{"id":2436,"date":"2014-07-07T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-07-07\/2436"},"modified":"2014-07-07T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:10:08","slug":"photo-shoot-with-alice-gordenker-in-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2014-07-07\/2436","title":{"rendered":"Photo Shoot with Alice Gordenker in Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAlice Gordenker<\/span>\nKyoto Station (\u4eac\u90fd\u99c5), Kyoto Japan\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

I've been a fan of Alice Gordenker's monthly “<\/span>So\nWhat The Heck Is That?<\/a><\/i>”<\/span> column in the Japan Times for years. I first<\/span> mentioned her writing on my blog more than seven years go when\nreferring to an article she wrote about Gold Poop. (Yes, Gold Poop. Go ahead<\/span> and read about gold\npoop<\/a>, I'll wait.)<\/p>\n\n

She writes a variety<\/span> of\narticles<\/a> for the Japan Times, and also has a blog<\/span><\/a> where she often\ngoes into more detail on whatever the newspaper article was about.<\/p>\n\n

Somewhere along the lines we became acquainted via email, and a couple<\/span>\nof years ago I ended<\/span> up doing some photography for her article about Japanese candles<\/a>. Finally\nlast month I actually<\/span> met her for a few<\/span> hours for a photoshoot.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The photo of her on her blog had been a grainy<\/span> one from a video<\/span> frame\ncapture, so while passing through Kyoto on a\nproject<\/span><\/a>, she finally took me up on my offer to take a better<\/span> photo.<\/p>\n\n

We met at Kyoto Station and we got along great... to use what I think<\/span> is\na uniquely<\/span> American phrase, she's a real<\/span> kick in the head.<\/p>\n\n

She'd brought along a parasol that had been in her old blog photo, so we\ngave it a try<\/span> for some shots right there at Kyoto Station...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>800 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

In trying to figure out a nice place to go for the bulk of the shoot, I found<\/span> that she'd never been to the Fushimi Inari shrine (which I first<\/span>\nwrote about six years ago in the appropriately-titled “<\/span>Kyoto's Dazzling\nFushimi Inari Shrine<\/a>”<\/span>), so we decided to go there. It's a photogenic<\/span>\nplace, so I've done photo shoots there before... here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

For her blog masthead she needed a very<\/span> wide short crop, so that's the composition we tried for first, and came up with this:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>640 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nat the Fushimi-Inari Taisha Shrine (\u4f0f\u898b\u7a32\u8377\u5927\u793e)<\/span>\nKyoto Japan1\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

It's now gracing the top of her blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>640 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 100 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

She's got TV experience, so she's a pro<\/span> at posing. She even brought<\/span> a couple<\/span> of shirts to mix and match looks.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 2000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAt the Lake<\/span>\nthe foreground is way too dark compared to the bright background\n( I could recover this much with some aggressive Lightroom adjustments )\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 4000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nSort of Clich\u00e9<\/span>\nbut we're there, so may as well try the shot\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nRelaxed<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 6400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 5000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBack-Cover Sleeve Shot<\/span>\nshould she ever write a book\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 1600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 1600 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nInterviewing the Locals<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 5000 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/2.2, ISO 360 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n? ? ?<\/span>\n( like I said, we where there, so may as well try it )\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nWaiting<\/span>\nfor the background to clear\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 3200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nStraight-Up Portrait<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

It was really too dark to do this kind of shot... by this time it had\ngotten very darkly overcast and we could hear thunder off in the distance. It turns<\/span> out that just north of us the main center of Kyoto was getting\ninundated by a sudden<\/span> torrential downpour of biblical proportions that\nclaimed books and electronics from friends who got caught in it, but half a\nmile<\/span> south we got off with nary a drop.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 1800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

Back near the entrance we tried some more in the same area where we started...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 360 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 500 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

And that was that. It was a fun time, and a pleasure<\/span> to finally meet her.<\/p>\n\n

On the way home I noticed that the pillars at the train station were painted as if they were shrine-gate legs...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/1.4, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nKeihan Fushimi Inari Station (\u4eac\u962a\u4f0f\u898b\u7a32\u8377\u99c5)<\/span>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n

If I'd noticed it before, I'd forgotten. (I've posted a shot<\/span> from the same perspective before, but in B&W<\/a>). The benefit<\/span> of being forgetful, I guess,<\/span> is that you get to rediscover little things like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I've been a fan of Alice Gordenker's monthly \"So What The Heck Is That?\" column in the Japan Times for years. I first mentioned her writing on my blog more than seven years go when referring to an article she wrote about Gold Poop. (Yes, Gold Poop. Go ahead and read about gold poop, I'll wait.)<\/p>

She writes a variety of articles for the Japan Times, and also has a blog where she often goes into more detail on whatever the newspaper article was about.<\/p>

Somewhere along the lines we became acquainted via email, and a couple of years ago [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,28,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}