Thoughts at the moment of pressing the shutter.

When I press the shutter, I try not to think as much as possible.

It's not about what to shoot, but rather 'what I reacted to'.
From a position slightly detached from myself and the world, as if observing.

I confirm within myself what I found good about the scenery or event in front of me.

Light, color, shape, atmosphere.
Or perhaps, just a sense of something being out of place.

If I ignore this and take the shot, I won't understand it when I look back at it later.

'Why did I take this?'

Photos that make me think that aren't necessarily bad, but they feel somewhat detached from me.

Conversely, photos taken while being conscious of the points I actually reacted to have a slightly clearer outline.

What I wanted to preserve remains within the photo.

Because of that, the lens I choose also changes.

For example, if I am reacting to the atmosphere, it might be better to capture it widely.
Conversely, if I was drawn to a single point, it might be more natural to crop just that part.

For example, with this photo, I looked up at the building from directly below and suddenly wanted to capture it two-dimensionally. I pay attention to the horizontal lines so that there is as little sense of depth as possible. I choose a surface with direct light where no shadows appear.

Just by doing that, the building I always see starts to look a bit different.

In other words, composition is the same; it is determined by 'what I reacted to.' It is not a composition for tidying things up, but a composition for preserving what I reacted to.

Even in the same place and with the same subject, the way it looks changes completely just by changing the angle of the shot.

For this one, I wanted to bring out the dynamic impact of the building. I narrowed the area of the sky so that about 80% of the frame is the building. I set the exposure to be underexposed because I wanted to bring out a sense of weight. This might be fine with just the building, but by including a little bit of the sky, the narrowness of the sky within the frame makes the building look even more dynamic.

By the way, both are original recipes based on Classic Chrome. Straight out of the camera as JPGs.

That is why, lately, I pause for just a moment before I shoot.

What is it that I am drawn to right now?
I confirm that before I press the shutter.

Honestly, it doesn't always go well.
In fact, I often shoot without really knowing.

But I try to think of that 'not knowing' as part of my own reaction.

And then, how do I translate that reaction into a photograph? I make small adjustments, including how I choose my lens, how I decide on the composition, and the direction of the colors.

'Spontaneity' becomes important. And what supports that spontaneity is FUJIFILM's Film Simulation.

Being able to customize it to my own liking is absolutely irresistible.

My thoughts manifest into this world.

This might just be... the FUJIFILM rabbit hole.