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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 6/23/2009
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Well, well... you have been visiting photos from long ago! Thanks for your kind comment, Saad. I was enjoying taking candid shots with my mobile phone at this time (four years ago), but now I have an i-Phone of which the camera is not NEARLY as good... This was one of a set of three that I called a "triptych."
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Saad Salem
{K:89003} 6/22/2009
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just an excellent shot,very finely captured ,
so very beautiful,
Saad.
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Angelo Villaschi
{K:49617} 4/28/2005
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Sleeping whilst in the train --- yet another activity that seems to be enjoyed and pursued all over the world!
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Robert Lloyd
{K:9943} 4/24/2005
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i think this is really a good shot well done 2 natraul poses here ..
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Patrick Di Fruscia
{K:486} 3/31/2005
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That is a great serie Roger...I just love your candid shots. Keep it up they are fresh and fun to look at
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/29/2005
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Kevin, thank you so much for your reply. I am mightily impressed with your Saltburn photo. Please accept my suspicions of its reality as a tribute to the skill with which you create beautiful images that have no such basis in reality! Sorry I guessed this one wrong... and thanks again for bothering to put me right.
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KEVIN TEMPLE
{K:8657} 3/29/2005
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Roger this is very good
I was looking at your latest ones but this one is a classic.
By the by the photo you enquired about (Saltburn Pier is a straight shot with nothing what-so-ever done to it
Keep up the good work
regards from \Kevin
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/24/2005
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Thanks, George. I owe this late flowering to two things. The encouragement of friends at Usefilm who virtually bullied me into including people in my photographs, and the little mobile phone with a built-in camera. Toy it may be, with all the disadvantages of a very low-end digital camera. But it's perfect for these kinds of shot.
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George Marks
{K:15437} 3/23/2005
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Roger, your street work has developed into something that is incredibly fascinating to me.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/23/2005
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Interesting comment, Mark. Japan is a very crowded place... 130m people in a land area not a lot bigger than the UK (whic has less than half the population), and with a much smaller proportion of inhabitable land. Mostly mountains. There's the grossest of overcrowding on the trains, really jam packed. So these shots don't really seem all that "in your face" to me. Been here too long, I guess.
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Mark Beltran
{K:32612} 3/23/2005
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One of the things that I find interesting about this mobile phone series is the close proximity to the subjects. The distance is too close for the Western culture. Maybe it's the lens that gives that appearance. It's intimate, too intimate, but fascinating.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/22/2005
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On the underground in Japan you get a pretty good cross-section of the people, so there's pleny of variety in the subjects. And the photo-taking mania is fairly well understood and tolerated here. So even if detected I don't expect to get physically attacked or verbally abused. I still have my own hangups, though.
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Keith Naylor
{K:13064} 3/21/2005
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Hi Roger,
I just got myself a new phone with a camera in it. I'll have to give it a try. Can't say I've ever thought about taking people on the tube !
K
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 3/21/2005
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Nicely done, Roger!
It WOULD be funny if a picture of you turned up on UF, taken by her!  ))
Best regards, Chris
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Bill Gibson
{K:2701} 3/21/2005
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hmm, that camera phone is not too bad at all. I would like to see these three in a tri-window cut out matt and framed. Excellent idea. Too bad you missed the Tokyo CVUG meeting. I just finished a roll of film that had been in my Bessa R for awhile, it is such a compact rig with the CV 35 2.5 lens. Of course, when I see the results you get with your camera phone, my gear acquisition syndrome starts to twitch. First day of Spring here and there is snow in the forecast. I hope it is greener for you. I always enjoy seeing what you post. Regards, Bill
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/21/2005
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Glad you liked them, Sarah! My mobile is a clam-shell type, and if I put it in my lap and look down at it while the "eye" of the camera is pointing up (hence the low camera angle), it looks as if I am looking down to read my E-mail rather than taking a photo. Works like a charm. I am FAR too shy to do it openly. The few who have noticed have smiled, as I said in my reply to Eric (above).
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Sarah Hansegard
{K:4332} 3/21/2005
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I love this train series!!!!!! What a riot. I want to know how you got away with taking their pic without them noticing??
Sarah
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 3/21/2005
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Thanks, Eric. Get a mobile phone and try it! The quality is good enough (though you have to be lucky to avoid blur when the trains are moving), and people really don't seem to mind. I quite often get "made" while I'm taking and most people here in Japan just smile...
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Eric Simpson
{K:2348} 3/21/2005
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Heh.. Nice job. I'm always afraid to take peoples picture like this... No idea what their response will be. Of course, I'm not using a camera phone.
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