I was going to make a big Araki show post. But after the previous Andy Warhol show mess I will break up Araki into a few posts to try and keep some control of the uploads.

When I’m all done editing the Araki show collection I may make a master post for it. If that gets screwed up, then at least the individual threads will have some order to them.

Here are some circular fisheye photos I shot from ‘The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki’ (The long display cases of books in the center of the room are all books Araki has done.)

It was very hard shooting the circular fisheye, hand-held for this project. It is a slow lens to start with (native f/5.6) then when you adapt it, the lens becomes an f8 or slower. Plus the lighting at the show didn’t help things. The circular fisheye photos were shot hand-held with the lens wide open at 1/8 to 1/15th of a second at 3200 ISO. They also had to be pushed 1 to 1-1/2 stops in post processing.

The fisheye photos were meant to show the flavor of the show via large scale room images in conjunction with the yet to be posted close-ups of the show.

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