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 emphasize on the fact that you don’t need the most […]
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 50D camera for about couple of […]
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II If you are on a budget and wanna shoot portraits, and I mean you can’t even afford the Canon EF 85mm F/1.8, then Canon 50mm 1.8 is the lens for you! It’s the cheapest lens you can find! And especially if you are just starting with photography and don’t really know what lenses […]
Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM I often advice other photographers to get just one lens, and spend some time with it until you really master it, without even touching a different lens for a while! This time I will be talking about the lenses, Canon 85mm, I have been using especially a lot in the beginning […]
Here is another photoshoot with the young Japanese opera singer Ayako Tanaka! This time it’s taken in some forest around Kobe! She was a great model, and we did a few photoshoots and for mose of them I was 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
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
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 on her face and the background as well, […]
Intro Japanese red leaves season is in it’s most beautiful stage now, so I can’t hold myself uploading an article with some photos taken in that beautiful time of the year! I’m having also the lighting setups below as well as couple of strobist videos from that photoshoot! I’m also using some really interesting lens, the manual […]
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 from a salad bowl, it’s really cool light but might look a bit unprofessional […]
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 whole shoot! Check out the info below for some off-shots […]
摩耶観光ホテル a.k.a. マヤカン、Maya Hotel This time I want to introduce you one of the most beautiful abandoned locations in Japan – the Mayakan Hotel! I have been shooting there for so many times, can’t even count them. This is one of the best locations I have seen in my life, I’m really in love with that place. Maya […]
Intro This time I’m uploading a few shots, with a dramatic making video for the fashion photoshoot! It was a really windy day, and walking on that bridge was kind of a challenge! I’m using only one light for the whole shoot! Check out the making video below for some off-shots and tips on how […]
Intro For this strobist article I will be showing how to get some colorful stuff with a really dark and far background that at first glance doesn’t look to be easily modified by strobes! But it is interesting to see that in some cases if you turn your strobes straight to your camera and leave […]
Silhouettes I mostly post articles in which different type of lighting is involved, but in this article I will just upload some silhouette photos and no complicated lighting systems, well, not too many! Because even if you are shooting that actually you don’t always need to rely only in natural light! Strobes are also a really […]
Canon EF 135mm f/2.0 L USM I often advice other photographers to get just one lens, and spend some time with it until you really master it, without even touching a different lens for a while! This time I will be talking about one of my favorite lenses, the Canon 135 mm one, I’ve been […]
Intro Another strobist shot from the cool abandoned hotel located in Kobe, called Mayakan! It’s one of the locations I’ve been no idea how many times, and I still enjoy going for a photoshoot! For this shot I’m there with my friends hair-makeup artists! I’m using my old and trusted 80×60 and 90×20 softboxes as […]
Light Blaster So this time I would like to write about a piece that is an important part of my bag recently, it is the Light Blaster! What is it doing? Basically you need a strobe and a lens and it turns into a projector. But unlike a normal projector it is using the strobe power […]
Before & After – Vol.2 (Click here for Vol.1) The first article from this the Before & After series was viewed quite many times, so here is Vol.2! Many times I’ve been asked to show how I edit my photos! Well, in this article I will show exactly how they look straight out of the camera, […]
Intro Here is a long version of a making video for some of the articles I have uploaded recently! You can check them in the thumbs below the video! この前あげた三つの記事の長いバージョンのメイキングビデオです！ビデオのしたにスタッフ紹介とそれぞれの記事へのリンクあるので、ぜひ見てくださいね！ BTS Video / メイキングビデオ [youtube id=”mxraavFOt28″ align=”center” mode=”normal” autoplay=”no” maxwidth=”1000″] Staff Model: Yuzuki Aizawa / 相沢 優月 – Facebook Flower: Maki Tsuchiya / 土屋 真紀 – Homepage / Facebook Body Paint: Chie Matsuura / 松浦 千恵 – Homepage / Facebook Photo: Ilko Allexandroff / イルコ・光の魔術師 – Homepage / Facebook Thanks to: Nissin […]
Before & After – Vol.1 Here is the first Before & After article I do! Many times I’ve been asked to show how I edit my photos! Well, in this article I will show exactly how they look straight out of the camera, and how my final images are edited! As a first article I am […]
