Dusk Falls Over Tokyo Bay & Rainbow Bridge, from Daiba Fort: Tokyo, Japan
Check it out big. The original size is available to all and is 1560 wide.
I went down to Odaiba with my son this afternoon, scouting for a location for the next group model shoot/class we are organising for this Sunday. The old Daiba Fort is an amazing spot and the Rainbow Bridge runs almost right up next to it. The fort was originally built in the 1860s to defend Tokyo upon the return of Admiral Perry’s ‘black ships’, but never got used in anger. Lovely place for a walk, will prove to be a superb location for our shoot on the weekend and it’s a superb spot to watch the sun go down on Tokyo and then watch the city’s lights come on.
Nikon D300
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 @ f/6.3
7-frame bracketed HDR merged in Photomatix
Slight post-pro in Photoshop: a little burning and dodging to even out the brightness from making the HDR, slight tweak of blue and red channels.
30 comments
[~Bryan~] wrote...
Gorgeous blue hour and wonderful perspective!
Steve Kelley wrote...
love it
broken rhythm wrote...
Looks like the set for an sf movie.
Love the green reflecting off the water.
Edit:
You're right about potential and Tokyo. I guess me saying the 'SF' isn't original nor constructive.Art college only taught me how to receive crits/comment but not give out well :(
What I mean is it reminds me of Dylan Cole's cityscape paintings.How he paints over cityscape photos to create spaceports,bays,runaways and his own world etc is truly amazing and inspiring.
You've managed achieve that vision through your lens.
Peter Wright wrote...
Fantastic shot - just enough..
Alfie Goodrich wrote...
@Broken: everything in Tokyo has that potential, mate :-)
EDIT: thanks for expanding on that. The structures and the shapes, the colours of the sky and the water......it all could make a very good sf bookjacket. Reminds me of one or two I had.
Tim Riis wrote...
Beautiful!!!
The World Through My Eyes
Σταύρος wrote...
Great capture,beautiful colors!
Roger Lim wrote...
7 frames! Hoot! Love it! Thanks for joining the Red Bokeh contest!
Owen Buckley wrote...
Detail and lighting are just perfect. This is is how I like HDRs.
Mattia Borghesi wrote...
Wow amazing colours and depth!!
Roman Sołowiej wrote...
Great HDR, nice treatment!
Ginger Jive Turkey wrote...
This is an amazing shot alfie so sharp!
Laurent wrote...
Great composition Alfie, very nice picture. You find a great spot !
Bill Cortright wrote...
This looks amazing!!
jonny taise wrote...
just beautiful alfie! natsukashi!!!!
michael clinton wrote...
so much to look at and nothing disapoints, love the subject, the range of tones and colour.
Max Hodges wrote...
great shot Alfie
I wonder: are 7 shots really necessary? Is there much difference between this and maybe three raw shots at +/- 2?
Alfie Goodrich wrote...
Max: 3shots at plus two is obviously a choice. But the reason for seven spaced one stop apart is that it covers the dynamic range with more subtlety. Having three frames with two-stops of brightness difference can often result in inherently more lurid colours and ends up usually being more difficult to blend without looking too surreal.
Max Hodges wrote...
I guess that's why my hdr never look good...
I thought you could push/pull each RAW by +/- 1Ev in LR or PS to generate a 7 shot set...but guess it's not good enough? or have you ever tried?
Alfie Goodrich wrote...
Yeah, you can do that Max and the results are comparable but it's still not quite the same as shooting them as a one-stop bracketed set. And, to be honest, with the time it takes to do the RAW processing and the fact that you arent exactly wasting rolls of fill to shoot seven instaed of three, you might as well shoot seven on location.
Max Hodges wrote...
OK, thanks. I've only tried HDR a couple times. Generally it's not really to my liking, but I like how you processed this shot.
btw, a sound engineer friend of mine in Singapore sent me a link to your site because he liked the processing of your skyline shots:
www.flickr.com/photos/53262496@N00/
Jon Harley wrote...
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The City Across the Water, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Matthias Asal wrote...
Great picture without the surrealistic look of some HDRs.
I hate my D90 for only being able to do a 3 brackets shot... I will have to try the RAW approach.
Alfie Goodrich wrote...
Matthias: I know it means more interaction with the camera than is advisable if you want no movement, but use a canle or remote release and it should help that: fogure out the middle exposure then just move the shutter speed dial to do the other 4 shots in the bracket of seven, after the camera has done its three.
Max Hodges wrote...
yeah, sucks my 5D doesn't allow bracketing more than 3 shots...unlike the 1D which can do 3,5, or 7 bracketed shots without going into the menu system :(
I also recommend a remote so you don't have to touch the shutter.
Here's an option to do it completely hands-free:
www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=38
Alfie Goodrich wrote...
One of the daft things about the 5D which is in many respects a great camera. No multiple exposures either.....
Max Hodges wrote...
do all nikon dslr allow multiple exposures?
I guess there is always photoshop ;)
Alfie Goodrich wrote...
Not all, Max, but a fair few. Yes, there's Pshop but the effect of being able to do two exposures in-camera, with auto-gain switched on to get a nice blend between the two frames' exposure, is a nice feature the saves a lot of fiddling about afterwards.
MichelD-999 wrote...
awesome picture !!!
Really wise composition and great processing. All those colours are superb. Really rich picture. Always amazed by you work Alfie.