ZUCO.ORG » Odaiba 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.


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This is not on earth…

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Playing with shadows

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Lights in the sky of Vulcan

Lights in the sky of Vulcan.

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Fighting the wind

I was just riding my bicycle on a big bridge. The wind was really strong. I had to stop and go by walk so I thought that it was a good moment to shot a picture.
It was really hard because the wind moved the camera all time so finally I found a way to fix it against the border of the bridge. Fortunately it didn’t fall down to the water ^^;
Shot with a Canon G11

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Maybe they will destroy it or send it to some recycle process? Personally I would love if they left it there, only two months…
It could become like a symbol, something that people can visit over and over again, a place where geeks and otakus will love to go for a picnic, to drink beer at night or just to try to find some moral and spiritual support in a difficult moment of life. Just imagine, it could become like an object of cult and devotion… Well I’m going too far away with this…

These are the latest pics I took to it and they got modified with Pixelmator.
I will talk about this wonderful application. Of course it’s not at the same level as photoshop but it’s really powerful for a reasonable price. I just applied a simple filter after post process it in Lightroom

Gundam


Digital Gundam

After apply Edge filter on Pixelmator, increase exposure and change colors to green. I like the effect. I’ll use this filter for many other pics I had, the effect is quite impressive.

Gundam's hand

It’s amazing the level of details. They built every aspect of Gundam.
Japanese are so good to reproduce until the minimum detail.

The whole set of Gundam pictures here

Previous post about it.

This is the last post I’ll talk about it, I promise (maybe…) I hope they repeat this again, nowadays materials and technology provides us with the tools and skills to reproduce big sized objects with a great detailed level and people love that kind of things!

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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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