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Young Schoolgirl Returning Home in Tokyo One thing I recommend to travelers as they go from point A to point B in an unpredictable manner. Whenever I want to hit an exact location, I tell the taxi to drop me off a few kilometers from the destination. Either that, or I exit the subway early. I then meander my way from street to street and feel my way to the final location. Usually, by taking these unpredictable paths, I end up seeing a lot of things that would have been left unseen.That is how I found this little schoolgirl in Tokyo. I ended up on a busy street in the late afternoon, just as kids were running back to their homes.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Intersection Today we have a new photo from downtown Tokyo. By now, you have probably figured out that I just can't get enough of these downtown shots. Each angle is nice and different in its own way. Sometimes I like to freeze the action, and sometimes I like to let it flow. It totally depends on my mood when I am shooting.While I am there, I usually have a pretty good idea of how I want to execute the post-processing. It changes the way I take the shots. For example, if I want the action frozen, I'll crank up the ISO so that the people don't drag across the shutter too much. I have my 5 exposures so that the +2 (the longest) fires first. So I know if the middle exposure (the anchor, I call it) has a shutter that is open too long. I can just hear it. If it feels too long, I double the ISO and it halves the shutter speed of the anchor. This is always my action/reaction when shooting in aperture priority. - Trey Ratcliff Read more, including some exciting news about us and Flipboard, here at stuckincustoms.com.
Ginza, alive at night Rain is good. Rain is bad. I can't decide!You have no idea... (or maybe you do !!) how hard it is to carry around two cameras, a tripod, AND an umbrella. I already have every one of my 10 digits fully employed with handling everything. But... an umbrella! Well that really requires five fingers! I can usually get by with 5 on my tripod/camera too. I walk around with everything hooked together. However, a problem ensues when you have to expand and retract the legs of the tripod. That is really a two-hand operation. So what do you do with the umbrella during this time? The neck/shoulder pinch is right-out... the umbrella gets caught in the wind and it is a recipe for disaster.- Trey RatcliffFrom this entry at stuckincustoms.com.
Salaryman in Tokyo While I was in the middle of making a time-lapse sequence (see the video below the photo), I was using my D3S on a sling to take quick photos of interesting people. They were everywhere!Behind me, waiting for the light to change, was this young salaryman. Salaryman is the Japanese word for “businessman”. That word salaryman always cracks me up for some reason. Anyway, he was this young kid, standing there in a most unassuming way in this nice suit. I spun around and grabbed a quick shot.He looked a little confused at me after I took it. I gave him a nod of thanks, and he smiled in a surprised way then went merrily on his way. - Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
The Mean Streets of Tokyo Tokyo has amazing action all the time. There is never a good time to sleep or turn off the camera! Every minute I sleep, I feel like I am missing something!This was taken close to midnight on another evening when I was just randomly walking around the downtown streets. It's all a wonderland of lights, colors, people, and sounds. I've noticed there are many kinds of "sensory overload" - and they are all on a sliding scale from good to bad. - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Man Crossing Street I spent a lot of time in this dynamic area of Tokyo. It's sort of the techno-nerd electronic center of the Japanese world. So I felt right at home there with my fellow nerds. But this guy certainly stood out. He was crossing the street and looking extremely Japo-cool. I pulled up my 50mm and waited for the time to feel right before I snapped the photo. Afterward, of course, it is kind of fun to look at little bits of the photo and find out, compositionally, why the photo did indeed feel "right" to take at that moment.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Approaching Roppongi on Foot On my last night in Japan, I was feeling restless. It sometimes comes at the end of the trip, when I feel like I just haven't taken enough photos. Of course, that's never the case, since I usually have thousands in the hopper by that point. But when I know that the city is full of life, I just have to get out there and capture a bit of it. - Trey Ratcliff Read the rest here. There's also a relink of an interview with Ron Martinsen.
Heavy Industry in Petaluma Taking photos near ground-water can be very interesting. And hard! Getting near that puddle is tough because you have to splay out the tripod. Even worse, you gotta kneel down in the muck (since puddles usually involve nearby muck). But, these are all relatively high-grade problems, all in all ... - Trey Ratcliff The rest of this entry can be read here at stuckincustoms.com.
The Megapolis I was spending the day with various characters including June Arunga, Paul Roussin, and Cali Lewis while hunting around New York City for some interesting shots. I never get tired of shooting there. It's a bit like the ocean in a way... it changes and cycles with the light and the motion. I find myself circling back to the same bits again and again to see how things have changed.I don't know why I happened to be posting this one so close to the Petaluma puddle shot from a few days ago... I suppose it is just somewhat of a coincidence! The hardest bit about these shots is getting my head so close to the ground. It's impossibly awkward, and I'm sure I look like quite the loon, splayed out across the pavement of Times Square!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.

Ginza, alive at night


Rain is good. Rain is bad. I can't decide!

You have no idea... (or maybe you do !!) how hard it is to carry around two cameras, a tripod, AND an umbrella. I already have every one of my 10 digits fully employed with handling everything. But... an umbrella! Well that really requires five fingers! I can usually get by with 5 on my tripod/camera too. I walk around with everything hooked together. However, a problem ensues when you have to expand and retract the legs of the tripod. That is really a two-hand operation. So what do you do with the umbrella during this time? The neck/shoulder pinch is right-out... the umbrella gets caught in the wind and it is a recipe for disaster.

- Trey Ratcliff

From this entry at stuckincustoms.com.
this entry at stuckincustoms.com." href="javascript:openLB(977527731,'',XLarge,'',1024,680);">Ginza, alive at night Rain is good. Rain is bad. I can't decide!You have no idea... (or maybe you do !!) how hard it is to carry around two cameras, a tripod, AND an umbrella. I already have every one of my 10 digits fully employed with handling everything. But... an umbrella! Well that really requires five fingers! I can usually get by with 5 on my tripod/camera too. I walk around with everything hooked together. However, a problem ensues when you have to expand and retract the legs of the tripod. That is really a two-hand operation. So what do you do with the umbrella during this time? The neck/shoulder pinch is right-out... the umbrella gets caught in the wind and it is a recipe for disaster.- Trey RatcliffFrom this entry at stuckincustoms.com.

Ginza, alive at night


Rain is good. Rain is bad. I can't decide!

You have no idea... (or maybe you do !!) how hard it is to carry around two cameras, a tripod, AND an umbrella. I already have every one of my 10 digits fully employed with handling everything. But... an umbrella! Well that really requires five fingers! I can usually get by with 5 on my tripod/camera too. I walk around with everything hooked together. However, a problem ensues when you have to expand and retract the legs of the tripod. That is really a two-hand operation. So what do you do with the umbrella during this time? The neck/shoulder pinch is right-out... the umbrella gets caught in the wind and it is a recipe for disaster.

- Trey Ratcliff

From this entry at stuckincustoms.com.
See photo in original gallery.
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