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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Naturally, the composition cannot be fixed, but if your editing style changes, you should definitely consider re-doing outdated shots.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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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 Being a photographer is a funny thing. We take 1000s of photos of everything that interests us, but usually have a very few photos of ourselves. So, when I visited the Tokyo Big Sight yesterday, I decided to snap a selfie. There was a massive storm passing over my head, and when I got off the train it must have just stopped raining, because the roads were still wet. That cloud in a distance was smacked by lightning, and the whole scene looked awesome. The warmth of the lights and the fury of the storm, falling night, and so on - I thought this is a cool spot and time for a selfie. Small tip for you - forget the cable release, and buy a remote control for your camera. It will pay off. On a side note, Tokyo Big Sight is a smashing place for architecture photography, I reckon that place alone provid 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 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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Photography is the art of capturing light. Regardless of whether the subject is in sharp or blurred, it all comes down to light. It is light and its colours or tones that create shadows, those shadows creates shapes and composition. Without understanding of light a good photo will not happen. I took this shot today riding the Yurikamone line in Tokyo, back and forth. I captured about 700 shots and I wanted them all to be blurry. The trick is to get them blurry in one direction, which is the direction that the train is moving, and not sideways. Truth is, a shaky train can be tricky, so it is more of a trial and error photo shoot. The key to a good blurry photo is composition, especially that everything will be blurred. Where to focus is aslo importrant. The photo is blurred, but technically it is in focus. Confused? Good! ;-). I love this shot, love the colours and energy of it. One of my favourites from today, for sure. Enjoy!
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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