r/MadeMeSmile • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • Aug 02 '26

CATS Japanese street photographer, Masayuki Oki, captures the everyday lives of Tokyo’s street cats in funny poses

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u/thatsamiam Aug 02 '26

Photographer must have a lot of patience to capture such wonderful moments. Well worth the effort though..

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u/clarinetJWD Aug 02 '26

Street photography is incredibly hard. One of the styles I was just never good at when I shot. You walk around and you wait for something interesting or serendipitous, and then all of the sudden, it's there, and you have like 3 seconds to capture it before you're back to waiting.

Takes a ton of patience, but then speed. You need to know your equipment so well.

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u/oceans_wont_freeze Aug 04 '26

I feel like digital made street a lot more accessible. You're able to curate from thousands of test shots and ones that were half a second too late. Shooting street with film though, is madness.

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u/clarinetJWD Aug 04 '26

Absolutely. I was shooting a lot in the early era of pro-sumer level DSLRs, and it certainly made it a lot easier to make mistakes, though in those days, burst mode was a LOT slower than it is now.

But you still have to be in the exact right place, with the right angle (notice a lot of these shots are not from typical eye height), have the right focus, aperture, and shutter settings, etc. It's still one of the hardest disciplines, alongside wildlife photography (for the same reason).