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:: Saturday, December 27, 2008 ::

:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 10:31 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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I had another idea for the today update's but after my mate Robbie lost a backgammon game against me . I thought he deserved a homage here !
Thanks mate , somethings in life never change !
:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 12:21 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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This beach is just 5 minutes drive from my place . And everytime i go there to look at the sea i get a different photo .

:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 3:23 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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Iuozen , Kanazawa . A special place for me where i had one the best moments of my life .

:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 3:21 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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Castelnouvo Scrivia , Italy . Home town of Chiara .
What a lovely place and peoples . These fields are all over the place and one's can't help make one picture or two .
Thanks to Hitoshi for the patience and not try to kill me while i had to stop to make a photo every 30 seconds .
:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 3:19 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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I took this picture last year at Koya-san Wakayama when i was on assignment for Silverkris inflight magazine .
The best thing about assignments , is the photos you make on the side .Because after i get what the mag wants ( hopefully i will) ,i can take my time and do my personal work.
And the mag sometimes sends you to a places you never heard about . What was this case . I drove for 6 hours , got lost several times but boy it felt good when i got there .


:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 8:44 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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I read this book for the first time in a plane on my way to Italy last june . But i felt i didn't paid the attention the book deserved .
So i read it again this week .
I know you can find 1.000 reviews on this book out here on the internet but i want to give my 2 cents as well.
So here is 6 reasons i really like this book .
1- Joe McNally is a photographer who loves what he does even when things goes really south.
2- He is honest about his "glamorous photographer life " .
3- He knows a lot but he screw up a lot as well but it never stop him shooting .
4- Joe shows and tells about the times when a photographer have to forget "art" and just get the job done.
5- He is a Nikon and Mac user ( i know it should not count but it does for me )
6- He has a great sense of humor
6 - Joe is talented and natural born photographer .

And on top of it . The book is full of amazing photos !
Go and get it .
:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 8:35 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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Another example of how good the Nikon D700 work in low light situations !
The only light source is the tinny lamp above the table . It helps to use a Nikkor 85mm 1.8 wide open !
The other funny thing is ! Peoples don't mind if you point your camera at them and take photos in dark places if they don't see the flash going off .
Because they know the photo will be just a black frame . If they just knew what the Nikon sensor is capable of capture !
Ignorance is a bliss !
:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 8:16 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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The good thing about been out of a job is the free time to do things one never find the time to do.
I'm going down on my list of films i want to see and books i want to read or read again.
Here's an example of a must to see . The documentary "shooting the messenger" from Aljazeera.
I have a huge respect and admiration for this journalists , photographers and their crew who risk their lives everyday to bring to us the truth about wars and other conflicts around the world .
Watch all the episodes and you will see these mens with a new eye .
God bless and protect them .
:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 8:10 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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If you have a fast lens , use the fastest aperture and it will give the photo a nice bokeh and fast shutter speed to boot so it will be easier to get a sharp photo .
Remember that and will be able to work the depth of field and get your subject to "pop" out of the picture .

Hakuba , Japan S.O.S music festival
:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 6:07 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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Omicho Market in Kanazawa is the kind of place where one's can spend hours taking pictures and don't run out of subjects and
candid moments.
Photograph there will be easier if you have a a D700 :) because it have almost no noise in the high isos !
Btw , know how to work on manual mode is essential to get a good results . If you are the kind guy with who thinks the "P" symbol on the dial of your camera means PRO .Chances are you won't get a good photo .
:: ELVIS HOSHIDA 5:58 AM [+] Please leave your comment !
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