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Editorial, Wedding and Commercial Tokyo Photographer – Irwin Wong bio picture

Irwin Wong - Photographer

Welcome to my blog.

If you don't already know me, my name is Irwin Wong, and I'm an editorial photographer based in Tokyo, Japan.  I'm also affiliated with Japanorama.co.uk - the fastest growing source English-language source for learning photography in Tokyo - where I teach a series of lighting workshops.

This blog showcases some of my recent work, as well as photos from the workshops and classes I teach.  Hope you enjoy it, and you can always find more of my photos at my homepage here.

Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Importance of Having Watt-Seconds

One of my biggest concerns with my speedlighting kit is whether I’ll have enough flash power to make a dent in broad daylight. Of course, using large lights is always an option but not always feasible unless you have a gimp to carry around several battery packs and heads. So when Alfie suggested we do...

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3 lights, 1 chair

Behold veteran journalist and media personality Torigoe Shuntaro. This is a cover shot for the magazine of the Tokyo American Club, for some kind of article.  I’m usually not very well apprised of the story but I always do my research on my subjects.  Gotta have something to talk to your subject about, so you...

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Red Erupting Cones

Don’t throw all of your photos away. Keep some of them. While undertaking a massive cull of my entire back catalog to save some disk space I couldn’t believe how many little gems like these I had tucked away in the dark cellars of my archives. Now the forgotten political prisoners of my tyrannical incumbency...

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Yeehaw

You know the Internet is a weird and wonderful thing. It’s sent the world careening from its measured, deliberate pace onto a frenetic racetrack where information is a mere flick of wind, gone before you even noticed it was there. Anyone and everyone is their own part-time publisher these days, making the ‘net an incontinent...

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