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Stunning photos. I epecially like the Yakushima ones.
Chopstick making was very good fun. Ours weren’t as good as the guy demonstrating, but we’ll probably put them on the wall in a little frame once I can work out how to mount them.
You took pictures of a wide variety of scenes - portrait, landscape, car, food, waterfall, feline pet, watch glass, etc . What gear did you take with you - camera, lens, filters?
BTW, looking at your pictures makes me feel hungry. . . oh, and I could go to Japan just to steal that cute cat!!! LOL
Every shot is from a Fuji X-T3, though my old X-T1 would have handled 95% of shots 99% as easily. For lenses, I took my usual trio:
> 18-135mm - extremely good do-all travel lens
> 35mm f1.4 - amazing in low light, and used for all the magical forest stuff and much of the food
> 10-24mm - nice wide zoom and super all-rounder, though that honestly didn't get used much for this trip. Just the suspension bridge in the forest and the autumnal valleys.
And a couple were an iPhone XS (Hogwarts castle at Universal Osaka, and the honey-drizzled sweet potatoes.
No filters on anything (either hardware or software!). Everything has been processed lightly in Lightroom on my iPad, but no significant photoshopping or anything like that.
Assuming the second, I'm rather proud of it. It's a lovely two-part falls that you can walk behind. There were inevitably a bazillion other togs there with tripods and 10-stop filters doing the standard long-exposure (I did the same, sans-tripod but with my camera balance on my wooly hat, which is my go-to approach for longer exposures rather than cart a tripod around the world with me).
But on the way back up I spotted that the rock to the right would make a great position to take a more interesting shot from (it's the one in the pic below, just behind the right-hand bit of waterfall). I only took about 4 exposures, all in the space of around 30 seconds, but this one came out pretty much perfect.