Some from the weekend:
Tsuchida Sensei’s advice for my next step as a photographer is to concentrate on portraits of women- to shoot them on the street with the same intensity as the Gaijin series. “You might even find a wife out of the deal” he said. That or a visit with the cops.
But the lack of women in my pictures in the show was noted by a lot of fellows over the course of the week the show was up. The problem with shooting pictures of ladies is this: The more you shoot them, the less you are seen as a serious guy by other ones. But the truer thing is this: If one is in your viewfinder, why wouldn’t you take the picture?
In the next few days: tokyocamerastyle explodes !
Every other person who came to the show had a fantastic camera over their shoulder. I’m talking about Black Chrome M4s and 4×5 press cameras with 120 roll film backs. And about a dozen Contax G2s.
I am quite surprised to hear that there are still many people using film nowadays!
I love film texture very much and own both SLR and rangefinder…my collection is such as nikon fm2, rollei 35, om1…
what camera does the guy in the picture use? looks so cool man! Leica? thx
Comment by ernest — 10/7/2008 @ 5:42 pm
It’s my Mamiya 7, although he told me he was shooting the same camera earlier in the day.
Film cameras are a very common sight on the streets of Tokyo, there are several magazines that cater to this particular kind of photography.
Comment by John — 10/9/2008 @ 12:26 pm
I second Tsuchida Sensei’s advise. He looks like a good man.
About this:
“The problem with shooting pictures of ladies is this: The more you shoot them, the less you are seen as a serious guy by other ones.”
I don’t know your situation, but I think you don’t need to be a serious guy. Winogrand, Araki, Moriyama, Terry Richardson… shot a lot of women and being serious or not was not a big deal for themselves.
I believe, in your context, that you want to avoid being identified as a typical weirdo guy who shots at girls in the Metro. There is a japanese name for it which I don’t remember.
So, do it, but do it with a style. Think on Miroslav Tichy and his style
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Comment by x — 10/16/2008 @ 12:26 am