35mm Friday

• Friday, April 1, 2011
• Posted in Tokyo
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I had the day off today after working until almost sunrise.    What a beautiful day in Tokyo.    I spent the day shooting my Leica M9 and Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4.   The one thing I love about photography is you explore places that are familiar to you and find things you never noticed before.    Today I found a place I should have noticed before; Bagel Standard.   What a pleasant surprise!   A bagel shop 5 minutes from my house…

The staff is friendly…

The food is excellent.

PB and J!  (Peanut Butter and JellY) Bagels…

I had two half sandwiches; Tuna and Honey Mustard Chicken.    It is well worth checking out; Bagel Standard, Miyajima Building, 1F 2-8-19 Nakameguro, Meguro-ku, 03 5721 2012, www.bagelstandard.com, 11-19:00, closed Monday and Tuesday.

Meet Jonnathan and Carmela.   They are readers of Shoot Tokyo and are in town from Guatemala for a few weeks so we met up for a little shooting in Shibuya.

This hip girl was waiting for her friend at Hachiko and was kind enough to pose for me.

A lone cone…has anyone else noticed that Tokyo has really high cone per capita?   They seem to be everywhere.

We walked down by the hip hop stores and photographed some of the graffiti.   I thought this poster was pretty cool.

If you need to get your ‘pimp’ on…check out Pimp Code.

Mayumi and I went house hunting this afternoon and across the street from one place we looked at was Dr Nakamats house.  He is a famous inventor in Japan who claims to have 3,200 inventions to his name.    His first was an Automatic Center of Gravity Stabilizer at the age of five that is still used in all airplanes today.  I found a video on him if you are interested, you can watch it HERE.    There is also a Wiki page that disputes some of his claims as well HERE (thanks Mart).   He is currently running to be Mayor of Tokyo.

I took a walk after dinner tonight to continue testing how my M9 performs in low light.    Nakameguro is really lively lately….

I need to try this place.   If you have tried it, please leave a comment and let me know how it is.

Meet the good folks at Cerchio…   I love this place.  They have the best desserts.  I stopped by on my way home to pick up some puddling and cakes for a little date for Mayumi and I this evening.    This is another great place worth checking out; cerchio, 3-6-2 1F Nakameguro Meguro, 03 3760 0808, http://cerchio.cc, closed Mondays.

Yum!

 

 

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  • April 25, 2011 at 2:20 am, 10 things I have learnt from Daily Shooting | ShootTokyo said:

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  • April 05, 2011 at 11:09 pm, Maria Cristina said:

    hahaha That couple up there are my friends from Guatemala!!! The world is so small. Cool pictures, maybe you’ve just convinced me of visiting Japan.

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  • April 04, 2011 at 1:49 am, Dave said:

    I just ask people if they mind if I take their picture. 90% of the time people just simple, pose or continue what they are doing and you can take a photo. Rarely do people object. The biggest hurdle was getting comfortable to ask people if they mind if you take their photo. What I learned was most people don’t mind as long as you ask…

  • April 04, 2011 at 1:41 am, isabel said:

    love your graffiti shots. also, i need to work up the courage to take more street portraits. how did you do it!?

  • April 03, 2011 at 12:26 am, Dave said:

    It is the nice part of Japanese culture. I thought she looked pretty hip so I was happy that she was OK for me to take her photo. I never noticed the colors and textures before I started shooting this much but now I am fascinated by them…

  • April 03, 2011 at 12:25 am, Dave said:

    Thanks for your kind comments Bunnisteffi. It is hard to keep this pace up so times so I am humbled by your awe… I am glad you enjoy the postings. Next week Singapore!.

  • April 02, 2011 at 11:41 pm, Jen said:

    I must admit – before I happened across your blog I’ve probably really never seen many pictures of Tokyo from a street level perspective. I’m starting to fall in love with the texture and colors all around. Yes texture and color are all over the place but Tokyo seems to have it on a higher level. I’m also realizing I connect to the whimsical aspect (like the hip gal above) I love the idea of walking down the street wearing big buns in my hair and bears on your top and your not judge for wearing buns in your hair a top with bears on it as an adult. They seems to have kept that creative kid alive. (for lack of poetic words)

  • April 02, 2011 at 11:01 pm, Bunnisteffi said:

    Good day! I’m another person who’d found your website from a forum thread about “on-the-ground” TohoQuake photos. I’m awed by your dedication and creativity in this project. Even though I’m not able to travel to Japan at the moment, I feel as though I’m able to live a little bit off wherever your shoots bring you for the day. Can’t wait for the sakura season to begin! ^

  • April 02, 2011 at 8:48 pm, Dave said:

    Thanks for the translation Marco! Not sure you can get as wonderful without Leica but I am biased. I always use a tripod for these types of shots, I keep my ISO extremely low, typically ISO160, I shot wide open at 1.4. These three should all allow you to reduce noise in the image improving the quality of light.

  • April 02, 2011 at 9:22 am, Mart said:

    First off, love your pictures. I stumbled across your site a few weeks ago while looking for “on-the-ground” Tokyo blogs since the 9.0 earthquake struck early March.

    You might want to check out facts on Nakamatsu-san. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiro_Nakamatsu). Note the “Ig Nobel” prize (which a lot of people confuse with the real Nobel prize).

  • April 02, 2011 at 6:08 am, marco barsotti said:

    I did not try but I can translate for you:
    Il Lupone (the big wolf)
    Vera pizza napoletana (original Pizza)

    You can check the claim: the real one is just “margherita” (no strange toppings) and even so, it is great. Ask them how they can make it without Napoli’s water!

    And..any advices on how to approach the (wonderful) lighting you get in night pictures without a Leica?

    Keep shooting!