Hi All.

Instagram.

All of these are on Instagram.

Instagraphy'ing is setherious . Cereal. For real. 

It's so hard to explain... 

The world we live in, today. 

Please go figure by looking at lights. 

Photons, that we create. 

Couple of new stuff.

I actually have a lot of new stuffs.

I have been away and there's lots of stuff.

I decided to move on.

New York is a busy city. People either forget to look down, or to look up.
Basically, you're busy.

WEBPAGE IS

http://www.charlesosawa.com

New shots are being processed.

PurCHASE

I am selling these prints at http://charlesosawa.smugmug.com

and other more.http://charlesosawa.smugmug.com

yolo

I went to a world where people yolo these days.

New York New York.

They had to repeat it twice.

Hello Eero Saarinen.
I adore you.

わたしに建築「家」がつくのはまだ先のことやら。

インスタグラムを真剣にやり始めています。

いまさら。


Instagram is real.
Photography community (internet-vision) is #real.

this is my Instagram.
http://instagram.com/charlesosawa/

I will have to tweet now.

ぎんがけー

（合成）フォトショっぽいでしょう？
これ実はデジタル・暗室だけです。

デジタル暗室というのは、報道写真上のルールでプロセスしていることです。

tuni

Fire

While ago, I captured fire. 

Not really. I think I finally caught it now. 

This beautiful liquid like energy. Combusting like there's no tomorrow. 

Entropy is the scale of time. 

Through decay, we sense time. 

And entropy is at maximum when in combustion. 

Fire is time accelerated. 

How peculiar that it emits light. 

I wonder if we appear shining to aliens who can see time in full. 

cropped zoom

cropped

cropped portion

just some documentary photography.

No CG. No pixel moved. Only color moved dark-room-ly.

;)))

His name is Storm Cloud.

NOTICE

I really don't post finished works here.
Sometimes.

I'm really #working on my website.
Oll the taim.

Lighting 101

None of these are heavily edited, yet. Maybe.

I am doing lighting 101.

Back to basics.

Oh yeah, I had none (basics) cuz I was picked up on the streets!
Grr!

The second one is better, i think, because it looks yummier. 

A yummier light is soft yet hard yet delicious yet scrumptious. 

My top light is soft yet hard. 

My kick is hard. 

I'm kicking it sideway to get that scrumptiousness (hard light). 

A typical standard trick is "Hollywood Lighting". 

It means your kick light must be entering from watever-way but 90-degrees from your primary. 

In most cases, primary lights are to mimic the sun. 

A backlight from another 90-degrees (thinking now in XYZ, go figure) is ideal but that's a budget issue. 

At this point... this is kinda like my limit LOL so I have to take it to Photoshop from here on....

Life is beautiful. 

The Shit

The shit is people (we all) believe in something more.

That italicized more means more. More than more. More than what we have, in this world.
More beyond, who knows, but we cannot catch it.

How lovely is that? And even more lovely is us naming it love. 

How simple was that? 
Catching the dare-say.

Dare-not-say? Why blow away the magic?

Kiss the sky and ponder more, what really could it mean.
For one, it means no more than words.

But for two, now how dare say.


We can control "it" said Jedi and all sorts, but it depends on "us" says the teachings.
Teachings are in culture and art, and religion has been our nature to follow the conduct.
Faith is perhaps unique to human, but it shapes us to what we are. Lack or full of it.

All in all, why don't we move on.

Yo uknow, it's really hard to cut the shutter when you think too much.


click...

Like watevs

Very interesting... fish. dish.

Janet Jackson used to come to this place that has this food until MJ went.


 Lighting is everything. Light is everything.

Why?
You may ponder.

Cuz without it,  it'd be pitch-black!

Who'd buy a photo that's pitch black. Like, you wouldn't buy a White painting, would you?


...oops did I say something wrong?

そんなこんなde PHASE 2

使わないショットです。

汚い陰が見えるかな。

SOOSHII.

That's right.
Sooshie. America's favorite food.

I'm photographing food to hone my skills.

Top image has yucky lighting. Bottom one is better, though .

これ使います。

右ナナメ下はレタッチャールズします。

東京でがんばってる写真家、今井太一とは同期です。

http://taichiimai.com

「同期」というのも変な言葉ですが、学校が一緒だったり、ダーレンが一緒だったりとNY仲間だった過去があります。

彼には「レタッチャールズ」と呼ばれたくらい、僕はレタッチやってました。現場で。

いっぱい学びましたが、その技術獲得の犠牲に「ライティングが下手」という実践不慣れなファ津ク。

Digital

Just because it's a crop of a vision through a medium,

it cannot be Photongraphy.

Shit ain't that easy (lol).

stages

はたしてこの’間違え’だらけの写真は活かせるのか。

無理だろう、と、思って見過ごしてはいけない。

師匠の言葉が身に染みて、手放すことが出来ない時があります。

そんなわけで気になっていじっている写真です。

This shot is "stage 1" of the process in Photongraphy.

Photon is now taken digitally, and the capturation of photon differs DRAMATICALLY when the light source is extreme.

Stage 2 is.

"What to do....."

(stage 1 was "feeling the vibe")

Because photon is now taken into the medium differently, pixel language can be a source of breakthrough in exploring how to paint with light.

SEE,

there's a flare and the light source is over-blown and there's a 'Hare' (j-term: Halation) and ghosts are shown too.
Plus, there's a double-line bokeh (nisen-bokeh) in the back.
I don't remember, but in color, there must be a purple-fringe as well.

technically, this shot is "useless".

Don't you wanna say "effk you"?
So that's why we've got stage 1, 2 and 3. Maybe.

おことわり notice

間違え、誤字脱字w並びに文法誤りが多くてすいません。

I am full of mistakes. I cannot apologize for being imperfect. Voila.



(website coming up)

photos of recent memory.

I'm hungry for art. 

Every shot has got to be Art. 

E'rry shots gott'a be Art. 

Rarr. 

wassup biatches is the vibe, 2014

Let me talk about the light here. 

It's RED. 

Wow like a tomato, but hot like a potato. 

What to choose? Oh, click here, it says "cross-process" button. 

Welcome to digital-era. 

This is part of photon-graphy too. 

(joke, so this one is really unfinished. top potato)

Kid on beach, 2013 (?), Gili Air

People believe in me sometimes. 

So I repeat the conduct of 'proper'-ness. 

Proper means Zone-System. Proper means Ansel said "shit I shudda done color more."

He's the founder of Zone-System. 

So it means no one knows anything while artists conduct process of art form. 

This meant the whole generation of hoo-haas of the post 60's, btw. 

Fast forward, if I may, it concludes to "make it better." (80's)

Nude, 2013

I'm doing 90's here where shit became "shit belongs on wall on my dining hall and it must be at price of X and with a frame of Y, so then it shoult not be A and B or C or F. Thust thou then it shall be... Now prove it."

Scantron?
I had no choice but a, b, c, or f. I believe choice g was "all of the above."

This continued until 2004.



...to be continued.

Cloudy'ing the tea

In Japanese you can say to "cloud a tea", when you are covering up an act or a moment.

Like, let me cloud the tea with this photo, to have you forget about my "updates" on photos.

Ng Sze Kiat, 2012 (?)

By the way, 

Light is beautiful. 

Lighting is everything because photo is photon. Hashtag lol. 

As long as photon creates photon-graphy, which becomes Photography, light is everything. 

Because, 

Light is Photon. 

Go figure. 

いい加減、写真のせないと。。。

やばいのである。

話はこうである。
太古の昔に金というものが発明されて以来、金が天下の回りものである。
金を動かすマーケットはなんなのか。オイルか。ポピーか。軍事起業か。

日本では、アニメである。

ピカチュウやたまごっちが世界を覆い尽くしたように、アニメという文化が金のマーケットと世界文化という２極にある世界を制覇するのである。

これは、事例がない。

世界（地球）には世界文化というものがない。
じんるいは、まだ、つながっていない。音楽？イスラム教徒はアニメは見るのだけど、レノンやマーレーはあまり聞かんのだよ。

え？
アニメみるの？？

目が点である。
そうか、世界は日本にしか競合的に興味がない。イスラエルなんて昔のはなし。いまはジャパンじゃないか。ジャパンといえば！ソニーマツシタホンダトヨタ！！！

すべてアニメ産業に金で負けた奴等が現実であり、今はアキラミヤザキドラゴンボールである。パリ人の大勢が悟空かセーラームーンを見て育っている時代、クラブでカメハメハを撃てるやつはキングである。

日本語をしゃべるガイジンが平然と歩く時代、
私のような人間がいてもいいじゃないか。

それはニコニニストがキャノンを持つ感覚。

時代なんですよ。

機能美

昨日、円安で経済が−

そんな世の中、時間はマネーであり、タダほど怖いものはない。


機能美という言葉があるように、機能がガタガタだとタダ同然なのが昨今である。


人間も同じように使われるこの時代、機能にも美がないと給料なんぞ払いたくないのである。君の機能、いくらですか？

ファック。


すべての芸術もその域に達しようとしているのが、この世紀末です。

その絵、「いくらで売れる」機能ついてる？

Self-realization

I forget too many things, I keep a notebook, but I even forget that I keep things in my notebook, like… notebook existed…?


Buddha said "Self Realization" is the only way or the key or the watevs.


So I have to re-remeber it myself like "hey wake wake" myself and always re-remember that people can't tell me that I forgot to wash my undies or my socks.

See,

I have to do it myself, and re-remember.

Oh yeah, I had dirty socks on my FLOOR!!!!!




satire. ;)

While i'm trying the Bootcamp (mac) issue, i am away for a vacation and there I...

I threw up after I drank 3.5 shots.

Oh the vomit days.
I did not miss you.


When do you become a pro?
Many people ask, and many say the same, actually.

"When you stop making mess" I remember this one underground Dj telling me that.

"Cleaner and tidier, after work, clean up, leave no trace, move on" and on and on.
He was the island's best audio visual subcontractor. Singapore island.

By the fourth time I walked up to the trash can, I was casually vomiting.
I was like a retired soldier. Oh... this again. Barf. Barf barf.


Good bye Tequila.

ブログ的な投稿です。

デジタル世界になって、現実と非現実がどんどん感覚的に曖昧なものになってゆきます。

現実ってなんだっけ。

パソコンの中が現実なのか。この。写真とか。

現実にないじゃん！（プリントしないかぎり）




とか叫んでいるのですが、この時代、スクリーン越しに写真見るわけですな。



非現実の方がリアルなんですよ。このカタカナ和製英語とか（大爆笑）。
リアルなんですよ、って東京人がテレビで使う関西弁のやうだ。
夏目漱石の猫になった気分で世界は回る。

先の文は英訳するとメイクセンスします。



ネガがなく、ナマ（RAW）しかない時代がデジタル時代の一番の違いだと思います。

この違いを根本的に理解することがデジタル写真の明日になるんでしょうか。

Dean said

Dean said I have to show myself.

Like three times, in the course of like 3 years.

Hello because this is a blog and everyone shows themselves on their blog.

Hello everyone.

RAINBOW

You gotta know how to read the rainbow.

Sounds corney. But this is colorimetrics.

Please follow.

My sketch. 

WHAT is WHITE?

In DIGITAL it means 0 information. (or too much "it's got no data")
Because, ya know, its digital "negative" (censor).

Nowdays, you can ;click one click and things happen like WHITE.

But back in the days, you needed to know what WHITE meant in digital language. 0 and 1 language.
It means R=0(255), G=0(255) and B=0(255). Color is 3 dimensional.

The curve shows the amount of "cut-off" of colors of the paper.
It was only our eyes in dark that said "diiiiz isssss whaaiiiiiit" and then u print it and see in daylight to see if you're useful.

It's very hard to see 'nothing'.

hahaha.

so

i took out my cover image (for the webpage) and voila!

I even forgot to capitalise "I".


Ahem.

I'm working on my life (lol) and that means photo too.
I have to do laundry first.
Then eat.
Then go gotta make money some more out there.

And after few more things like cleaning and brushing my teeth, my photo gets ready like in an oven.
Just, like that.

well

Product for HQ Packaging .com(?)

That's right.

I'd do anything to 'shoot'.

I'm just shooting.
Sounds like an addict.

I'm just breathing.
And pressing that "clicking" thing on my camera.

so

Everyone is thirsty. 

Is it the heat, or is it poverty?

Holy shit, people would kill with this heat. 

Los Angeles is getting better though. 

insyageam

instagram :

charlesosawa

like

BluJazz, Singapore 2014

ya'know, 

I do shoot cheese. 

Sometimes. 

behind means

Archie and Dean

Deejays are fun to hang out with.

U get to go behind.
Your girl's got a purse? Well, lucky me. Safer than VIP lounge.

But.

When you photograph a party, you don't get to party.

It really sucks.



People are beautiful and these moments prove we're okay whatsoever.
It is hard to describe, but it's not your lets-get-fucked-up attitude that gets through.

Archie

Right.
Singapore is a tiny dot, kinda not really but part of Malaysia.

You may wonder, why these people dance in this tiny dot island.
Those, darker than black circle thingy spinners…
Until 3am.

Isn't it wonderful?

TORIAEZU

とりあえず(tori aezu) means,

moving on.

Dharma and Khama exists.
So,

Toriae-zu move-on.

about old stuff

Some stuff I dig from older photos.
It's not too great.

I did it

The battle of changing my cover image is done.

It's the same image, but different.


This man is Kaye from Darker than Wax.

,n

http://www.darkerthanwax.com

cover photo…...

I cannot change the cover photo.

I have to find where to 'click'/


Since digital era, photographers no longer shoot. We click.
But digital is changing, and photographers are shooting now.

The photo is Dean Chew from the Darker than Wax crew in Singapore.

hello again

These are done.

These Djs are called Darker Than Wax. 

They are in Singapore. 

I shot them like… 2 years ago. 

When I shoot for myself, I cannot create a deadline. 

Its usually 1 month - 1 year, but this one took 2 years. OF mainly forgetting and coming back, over and over. 

The lens flare is beautiful. 

hello

I've been away for a while.

To the "Land of Corporates"….


The Land of Corporates.

It is a mysterious island where only corporations reside.
Of course,

There's a lot of other stuff, like the harbor and the red light districts…



Anyways,

I now have time to invest on shots that take hours-and-hours…….

I started colorimetric'ly correcting pixels, so it doesn't offend the "code".

The "CODE" of Photography.

Thou shalt adjust light while it goes thru your machine.
And light only, in a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery loose sense.

When you digital dark room,
you get to zoom in.

Pixel language.

Color noise and stuff like that can be changed "Dark-Room'ly", if done with respect.


I have to change my top image, but I totally forgot how to do it.
While I still remember all my digital darkroom to-the-tee.


Anyways, persistence is gold.
I have been busy doing art then architecture then art then design, but it has been a long time and my hands are back to my camera.

Because this is a photography blog.

ごう

嫌悪するが事実とは冥利なり。

世の中カネである。

儚き夢とはカネに命運託す人の夢。にんべんに夢とは良く言ったもので人の業は金である。

カネ、金（きん）に踊らされ、翻弄する写真家がここに一人。

自分のことか、と思われるかもしれませんが、

あなたのことかも知れません。

ギャラリーでも広告でも売ることが目的であり、

撮った後も飯を食らわば売ることに尽きる。

ここに一つの妙案あり。

いっそふっきれてしまえば良い写真とはカネになるおまけ付き。

どうせ食うならばオマケでお小遣いといこうじゃないか。

どうせ、人間、カネになることしかやらないんだ、まぁいいじゃないか。

人助けなんて、写真には出来ません。人は人が助けるからであり、そんな事はふつうにやるものでしょう。

生き甲斐をもってやる事とは妙にカネにつながる。

生きること、生を見出すことと生産性のつながりでしょうか。

しかし人の業は生すらをカネで判断する。

やりようがないので、しょうがない。

業とはとても重たく、それはまるでニコンF3にモータードライブを装着させたかのようなものである。

銃口を向けるかのような重量感。

連射性。

業とはワガママを道理で無理矢理押し付ける反則業である。

人の業がニコンF3という名器を作ったように、

ワガママも伝説を残す良ききっかけになる。

しかしカールツァイス１８mmという予測もつかぬ運命が待ち受けていた場合、

どうするべきか。

おれは、かせぐのか。。。？

泥沼のような混沌とした世界、

限りある資産のプールに飛び込み現実的なお値段＄１５００ほど余分に無駄に稼ぐ。

なぁに、それだけさ。

誰かの一ヶ月分の家賃が、消えてなくなって、俺がハッピーになるだけだ。

そう思うと無理にカネとは作れないものである。

BW

Newer things.

Black and White has a rule called Zone System.
It means "respect 'the rule'".

Photography is bound.
Susan Sontag made a rule.
Respect the shit (lol).

So, when history and arts goes science, camera gets born.

So thus we explore our realm of reality.
So photographiality.

Life

Life is beautiful.

Oh, I shot some interiors.

The restaurant is called Life is Beautiful.

The owner was probably looking at the sky or the sunset.



And thought,

Life is beautiful.


Normally, we see trees and sky, as if impressionist painters paint impressionist paintings.
We normally do not seek beyond to see the beauty of existence.

Most notable artists are reckless quack who gets categorized as if mentally ill.
So he was what kinda painter, was it?

Names were created to categorize. Differentiate and recognition.
So he was that kinda quack, rightttt...?

Everyone can agree, and go to sleep.

I think,

though,

some people cannot just go to sleep.
So then rather party or something.

I hear only from party people, the beauty of light, morning sun, breeze and so on.
Maybe they're on something.

But what would you know, unless you know Life is Beautiful?

;))