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Another fail to stay on track. 13th was rather a busy day and although I brought the camera with me, there was nothing particularly interesting that caught my eye.
So, I am posting a 14/10 photo taken early morning near my home. Again, this is nothing really special but admiration of SMCT 50/1.4 performance wide open.
The Rebel
Taken with EOS 5D and SMC Takumar 50mm f1.4 @ f1.4
2nd post in POTD series, and I feel I am somewhat failing to keep with the initial “1 shot – 1 hit” idea. However, it’s still within the acceptable limit.
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Tokyo, Shinjuku. Two good friends are making their way home after a hard day’s work and few well deserved drinks.Taken with Canon EOS 5D and Leica APO Macro Elmarit-R 100/2.8 @ f2.8
Very binary way to resume posting in this continuously declining blog and a very ambitious project indeed.
I believe my shooting is completely inadequate at this point. Not least due to my laziness and lack of motivation (a blatant excuse). Therefore, I decided to start taking more photos in between my upcoming projects. It will also serve as a good test for the manual lenses I have acquired recently.
Recently, I have been trying to create sets of brushes which might be interesting in photo post processing and design in general.
As a strobist – no matter professional or beginner you need light modifiers. These light modifiers can include shoot through umbrellas, bounce umbrellas, soft boxes, octagons, reflectors, etc.
And of course, you want a fairly affordable and as durable solution as possible. This may include making your own, or buying over the internet rather than walking in your local friendly overpriced high street shop (most definitely in UK or Sweden). Read more »
If you work with digital photography, you undoubtedly came across OnOne software’s various plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop. So did I and unfortunately for me I decided to try some of the “goodness”. After all, I do like to simplify certain tasks. And I genuinely trust Mr David Huss of the Photoshop User Magazine (sarcasm)….
I have been long searching for decent RAW processing software. Don’t get me wrong – there is a plethora of different programs offering various bells and whistles. They all look wonderful, but how do they contribute to my workflow?
Most of us have got our own unique way of processing, categorising and re-working our photos and the software we choose should complement our needs as opposed to forcing us to adopt other’s. And so my requirements are more than likely to differ from yours, obviously.
Just a day before relocating to Yokohama I received shocking news – my favourite ramen restaurant of all time – Kyodo Ramen is no more.
Maybe you are already living in Japan, maybe you plan to relocate here and get stuck. In any of those cases, you might be relocating to a different ward/town/prefecture.
Wherever in Japan you decide to move, do not even dream about doing it during February-March aka the relocation high season. Your relocation company might suddenly decide to play Robin Hood and you will be facing whopping 200.000 yen fee….and it is fairly cheap at that. Even better, the people arriving at your doorstep are not movers, but simple drivers who even in their wildest dreams can’t imagine which way to take your expensive grand piano down the narrow winding stair case…
If you for no apparent reason are still bent on moving during this stressful period of time, choose a shipping company instead such as for instance Nitsu (if you or your partner are fairly proficient in Japanese).You will be able to squeeze your fragile belongings into a “container” (a supermarket delivery truck type of cage measuring about 180 x 160 x 75) and get away with the fee close to 20.000 (estimate based on Nagoya-Yokohama relocation).
Just so you know…
