The People of Osu In Nagoya Japan (3/4)

[ghaliano]

Nagoya es a very Bizarre city

 

[Bifurcator]

So how do you think the people would have reacted had you held the camera to your eye when focusing?

Gary

If you look at the other 4 parts you'll see that most of it was with camera at eye level.

of the people who noticed the camera who I in turn noticed had noticed (~300 est.):

• 80% of the people just acknowledged my presence and smiled.
• 15% posed for the camera. (I didn't shoot many of those - I just smiled at them)
• 4% were surprised and didn't know how to react.
• 1% (actually less, 2 people out of the about 300 people that became aware of the camera before or after the photo was taken) acted perturbed and put on a mean face.

or something like that.

 

[Bifurcator]

Nice shots, let alone that you took them in manual mode (??), but why is everyone but the girl on the bike trying to look American??

Edit: I just realized these were shot with a P&S and so manual mode is to be expected.

Thanks for the compliment! Very appreciated!

Japan people try to copy the better aspects of western culture. It's a fad that's been building since 1800 or so. I think it popped in about 1980 or 85.

I'm confused about the remark in the EDIT though. It's a P&S so wouldn't most people be using it in full auto or at least in A or S priority modes? I wanted to practice speedily using manual so I set the exposure mode to manual and set the focus mode to tracking to see how the tracking worked in low light and to see how the Anti-Shake system worked together with that.

 

[Bifurcator]

Nagoya es a very Bizarre city

Hehehe... Japan is a bizarre country but like any culture I suppose after you become familiar it all starts to make sense.

 

[potownrob]

Japan people try to copy the better aspects of western culture. It's a fad that's been building since 1800 or so. I think it popped in about 1980 or 85.

Ahhh, I see...:lmao: :lmao:

I'm confused about the remark in the EDIT though. It's a P&S so wouldn't most people be using it in full auto or at least in A or S priority modes? I wanted to practice speedily using manual so I set the exposure mode to manual and set the focus mode to tracking to see how the tracking worked in low light and to see how the Anti-Shake system worked together with that.

I didn't even look to see what features your cameras had, just assumed it was one of the many (too many) cameras that don't have A or S modes just manual and in manual all you can do is change the color and saturation, autofocus mode, exposure compensation, white balance, file size and maybe the ISO limits . Most people would set it to auto and forget it, but I wouldn't consider you part of that group of most people .

 

[Bifurcator]

Oh I see. No it's not a compact. It's one of those wanna-be dSLRs that overcompensate for general low quality with ultra high end features that work well but not too well.

In my case it's one from about four years back called the Konica/Minolta dIMAGE A2. The feature set is better than most dSLRs on the market even today still but it's quality (with a 2/3" CCD sensor ) is lower than all. I compensate with a little photoshop here and there.

 

[Early]

15% posed for the camera. (I didn't shoot many of those - I just smiled at them)

What the hell, shoot 'em all! Film is cheap when you're shooting digital.

 

[Bifurcator]

LOL yeah, but "posing for the camera" in Japan means stopping, putting on a silly fake smile, holding up the the two-finger peace sign, and waiting for the click. Not really what I was trying to do here if you know what I mean.