One day at Kabukicho #DAY138 - It's been much more enjoyable to take photos after I started developing by myself.
This time, the article starts with a black and white photo. I took this photo in color as usual. But when I got home and was developing it, I felt it something strange a little bit, so I thought that this photo might look better in black and white than in color. That's why I tried making it black and white. I just thought that it would be better in black and white, but there is no particular deep meaning behind it. Maybe there is, but even I'm not sure.
今回はいきなりのモノクロ写真。この写真もいつも通りカラーで撮影はしたんだよ。けど家に戻って現像していたらなにかちょっとした違和感を感じて・・・で、この写真はカラーよりモノクロの方がいいかも、と。だからモノクロにしてみた。ただモノクロの方がいいなーって思っただけで、特に深い意味はない。あるのかもしれないけど、自分でもよくわからない。
I'm not specifically doing location scouting or anything, I just do street snaps, but I really like this location. This is where I took this photo before. I happened to be walking here when I saw a figure and decided to take a photo of the scene just as it was.
自分はストリートスナップをしているだけで別にロケハンとかを事前にしているわけではないんだけど、このロケーションは好き。昔この写真を撮ったところ。たまたまここを歩いていたら人影が見えてその景色をそのまま撮ってみた。
Recently, I realized something. It seems that I don't just like taking photos. After taking photos, adjusting the colors to match any memory and preferences by develping process, ultimately exporting the data in a way that I like. It seems that I enjoy doing all of those.
それから最近気づいたこと。それは自分はただ写真を撮るってことだけが好きではないみたい。撮った後に現像したりして色味を記憶と好みに合わせて、最終的に好きなようなデータに書き出す。そこまで含めてやることが好きみたい。
I think there's nothing bad in photos JPEG straight out of camera which we often see in review articles, especially for cameras and lenses. There seems to be no reason to say that it is bad. I just mean it just seems that it's not enough enjoyable with just that for me personally. Basically everything will depend on the cameras and the lenses in case of JPEG straight out of camera. Because what we taking photos can do is limited. It's only to decide on the equipments and composition and a bit more.
よく・・・特にカメラやらレンズやらのレビュー記事でよく見かける『JPEG 撮って出し』ってのもまあいいんだと思う。それを悪いって言う理由は見当たらない。ただ自分の場合は単純にそれだけだと楽しくないらしい。JPEG 撮って出しだとどんな写真に仕上がるのかはカメラやらレンズやらに全部お任せ。撮っている本人である自分は機材を決めることや構図を決めることしかできないから。
So, it's been much more enjoyable taking photos after I started develping photos myself properly. I really started to strongly feel that way after I could sensibly grasp my own preferred colors and atmosphere, and understand how to reproduce them in development.
だから現像もちゃんと自分でやるようになってからの方が全然楽しい。特に自分好みの色味とか雰囲気とかそういうのが感覚的に把握できて、現像でそれをどうやって再現するかの方法も理解できるようになってからはホントにそれを強く感じるようになったなぁ。
So, this time I casually wrote about how "developing photos is fun" with some photos of Kabukicho as usual. And this might be the reason why I don't feel like taking photos with my smartphone. With an iPhone, we can shoot in RAW starting with the Pro series from 12 onwards, but I can't shoot in RAW with the iPhone I normally use which is not the Pro. But even if I were told that I need to buy a Pro series iPhone for that purpose, it's also a different story for me. The story around here may continue a little in the next article as well.
See you then.
さて、そんなわけで今回はいつもの歌舞伎町の写真を載せながら『現像するの楽しいよ』って話をさらっと書いてみた。そしてこれが自分がスマホで写真を撮ろうと思わない理由なのかも。iPhone だと 12 以降の Pro 系は RAW で撮れるけど、自分が普段使っている Pro じゃない方は RAW で撮れないし。かと言ってそのために Pro 系の iPhone を買ってそれで撮りたいか？って言われるとそれもまた違うしな。次回もこの辺りのお話が少し続くかも。
ほなまたー。
