ZUCO.ORG » night http://blog.zuco.org Mobile applications developer, my thoughts and experiences from Tokyo Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:57:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Long exposure pictures at Odaiba http://blog.zuco.org/2010/11/06/long-exposure-pictures-at-odaiba/ http://blog.zuco.org/2010/11/06/long-exposure-pictures-at-odaiba/#comments Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:42:50 +0000 Pietro Zuco http://darkboxnotes.com/?p=1721 Check out some long exposure pictures at Odaiba]]> Some long exposure pictures at Odaiba
It’s a good place to see Tokyo’s skyline and the Rainbow Bridge. No people in there, a lot of space and green.


Odaiba

Odaiba

This is not on earth…

Odaiba

Odaiba

Odaiba

Odaiba

Playing with shadows

Odaiba

Odaiba

Odaiba

Lights in the sky of Vulcan

Lights in the sky of Vulcan.

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ups dancers happy man

cartier

frizzante

@tangerinejp

Oren

@Oren_The_Red

desaturated

nobody

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I was riding my bike all around Tokyo, until Odaiba. In these days the weather is really cold here but the air is clean and there is no humidity at all. Perfect for night long exposure shots.
The main problem is to find a place with no vibrations. I didn’t have a tripod this time, but even with that it’s really hard to have a perfectly sharp image. The main reason is because Tokyo is a city with hundreds of subterranean trains, it’s in a seismic country and has a huge amount of traffic. It’s almost impossible to have a vibration zero zone.
The best place is in the top of a big building that absorbs almost all vibrations, and it’s specially made to resist earthquakes, so minimum earth movements remain almost unnoticed.

Chiyoda ku

This place is near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. I just stopped with my bike and took this pic.
The water gets no replacement… so I really don’t want to imagine to dive into it…

Tokyo

View from one of the bridges that connects Tokyo to Odaiba (an artificial zone made with recycled trash).

Tokyo

Cropped version :)

Interference

I like to desaturate certain zones of a photograph to express the feelings representing the desaturated and the colored zone. I didn’t want to continue because I already ride too many up and down bridges after a long day riding my bicycle.

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Nice legs in the night increased by the fluorescent colors of their stockings ^^;

Fluorescent Legs

Fluorescent Legs Fluorescent Legs

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There was a lot of people and it was pretty hot. Well I was sweating, maybe it was just me, anyway it was really crowded.

Excellent free food for everybody!


And free drinks also! I took 4 Carlsberg and one glass of red wine. I have to admit that at the end I had some alcoholic happy feeling ^^;

yuruyuru night

This is a really nice gadget. It’s Chumby an internet radio player, digital picture frame, alarm clock and more. It’s based on Linux. An all in one gadget!

Here we can see Steve. He is just an amazing guy. Maybe you cannot see it in the picture, but he had a bag full of electronic gadgets and a really cool combination. He was taking pictures and intermediately uploaded to his flickr account Then he plugged his own Chumby with a portable power source and sharing his emobile connection with a wireless router the Chumby updated constantly with his uploads. Everything he did was just live at a real time!

A nice girl with her personalized poken. I have to log in in my poken account and check her name ;)

Eye-Fi memory cards was also there. Wireless SSD cards. Everything you save in it will be automatically transfered. Nice to get live content uploaded.

This is a cool gadget. You can look at it as a TV. It reads the feed from the web and shows twitter updates, weather updates and so forth. Its design comes from the company of the picture bellow:

Rana Design

And finally this is Danny’s daughter: Mirai Figma. She was that night posing for the photographers.

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I went there to listen to my friend Marco as a DJ that night. He is trying to introduce Trance music in Japan.
It was a nice party and a good moment to take pictures in a really hard environment. Taking pictures in concerts and clubbing with low light conditions and people moving all around is not an easy task but it’s really funny :)

Confidential Party Shibuya (July)


Confidential Party Shibuya (July)

Confidential Party Shibuya (July)

Confidential Party Shibuya (July)

Confidential Party Shibuya (July)

More pictures at Flickr Set

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Let’s see the pics!

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Our Gundam! I’m sure I will come back here again to shot him!

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Angry Danny. Here he is making use of secret powers…

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Danny is ready to attack Paul

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Jonny li doing his best with the lights. He is our strobe guy

More pictures and info about last nigh here:

Danny Choo: www.dannychoo.com
Steven Nagata: www.thewesternworld.net
Paul Papadimitriou: www.papadimitriou.jp
Jonny Li: www.jonnyli.com
Ken Lee: www.kenleewrites.com
Lester Ho: www.lesterho.com

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