Photographer’s Note
This day I was quite lucky to become part of a Japanese photo shoot. We were walking along the bayside of Yokohama, when I saw around 30 photographers around some models. My Japanese is almost zero so I took my 70-200 lens and placed myself in the middle of the group.
Well so far the kindness of Japanese men, they weren't happy at all, pointed my to some sign with Japanese text, showed me their badge, with Japanese characters. Talked Japanese to me in some grunting voice. Then finally someone stepped forward and told me in English that this is for paying customers only. I already took 20 shots of these models so I left happy. But afterwards I did understand of course their unhappiness.
Date/Time: 2005:09:23 14:45:31
Shutter speed: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 8.0
Exposure mode: Av
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Single frame shooting
ISO: 400
Lens: 70.0 to 200.0 mm
Focal length: 120.0mm
Subject distance: 0.45 m
AF mode: One-shot AF
Image size: 3072 x 2048
Image quality: Raw
White balance: Auto
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: Normal
Contrast: Normal
Tone: Normal
PLB, don_narayan, katya11, AandK, SoupDragon, GATTACA, manub has marked this note useful
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don_narayan
(2014) 2005-11-01 13:49 [Comment]
katya11
(334) 2005-11-01 14:03
Hans,
Good capture! You were lucky to get it. I really like the joy in her face, she looks really happy to be right there doing what she is doing.
Nice addition of the water fountain in the back, it adds a lot to the vitality of the photo.
Thanks for sharing,
Katie
SoupDragon
(652) 2005-11-01 22:09
Hans, a great story! But what on earth were they paying for? I'd have been unhappy to have to pay to click this lady, as charming as she may be. I wish that you had taken a picture of the 30 photgraphers instead, visually more intersting, espcially if you caught them all trying to take the same image of this young lady.
On your picture, I would say it is OK, but maybe not enough highlights? Especially around the face. I think she needs to turn a bit more to her left.
sergio1
(12150) 2006-06-30 5:23
Hi Hans
Very nice portrait to the pretty woman.
I like the lights and sharp.
Excellent work
Have a nice weekend.
Sergio
Photo Information
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Copyright: Hans van Oort (Hanso2)
(629) - Genre: People
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2005-09-23
- Categories: Daily Life
- Camera: Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
- Exposure: f/8, 1/500 seconds
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2005-11-01 13:32
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