Here’s a few tips for getting the best Fukuoka photos.  With loads of parks and plenty of flowers around, I’d shoot in colour in Fukuoka.  When shooting kids, there’s one very important tip that will make a hug difference in the results you get, and that is to get down to their level.  I thought this is common knowledge but it still annoys me whenever I see parents taking photos of their kids standing up.  Yep, for sure it can get sore bending or kneeling down all the time to take shots of them, but the difference is monumental.  When you shot from a standing position, even if you’re 5 feet F all like me, it makes their head like big and body look small and it’s just not flattering.  It also makes them diminutive, which they are already, so there’s no need to enhance that.

Have a think about this, most of the portrait shots of sports people, people in high positions, like CEO’s, business owners, Presidents, will often be shot from below because it makes them look more powerful.  You don’t usually want to shoot kids from below, but you need to get down to their eye level so take this into consideration if you want to come back with some goof Fukuoka photos.

In most Japan cities there’s always somewhere, depending on the season, with some nice flowers around.  That usually means there’s loads of people around. To isolate people, it helps to shoot wide open (at something like F2 depending on the lens you have), get close, and most times it’ll be enough to blur out the background but still get the colours. Of course, it depends on what camera and lens you have, and also the distance from you to the subject, and the subject to the background, but that’s a general rule to take best Fukuoka photos.

There’s not one place in Fukuoka that I can recommend for taking good photos, but around town (city center) you can get some good street shots and at the parks, if you go before the crowds and avoid Japanese public holidays, you should be able to get some nice ones of the kids running amok.

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