I'm an American photographer living in Japan. I take photos and talk about them. Sometimes other stuff too, random bits from my brain and whatnot.


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Sakura River John S Lens, Blanko Noir Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Sakura River

John S Lens, Blanko Noir Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Really Steep Stairs Up To Shrine Lucifer VI Lens, Float Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Really Steep Stairs Up To Shrine

Lucifer VI Lens, Float Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Japanese Graffiti  Lucifer VI Lens, Float Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Japanese Graffiti

Lucifer VI Lens, Float Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

A-ok, Bossman [44/365]

This guy here is from a camping and fishing store in the area. I haven’t actually been fishing here in Japan yet, but seems like a popular activity. This store is always packed with people, anyways.

I was going for kind of a “hipstamatic” effect with this photo. It almost seems to defeat the point of HDR to process it in such a way, but I look at HDR as a way to get more light for me to play with, that’s all. We often think of HDR as these crazy, over-the-top things, but that is processing (or tone-mapping), not HDR itself.

A-ok, Bossman [44/365]

This guy here is from a camping and fishing store in the area. I haven’t actually been fishing here in Japan yet, but seems like a popular activity. This store is always packed with people, anyways.

I was going for kind of a “hipstamatic” effect with this photo. It almost seems to defeat the point of HDR to process it in such a way, but I look at HDR as a way to get more light for me to play with, that’s all. We often think of HDR as these crazy, over-the-top things, but that is processing (or tone-mapping), not HDR itself.