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• Shooting gigs: The Simones

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  Late last month Alfie headed off with a student to shoot a gig in Ikebukuro’s ‘Black Sheep’ bar, featuring The Simones.Photographing musical performances is great fun but it can be a real lottery as to what conditions you have to shoot in; low light, cramped bar, crowds who mask your view, running the gauntlet ...
  5 days ago

• Ten photographers who changed my life

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  Brassai’s ‘Paris by Night’ was a book I couldn’t put down and it got me regularly out & about with my camera at night for the first time.Brassaï (the pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (September 9, 1899 – July 8, 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to fame in France. When I ...
  5 days ago

• American photo: 1945-1960

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.” This sentiment, expressed by the Photo League photographer Sid Grossman (1990.1139.1), encapsulates photography’s role in America in the 1940s and ’50s.The era saw the apotheosis of ...
  5 days ago

• Ten photographers who changed my life

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  Learning about any artform means studying those who have done it or are doing it. No.1 in my Top Ten; Joel MeyerowitzIf I had 72hrs in every day, I’d be spending at least 24 of them writing content for this website. And a lot of that content would be introducing other photographers to you, as [...]
  6 days ago

• Photowalk, Sunday Nov. 8th: The Old Tokkaido Road

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  We will be following the path of the Second Station of the Old Tokkaido Road, from Shinagawa to Suzugamori.This weekend’s photowalk covers about four miles, the entirity of the second station of the Old Taokkaido Road, which originally stretched from Nihombashi to Kyoto.Some great neighbourhoods to explore, ...
  1 week ago

• The bridge at the end of the rainbow

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  One week, a stack of photos and I feel myself falling in love with Tokyo’s ‘Rainbow Bridge’.I get around Tokyo. Some weeks I might walk 60km around the place, working, searching-out locations for shoots and photowalks or just shooting pics for myself. It’s a great city and a great city for getting creatively ...
  1 week ago

• Group model shoot: Saturday 7th November

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  British professional model, Dean, joins us this week for some model-shooting action over at Yumenoshima Park.Last week’s superb shoot down at Odaiba set a new benchmark for Japanorama and for our students. In location terms it is a hard act to follow but we will be going back there again to shoot as it was [...]
  1 week ago

• Shoot fashion models in Tokyo with Japanorama

  
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  This Sunday we have a great shoot lined up down at the old Fort in Odaiba, with Johan and Akiko. Great location and superb models.Tokyo is just full of superb locations for shooting portraits and fashion shots and this weekend we journey to another gem of a location, the old fort in Odaiba, for a [...]
  2 weeks ago

• How I did this: monochrome HDR

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  In the average week I get asked lots of times: ‘how you do that?’ So, here starts a new series of articles on that theme.One of the reasons I carry all my gear, all of the time is so that I can seize any given opportunity that presents itself in front of me. Such versatility [...]
  3 weeks ago

• More Akiko

  
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  Video Blog #3: Short clip of the outdoor session we had with Akiko on Sunday.In case you missed the session on Sunday with the lovely Akiko, here’s a short video showing what we did and how we shot the photos.I think we were all really impressed by her professionalism and sense of humor. More photos [...]
  3 weeks ago

• New Nikon 85mm f/1.4 G?

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  This is currently just a wet-dream but if and when it arrives, any new 85mm 1.4 lens has some big shoes to fill.Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t leave the house without my Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF-D series lens. It is my favourtite piece of Nikon glass and my shots of it have, [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Japanorama Video Blog

  
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  A new, regular service from us chaps at Japanorama. This week Irwin & Hunter go street-strobing in Komazawa Koen.The first entry in the Japanorama video blog series. Hunter and Irwin come across an interesting character who has taken to playing drums in the back of a minivan. They run you through some basic street ...
  3 weeks ago

• Location model shoot: Sunday 18th October

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  A great time was had by all as we teamed-up with Akiko and headed down to the Sumida River for our weekly model shoot.Great models, interesting locations, photographic talent on-tap to help you learn to shoot better with flash and ambient light. That’s what the Japanorama location workshops are all about and last ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  If you are looking for an ultra-wide lens for your Nikon, in my opinion this is better than Nikon’s 12-24 AF-S DX.Ultra-wide lenses are great fun but getting a good one at a reasonable price can be hard. If you are a Nikon owner then I would advise looking no further than the Tokina. As, [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Japanorama website goes iPhone friendly

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  As iPhones descend like a rash upon the civilised world, we decided it was about time we had a mobile-friendly version of our site.The iPhone is everywhere. In Japan you will be hard-pressed to find a gaijin without one. So, as we want to be about delivering what people want, how they want it… we [...]
  3 weeks ago

• One week with the iPhone

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  Alfie finally succumbed to the iPhone and week-one of ownership turned out to be busy and  inspirational.I used to think, around the time that mobile-phones first came out [yes, I am that old], that it was nice ‘to be out when you were out’. That being constantly contactable was a pain in the arse; that [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Learn Digital Photography Now.

  
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  Learn How To Quickly And Easily Start Taking Awesome Photos With Your Digital Camera, Even If You Are A Complete Newbie – Very High Conversion Rates. Learn Digital Photography Now.
  3 weeks ago

• Location model shoot: Sunday 17th October

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  Join us this weekend as we team up with Akiko and head down to the Sumida River for our weekly model shoot.Great models, interetsing locations, photographic talent on-tap to help you learn to shoot better with flash and ambient light. That’s what the Japanorama location workshops are all about and this coming ...
  4 weeks ago

• Japanorama website goes iPhone friendly

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  As iPhones descend like a rash upon the civilised world, we decided it was about time we had a mobile-fridnely version of our site.The iPhone is everywhere. In Japan you will be hard-pressed to find a gaijin without one. So, as we want to be about delivering what people want, how they want it… we [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Light modifiers: Snoots and grids

  
  Japanorama: Photography, Photographers, Japan — Authority: 124
  We take a look at what these light modifiers are doing to your, well, light. There’s only so many times that the light from a bare speedlite will carry you through the day. You need to shape, squeeze and wrangle it into doing what the situation dictates.  For this reason there is a whole industry [...]
  4 weeks ago

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