If anyone in Tokyo area is interested in a photo shoot, please feel free to visit my commercial photography site for more details.
Kids are one of my favourite subjects to photograph. Their face expressions and body language are pure, genuine and so effortless. It is extremely rare to work with adult models who have child-like nature. For me photographing kids is like going back to the old days, where life was black or white, full of joy and emotions, filled with unconstrained passion for doing whatever heart pleases to, without being held back by the vicious reins of social do's and don'ts. I added one of my calligraphy works to this photo. It is a Chinese idiom that reads: 雲心月性, i.e. mind free like passing clouds, and (human) nature clear like bright of the moon. The little fella in the photo is a kid of my best mate, and was taken in Tokyo last year.
If anyone in Tokyo area is interested in a photo shoot, please feel free to visit my commercial photography site for more details.
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Here is another black and white photo of Tokyo's architecture. Although this building is quite new, it is a very well-known structure to anyone who lives in Tokyo. Mori Tower is located in Roppongi Hills, which is a development area completed a few years ago. It was a massive architectural project and I had the chance to watch it literally from my living room's window, as at the time they were constructing it I lived across the street. Mori Tower offers one of the best sky view decks in Tokyo, and if you are lucky and patient, you can capture images such as this one.
If you want to learn how to create stunning black and white images in photoshop, check out my new tutorial on my YouTube channel. One of my favourite spots in Greater Tokyo - Yokohama. The city of wide streets, laid back atmosphere, great views, and thousands of places to hunt down with your camera. Yokohama is really close to central Tokyo, so if you are in the vicinity, and you want to take some stunning photos, it should be on your must-see-it places. Here is a colourful shot of the Yokohama's Minatomirai (lit. Harbour of the Future), with a very photogenic sailboat Nippon Maru, and Yokohama Landmark Tower in the background.
If you are following my photography blog, you probably saw this photo before in this article, here. It was an HDR colour edit and I was quite pleased with the outcome, but I decided to go back and re-edit it from scratch in black and white, and give justice to this piece of outstanding Tokyo's architecture. There is something magical about black and white photography. Perhaps it is its simplicity, lack of tonal distractions, like a symphony of shades of grey. I was recording my workflow in photoshop, and I will be posting it this week as a new photoshop tutorial on creating fine art black and white images. Black and white photographs may seem simple, but they are the most time consuming ones to create, if are to be done properly.
I returned to one of my last year's shots of Tokyo panorama, and decided to go scince fictiuon mode on it. I merged the monochromatic photo editting techniques with a bit of Topaz restyle filters and added some flare, to make it look like a another planet.
A photo of Tokyo Harbour and the central Tokyo during sunset, shot from the Odaiaba beach, which is one of the best spots in Tokyo for taking cityscape photos, and especially night views of the Metropolis. This is an HDR image, composed from 5 exposures, manually blended in photoshop.
I wonder how many people passed by this pampas grass, growing along the railway in Kamakura, without noticing its unique charm. It is amazing how much of a change a small shift in a perspective can bring to a photo. If I shot this from my eye level, it would be a boring photo of some grass, with a rather dull background composed of grid and dirt. Do not be a lazy photographer, kneel down or even lay down on the ground if it means to capture a great photo. It is worth it.
Here is another HDR photo of the area around Shinjuku station. If you want to see my other photos from this photo walk, just type "shinjuku" in the search box at the top right hand corner of my website. Although there is no place in Tokyo that is dull, as there is always something to photograph, but the most central part of Tokyo like Shinjuku, Shibuya, Roppongi, Ginza, Akihabara, Shinbashi, Odaiba, and so on, are just loaded with themes and spots screaming out loud "are you taking a photo of me or can i pop out for a coffee break?". If you are visiting Tokyo, Shinjuku should be on your list.
I went ahead and re-edited last year's photo of this beautiful Buddhist temple in Kamakura, and since my last version was black and white, this time I decided to present it in full colour. This is a quasi HDR image, created from one exposure. The photo was taken with an ND filter so this way I managed to remove all the who were people passing by.
Here is another shot that I took for the owner of Basshodo, a traditional Japanese calligraphy supply store. They have a quite a selection of calligraphy brushes, of which some are extremely expensive (up to $15,000 USD for one brush). I always have a great time when I visit the store, choosing paper, ink, and whatever I need, while having a conversation about calligraphy and other things. On a side note, their signboard was written by my teacher's teacher, who was a very well-known and respected calligrapher in Japan.
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