The channel discussing urban landscapes and photography.
Takahiro, a photographer based in Osaka. I specialize in street photography taken with an ultra-wide-angle lens.
◆Major Awards:
2020 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, 2nd place in the Street Photography category 2022 SWPA Sony World Photography Awards, 2nd place in the National Awards 2022 FAPA Fine Art Photography Awards, 1st place in the City Scape category 2022 IPA International Photography Awards, 3rd place in the Street Photography category 2023 URBAN Street Photography Awards, Finalist in the Spaces category"
They are really beautiful selection photos - captured using this special technique. I like ICM, I've been practicing it now and again for some time and I enjoy it. Yes - and it is precisely these elements of chance - as you say - that make an exciting photo result to be expected. At 7:58 a beautiful picture with the colorful accent of the yellow umbrella. And the next picture at 8:06 is also a great visual experience, I think. Especially when you look at it on a large screen. As you also say, with this technique you don't need to try to capture the motif precisely. Quite the opposite is the case - you can take this little freedom and let the camera become 'a plaything of your own movements'. And in the end you get pictures that can seem like fairy tale or dream sequences to us, as if we were children again and were seeing the world with big, amazed eyes. Thanks for showing them, Mister Taka Hiro. By the way, I would like to ask you a question: How is my name written in Japanese characters that look so artistic and exotic to me? Would you be so kind as to show me? Best wishes - Monika
Thank you, Monika. You perfectly complemented what I wanted to say.Yes, I think it was a good attempt to use the camera as a tool to express how the world looks. Monika is written as 'モニカ' in Japanese.
I don’ shoot street photography but I find your video of shadow and light very good. I often look for the shadow first and then the light. Your photography is very good and you explain it perfectly.
Yes - as a very attentive viewer, I could also call all of these photos my favorites - and one of them ( 1:50 ) was surprisingly 'different' for me, but also very exquisite. A 'landscape photo' of a special kind.
Thank you Monika. This photo was taken from a location slightly away from the city of Osaka where I live. It's a well-balanced photograph showing the distant cluster of buildings in the background and a person riding a bicycle in the foreground
The postman brought me this magazine with your pictures today. I appreciate being able to hold it in my hands, look at it up close and read what was written about you and your photos.Thank you for offering it here.
Thank you again for this really very educational video!. A wonderful motif that is very close to my aesthetic sensibilities - the blackness of the shadows and, in contrast, the arrow of light that points to the main character. Unfortunately, I can only find shades of gray outside in the city here in my region at the moment, as it is almost constantly raining or the sky is very cloudy. It seems as if there are no completely dark shadows at the moment, as even the shadows have to bow to the gray uniformity imposed on them by the weather. I could despair if I were not convinced that the summer light must come in the next few days or weeks so that these really deep black shadows can appear in the pictures again.
Thank you for your comment. The afternoons in Japan during the summer can be so hot that it becomes difficult to go out for photography. Here, I have another two weeks of good shooting weather.
How nice, Mr. Takahiro! I have just ordered issue 4.2024 of the architecture magazine AIT directly from the publisher by phone! I am really looking forward to it. Greetings from Germany - Monika