Inspired by these incredible photos, I’ll be sharing some scenes of Tokyo from above this coming week. Some people might find such a landscape suffocating, but I found it to have a certain charm.
February 4, 2006 | 7:42 PM | Posted in Photography, Places
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Radical Bender | February 4, 2006 | 8:40 PM
I think I’m with you on that. That level of urban density seems eminently fascinating to me for some reason. I guess probably because it puts most of our ideas of what we consider “dense” to shame.
anne | February 5, 2006 | 8:18 AM
Where on earth were YOU when shooting this?!
Jeff Lawson | February 5, 2006 | 1:02 PM
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, 45 stories up, looking west. I used a really long lens.
Brent | February 5, 2006 | 6:01 PM
The TMGB observatory level really gives you a nice view of the city, doesn’t it? So much nicer than Tokyo Tower (though, in the interest of full disclosure, I really only got to the second floor there–something about not wanting to pay)…
And I’m with Jeff and Bender. Despite loving corn-valley, Oregon, Tokyo was fascinating; I didn’t find it suffocating in the least.
Aaron | February 10, 2006 | 8:08 AM
That shot you have is great. But damn, that guy really knows how to take city landscapes at night. How do you think he got it so clear and bright?
Jeff Lawson | February 10, 2006 | 3:52 PM
I know he’s shooting with a large format camera, leading me to believe he’s using sort of tilt/shift method to achieve such incredible depth of field. The images definitely have that tilt/shift “look” to them. As for the brightness, Tokyo is pretty bright to begin with at twilight, and with a sufficiently long exposure, you can easily get some bright, saturated images.
vista | February 11, 2006 | 2:14 PM
Do you dislike color images?
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