Vifa photogs! (part 2)

[yoshi]

taken at various occasions with a sense of intimacy with fellow photographers!

[yoshi]

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[Pops]

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You certainly get around and there are some wonderful shots here.
Not to keen on the first shot...2nd post..I do believe that water is sloping greatly to the right.

[Tinka]

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Hi Yoshi,
These are very interesting images, showing the environment in which you were traveling, The very first shot in the mountains is superb, it could almost be a painting, in fact it would make a very good subject for a painting. The others are very good record shots of your travels.

[yoshi]

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...2nd post..I do believe that water is sloping greatly to the right.

Yes, you are right Pops. That's correct.

She suddenly appeared in my frame, while I was thinking about composition so I determined to take a pic of her instead after waiting for a while. But I was not quick enough to take the pic. She had finished a few shots when I took this. So I'm afraid it's not easy to recognize her as a photographer.
yoshi

[yoshi]

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Hi Yoshi,
These are very interesting images, showing the environment in which you were traveling,

The others are very good record shots of your travels.

Hi Tinka, thanks a lot for the comments. That's exactly what I tried to do.

The posted pix do not show it well but most of the photographers are using film cameras. Especially so for aged male photographers. I think I took those photogs pic randomly and in many cases I talked with them after taking the pix. The cameras are such as Nikon FM3A, Pentax LX, Hasselbrad, Large Format 4x5, Canon/Nikon flagship cameras but film ...

While I was taking these pix in the past two months, I was thinking about to use the pics for discussions (why digitalization looks slower in Japan?) at DPNow but stopped doing so.
yoshi

[Stephen]

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Yoshi I have often had the impression that more "photographers" use tripods in Japan than they do in the UK. These photos seem to confirm that theory. In the UK if a coach party was to stop at a view point or overlook as we see in these shots I suspect you would rarely see a tripod. Of course if it was a coach load of photographers then thats different. There are certainly some serious tripods amongst these The guy with the plate camera seems to have two. I'm amazed he can manage all that gear by himself

[yoshi]

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Hi Stephen,
I think most of those photographers with tripods are individual ones or a small group of people, driving their cars. Not a bus traveler.

Landscape is a major genre of photography here so they tend to use a tripod.

The guy with the plate camera and two tripods is apparently an exception. The authentic style is to use one tripod AND one monopod!

Landscape photographers have IMHO a (strange ) habit of judging/evaluating other landscape photographers NOT by cameras BUT by tripods they are using. Until a few decades ago, many people had a good camera but incredibly tiny or slender tripod. We called those ones "chopstick tripod" - well, those were the days.
yoshi

[Jocelyn Walker]

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Oh Yoshi, the 1st pic has to be my very favourite! The colours are amzing & composition great! This would look totally incredible blown up as a poster or on canvas! Maybe you should consider doing just that! It would make an amazing Xmas present for someone to hang on their wall!

[yoshi]

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Oh year? Thank you for that Jocelyn. Then I will look into similar shots without any photographers in the frame.
yoshi