Japan Street Photography is something I enjoy doing very much. I usually am out looking for good street scenes, graffiti, textures, objects, and of course people. I then post process in Photoshop using various actions and techniques I have developed over the years.

1. Urban Rust, 2. Thin Red Screw, 3. Graffiti Tag, 4. […]

Here they are … the three Halloween Amigos. Two of the pumpkins have the names of my daughters carved out, Aily and Sasha. The other pumpkin was carved by my Japanese father-in-law who had a lot of fun this year with the kids celebrating Halloween. It’s kind of new to him, so […]

This week I was having some fun using my SB-800 on Rear Curtain Sync to shoot some glowing Pumpkins. I also used a Nikon D200 and a Nikkor 28mm f/1.4 lens for these shots. I thought they turned out pretty well and it was a lot of fun experimenting with all the various […]

This is a shot of my father-in-law visiting his relatives during the OBON holiday last August. We visit this monument every year along with family. He is a heavy smoker and so it’s quite common to see a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. The photograph was post processed in Photoshop using […]

This is a hair stylist in Nagano Japan who we did a photoshoot not too long ago with. The photo was post processed in Photoshop with a number of techniques to give this sort of Grunge or Vintage look. I don’t usually like a lot of stuff on the face so I purposely […]

Here are a couple of shots of Aily and Sasha sporting the Grunge Look. I used layered textures that I shot with my 105mm VR lens. I then did some various techniques using blend modes, curves, levels, and saturation to achieve the desired look. It probably took about 15 minutes per photo […]

This is an shot using a Tilt Shift Lens Blur technique in Photoshop CS3. I am so glad I was able to find a way to do this as it is just what the doctor ordered with some of my photos. This one in particular I think works well with a tilt shift […]

Rock Club Shoot. This was a great photoshoot. We had a live band and I did some DJing along with photographing a hair model from one of Nagano City’s premiere Hair Salon’s Magee Salon. The light was pretty low, but there was enough to do some decent shooting. I absolutely love […]

This is a photograph that was sent to me recently of when I helped host the a local Asahi Hair Show in Nagano Japan. I had to speak both in English in Japan for this and although it was a challenge, it was quite fun. I later photographed some of the event for […]

A while back I did a photoshoot in Nagano Japan on the topic of High Key and using Flash. The following photographs and others were entirely shot using Nikon SB-800 flashes. This is a popular topic with a lot of friends who I shoot with and so when we get a chance to […]