Dropped by Shuri Castle early this afternoon to take some photos. Unfortunately the sky clouded over and scaffolding covered half of the building. I did however mange to get a couple of portraits of the girls in traditional Okinawan costume that pose with visitors to the castle.
After a couple of days with the camera I was comfortable enough using it for these opportunistic shots. I quickly opened up the aperture with the thumb dial to blur the background, moved the girls into some open shade and took a couple of photographs of each girl.
Girl in Okinawan Costume Shuri Castle 645D 55mm
Okinawan Kimono at Shuri Castle 645D 55mm
Girl in Okinawan Costume at Shuri Castle 645D 55mm
I just realized that I never showed the girls the preview images after I took the shots. I hadn’t even considered it! It was only 30 minutes later when I sat down with a cold drink that I even looked at the pictures I’d taken. I think this is a case of delayed chimping. Must remember I’m shooting digital not film 🙂 I will however make a couple of prints and drop them off next time I’m at the castle.
I’ll put a full size image of one of the girls on Flickr. Another interesting thing I’ve noticed is that every outdoor portrait I take includes two mini self portraits one on each pupil!
TRAVEL 67 : Chris Willson Photography 
I downloaded the large photo from Flicr, it’s beautiful. I never made photos with large format cameras, but I did noticed the very shallow dept of field with F4. I think I would have used F8 for portraits ..
Chris, is it possible to get the RAW(is it a DNG-file?) of the full size picture?:) Perhaps via rapidshare or something like that…I’d be deeply grateful, cause I’m also very interested in buying a 645D;)
Oh, and sorry for my English, I’m not a native English speaker;)
Are you shooting handheld or off a tripod? I used an H4D recently and it was big enough that it was difficult to handhold.
When using the 67II I usually handheld for quick portraits and used a tripod for everything else. I think I’ll probably stick with this system, I am used to always wandering around with a tripod in my left hand!