One of my favorite activities on this trip was street photography. Basically trying to take artsy pictures of random people on the streets. When I was in college I took a lot of black and white photography lessons. I had to develop and print my own film and I did a lot of street photography - walking the streets of Boston with my Pentax K1000 loaded with Kodak Tri X in hand. Needless to say, but it has been a while since I did any street photography. And I have never done street photography with color 'film'.
Anyway, Tokyo is perfect for street photography and I had a good time with it. I even brought a tiny camera (Ricoh GRIIIx) with a large APS c crop sensor and a fixed 40 mm lens just to use on the streets. It was small enough to not scare people and yet took awesome, high-resolution pictures. I brought other cameras for the skiing and landscapes, but ended up using the Ricoh the most.
I did miss some pictures that I regretted - a dad with kid on his shoulders in a crowd looking right at me as they passed but I had pushed the macro flower setting button by mistake and they were not in focus. But the camera did pretty well at catching the focus quick. The other big regret was a newly married couple and entourage when I just chickenned out. But in general I think I did pretty well. I posted some of my favorite street photos on my first Tokyo Post (click here).
Patrick
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| People wafting the temple smoke onto themselves for good luck |
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| If you look closely you can see me taking the picture |
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