Martin Nieto

Just some pics from the small time I spent at the Roppongi Hills Bon Odori and the Azabu Juban Festival which it was just a few blocks away and crowded as hell. It took me a lot of time to walk through just a few blocks. It wasn’t fun being stuck with the crowd so I just came back to the bon odori and grab something to eat from there. I came back to Azabu Juban after the end of the Bon Odori. Unfortunately by that time the festival was ending too, so it was a shame because the festival was really huge!! The whole neighborhood was full of hundreds of stalls, mainly food.

I always like a lot the pictures i take at the Mitsuwa Bon Odori and this year was not an exception. I used mainly the lens 135 and I’m so happy how many of them came out… This day I also tested a few shots with the 30mm lens I recently had bought which I became so addicted to ot after that that I even took most of the pictures in Japan with this lens…  but now I think I did a great mistake and I should have used more my 135 and 85 telephoto lenses… coz even though I took a hell lot of pictures in Japan, many of them are just crap because it is so hard for me to take candid pictures with a 30mm,  so i did a lot of hip shoots and got a lots of blurry pictures. I realize late that shooting hip shots at 1.4 with a manual focusing is not an easy thing… Now I felt like I shouldn’t had bought this lens just days before the trip…  or I should had kept my old camera and used this lens for the wider shots as it is very annoying to change lenses constantly with just one body…