The PC version of Canon's "PhotoJewel S" service, which allows you to easily save important photos as a photobook, has been updated. The user interface has been completely redesigned and greatly enhanced.
Speaking of photo books, it has been thought that the casual layer was mainly used by mothers with small children. Recently, however, Canon's photo book service has seen an increase in the number of men who love cameras and put together their own photographic works with attachment.
This renewal is exactly what it received. "Fine art paper" and "raster paper" have been added to the two types of paper that used to be "glossy paper" and "semi-glossy paper". In addition, it is now possible to create a photo book that is close to a commercially available photo book, such as being able to select a "lay flat type" that can be opened completely flat. The automatic layout has also evolved, and you can create high-quality photo books.
Therefore, we asked GOTO AKI, a landscape photographer, to use the renewed “PhotoJewel S” and hear his impressions.
Born in 1972 in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Living in Tokyo.
I have traveled to 56 countries since my round-the-world trip in 1993. After working in the natural gas pipeline transportation business at a general trading company, he entered the Tokyo College of Photography. Studied under Mr. Kiyoshi Suzuki and Mr. Norio Kobayashi. Started working as a photographer in 1999. In the same year, he held his first solo exhibition “journey on life” (Nikon Salon Juna21). In 2018, he shot Canon's serial advertisement "Voice of Terra (Earth)" for "Nikkei National Geographic" magazine. His photo collections include "LANDESCAPES" (traviaggio publishing 2012), "LAND ESCAPES - FACE - (traviaggio publishing 2015), and "terra" (Akaakasha 2019).
Currently, I am continuing to shoot primordial landscapes that interweave the flow of time and light on a global scale, using Japanese landscapes created by volcanoes and crustal movements as motifs. The group of photographs, in which the attributes of time and place have disappeared, question the relationship between nature and human beings while swaying between the concrete and the abstract. The work that brings the snapshot photography method to landscape photography includes a natural scientific viewpoint.
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