Tag Archive for: Japan

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PHOTONEXT 2016 イルコ セミナー動画

PHOTONEXT 2016 セミナー / フォトネクスト２０１６年 この記事に私がカメラの大きなイベント、 PHOTONEXT 2016 に出てる動画をアップします！2日間のイベントです！長いので、是非お時間があるときに見ていただければうれしいです！2016年は私が3回目…
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PHOTONEXT 2015 イルコ セミナー動画

PHOTONEXT 2015 セミナー / フォトネクスト２０１５年 この記事に私がカメラの大きなイベント、 PHOTONEXT 2015 に出てる動画をアップします！2日間のイベントで、今回は2日目のみアップしてます！撮影・ライブシュート&トークショー…
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PHOTONEXT 2014 イルコ セミナー動画

PHOTONEXT 2014 セミナー / フォトネクスト２０１４年 この記事に私がカメラの大きなイベント、 PHOTONEXT に出てる動画をアップします！2日間のイベントで、一回ずつ撮影・ライブシュート&トークショーをしてるので、動画4つ入っています！長いので、是非お時間があるときに見ていただければうれしいです！2014年は私が最初に…

RoundFlash™ Ring & Dish / ラウンドフラッシュ™ リング & ディッシュ

RoundFlash – RingLight & SoftBox is a really cool modifier, I've been using as a main light quite a lot for my recent photoshoots! It's very handy easy to setup, and has really beautiful light especially for closeups! I also use it just as a softbox when I'm outside! Well, I have a few videos and a lot of shots taken with it, check them out below! Some things to mention about it! ラウンドフラッシュ
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Location: Nakatsu / 中津 & 高架下 大阪の消えていくロケ

Recently a lot of old cool locations fantastic for photography have been disappearing from Osaka and the areas, being renewed and now having now buildings there! Nakatsu is one of them! There used to be a lot of cool spots for photoshooting an the undergrounds around the station, but unfortunately now they are not accessible! I often shoot at the night view just next to the
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Single Shoot-Through Umbrella / 透過アンブレラ 一本だけで ポートレート

Portraits with a single Shoot Through Umbrella used When I want to be really quick with my setup, this is what I am doing! Shoot-though umbrella is one of the things I definitely have with me all the time, ready to be used! It's very quick…
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Portraits with Back Light / バックライト ポートレート 逆光

Portraits with Back Light used only Shooting with a back light as a main light can be really fun thing to do, but it is also very tricky way to shoot portraits such you really need some experience using lighting, and knowledge on how light…
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Night Portraits / 夜景ポートレート

Night Portraits Here is an article I've wanted to post for long time! It is for portraiture at night, but I will not put setups for all of the photos in the gallery! Well, it is actually more a kind of gallery with photos taken at night! Generally…
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Natural Light Portraits / 自然光ポートレート

Natural Light Portraits Hey, I guess the image that I have for using strobes and artificial lighting on my photographs is quite strong, and I think it's normal, but to be honest quite often I do rely on Natural Light to shoot portraits! Yeah,…

Shooting it: Portraits in Cherry Blossoms / 桜でポートレート

A portrait photoshoot in the Japanese Cherry Blossoms, one of my favorite times in the year in Japan! Here it's all with one light, check out the lighting setups below! Next month in Tokyo I will be doing some really big seminars for compact strobes, if anyone is around there feel free to join to the PHOTONEXT event! 今年の桜もあっという間に終わりました！桜の時期で撮ったポートレート写真

Shooting it: Rocky Beach Long exposure strobist portrait

Here are some shots from the type of locations that really make me very excited! For this article I will be doing some long exposure strobist lighting, in order to get some more dramatic look! The model is on a rock and not really able to move too much! Also I am having a making video for the photoshoot, make sure you check it out and also subscribe to my YouTube channel!

10 Inspiring Examples of Portrait Photography (vol.1)

Welcome to the Inspiring Portraits Gallery Vol.1 Starting from now every month I will be making a similar kind of contest on my Facebook page, and pick a few of the best examples to feature them in a gallery like this! This is Vol.1 and the…

Gear: Tokina 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5 Can you shoot with a crappy lens?

Tokina 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5 - the "Crappy lens - good photography" project! Have you heard of this Tokina 19-35mm lens? Haha, I guess not, I didn't know it as well! To be honest it's not even a Full Frame camera lens! With this article I wanna…

Gear: Sigma AF 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Lens

Sigma AF 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Here is a small gallery dedicated to another of the lenses I have been using through the years, and this time it is the first vario zoom lens I have used! It's the Sigma 17-70, and I used it on my crop sensor Canon…

Shooting it: Portrait in the Stars of opera singer Ayako Tanaka using Profoto B1

Here is a photoshoot with the young Japanese opera singer Ayako Tanaka! We are doing some stars portraits here! She was a great model, and we did a few photoshoots! In this photoshoot I will be using some big softboxes with Profoto lights to shape the light on the model! I've always wanted to shoot with some Octabox but for some reason never really decided to get one and do

Shooting it: Hairmake & Body Art Photoshoot

Intro This is a project of my hairmake friends we did together some time ago, I have another article from the same project, too I bet you've seen it, but here is the article for it too: click! It's been a really hard work putting the blue stamps…

Shooting it: Takedao Fashion Photoshoot

The Fashion Photoshoot Intro This time I'm uploading a few shots from a recent fashion photoshoot, well, the location is well known from my photographs I guess! I'm using very simple lighting again, this time it's a DIY Beauty Dish created…
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Shooting it: Extremely cool and high location photoshoot

Intro This time I'm uploading another few shots, with a dramatic making video like last time I did! It was a really windy day, and and if you are afraid if high places don't watch the behind the scenes video! I'm using only one light for the…

Locations: Osaka Sky Building Escalator

Osaka Sky Building: One of the most beautiful escalators! With this article I am starting a series of articles that will introduce some of the spots I'm shooting more often at! I will not write too much here, you can just see the photos below!…

Shooting it: Asuka at Amagasaki (One Softbox)

Intro I've already posted as a separate strobist article (CLICK HERE) some other photographs from the same shooting day, and now I have another setup from that photoshoot! It is a photoshoot of Asuka from some time ago, we are shooting in some…