I missed the worst of the typhoon weather in Tokyo the other day and, in fact, Tokyo missed the worst of the typhoon as it veered off a little. Got some nice shots on the evening though, wandering around Shimbashi and Yurakucho.
I have now lost count of the amount of women I have seen in town with this Dean and De Luca bag....
Nikon D300
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF D
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My last shot from Monday's torrential, entertaining and photo-rich rainstorm. I just had to include these two in the Flickr batch of posted shots from Monday: two schoolgirls from the Aoyama Gakuin school just over the road from where I was shooting.
Sort of making the best of their situation, they spared a smile for me as they spotted me shooting their photo from the shelter of a shop doorway.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF D
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I had moved a little farther up the road by the time I shot this one during Monday's rainstorm. From my shelter under the awning of a second-hand bookshop I had a good view of another zebra-crossing. This fella, waiting for the lights to change, was squeezing the rain out of his gloves..... he was literally wringing-wet.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF D
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Another shot from Monday's rainstorm in Shibuya. This time, two girls caught out on their walk up from the station towards Route 246. I was sheltering underneath a shop-front and shot this peeking around the corner.
Nikon D300
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF D @ f/2
Post-processing in Photoshop with Nik filters top bring up the blue, clean the whites, increase the texture.
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I was on my way to teach a student who lives in Jingu-mae, near the UN Building on Route 246 in Shibuya when..... the heavens opened. I bought myself a 398Yen umbrella on the way up from the station, sheltered a bit along the way but when the rain didn't ease-up, I thought I'd just get the camera out and make a dash for the nearest smoking area.... which I knew to be close-by, undercover and near a zebra-crossing which offered a nice shooting opportunity. Street Photography 101: know your streets.
I made it to my lesson a little late, very wet from the ankle to the knee but the umbrella saved the camera bag and me from getting too soaked. It really was a belter of a storm. One crack of thunder, which erupted directly overhead and reverberated around the clutch of tall buildings nearby, almost split my eardrums. Amazing. Just can't resist getting the camera out in such conditions. :-)
Nikon D300
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF D
398Yen Transparent Umbrella
Tonal contrast, blue-channel, cyan-biased Polaroid simulation tweaks on Photoshop and Nik3.
Final JPEG for web was sharpened with Nik.
A collection of my pics of people with umbrellas and parasols in Japan:
japanorama.co.uk/2009/08/26/umbrellas-and-parasols-of-japan/
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