Nikon D700 + Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm — 1/400 sec, f/4.5, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Movie Shoot
outside my livingroom window
Someone was shooting some movie scenes outside our window for hours today. That's the biggest hubbub our sleepy little town of Kyoto has seen since a Presidential visit in 2005, and part of the G8 Summit earlier in the summer, so I snapped a few shots, all from my livingroom window.
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 340 mm — 1/320 sec, f/7.1, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
The Talent
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 120 mm — 1/640 sec, f/7.1, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Big Production
( Okay, not so big. Perhaps a dozen people in total )
They were there for a long time... at least the six hours that I noticed them. They spent the most time on the shot on the bridge, coming back to it again and again over the course of the day. The two shots above look like essentially the same scene, but they were taken an hour apart.
I had occasion to bring Anthony to the doctor for a fever, and when passing by, I asked the bored-looking sound guy what the shoot was. “A movie about a maiko” (apprentice geisha).
During the day, they shot a few other scenes, but also spent a lot of time sitting around doing nothing...
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 340 mm — 1/400 sec, f/6.3, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Union Rules
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 340 mm — 1/500 sec, f/6.3, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Aggressive Paparazzi
with disposable film camera
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 340 mm — 1/400 sec, f/6.3, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Would You Mind Going Around?”
herding random passers-by out of frame
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 185 mm — 1/800 sec, f/7.1, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Take 72
or so
The most time seemed to have been spent on a scene in which a high-school kid with a yellow backpack walked up, sucking on a fudgesicle...
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 175 mm — 1/640 sec, f/7.1, ISO 1100 — map & image data — nearby photos
“Greetings, Mr. Fudgesicle-san”
They did this scene over and over, during the course of several hours. It was a hot day, and the supply of fudgesicles kept melting and dripping all over the actor's hand...
Nikon D700 + 70-200mm f/2.8 + 1.7× Extender @ 340 mm — 1/640 sec, f/7.1, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Perils of Acting
melting, messy props
This is the first time I've had occasion to post pictures of the little stream that runs by our place since the condo across the way redid their wall. As you can see in the background of the photos above, the wall along the path is wonderful, tastefully blending in with its surroundings in a subtle, very Japanese way.
I really like it, and appreciate that they spent their time and money on something they don't even see from their own places.
It used to be an ugly cinderblock eyesore, all the more unsightly because each spring it was the background for the explosion of cherry blossoms that erupted from the trees overhanging the path and river. You can see both the cherry blossoms and the ugly wall in some earlier posts: Long Night Exposures and Cherry Blossoms · Getting Started With Cherry-Blossom Pictures · Cherry-Blossom Full Bloom Hits Kyoto · Pictures of People Taking Cherry-Blossom Pictures · Enjoying the Cherry Blossoms · Indeed, the blooms have bloomed in Kyoto.