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Tokyo International Forum is in fact a alien spacecraft that crash landed in the middle of Tokyo., inside which you can find a portal to another dimension. Ghosts of the alien species were seen by many visitors. This led to a belief that the place is haunted, which is why its upper floor are usually deserted. The writing on the portal gate becomes visible only when you stare at the pillar for 5 minutes without blinking, while touching with both hands the glass panels leading to the portal. The writing on the portal is in ancient Chinese script, known as seal script, and reads: 別天地, which means "another world". Several people attempted to cross the portal but with no success. This photo is a rare capture of the portal gate writing glowing in the evening.
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I shot this photo earlier this year I think, but I was never satisfied with any of its edit versions... till today. I realised that all those people passing by are wearing white, and only one girl is in black. So I came up with an idea of a warped image of a fallen angle among the crowd of rushing salary man in Asakusa. In the background you can see the Tokyo Skytree and the famous Asahi Beer Hall building. This photo is a combination of a few editing techniques, including digital blending, black and white conversion, composite photography, and lots of fun with filters. Hope you guys like it!
My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo Although I have a great artistic appreciation for street photography, and capturing all those little moments that are there and then gone in a split second, I somehow feel that it is quite invasive and steps on someone's intimate moment in life. This is why I rarely take typical street shots, even though I can see thousands of amazing images producing themselves when I am out there shooting. Still, sometimes I cannot resits the itch and I have to scratch it. I shot this in Asakusa, I went there to photography the Sensoji temple and its surroundings. This is a new edit of this image, I gave it a completely different look, and went for a washed out, an old color photo look. That crossing in front of the temple gates is a smashing spot to shoot riksha drivers, there are plenty of them, and I think they enjoy being photographed.
My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo The entire Shimbashi area is an absolute feast for an architecture photographer. The glass, the angles, the countless spots to capture amazing shots of a modern city like Tokyo. I am preparing for creating a long timelapse video of Tokyo at night, and Shimbashi is definitely down on my list. Just above my head there is a Yurikamone elevated train, which also offers amazing views of Tokyo. To the left there is this view, and Dentsu building from which you can shoot smashing night panoramas of Tokyo such as this one. Then again behind me there is this building. Honestly, each turn there is a photo to be taken!
My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo Nakagin Capsule Tower is a very famous building amongst the architects worldwide. It was constructed back in the 70's and is a representative example of metabolism architecture. Today, the tower is falling apart, and barely anyone lives there. The apartments in the tower are microscopic, equipped in one small round window, and a toilet size of the one you will find on an airplane. One of the materials used for constructing the Nakagin Capsule Tower was asbestos, which is most likely one of the main reasons why the building is deserted. The tower was scheduled for demolishing some time ago, but ti met some opposition and the whole thing is in the air at the moment. With no fund to renovate the tower, its future seems gloomy. Because of its interesting structure, Nakagin is a great subject for photography. It is located very close to Shimbashi station, which is in dead center of Tokyo. Here is a shot of the tower that I took very recently, in black and w
My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo Dentsu building 46th floor view. What a view they have there! For 500 JPY of table fee at one of the restaurants there you can not only see this, but mount your tripod and shoot through a massive window showing panorama of Shimbashi. The amount of details, dazzling lights, the commotion, the traffic, is all very exciting. Great shots to be taken there, so if you are in the area, and you enjoy night photography, then you will not regret it. On the other side of this building there is a free lobby with a windows on the Tokyo Harbor and Tsukiji market.
My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo This week I was testing my new inervalometer for timelapse photography and so I went to the Tokyo Station view deck. It is a great place for this sort of thing, as you can use tripods, and the view is really cool. You can shoot bullet trains, the rondo outside Toykyo station and so on. It is usually quite windy up there, but it is not a big deal with a stable tripod. Anyways, here is a short timelapse video teaser of Tokyo by night, and I am already preparing a longer version, but for this you will have to wait a bit. I have also created a tutorial on how to make a time lapse video in photoshop, and today I published part 1. In this video tutorial I will show you how to prepare files for creating a time lapse video, and then how to assemble it all in photoshop. My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo I must say, that recently I find myself blending exposures manually almost every time I work on an HDR image, but in here I actually used Photomatix to combine the sky with the metal structure of the Tokyo International Forum. I tried HDR Efex Pro2, but it wasn't giving me satisfactory results. It really depends on a photo, so it is good to have various options and programs and try different approaches. I actually came back to this image today and made it brighter, as I felt it might have been a bit too contrasty. Sometimes it is good to go back to the PDF file on another day, and reassess the final result. I do this quite often, and do some fine tuning.
My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo One would think that the great thing about events such as this is that you can shoot photos like mad. Everyone there is an exhibitionist, and they likes to have pictures of themselves taken. Partly it is true, but not in Japan. The organizers made people line up to each cosplayer, then have a quick chat, and then shoot. Now, I wanted to shoot photos of other people taking photos as that is much more fun and interesting. It tells a story instead of being a static posed portrait. I was being bugged every 5 min by the staff, telling me either that I have to line up or that I need permission to shoot. This is so typical for Japan that I didn't even get pissed off. Still, I have managed to grab a few cool photos the way I wanted it, and here is one. Mt friend Tristan helping one of the cosplaying Japanese girls to fix the ribbon of her maid outfit that came loose. Those types of events are a great place to practice your portraiture photography skills, as you have to be quick with reacting and composing, and know your camera well to be able to readjust all the necessary settings on the fly. Model: Aota Yaya (pro cosplayer).
My Youtube channel with free photoshop tutorials Buy fine art photo prints at my store on SmugMug. Photography workshops in Tokyo - click for more details. Hire a photographer in Tokyo I went to Shimbashi today to work on one architecture project, and once I was done, I decided to stay around and capture a few shots of modern architecture with ultra wide angle lens. Glass and steel creates wonderful reflections and shadows. Further, it offers great fun in post production, especially when you plan on converting photos into black and white. The Shimbashi station area is loaded with places to shoot, you can literally stand in one spot and just turn around and keep taking photographs. There are amazing view decks there, one is inside the Dentsu building. If you enjoy black and white photography, feel free to visit my channel on Youtube, where you can find many free tutorials on monochrome photography conversion in photoshop.
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