Osanbashi Pier in Yokohama is an amazing place to shoot. It's the passenger terminal for the liners that dock in Yokohama and is one of the most amazing pieces of public architecture in Japan and one of the reasons I love Yokohama. Tokyo is great but, frankly, there is very little shared, public space in the city. Yokohama has made much better use of its waterfront and the top of the passenger terminal is one of the best pieces of shared space I know of within easy reach of Tokyo.

This lady was just sitting there, enjoying the place. It was the reason Joe and I got out of the city for the day; the need for some space.

Lovely day. I like this shot too. Although it was poorly executed [handheld HDR which has some movement between the frames and hence some ghosting] and it isnt that sharp. However, it's one of those shots that is a rehearsal for using this location for some better work to come very soon.

Nikon D300
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 @ 11mm and f/8
5-frame bracketed, hand-held burst blended in Photomatix.
Black and white conversion, mid-range contrast and heightened red sensitvity. Faded back to 70% to let the colour bleed back through.

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This was shot looking towards Ogibashi from Yuki's rooftop. We were at his place for a party last Saturday. Great view, lovely neighbourhood.

Link to a map here: sorry about the odd link syntax but Flickr bans links to tinyurl
www [dot] tinyurl [dot] com/nuhu9o

Nikon D300
Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
5-frame bracketed HDR, using the wall as my tripod
Blended in Photomatix
Tweaked to tone down the colour saturation in Photoshop

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Another from the couple of hours I was shooting at Bunkyou Civic Centre the other evening.This one was shot a little after the sun had gone down showing the amazing Shinkousha [Cocoon] building in Shinjuku on the right with the twin towers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building, Tocho, to the left. Mount Fuji had been hidden in cloud for most of the time me and mhy buddy Jonathan were shooting. But, for just ten minutes or so, it poked its head out the clouds. Snap! Gotcha.

Nikon D300
Nikkor 300mm f/4 ED
5-frame bracketed burst
HDR Merged in Photomatix 2.5.4

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Cropped version here: as per Charlie's suggestion. Cheers mate.
www.flickr.com/photos/alfiegoodrich/3767220981/

I gave Charles a photo lesson down in Tsukishima on Saturday. Guy and Rob tagged along for the outing as I was also testing-out a new venue for a photowalk I am doing soon. Great neighbourhood, on one of the first islands of reclaimed land in Toky; reclaimed back in 1892. The main street [running across this picture from left-to-right] is known as Monja Street, because of the profusion of monjayaki restaurants [monjayaki is Tokyo's equivalent to the kansai dish of 'okonomiyaki'].

This is an HDR image, from 5-bracketed frames, spaced one-stop apart each. Merged in Photomatix 2.5.4 and then converted to black and white in photoshop, with red channels tweaked to look a little like a deep-red Wratten Filter [normally used for infra-red] had been applied.

I also used the lens correction filter to vertically correct the distortion out of the shot, hence the proximity of the road markings to the edge opf the frame... I should have shot it with more space around them really.

Nikon D300
Tokina 11-16mm f/.2.8 @ f/8

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Nikon D700
Tamron 14mm f/2.8
7-shot bracketed HDR [hand-held], merged in Photomatix.
Black and white straight out of the camera.

Photowalk on this route Saturday 8th January. Details and another 23 shots from my walk the day I took this shot, here:

japanorama.co.uk/2011/01/07/photowalk-tamachi-to-odaiba/

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