justinhood asked: Hey! So I recently started following your blog here, and it has inspired me to do something similar to this. I have always wanted to take pictures of strangers and now I'm about to get my first roll developed!! You have some awesome stuff here!! Thank you so much for the inspiration!!
Dope be interested in seeing what you get, always interesting seeing how other people approach the same problems.
jojonas asked: not as much a question but.. I just want to say that I read that other question where you mentioned that you'd like to try infrared photography and that I'll be looking forward to see your results :) you've got some nice parks with great foliage there and I think you're creative enough to give it your own style. cheers!
Thanks will probably look into it summer time, got a few projects i wanna try do first in LF once the weather gets better and i get a light.
Anonymous asked: I've noticed, that you love to wear furry hats. What's the philosophy behind that?
Real men wear furry hats imo
thefilmaholic asked: Hi Ade, I really think your works are awesome, not only the photos but those captions under each photos. I have a question for you, I have looked through your blog and I noticed that you scanned the negative by yourself and turn it into color using Lightroom. Can you show me how to do that in Lightroom? Thank you so much.
Sup, my workflow is pretty primitive, i normally just scan on the default settings unless i have messed the exposure up to the extent that it cant be recovered in lightroom alone. In that case i try to fix exposure in the scanner then again in lightroom to gain a bit more latitude. In lightroom i normally play with tint and temp because the scanner always messes it up, then add a little black or contrast and thats about it.
I probably should do more but pp is kinda zzz to me.
Hmm, too cold to get motivated to go on any sort of wandering outside all day type of missions.
So, of late I either go studio, do nothing, or do nothing + spend an hour in the park behind my house.
I have hit the park for the last 3 weeks in a row now. I normally go at 3pmish when the light is starting to get good. First week I took pictures of trees, second week I took nothing, and this week I took the above photo.
As usual the park was mainly populated with babies and little kids. Seeing that I brought my large format camera out, trying to take photos of young kids is out of the question. And I guess even asking someone if I can take a pic of their kids is kinda opening up a can of worms anyway.
I go deeper into the park and walk past the skaters and keep on going. I think in the past I tried talking to them before a few times, but they weren’t really welcoming, so I don’t even bother anymore.
Get to the top of the hill and look at the sky for a while when an elderly lady with really nice grey/white hair and a shade of pink lipstick that really suited her walked by and said hi.
We spent a good 15 minutes talking to each other. She told me she used to be an editor for a football magazine and her favorite team was arsenal.
We then spoke about a range of football topics from the Robbie Fowler era, to the whole William Gallas and Ashley Cole doing ridic stuff like jumping around to different London teams and how back in the day teams like Man City were fighting relegation every season.
I asked if I could take her photo and she said she is embarrassed. I told her its cool there’s nothing to be embarrassed about and she said thanks, but that she is worried if I put it online people who know her might see.
I gave her my card and wished her a good day.
Walked around a bit more and saw someone I wanted to take a photo of. But for some reason I hesitated and let the chance pass by.
About to give up and go home when I saw the guy in the above photo.
Went over and said “Sup” and told him I liked the yellow of his guitar and asked if it was expensive.
He laughed and said no its a really cheap one. He is a soloist and if my memory isnt failing me I think he has been playing for maybe 8 years (or was it 15? lol).
He mentioned that he thought he isnt getting any better and I suggested that maybe he should try and practice with some other guitarists to try and get a different perspective. He smiled and said that he would give it a try.
He said I can take a photo and I started setting up. He seemed pretty intrigued by the camera. He said that his brother studied photography. He was interested in knowing the difference between this camera and a normal one, how much it cost and what all the different parts were.
After taking the pic I let him look through the camera and he seemed pretty excited by it.
I asked him what he had planned for the rest of the day and he said he was going to the studio later.
I told him I was gonna pack up and go because its freezing (sun had gone down) and he said he is going to stay a little while longer. I asked him if he wasn’t cold and he laughed and said that he often comes to the park at night with a can of beer to keep himself warm…
He told me he is at the park every week and that I should come check him if I am ever around.
Recently I have been randomly buying/collecting prints and paintings from people both online and offline. I bought a few paintings from Estetika Exposure a few weeks ago and they arrived this week. Two of the paintings were from her portfolio and the one below is one she made from scratch as a surprise.
Really happy with this, love the use of the browns and the faint blue in the sky :D
Follow her on twitter -> https://twitter.com/#!/estetikaexposr
Check out her work at -> http://www.wix.com/estetikaartbyamw/estetika-exposure
Feeling inspired to go shoot, lets see what the weekend brings ;D
Have a nice one folks.
Anonymous asked: Aaaah very jealous of all that portra! I could have cried the other day, I missed 6 boxes of 4x5 portra 400 which sold for £30 on eBay :(
Sick… i missed out on a few boxes of portra nc 50sheet late last year. Spent time wondering whether to buy or not then someone bid the amount to end it. Oh well, snooze you lose…
Oh well, hopefully weather improves soon and I can actually get around to using it :D
Need large format colour film though :( only have 4 Portra 160 sheets left..
bottom shelf all medium format film
middle shelf is large format with some loose medium format and 35mm film
top shelf is all medium format with some large format loaded in holders
kezza1993 asked: Dude i had a look at some of your work and i must say i flipping love it! :D i wish i could do more medium format film :( the quality is amazing and to even do large format would be even more amazing hahaha but i am looking forward to seeing more of your work ^_^ its inspired me to go out and take more street photography shots using 35mm :D THANKS! :D
Thanks man glad you like it. Took a look at your page, think I might try and play around with some infrared sometime this year :D
Take it easy!
nomidique-photo asked: Hi Ade, i found you on the mijonju show on youtube and became an instant fan of you work. Eventhiugh they heckled the hell out of you, in the end, you delivered! FTW! In the adayinthelife post. I am wondering what type of film you used. Is that a Nikon field camera? Thank you much...
Thanks man, seeing how many views the vid got good thing i didn’t mess up :)
For film im using tmax400 when i shoot negatives like the mijonju shot, and the fuji instant for polaroids.
Camera is a 4x5 tachihara field camera. During the odaiba vid i was using a very old 150mm 5.6 schneider symmar lens.
Lenses and lens boards come separately so i just so happened to have bought a nikon lensboard for it.
I have since bought a 180 and 210. The 150 is so old its shutter seems to be faulty so had problems using it with flash
My name is Ade, catch me shooting portraits in the streets of Tokyo.
