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© YoshihikoWada

2
May
2017

Sakura




Sakura

(cherry blossom) season in Japan has over.

I’m not big fun of these beautiful trees, and not fascinated for capturing them neither.

The reason:

  1. So many people capture Sakura in this season that I don’t feel it’s not necessary for I capture them.
    My mission is to capture and create what other people don’t do. Plus I hate cloudy area.
  2. Cherry blossoms got blurred while hyper long exposure. I hate blurred image.
  3. I hate crooked branches, which annoys me to make a composition, i.e. I’m pretty bad at capturing flowers.
  4. My wife complaint about that I turned into the beautiful “pastel pink “ to Black and white, and says “ you’re crazy!!”. Maybe I am.

 

Having said that I have captured them some time before.

Osaka-Castle and Sakura (2016)

PC-E NIKKOR 24mm f/3.5D EDBoth popular destination for tourists and composition.

 

PC-E NIKKOR 24mm f/3.5D ED“Sakura Castle” 301.sec f/10, iso100, pc-e 24mm

Yoshino -Nara (2015)

Dawn at Yoshino, Nara. One of the most beautiful Sakura location in Japan. 30 sec. f7.1, iso100, 24-70 f2.8 (38mm)

Ordinary View(2017)

This year I did not go any popular sight seeing spot, but shot at on the way to work.

 PC-E Micro NIKKOR 45mm f/2.8D ED Under the Hanshin-Highway. 183sec. F/8. iso100, PC-E 45mm

 

PC-E NIKKOR 45mm f/2.8D EDThe same place with a different composition. 123sec. f9, PC-E NIKKOR 45mm f/2.8D ED

Sakura-Tower

Sakura-Tower by Yoshihiko Wada on 500px.com

The center building is a premium condo. The top floor was priced $250million, do you want to live?

That’s it! Did you enjoy? I’m going back to my BW world. See you there!!



Tagged - cherry blossom, color, daily, LONGEXPOSURE, sakura


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5 Comments

Peter Muoki
2017年5月7日, 4:45 PM

I completely understand what you mean. I always tell people not to take easy shots. In my opinion you should strive to be different. See things others don’t try to see. Could you share how you get such clear images? Thank you! Great work!!

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    YoshihikoWada
    2017年5月9日, 1:04 PM

    Thank you Peter. There are several important things to have clear images, and I don’t do anything different from others. Focus manually, set your tripod firmly, don’t stop down too much (f8-f11 is best ),use great ND filters, which you should treat as another lenses.

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Nat
2017年5月17日, 12:44 AM

Hello Yoshihiko,excellent work,great!

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Alice-Sofia Savitky
2017年6月21日, 1:00 PM

I like both kinds of your work – B&W as well as those @ your blog. It is understandable – the desire to be out of crowd, but for such talented master as you are, could surrounding matter?
We, the Greeks, hold that each person is cosmos, universe. From such a point of view, space around and its content is just a frame.
I follow you @ Flickr. Thank you for pleasure to see your pictures.
Best wishes.
Regards, Alice-Sofia

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    YoshihikoWada
    2017年6月29日, 5:25 PM

    Dear Alice
    Thank you for visiting both Flicker and my own web here.
    I just prefer quiet places. However I also love to visit a popular place, where have been shot by many, and try to find my own perspective there. BTW, I’ve just come back from LA, and I visited Disney Concert Hall where one of the most famous architecture in LA. It was so hard to find my own perspective, but somehow I could manage to shoot with my style.

    Yoshihiko

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