I'm still at it here is a new one

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Great images, well done!

Alainphoto

Post more photos. Fantastic to look at.

John

Thanks guys

I'll post some more soon shooting and learning japanese take time so expect a new image about every other day

Off to Shikoku until the 14th, I'm shooting Yosakoi Matsuri and Awa Odori

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Great eyes, great style, and great DOF uses.
I really enoy them all.

This is good work... very nice.

Thanks ! I'm back from Shikoku Yosakoi Matsuri was great as always

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Stunning, love your website as well.

It is difficult to be a bad photographer in Japan, but these are really outstanding. Thanks...

Grognard > thanks I've got some old pictures on my website, I hope you can see a sort of progression

dhogan > that's right but don't underestimate your pictures, you've got some really good japan shots in your gallery, I enjoyed browing through your favorites !


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Alain, I enjoyed your series. Great work and I love the format. It inspires me to do some in that size too. Keep it up, love seeing new ones. Do you do much post-processing to these images (esp. curious about the saturation)?

Arigatou

hobbes wrote:Alain, I enjoyed your series. Great work and I love the format. It inspires me to do some in that size too. Keep it up, love seeing new ones. Do you do much post-processing to these images (esp. curious about the saturation)?

thanks for your warm comment

about post processing, I do very very little, thanks to the colorful kimono my subjects tend to wear

I shoot the 1D3 with standard setting and AWB
I open the RAW in photoshop and ajust the color temperature in ACR : I try to get natural colors and skin tone
I crop in the format meant when shot (16:9 most of the time)
I had a bit of contrast if needed,
get back a little bit of details in whithes or shadows if needed,
and always sharpen (100%/0.5 most of the time)

that's all for 95% of the shots !

I don't like oversaturated and overcontrasted shots :/

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Beautiful photographs. Compositions, colors, exposures are all spot on. You have a great eye. I think you have a book in the making here.

thanks and yes a book is slowly growing, but I'm in no hurry, I gave myself 10 years to make it

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your work is fantastic, creative and alive with color...all 10 fingers up!

thanks rma

Exceptional series of images, as they would say in Japan,"Sore wa sugoi na".

domo arigato