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A Long Wait...
Image Title:  A Long Wait...
 
 By: Roger Williams  
  Copyright ©2006



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Photographer Roger Williams {K:83282}
Project N/A Camera Model Nikon D200
Categories Journalism
Street
Transportation
Film Format
Portfolio Japanalia
Fisheye
Digital
Lens Nikon  10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye
Uploaded 8/22/2006 Film / Memory Type Lexar  1GB
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Location City -  Seiseki Sakuragaoka
State -  TOKYO
Country - Japan   Japan
About This little family of show-window dummies faces the platform just behind commuters waiting for their trains into the center of Tokyo. This is a fisheye shot from which most, but not all, of the disturbing curved distortion has been removed. While the wife and children wear traditional kimono (little boys almost NEVER wear them) it is interesting that they show the young father in Western dress. The kimono is definitely becoming wear for women and children.
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There are 10 Comments in 1 Pages
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Galal El Missary   {K:84245} 8/22/2006
Great idea Roger , wll composed , Best regards .

Galal


Chad Parish   {K:6155} 8/22/2006
Interesting shot, which station is this at?


Roger Williams   {K:83282} 8/22/2006
Hi, Chad. It's Seiseki Sakuragaoka on the Keio line out to Hachioji. Do you know that part of Tokyo?


Chad Parish   {K:6155} 8/22/2006
I know the Keio Line, I used to live in Tokyo for 5 years, I lived near Ikebukero.


Roger Williams   {K:83282} 8/22/2006
My office was in Ikebukuro for years, so I know that area fairly well.


Chad Parish   {K:6155} 8/22/2006
You can contact me at chiefs_4_life@yahoo.com if you would ever like to talk about life in Japan, I moved back last year so most of my shots online here are from my time in Japan. Are you doing profesional photography over there?


andree lerat   {K:16884} 8/23/2006
Nice shot. I like how the male dummy the waiting passenger are both wearing western dark clothing. Very pleasing composition. :) Andree


Manu     {K:13076} 8/23/2006
Great use of the fisheye...at last a shot that represents what a fisheye should show...enough distortion but with no over distortion...well done for that, Roger

Manu


jessie voigts   {K:6766} 8/27/2006
ah, they are so beautiful. it is nice to see that they are becoming more wearable. i like the modern young woman standing in front, too!

in shots like this one, do you ask them if they mind having their picture taken?


Roger Williams   {K:83282} 8/27/2006
Thank you Jessie, and I am honoured that you chose me as a "friend." I thought the young woman in black (a real human being) made a nice foil for the row of elegant dummies behind her, especially as one of them was a man in black. I don't normally ask, as the Japanese usually don't mind being photographed. She didn't notice me (being too busy with her mobile phone) but if she had, I would have bowed, explained my intention in my most polite Japanese, and then showed her the picture. This is possible now I have a DSLR! If she had objected I would have deleted it on the spot, of course.


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