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The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan

All taken a few days ago in a two hour period. Processed this morning in about 30 minutes. I took 250 shots and deleted 19 - (There are 231 pics total here). The camera was in manual mode with AF Tracking turned on. It looks like there's still a few out-of-focus or with a little too much motion blur that also need to die.

This was fun! I hope you enjoy looking as much as I enjoyed taking them.

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Oct 23, 2008 at 03:12 PM

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p.1 #2 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

Maybe you should change the title to "The Entire Population of Nagoya Japan"

Thanks, I enjoyed looking at them.

Dizzee

P.S. # 1,244 is my favorite.

Oct 23, 2008 at 04:49 PM

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p.1 #3 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

I suggest you post a few of your favourites, then provide a link to the rest.
I've never seen this many pictures - or even 1/4 as many - in one post.
The guys with slow connections will be annoyed.

Oct 23, 2008 at 04:53 PM

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Dizzee wrote:
Maybe you should change the title to "The Entire Population of Nagoya Japan"

Thanks, I enjoyed looking at them.

Dizzee

P.S. # 1,244 is my favorite.

Hehehe... I guess I could number the rows. But I think none of these photos individually are very good... Maybe the old man in the bar, I dunno... but together as a single "work" I kinda dig it. I notice that on this grey BG that many of them appear slightly overexposed and blue-cast - which they didn't in PS. :-/

Oh well.

Oct 23, 2008 at 04:56 PM

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Jim Rickards wrote:
I suggest you post a few of your favourites, then provide a link to the rest.
I've never seen this many pictures - or even 1/4 as many - in one post.
The guys with slow connections will be annoyed.

About how long did they take to load and display for you? I compressed them pretty hard so they could load fast in a conglomerate like this. For me the 1st time they take 7 seconds. The second time or on a refresh they take 1.5 seconds.

Oct 23, 2008 at 05:02 PM

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p.1 #6 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

I like it. Some times a few of the same person/people were too close together.

What if you shot a 'day' and could see not only the light change into night, but the dress and atmosphere change?

Cool.

Oct 23, 2008 at 08:28 PM

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p.1 #7 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

Excellent idea! I like it!

I changed the order a little bit too. Thanks!

Oct 23, 2008 at 08:31 PM

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Nice, thanks for taking the time to post alot of them, I for one is lazy to click link.

I was in Japan once but in a tour never got a chance to walk the public.

Thanks for sharing.

Oct 23, 2008 at 09:17 PM

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I love them. I really enjoyed them

Oct 23, 2008 at 09:21 PM

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p.1 #10 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

The one with the guy and the dog sitting down in front of the car in the background really jumps out at me.
These would make a great collage.

Oct 24, 2008 at 04:10 AM

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Dizzee wrote:
Maybe you should change the title to "The Entire Population of Nagoya Japan"

Thanks, I enjoyed looking at them.

Dizzee

P.S. # 1,244 is my favorite.

made me laugh, thanks dizzee

to OP, i agree with you on the old man at the bar-it's a stand out among these

daniel

Oct 24, 2008 at 05:06 AM

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p.1 #12 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

The very definition of Spray and Pray.

Oct 24, 2008 at 06:34 AM

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Saint Sigma wrote:
The very definition of Spray and Pray.

No, that's when 7/10 pics are OOF and another 2/10 have no subject. :P
But ya, way way too many pics for here.

Oct 24, 2008 at 06:38 AM

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Orguss wrote:
Nice, thanks for taking the time to post alot of them, I for one is lazy to click link.

I was in Japan once but in a tour never got a chance to walk the public.

Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for commenting Orguss!
Where were you in Japan, what did you see?
BTW, I usually don't click off-site links either unless it's a review or news article.

fstop212 wrote:
I love them. I really enjoyed them
Thanks Fstop!
That's what it's all about!

FSJ_Guy wrote:
The one with the guy and the dog sitting down in front of the car in the background really jumps out at me.
These would make a great collage.
Yeah, that's not a bad one either... I just looked at all 250 and said basically the same thing... these would make a great collage but there's no way these warrant me spending 10 to 30 minutes on each one trying to make them look "great". Mostly it was an exercise in low-light 3D focus tracking - which actually was MUCH more functional on this little A2 bridge unit than it was on my D2x which is saying quite allot I thought.
Thanks for taking the time to comment FSJ! It's appreciated!

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Dizzee wrote:
Maybe you should change the title to "The Entire Population of Nagoya Japan"

Thanks, I enjoyed looking at them.

Dizzee

P.S. # 1,244 is my favorite.

made me laugh, thanks dizzee

to OP, i agree with you on the old man at the bar-it's a stand out among these

daniel
Yeah, I processed that one. Maybe I'll post it as a large single later on or something.
It's not "fantastic" but it's pretty good - especially with processing.

Thanks for the comment!

Saint Sigma wrote:
The very definition of Spray and Pray.
Hehehe, A new term and concept for me!

Thanks for the comment man!

Weiyang Liu wrote:
Saint Sigma wrote:
The very definition of Spray and Pray.

No, that's when 7/10 pics are OOF and another 2/10 have no subject. :P
But ya, way way too many pics for here.
Yeah, For shooting I was actually trying. I was in manual mode under several very different lighting conditions - so I had the A and S thumb wheels going - I was very intent on subject selection and framing as well. It felt more hectic (in a good way) than fashion photography.

It was fun tho!
Do you mean too many or too heavy? Too many is what I was going for - it's a collage.

Too heavy would be a bad thing but I checked before posting and there were several threads here where 1 page of the thread was several times heavier - so I felt assured.
Do you think I should split the thread?
I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
Thanks Weiyang!

Oct 24, 2008 at 10:22 AM

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p.1 #15 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

Great idea. You really need an editor though. You could have pulled the missed focus photos, the almost duplicates, etc..........
Thanks for sharing.
Bill

Oct 24, 2008 at 10:24 AM

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p.1 #16 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

I can still do that.

This editor works pretty well. I did also use an external editor to compose the message text and links.

Good Idea about pulling the remaining OOFs... I will from now!

Thanks Bill!

Oct 24, 2008 at 10:38 AM

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Interesting project with a great idea. However, quantity will never overcome quality, a collage of snapshots is simply that. Again, I really like the idea, but there are too many similar subjects there to be much impact, and not enough similarity for there to be much impact. I heard Nagoya people were like that.

Oct 24, 2008 at 10:46 AM

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OK, I edited it and changed the spacing so that different browser widths will produce a different order and hopefully a little different experience. If you have a dual monitor screen it's kinda kewl (imo).

runner301 wrote:
Interesting project with a great idea. However, quantity will never overcome quality, a collage of snapshots is simply that. Again, I really like the idea, but there are too many similar subjects there to be much impact, and not enough similarity for there to be much impact. I heard Nagoya people were like that.

I guess my main beef besides that is that there is nothing to give the viewer a sense of location, time, or place. In this case, timelessness isn't such a good thing.

It is a great concept, and certainly a great project...I might give it a try here in little Itoman.

Haha.. Yes! Nagoya people ARE like that - so, that was pretty funny... They can't help it though, this has been the manufacture capitol since WWII and before so the factory mentality has been ingrained over 5 generations or more.

I appreciate your comments! I wonder if we all define "collage" differently and how those definitions vary. It's not a very concrete concept - in my mind at least. I see many different styles that can be and indeed are called collages. And where do we draw the line between mural and collage? It's all slightly vague to me and I imagine to many of us. It's a fairly versatile form. I'm not bucking your comments or anything but wondering and asking in order to understand and learn more.

Learning ROCKS!

Thanks again for the comment Runner!

Where in Japan are you BTW?

Oct 24, 2008 at 07:27 PM

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Well I have to say this is new to the forums...haven't seen it done this way before...interesting...pretty cool...I enjoyed it despite the repeats and OOF

Oct 24, 2008 at 07:48 PM

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p.1 #20 · The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (231-Image Collage)

Thanks Sam!

I removed a few more OOF and near-dups. I guess there's still a few more.

I'll get to them in the near future.

Oct 27, 2008 at 04:41 AM

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Couldn't find my picture amongst them...otherwise +1
If you are still in Nagoya, I would recommend going to Osu in the evening - last time it was madly crowded.

But to be honest I find Osu as a bit of a tourist attraction.
If you walk around few parts of Sakae, you can find lots of interesting people..also, Canon Nagoya is around there (they are moving on 1st of Nov to Fushimi).

Here are few shots of mine. Nothing special though..

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5. (Not Osu, but Nagoya Station)

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Oct 27, 2008 at 06:13 AM

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I think you just trying to show of haw many pic's you can fit in one post.
This might be a record.

Oct 27, 2008 at 01:34 PM

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Couldn't find my picture amongst them...otherwise +1
If you are still in Nagoya, I would recommend going to Osu in the evening - last time it was madly crowded.

As the title indicates these were all taken in Osu.

Osu is a nice place for street shots like this for sure! when I 1st got here about 25 years ago it was good too! So you're in Nagoya now? You live here? Where at?

But to be honest I find Osu as a bit of a tourist attraction.

Osu is the Akihabara of Nagoya. I don't see any tourists but there sure are allot of shoppers.

It's always crouded on weekends as everyone spills out onto the streets to replenish their blank CD supply or look at whatever gear they heard about during the week. There's also a bunch of trendy fashion shops around there so you have all the young girly-girls out window shopping and stampeding the sales racks.

If you walk around few parts of Sakae, you can find lots of interesting people..also, Canon Nagoya is around there (they are moving on 1st of Nov to Fushimi).

Yup, yup. Canon is moving tho huh? I didn't know that.

Here are few shots of mine. Nothing special though..

1.

2.

3.

4.

(Not Osu, but Nagoya Station)
5.

Those are pretty good! Thanks for sharing man! I took a bunch kinda like that and then did a super-quick near-portraiture-style crop for each before scaling them down in order to get these here.

I see you're shooting with the Canon EOS Kiss Digital N... How you liking that?

Oct 27, 2008 at 02:15 PM

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Jim Rickards wrote:
I suggest you post a few of your favourites, then provide a link to the rest.
I've never seen this many pictures - or even 1/4 as many - in one post.
The guys with slow connections will be annoyed.

<annoyed.

You got a lot of interesting people.

I want to go to Nagoya. They have a nice street racing scene there.

Oct 27, 2008 at 03:02 PM

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Jerren wrote:

You got a lot of interesting people.

I want to go to Nagoya. They have a nice street racing scene there.

They do? Yeah maybe... I've seen movies about street racing in Japan. Drifting and such. I've never seen any of it though.

Oct 27, 2008 at 03:08 PM


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