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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!
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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 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.
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 When I was taking this shot I wished for this painting or banner to be a bit to the left, but I guess we cannot have everything in life, can we. There was some international event regarding modern architecture going on, and similar banners were placed all over the ground floor. I did not mind having it in my shot, it was based on the concept of ink painting art. Still, you can see how massive and roomy is the interior of this structure. It is so refreshing to walk into a building in Tokyo that does not make you feel claustrophobic. This steel walkways that you can see up there, are on yet another shot of mine taken on the same day, here.
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 Tokyo International Forum - a true feast for any architecture photographer seeking a great spot to get lost in beauty of steel and glass shapes for a week or two. Seriously, one can spend a month in that place and still find new angles and perspectives to shoot from. I revisited TIF after few month with a solemn purpose of photographing using only ultra wide angle lens. Now this shot was meant to be really cold, so that is why I used cold tones, to emphasize the steel and glass textures, and create a slightly sci fi atmosphere. From this perspective, TIF looks like an interior of a massive alien spacecraft, or a futuristic zeppelin. I think that this place could be amazing spot for my next cyborg photoshop manipulation project. Anyways, If you are after goo Tokyo photos, that place should be on your list.
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 Sadly, Tokyo International Forum isn't haunted, that is Tristan Junker from Amazing Japan on facebook, with whom I have visited that marvelous piece of architecture, and who was modelling for me. Thanks a lot, Tristan! I absolutely love shooting there, and I bring all my photography students to challenge their composition skills. TIF can be shot during day, at night, and you can use tripods. Higher levels are virtually empty and are a spot often visited by shy couples seeking a refugee, away from the mad rush of Gotham City. The staff is really nice and relaxed. I seriously could shoot there every week, if I had time for it. This time I was photographing with ultra wide angle lens, and today I am editing some of the shots. This photo is a manual blend of 7 exposures, mainly for the shadowy figures of Tristan to be in the right spot. I also maksed in some areas from +1 and -2 and -3 exposures (mainly lights). To learn more about photo editing, visit my YouTube channel, where I have a full workflow photoshop video tutorial on digital blending.
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 When tourist visit a famous location they usually photograph what they came for, and skip all other things. As a photographer, one should turn his head like a mad parrot with Tourette's syndrome to be able to see everything from all possible angles. If I took the shot of Tokyo Big Sight from the place I was standing, what you see on this photo would be behind my back. Normally, this view would not be that interesting, but those stormy clouds behind the buildings, and the passing Yurikamone line train combined with the sun setting behind my left shoulder, that was lighting all that glass and metal structures were too good of a dramatic view to pass. In fact it was so good, this is the first photo I took when I arrived at the station there. When I was taking the shot I exactly knew how I will post process it, and that it will be a black and white image. Colour image would not be striking enough.
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 Here is another photo from the blur photography series. A shot taken from the front car of the Yurikamone automated train in Tokyo. I think next month I will jump on that line again, but this time I will bring ultra wide angle lens with me, and reshoot some of the places that Yurikamone line passes through at 10mm. This could also look fun through a fish eye. Blur photography is a lot of fun, and it is a great exercise for improving composition, especially if you shoot it from a moving subject, like train or a car.
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