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Although I took this shot earlier on this year, I am slowly re-editing all my past photos, to make them remain within the boarders of my current photo editing style. The great thing about shooting photos in RAW format is that you can re-edit them anytime you wish. Naturally, the composition cannot be fixed, but if your editing style changes, you should definitely consider re-doing outdated shots. Then again, this photo was not taken so long ago, and the main reason for retouching is that the previous HDR version was completed i HDR Efex Pro, and recently I find myself creating manually blended HDR photos. It takes much more time, but I am getting much better results. I find myself using HDR programs less and less these days.
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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.
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 a view from the other side of Dentsu building, which is accessible only if you enter one of the restaurants there. They know it well that people often come there to take photos, so you can easily do that, and tripods are allowed, as long as they do not disturb other customers. There is a table charge fee of 500 JPY / person, so bear that in mind. The view is really nice, and you can capture some smashing panoramas of dense infrastructure of Tokyo. To capture all the views around Dentsu, however, I think you would need to enter 3 different restaurants. This photo is a merge of 9 exposures, which were mainly captured for traffic, trains, and lights variations, and then put together. I also blended neons and street lights from -1 exposure manually to make sure that those arn’t too bright. The bottom part of the picture and any dark areas were masked in in photoshop from +1 exposure. Yes, if you want to get great results, you need to put some work into it, so don’t be lazy and keep masking and 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. Here is another shot from my visit to the Dentsu building in Shimbashi. I took this shot looking down on one of the crossing around there. I took 9 exposures of the same crossing with the same settings and blended the traffic from all 9 in photoshop, which added a lot to the business of the scene. I also created a black and white version of this photo, and I will post it later on this week. I enjoy creating different versions on one shot. I do it for fun, and also to see how much a given scene will change in terms of mood with different post processing.
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. Here is another photo from my last week's ride on the Yurikamone elevated train, that runs around Odaiba and all the way through the Rainbow Bridge to Shimbashi. I absolutely love those blurred shots. The sense of speed and rush is fantastic. They ask to be saturated, full of contrast, vivid and mad. I am so going back there one day for another ride. There are so much fun to take and even more fun to edit. I have an absolute freedom of going completely nuts with colours, filters and all the arsenal of tools in photoshop. LOVE IT!
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Here is yet another shot from my 3 hours ride on the Yurikamone line in Tokyo, which is a fully automated elevated train, that offers amazing views of modern architecture from Odaiba to mainland Tokyo. The train runs across the Rainbow Bridge, and it is where this photo was shot. I took that picture at the exit from the Rainbow Bridge where the train enters a giant loop descending down, over and Shibaura Island. I was lucky with the sun position, and managed to catch it before it went down behind the buildings. I am really happy with that shot. I am thinking of preparing a black and white version of it, too. I used this photo in my new photoshop tutorial, which will be published today on my YouTube channel.
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. And here is the photo that I was taking on this shot here. This is a bird eye view of Tsukiji fish market in central Tokyo, the biggest wholesale fish market in the world. With about 900 wholesale dealers, 400 different types of seafood, and 700,000 metric tons of various kinds of sea creatures being sold each year, this place is massive and can take up quite a lot of energy to just stroll around. Yesterday I went to Shimbashi, to Dentsu building, and shot this dusk panorama. Enjoy the view! On a side note, today I will upload a photoshop tutorial with a short tip on digital blending and masking, in which I am using this very photo. I will post a link to that video, later on.
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