Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => : Steven. September 07, 2011, 11:00:05 AM
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hey everyone i just wanted to share a couple websites i've been frequenting recently. many of you probably have seen these photographers before but i feel compelled to share anyways. sorry to be repetitive :P
http://josevillablog.com/ (http://josevillablog.com/)
http://www.yukaakinaga.com/ (http://www.yukaakinaga.com/)
i'm especially a huge fan of jose villa's work and have been frequenting his blog for awhile now.
yeah just wanted to share!
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some very nice work there - do you know if these people are using film?
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From trawling the Web it does indeed look like Yuka Akinaga is a film photographer...which is great news.
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Jose has been using film for a while for his weddings, I think the Inside Analogue podcast has an episode that features him.
Mark
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Both nice. Like Yuka's work a lot. I (being sad) had my nose pressed against the screen and saw that Jose uses a Contax MF camera. Not sure if it's film but looks like it.
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nice~ I'm no real fan of wedding shots but I really like how jose ties the shots together with some detail shots on things too.
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http://www.interviewsbycrashtaylor.com/2009/05/15/crash-taylor-interviews-jose-villa/ (http://www.interviewsbycrashtaylor.com/2009/05/15/crash-taylor-interviews-jose-villa/)
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I'm with Jojonas on this one. Having shot weddings professionally (as a supplementary income) for a while in the early 80's - and hated almost every moment of it - I really don't see this type of commercial photography as "fine art". However, I have to give the guy immense credit as his photos are beautiful and he's obviously got a great rapport with his customers.
Yuka's gallery is also an impressive find. The "Life" collection is definitely my favourite.
One of my favourite photographers is this chap:
http://www.ontoshiki.com/ (http://www.ontoshiki.com/)
Not sure I'll ever get to Japan but there are some stunning shots amongst his work.
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im with Karl, they are both really great but Yuka's stuff stands out to me, just love the colours, particularly like
his her approach to fashion work
thanks a lot for sharing :-)
(im terrible, why do I always assume photographers are guys!)
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I'm not really into wedding photography at all but those pictures made me forget the're actually related to the subject... very well done and the colour tones are fantastic!
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to those who asked, jose uses a contax 645 and a canon 1v (i think) and yuka uses a MTL 5B praktica.
i actually am a huge fan of jose just because he shoots as is. there's no photoshop tricks or anything (too) unnatural about his work. i think he pays a great attention to detail and composes his shots very well. i don't think he can shoots the average joe's wedding with hundreds of guests in the same fashion but i like it nevertheless.
yuka's work is just so surreal looking and original and creative. sometimes it feels like i'm looking into a dream and seeing those shots.
shout out to http://tokyocamerastyle.com/ (http://tokyocamerastyle.com/) for bringing me inspiration (it's where i found yuka's site).
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http://www.interviewsbycrashtaylor.com/2009/05/15/crash-taylor-interviews-jose-villa/ (http://www.interviewsbycrashtaylor.com/2009/05/15/crash-taylor-interviews-jose-villa/)
We went to see about using Crash Taylor for our wedding photos.
Pricey ain't the word!