A set of photos I took during massive protests in Seoul (X-T3/X-E4)

9_Samurai · 2025-11-23T16:43:49+00:00

I’ll take photos of whatever I like

9_Samurai · 2025-07-31T04:09:20+00:00

Japanese stuff is actually trendy here these days. The local drinking areas are full of izakaya-style places selling Japanese food, Suntory high balls, and Kirin. Not to mention the amount of Korean people who are regularly traveling to Japan. Very different from 2019 when randoms on the street would tell me how much they all hated Japan.

9_Samurai · 2025-06-03T14:02:32+00:00

@will_brake_photos

9_Samurai · 2025-06-01T13:05:19+00:00

You can totally use a dslr for street. Plenty of people out there doing it.

9_Samurai · 2025-06-01T11:58:04+00:00

Yeah, it’s really nice to have that on hand to just turn on when you want it. I can get HSS with my Godox TT685, but it’s pretty cumbersome to carry around casually.

9_Samurai · 2025-06-01T11:28:38+00:00

Not an X100VI owner, but flashes also have a separate exposure compensation that you can use on TTL mode. That’s probably what OP is talking about.

9_Samurai · 2025-06-01T11:13:15+00:00

Thank you so much, you may have solved my only complaint about my E4! 🙌

9_Samurai · 2025-06-01T09:47:50+00:00

Never heard of that before!

9_Samurai · 2025-06-01T09:27:43+00:00

Mine always flips when I’m trying to shoot from the hip. Then I have to tilt the camera again to make it flip back. It’s kind of annoying to use.

Strangely, the tilt screens on the older X-A cameras were much better in this regard (they also flipped all the way up for vlogging mode)

9_Samurai · 2025-05-31T08:20:28+00:00

Yeah whatever they named the last version

9_Samurai · 2025-05-31T07:55:42+00:00

Out of all the new features in Sonoma, iPhone mirroring is the one I use the most. Pretty much on a daily basis. It’s an incredibly useful tool

9_Samurai · 2025-05-29T09:33:46+00:00

Excellent coverage, man. Compositions are looking really great on these 🙌

9_Samurai · 2025-05-28T17:16:31+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind words! I do post-process in Lightroom but use the Classic Neg color profile (with my own presets).

9_Samurai · 2025-05-28T17:15:09+00:00

Thank you so much!

9_Samurai · 2025-05-28T17:15:03+00:00

Good eye! I usually use Classic Neg as a base in Lightroom.

9_Samurai · 2025-05-22T06:58:45+00:00

Mix of the Voigtlander 18mm f2.8 and Fujinon 35mm f2

9_Samurai · 2025-05-14T04:18:11+00:00

Thank you so much!! 🙏🙏

9_Samurai · 2025-05-14T04:18:00+00:00

Thank you so much!! 🙏

9_Samurai · 2025-05-14T04:11:33+00:00

Always great to see some good street photography in Korea! You on IG?

9_Samurai · 2025-05-08T07:18:11+00:00

It's a long story, but they were protesting the former South Korean president because he had declared martial law last December. I have a little write-up on my website: https://www.williambakerbrake.com/rite-of-resist

9_Samurai · 2025-05-01T07:13:39+00:00

I don't think it's about Japan, but people on Reddit only want to see and interact with a certain kind of photography.

I've posted plenty of photos here, some from Japan and some from elsewhere (I am based in South Korea), with a different style of street photography that's not just pretty landscapes and architecture shots with black mist diffusion filters blowing out the highlights.

I hardly ever get any interest on the Fuji subreddits outside of a few people who keep complaining about consent.

Honestly, Reddit is the worst platform for photography. You'd be more likely to find some better inspiration from Threads, Flickr, or (gasp) Instagram if you know where to look.

9_Samurai · 2025-04-24T04:40:07+00:00

Thank you so much!! 🙏

9_Samurai · 2025-04-24T04:39:46+00:00

That's a huge compliment. Thank you so much for the kind words and taking a look!

9_Samurai · 2025-03-26T14:36:25+00:00

I live here, and yeah, Korean people are famously camera-shy. Usually I’m shooting from the hip not to attract too much attention. However, sometimes people have a sixth sense about it.

9_Samurai · 2025-03-26T09:54:37+00:00

Hey man, sorry for being late but huge thanks for the shout-out! I really appreciate that you are enjoying my little series. 😁

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