here.Taking great shots of your kids is not as hard as it sounds and some of the best lighting solutions are the simplest ones; a white...
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| 07 May 10 |
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With the coming of harsh summer light, here’s something you CAN do with it.Japan’s summers kill me. God knows how the British ever managed to colonise Asia. We just aren’t built for humidity and...
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| 04 May 10 |
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Two great photowalks last week in Kamakura produced some amazing shots.Last Thursday I went down today with my son and two students, Lu and Mike, to do a recon of the Kamakura walk we then did on Satu...
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| 01 May 10 |
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Simon attended some of our workshops. Then he showed me his pics of Nick Cave!Deciding to teach photography here in Tokyo is, after picking a camera up at age seven and then marrying Hiromi 23 years l...
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| 30 Apl 10 |
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I did a trial run today for Saturday’s walk; great weather and some nice shots.On Saturday we’ll be doing a photowalk around the quieter backwaters of Kamakura, taking in some great temples and a ...
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| 29 Apl 10 |
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Some new ones uploaded today from Alfie’s picture control collection.UPDATE: 28TH APRIL 2010 I have made a few new picture controls today: HighContrastColour01HighContrastColour01DarkSepiaHighContra...
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| 28 Apl 10 |
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Here’s a fun little project you can do on your own – shoot your commute and post your results to flickrWe see it everyday but tend not to notice any of it – possibly because we’re caught up in...
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| 28 Apl 10 |
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A new project for this week kicks off a series on leading the eye.There are many ways of leading the eye of the viewer through your photographs. Our ‘Leading the Eye’ series of projects guides you...
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| 23 Apl 10 |
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HDR specialist Trey Ratcliff speaks to Alfie in Tokyo last week.I had great fun the other week helping Trey Ratcliff out with running his Tokyo HDR workshop: nice guy, nice bunch of students. Whilst T...
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| 21 Apl 10 |
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Come along this Sunday for a studio & location lighting workshop with Alfie’s kids.No animals on this shoot but with this workshop we’ll be hoping to dispel at least half of the old warning that y...
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| 20 Apl 10 |
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Shots from our walking workshop last Saturday, exploring the backstreets of this charming part of Tokyo.Bokeh: everybody has a different way of saying it but for those of us living in Japan there shou...
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| 18 Apl 10 |
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A bunch of shots from yesterday shot between or on lessons with students.This is a very hastily written and put-together post as I am about to head out to run the workshop for today, down in Ningyocho...
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