10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham

13 Apr 2006 Category: Architecture, Features, Graphics, Japan, Photography

10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham

The use of HDR images (High Dynamic Range) is another photography trend that has recently been gaining mainstream popularity. Thanks to the internet, it’s very easy for photographers of all levels to learn how to perform these techniques on their own images, as we have seen on PingMag with the technique used in 10 Tiny Tokyo Photos. The technique in that article - which makes birds-eye-view photos of real buildings resemble tiny miniature models - created a mini boom in the world of amateur photography, fascinating photographers and the people viewing the photos with how easily the eye can be tricked. HDR images are now set to be the next mini trend - in this article I’ll explain what HDR is and show you some experimental HDR images, taken in Tokyo.

Written by Jon.

The main concept behind High Dynamic Range imaging is that you are taking several normal photos and combining them. By combining photos of the same scene at different exposure levels, you create a a surreal image with hyper-real colours and detail. The technique actually has real-world applications when taking indoor shots, when you want a level of detail that a single exposure will not allow.

A sequence of different exposures of the same scene, from Wikipedia

This sequence of photos shows 6 different exposure levels of the same scene. Looking at the bottom-right photo, you can see that whilst the detail of the woodwork is very clear, the stained glass window is too bright and is overexposed, losing the detail. However, if you look at the top-middle and top-right exposures, the detail in the stained glass is much clearer but the woodwork detail is completely black. By combining all of these photos into a composite, we can create a “best of both worlds” photo - a photo that shows all of the details possible.

The composite HDR image, from Wikipedia

The combining of these photos can be achieved using Photoshop CS 2 or specialist software such as Photomatix. The resulting photos give a surreal, otherworldly feel - almost as if you are looking at a painting, or a computer rendering of the same scene. I went out on a cloudy, grey day in Tokyo with a tripod and took multiple exposures of various places in the city. Combining my exposures into HDR images, normal buildings took on an atmosphere of menace - the grey tone of the sky became much stronger and the detail level of the buildings themselves seemed to make them bear down on you - therefore I nicknamed this set of photos “Tokyo Gotham”…

One tip though - HDR photos are best viewed LARGE so you can see all the detail - click the link under each photo to see a large version.

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My “test” shot - a view from the IMG SRC office building, looking onto the backstreets of Shibuya. The Cerulean Tower hotel is the tall building right at the back, poking over the top of the foreground. View the large version of this image to see the incredible amount of detail in the buildings, that extends as far as the horizon.

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The ubiquitous Prada building in Aoyama. In the HDR image, the glass has taken on a green hue - also take a look at the detail on the tree to the left.

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An HDR view of Ginza.

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Skyscrapers looming down on you.

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The Nakagin Capsule building - looking more grey than ever before.

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An HDR view of the new Omotesando Hills building - the glass looks strangely luminous and the reflections on the upper sections seem “too” vivid…

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Lots of shadowy stairs on this office building.

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An otherwise normal stone staircase looks like something out of a Japanese horror movie in this HDR image.

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Cluttered buildings in the Shibuya backstreets.

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A gloomy Tokyo Tower in the distance.

I hope you enjoyed these photos. If you would like to see more, there are lots of great examples of HDR photography in the flickr HDR group. If you would like more details on how these photos are made, you can follow this two step tutorial, and also look at the info on the Photomatix site.

150 Comments

  1. Cool photos. Is Tokyo always has dark sky???

    Posted by: Kuswanto on April 13th, 2006 at 11:24 pm

  2. Wow, what a fantastic technique. Great looking shots too.

    Thanks!

    Posted by: Joshua Marshall on April 14th, 2006 at 12:02 am

  3. It’s a cool effect, but the bright contours of the buildings merging with the dark sky make it feel really odd to me. NDgrad filters still have some use in them it seems :)

    Posted by: stephan on April 14th, 2006 at 12:13 am

  4. They look awesome Jon. Did you use a tripod when you took these shots?

    Posted by: Chidade on April 14th, 2006 at 1:54 am

  5. Fantastic! Some images are really soothing the eyes yet others are just too intensive (but impressive!)

    Posted by: Mindaugas on April 14th, 2006 at 5:20 am

  6. [...] The image above is linked to a gorgeous photo of a Tokyo office building from this pingmag post. It was made using HDR. [...]

    Posted by: Today Was Stupid at Jason.Shekky.Org on April 14th, 2006 at 12:33 pm

  7. I like the HDR fad a lot more than the minitures fad. HDR is beautiful.

    Posted by: claytonian on April 14th, 2006 at 1:05 pm

  8. That’s one of the coolest things ever!
    Thanks for the article!

    Posted by: Radu on April 14th, 2006 at 1:55 pm

  9. Awesome pics, Jon. I haven’t heard about HDR until this article. I really like the surrealism about them. The remind me of really detail and intricate 3D renders rather than real life photos.

    Posted by: G on April 14th, 2006 at 4:40 pm

  10. G > funny you should say that, because in fact, that’s why HDR was invented - to use in 3D rendering. I’m not too sure about the details though - maybe someone else can explain it!

    Posted by: Administrator on April 14th, 2006 at 4:45 pm

  11. HDR is used to create the illusion of a background, to self illuminate the rendered scenes as if from matural light, and to add nice reflections to objects in the rendered scenes.

    Posted by: Mr Art on April 14th, 2006 at 5:00 pm

  12. [...] Pasaros por aquí, la web de PingMag, encontrareis unas cuantas fotos de Japón hechas con HDR, los resultados son increibles, me encanta como han quedado las fotos, a ver si en verano puedo conseguir una cámara buena (no digo ya con HDR…) . [...]

    Posted by: Zensure » Fotos hechas con HDR: wow on April 14th, 2006 at 5:06 pm

  13. [...] HDR Photos of Tokyo Gotham. Now I really want a decent digital camera again. [...]

    Posted by: pres.umptuo.us » Blog Archive » The Tokyo-based magazine about on April 14th, 2006 at 5:06 pm

  14. No, Tokyo’s sky isn’t always dark, but I hate living here. This society is very depressing and over stressed.

    Posted by: Jarvo on April 14th, 2006 at 5:24 pm

  15. The surreal feel of these photos isn’t due to HDR, it’s due to bad HDR; HDR images can look natural.

    Posted by: Anonymous on April 14th, 2006 at 5:31 pm

  16. [...] [Via PingMag] [...]

    Posted by: 2dayBlog - Technology Journal, New Gadget everyday! » Blog Archive » Pictures of Tokyo Gotham from PingMag on April 14th, 2006 at 5:36 pm

  17. BTW, the images themselves are nice; “bad HDR” can be used to make nice, artistic images. It’s just that if you wanted a more natural HDR rendition of these scenes, you could achieve it.

    Posted by: Anonymous on April 14th, 2006 at 5:37 pm

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    Posted by: Creation Robot » HDR Photos of Tokyo on April 14th, 2006 at 5:47 pm

  19. to Anonymous: that’s very true, but at the same time, the look of these images couldn’t be achieved WITHOUT using HDR, so I’m not sure if it’s so easy as to just pigeonhole things and say “this is good HDR” and “this is bad HDR” - people are just using it in different ways for different goals.

    Posted by: Administrator on April 14th, 2006 at 5:51 pm

  20. The photos are so cool!

    Posted by: Bubi on April 14th, 2006 at 6:10 pm

  21. [...] HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is a method of taking multiple exposures of a single photograph and merging them together. It comes out with some interesting results! Check out this page with some shots of Tokyo made in this way. Also, there is a tutorial (part 1 and 2) about how to do this too. Very cool stuff! [...]

    Posted by: Tiernans Comms Closet : HDR photography on April 14th, 2006 at 6:59 pm

  22. A comment from a 3d graphics guy.

    Heh. This seems to actually be pretty much the opposite of HDR in 3d rendering.

    This photo technique seems to have the goal to normalise the luminicity across the whole image, makeing everything equally exposed, just as in a 3d rendering NOT using HDR.
    Therefor it looks like its 3d rendered.

    Though, HDR 3d rendering, means you use a lot higher precision for the color channels, makeing it possible to calculate light much better, makeing it possible to have a larger range of luminicity levels in the image, just as in a photo.. Makeing the rendered image look like a photo.

    Fun :)

    Posted by: alh on April 14th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

  23. maybe it should really be called LDR for “Low dynamic range”, since what it does is take several images with different luminicity levels for different parts, and then “squash” the range to a smaller range of luminicity levels, by selecting about the same luminicity levels from different images into the resulting image.

    Posted by: alh on April 14th, 2006 at 7:57 pm

  24. Some really great pictures there, and as a bigcity fan with shyshapers this is just wonderful

    Posted by: Lowe on April 14th, 2006 at 8:12 pm

  25. sorry…but these are really bad HDR pics. Awful Halos on everything. These are the kind of pics that people predicted years ago would start appearing everywhere once people cottoned on to a HDR app and just pushed a few default buttons rather than actually paying attention to the image.

    Posted by: rich on April 14th, 2006 at 9:05 pm

  26. [...] read more | digg story [...]

    Posted by: r00tware » Tokyo looking like Gotham City on April 14th, 2006 at 9:29 pm

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  28. Jarvo’s full of crap, he actually loves living in Japan.

    Posted by: mike on April 14th, 2006 at 11:23 pm

  29. oh… and nice pics! However, the bat symbol in Japanese looks funny…

    Posted by: mike on April 14th, 2006 at 11:25 pm

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    Posted by: Anfrix on April 15th, 2006 at 1:31 am

  32. the bad thing about this, Tokyo can acually look like this on most days.

    Posted by: matchosan on April 15th, 2006 at 1:56 am

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    Posted by: .packet//LUST(dot)COM » Blog Archive » PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about on April 15th, 2006 at 3:13 am

  34. Sure, but how do you do it?

    Posted by: sygyzy on April 15th, 2006 at 3:32 am

  35. any way to do this with video rather than a static shot?

    Posted by: mlh on April 15th, 2006 at 3:52 am

  36. [...] Impressionante não? Aqui tem mais. [...]

    Posted by: Ovelha Elétrica » Algumas imagens de Tóquio Gotham on April 15th, 2006 at 4:30 am

  37. What is with the glowing clouds? Gotham, not hardly. Learn to back off on the PHOTOSHOPPING a bit and then these would be great.

    Posted by: DjD on April 15th, 2006 at 4:32 am

  38. Whether this is LDR, “good” HDR or “bad” HDR these are really interesting images. Very arresting. Thanks, Tom.

    Posted by: Thomas David Baker on April 15th, 2006 at 6:06 am

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  40. [...] HDR is where you combine multiple exposures of the same scene to create a surreal, hyper-detailed image. read more | digg story [...]

    Posted by: welcome to hipster union » Pictures of Tokyo in HDR on April 15th, 2006 at 8:06 am

  41. Take a look at great hdr pics here:
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/pool/
    The Photomatix (software to process hdr photos) tutorial can be found here:
    http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=100264396&size=o

    Posted by: Luis on April 15th, 2006 at 8:26 am

  42. These shots are amazing! Great great work.

    Posted by: K on April 15th, 2006 at 8:52 am

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  48. These are awesome!

    Posted by: Neon on April 17th, 2006 at 5:43 am

  49. [...] I’m in trouble now. A few days ago I saw some pictures that someone had taken of Tokyo. Ordinarily this would not be a big deal, but the pictures were very surreal and full of detail. This was my first introduction to High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging. [...]

    Posted by: The Thiers » Blog Archive » My New Hobby on April 17th, 2006 at 2:55 pm

  50. [...] Tokyo Gotham [...]

    Posted by: » Blog Archive » Fun with digital cameras on April 17th, 2006 at 2:55 pm

  51. check out and join..
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/japanhdr/

    Posted by: Knotty on April 17th, 2006 at 4:14 pm

  52. [...] PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » 10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham [...]

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  53. This effect makes things look computer generated. I like it, though

    Posted by: Josh on April 18th, 2006 at 8:44 am

  54. Cool photos. Is Tokyo always has dark
    sky???

    Posted by: Kuswanto on April 13th, 2006
    at 11:24 pm

    You dumb fuck!!!!!!!! The whole point of the thing is that the city doesn’t look like that, it’s a camera effect!

    Sheesh!!!!!!!!

    Posted by: slippery on April 18th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

  55. High Dynamic Range Images from Tokio…

    This Posting entitled “10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham” inspired me to take some HDR (High Dynamic Range) images by myself. And i found it not that easy to make them look good. Well, i’ll try again … and again …......

    Posted by: Personal Babblishing on April 18th, 2006 at 4:44 pm

  56. [...] Das Ping Mag zeigt im Beitrag 10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham nicht nur wunderschöne HDR (High Dynamic Range) Bilder, sondern erklärt auch gleich wie die Technik funktioniert. [...]

    Posted by: TechNovelty » HDR Bilder aus/von Tokyo on April 18th, 2006 at 10:39 pm

  57. Check out Maerlyn’s Video set in TOKYO too. http://www.maerlyn.de/motion/tokyoplay.html

    he went around in 2003, took a load of single digital images and composed them into a motion film.

    the pictures have the same weird kind of atmosphere.

    Posted by: sol on April 19th, 2006 at 7:17 am

  58. too bad the actual *.hdr files aren’t posted here or at Flickr. These are all jpegs and therefore no longer qualify as HDR images since they no longer contain the illuminance or exposure channel which sets an HDR file apart from more typical RGB file formats! however this being said they are beautiful images. Please post the original HDR files if possible to download. Thanks

    Posted by: Anonymous on April 19th, 2006 at 3:04 pm

  59. [...] PingMag has made another great article, this time explaining the new photography technique that is High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR). [...]

    Posted by: New Trendy Photography Technique HDR “Tokyo Gotham” Photos at Orange Days on April 19th, 2006 at 8:41 pm

  60. for you.

    M.

    Posted by: ian schopa on April 19th, 2006 at 10:26 pm

  61. Wow. This is supremely awesome. Don’t listen to the hatorade swilling jerks, the photos are amazing.

    More pictures of Japan! (Particularly the endlessly fascinating Akihabara District)

    Posted by: TMM on April 20th, 2006 at 3:37 am

  62. That’s amazing!! I’ve never heard of HDR before this, and it’s gotta be the coolest way of taking pictures! I love how the images look so artistic because of their sureal quality. Fabulous!

    Posted by: sara on April 21st, 2006 at 12:13 pm

  63. [...] PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive » 10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham [...]

    Posted by: Prowadzenie Projektów Internetowych » Bajkowe obrazy z Tokyo czyli HDR po japońsku. on April 22nd, 2006 at 5:49 pm

  64. you can also do this analouge. this is an old techniqe used by printers in the darkroom.

    Posted by: ag on April 23rd, 2006 at 11:48 pm

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    Posted by: Julia on April 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pm

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    Posted by: Blog With a Plan » Blog Archive » High Dynamic Range Images on April 25th, 2006 at 12:37 am

  67. [...] Here are pictures of Tokyo and New York City utlizing High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging techniques, where multiple exposures of the same scene are taken so that you get much greater range of colors in your images. After combining images, you get all the details in the shadows while not having the rest of the scene blown out. [...]

    Posted by: Martin Gordon’s Blog » High Dynamic Range Imaging on April 25th, 2006 at 3:23 am

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    Posted by: DailyWarthog.com » Blog Archive » HDR Camera funk on April 26th, 2006 at 12:39 am

  69. [...] So, is anyone reading this knowledgeable about, or experimenting with, or curious about High Dynamic Range photography?  This is something I really, really want to try, just for the heck of it.  (If you ask me, it makes real subjects look like pre-rendered backgrounds in videogames, which is strangely beautiful). [...]

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  70. Why are there halos around everything?
    Are you using defecitve “HDR” software like PhotoMatix?

    Please try some real HDR toning software like HDRShop, PhotoSphere or Photoshop CS2.

    Posted by: Real Photographer on April 26th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

  71. [...] HDR permette ai fotografi di catturare un range di dettagli più ampio rispetto a quello che una macchina fotografica può acquisire in una singola foto. Per farvi un’idea, ecco una galleria di immagini di Tokyo in HDR e un tutorial su HDR in Photoshop CS2. [...]

    Posted by: High dynamic range imaging >> Web café on April 27th, 2006 at 5:15 am

  72. Cool!

    Posted by: Nastya on April 29th, 2006 at 1:02 pm

  73. Это очень круто!!!
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    Posted by: DZENTELMAN on May 1st, 2006 at 7:51 pm

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  76. Those partly make my eyes hurt.
    Maybe I just don’t get the “artistic impression” but I also never considered applying “posterize” as being art.
    [rant=off]
    Could be nice pictures though.

    Posted by: Holg on May 4th, 2006 at 7:09 am

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    Posted by: GeekLimit » HDR Links on May 18th, 2006 at 12:08 am

  78. I also created some HDR pictures:
    http://www.cmehappy.jp/hdrp/index.html
    and some ‘blended’ HDR picture:
    http://www.cmehappy.jp/bhdrp/index.html
    Please take a look at them.

    Posted by: gO on May 20th, 2006 at 10:34 am

  79. Thanks for sharing them. I played around with HDR too with a photograph I took in New York.

    http://www.reluct.com/nyc.jpg

    Posted by: joost on May 22nd, 2006 at 9:34 pm

  80. I just dont understand. Well this HDR photos should have very nice range of exposures for every detale and therefore detales are very good. But how do you get such an extremely bright saturated colors? They just couldn’t be real.

    Did you tuned colors with photoshop levels and curves? Or the picture just turns out to be so saturated only thanks to photography technology?

    Posted by: Logan on May 25th, 2006 at 9:28 pm

  81. I think ur pics of Tokyo r awsome!

    Posted by: Alex on May 26th, 2006 at 3:14 am

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  86. can this be done with gimp on Linux? how anyone attempted this?

    Posted by: macewan on July 3rd, 2006 at 4:23 am

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    I use pics like these on my blog, which is actually all about relieving back, neck and shoulder pain.

    Are yours copyrighted or could one or more be used on a content-rich site where there are Google ads, but nothing is sold by my site?

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  88. extraordinary photographs! It was today when I heard about this HDR picture in a blog of a friend of mine here in cologne / germany. Now I know what to do with my boring worklife /| becoming a photographer! thanx, man!

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  94. [...] I’ve spent a decent wedge of my Hong Kong holiday running around taking multiple-exposure shots to combine into HDR scenes, just like my previous set in Tokyo Gotham. Hong Kong is a great setting to create these images - the city shape-shifts from gleaming steel and glass to grimy neon-lit concrete everywhere you look. The HDR effect really brings out the hidden details in the time-eroded backstreets and accentuates the colours and reflections in the more modern architecture. [...]

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  96. Wow these photographs are amazing!!! I take both Japanese and Photography and have been to Japan twice. I took some good photographs while I stayed there, but yours can’t even compair to mine. I envy you…

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  98. The images are interesting.
    Here’s a challenge:
    do it without using Photoshop or other digital photo editors.
    Techniques and methods of production have been falsified by the computer, but if we look back into the 70’s we can see that a similar effect was created using multiple exposure settings on one frame with an HDR type film.
    The inconsistencies produced using analog techniques yeilds a rougher image, but seems to complement the aesthetic.

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  107. Good stuff, I also shoot HDR stuff of Japan. Okinawa though at http://www.johninjapan.com

    Posted by: Hdr on March 11th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

  108. One thing I would do though is burn down those halos. They make the images look way off. For me that is the first thing I try to watch out for.

    Posted by: Master you HDR Technique on March 11th, 2007 at 6:35 pm

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  113. [...] images with hyper-real colours and detail. Here’s what wikipedia has to say about it, an interesting article on Ping and let’s have a look on [...]

    Posted by: We’re Not Wired Right » Blog Archive » High Dynamic Range on April 3rd, 2007 at 8:59 am

  114. [...] bu i

    Posted by: foto on April 26th, 2007 at 11:19 pm

  115. [...] Nel post suggerisce questo approfondito tutorial su HDR in Photoshop CS2 e una galleria di immagini di Tokyo in HDR. [...]

    Posted by: Tutorial su HDR in Photoshop CS2 « AVDesign on April 27th, 2007 at 12:09 pm

  116. i am from india
    i can die for tokyo
    if any problem for it
    it is my dream to be there

    Posted by: mukesh on April 27th, 2007 at 10:01 pm

  117. Absolutely love the ones with the dark clouds. They look so imminently threatening!

    Posted by: gakinme on May 1st, 2007 at 11:47 am

  118. [...] DRI. Vielleicht sind meine Fotografien nicht so sprektakulär, wie die auf English Russia oder PingMag [via PLANET BLOG]. Sie sind im sommerlichen Sonnenlicht entstanden und können sich aber [...]

    Posted by: HDR und Sonnenschein am Kanzleramt - Ausgefallene Geschenke on May 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm

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  120. [...] http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/04/13/10-pictures-of-tokyo-gotham/ [...]

    Posted by: Easy HDR Experiment using Motorola V3X on May 26th, 2007 at 2:00 am

  121. Heh, I think we agreed on the language of the internet..

    Posted by: ed on June 11th, 2007 at 8:45 am

  122. [...] lilimarie chromasia pingmag johnmilesphotography.com vanilladays stuckincustoms (Anyone who is worth there HDR salt will no [...]

    Posted by: hdr101.com » HDR Galleries on June 19th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

  123. [...] Look at this, it was surely not such a great picture at the begnning: via pingmag [...]

    Posted by: tokoloten » I do photoshop pictures… sometimes on June 22nd, 2007 at 6:41 am

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  125. [...] Ver artículo completo [...]

    Posted by: Elisava Escuela Superior de Diseño - Postgrado en Diseño y Dirección de Arte » 10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham on July 2nd, 2007 at 4:56 pm

  126. Man, I love HDR photography, check out some of my HDR work here http://www.johninjapan.com if you have time. It’s all in japan though.

    Posted by: HDR on August 12th, 2007 at 9:13 pm

  127. HDR Images from Japan!

    Posted by: Okinawa on August 12th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

  128. Who’d think I’d meet you here?

    Posted by: sqjmwrjj on August 23rd, 2007 at 1:20 pm

  129. These are the worst so-called ‘HDR’ images i have ever seen.. you should be ashamed of yourself.

    Posted by: zloh on September 16th, 2007 at 10:52 am

  130. Some of my Okinawa Japan HDR Photography
    http://www.hdrjapan.com/

    Posted by: HDR on September 18th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

  131. HDR Photography

    Posted by: HDR on September 18th, 2007 at 10:30 pm

  132. Actually my HDR Japan is much better than this.

    Posted by: Okinawa on September 18th, 2007 at 10:31 pm

  133. [...] HDR stands for High Dynamic Range imaging and basically combines a series of different exposures to allow all areas, both dark and light, to have full detail and impact. Sometimes the effect can be too strong and gives images a cartoon look, but stunning none the less. Done well however (as above) it creates photos that are simply mind-blowing. Have a look at John`s site and also other examples  here and here. [...]

    Posted by: Impact « on December 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm

  134. [...] 10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham [...]

    Posted by: HDR fotoğraflar — diyorum.com Birşeyler demek için gerekli aparat… Yazarak, bilgi paylaşarak para kazanmanın en akıllıca yolu. on December 13th, 2007 at 9:14 am

  135. unseen pictures :o

    Posted by: Help the Earth on January 4th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

  136. Hi there folks!

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    Posted by: nicknfshfdg on January 24th, 2008 at 1:58 am

  137. i love tokyo. thanks editors

    Posted by: kurye on February 22nd, 2008 at 7:59 am

  138. [...] tanto più sbalordente è il risultato della definizione dei particolari. Ho trovato un Blog di una ragazza giapponese in cui spiega la sua [...]

    Posted by: Fotografare Fotografie in HDR - High Dinamic Range | Il Blog di Alessandro on March 18th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

  139. http://Good.com

    Posted by: Good on April 16th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

  140. [...] out these pics that pingmag coins the ‘Tokyo Gotham’ taken using a High Dynamic Range imaging [...]

    Posted by: momodomo » Tokyo GOTHAMMmmm on June 16th, 2008 at 8:50 am

  141. Great explanation and beatiful images.

    Cheers!

    Posted by: billywest on June 17th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  142. Absolutely stunning images, thanks for sharing!

    Posted by: Neil Duckett on June 18th, 2008 at 11:12 am

  143. Tokio is an City in cool art-constrution

    Posted by: leleco on June 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

  144. [...] what it is anyway (something to do with bit depth). It seems some people have been able to generate pictures which look like 3D games using the [...]

    Posted by: Hunting the Elusive » Exposure Bracketing and HDR on July 13th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  145. Great !!!!

    This is my website (News japanese in french) http://www.japoninfos.com/

    Posted by: Japon on August 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am

  146. Wow..excellent HDR imagery there. I have only just started out in HDR..I was inspired by this guy I saw on flickr. He has a great tutorial on HDR too.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandmania

    Posted by: Sanjeev on August 16th, 2008 at 4:31 am

  147. I got in tokyo for just one time. I like this city.

    Posted by: msn adresleri on September 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 am

  148. [...] Click here to learn how to take a picture like this Take a few shots with a tripod, steady…capture image with different exposure..overlay them together in photoshop and then you get this! the guy who invented this is a genius…this looks so much like an image in my dream and yet it’s somewhere in tokyo, japan (to know more click on the above link to read on "10 pictures on Toykyo Gotham". Kudos to Gisela for sending me this design link! Absolute lifesaver [...]

    Posted by: I teach you in an ENGAALISHY way » Blog Archive » On Photography on October 1st, 2008 at 2:06 pm

  149. [...] dynamic range By misssunalee Sur Pingmag, une bonne explication de ce qu’est le high dynamic range, ou encore comment ont été faites [...]

    Posted by: High dynamic range « Popup Monsters on February 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm

  150. [...] ultimate guide to HDR photography (PhotoCritic.org) HDR Tutorial with Examples (StuckInCustoms.com) 10 Pictures of Tokyo Gotham (PingMag.com; HDR [...]

    Posted by: Digital Photography Tutorials | Photography by Ivan Morozov on July 26th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

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