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Nihon Noir
- gaspoweredcat 8y agofantastic work
- i_am_proteus 8y agoThis is gorgeous urban landscape photography.
- raws 8y agoVery good compositions with great contrasts balancing!
- fenomas 8y agoGreat photos, but maybe a reminder to take care when using foreign characters in one's designs. The Japanese in the top logo splits "noir" into two words, with the effect that a typical reader can guess what's intended but it makes no sense as written.
- Figs 8y agoTo be more explicit, 日本=nihon, ノワール=noir. As written "日本ノ"/"ワール" is basically like writing "nihonn"/"oir".
- escherplex 8y agoObviously a typo (why would you post an obvious typo in your header?) But for some etymological fun assume / were の leaving ワール alone, which turns out (check Bing translate or at Monash) to be J-shorthand for the ancient Indian city Haridwar, which in Sanskrit equates to 'Gateway to Lord Vishnu' (Wikipedia) which in turn would leave you with a site header suggesting 'Japan's Gateway to the Lord Vishnu' which probably wasn't what the site author had in mind. :-)
- drgvond 8y agoThis is the same as the posters for “Isle of Dogs”, where the juxtaposition of the English words and equivalent kanji is rather strange.
- gwilkes 8y agoI disagree, the intended audience clearly isn't Japanese and splitting the word up gives it visual balance. And using the katakana here is really just for visual effect anyway, it almost doesn't matter what is written there, just that is is something in Japanese. The reverse of this is why we have the sometimes amusing "Engrish" on clothing in Japan. What the English says or is intended to say doesn't matter as much as the fact that it is English, just a stylistic choice.
- mcguire 8y agoSo, what's your feeling on Año Nuevo State Park?
- gwilkes 8y agoThat seems to be correct Spanish, is there something wrong with it? I think the tilde should be removed though now that this is American land. You could preserve the pronunciation somewhat by renaming to Anyo Nuevo State Park. Similar to how was done with the Spanish cañón to the English canyon.
- gwilkes 8y agoSure, there is a mixture of two languages there but they are both using latin characters so even if you don't know how to pronounce Año correctly you can get close enough knowing only English. If it was called राज्य पार्क State Park then we would be closer to the 日本ノワール Nihon Noir issue we are talking about. राज्य पार्क means State Park in Nepali. Someone who isn't Japanese or hasn't studied Japanese has no chance to read 日本ノワール, to them is is just a visual flourish. If someone decides to use non-latin characters from another language for a visual purpose on their own website for an audience that primarily doesn't understand that language then I believe that they can be freed from the burden of having to ensure that they are using that language in a perfect manner. Should this photographer have contacted a native Japanese speaker to ensure that his title graphic was 100% correct before publishing? I mean maybe, but I think that is asking a bit much for its intended purpose.
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- parf02 8y agothese are amazing. I've always wanted to take pictures that give off this vibe. Does anyone know what type of postprocessing is required to do this?
- crimsonalucard 8y agoNighttime, long exposure with a blue-ish filter?
- jstarfish 8y agoYou can see some of the lighting halo/starbursts from where longer exposures were used, but much of the magic here is HDR.
- cthalupa 8y agoI don't think it's even HDR. Just desaturated most of the colors, and hard pumped blue and purple. To the GP: Search for cyberpunk / neon noir filters on google and tutorials on youtube. You'll find dozens to hundreds for both.
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- Figs 8y agoIf the page shows up as blank blue for you -- as it did for me -- try turning off CSS styles (e.g. View->Page Style->No Style in Firefox). I was able to get the images to load fine that way. Nice images though, and indeed they do raise questions -- like "What is an AT-AT doing in Tokyo?" Translating 江戸東京博物館 gives "Edo-Tokyo Museum", for anyone else curious.
- aplc0r 8y agoI highly recommend visiting the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It is full of replica buildings (including a full bridge spanning one of the floors) and super intricate models depicting life in Edo.
- itsthejb 8y agoSeconded. It's a fantastic museum. And oddly space aged building considering the antique contents...
- lovemenot 8y agoLocated nearby, on a much smaller scale, there's a similar juxtaposition of interesting contemporary architecture and older Japanese art - the Hokusai Sumida museum. For anybody who likes Hokusai's wood-block prints, the one-room permanent exhibition has excellent multimedia content.
- thehoomanist 8y agoGreat job. In the title there's a random extra "N" in katakana at the end of Ni (日) hon (本). I guess it's from noir at the bottom but, as it is, it doesn't make any sense to any Japanese reader. You should split them by word, not just for graphical balance.
- glandium 8y agoIt's not a N (ン), it's a NO (ノ); so, yes, this is from noir, cut weirdly.
- Analemma_ 8y agoThese are very cool, although I’m surprised that Tokyo City Hall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Government_Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Government_...) isn’t included, that’s about as cool and neo-Gothic architecture in Tokyo as you’ll ever find.
- haasted 8y agoWow, it's like a weird combination of Albert Speer and Japanese forms.
- eps 8y agoDaaamn... these are photos. Took me a minute to realize that! Extraordinary work.
- scarejunba 8y agoI think Masashi Wakui does a great job in this genre https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/
- mind_heist 8y agoLove this photographer, thought I would add a couple of more links: Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/masashi_wakui/ https://www.instagram.com/masashi_wakui/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/masa_photo_jp https://twitter.com/masa_photo_jp
- jpatokal 8y agoA quick listing of what most of these buildings are: * 1, 2: Edo-Tokyo Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo-Tokyo_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo-Tokyo_Museum * 3: Tokyo Big Sight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Big_Sight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Big_Sight * 4, 5: ? * 6: Fuji TV HQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuji_TV * 7: ? * 8: Nakagin Capsule Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower * 9, 10, 11: ? * 12: Asahi Beer Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Beer_Hall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Beer_Hall * 13, 14: ? It's also worth noting every single one of these is a Bubble Era creation from the 1990s or earlier, meaning they're starting to get some of the "this is what we thought the future would look like" Disney Tomorrowland retro-futuristic vibe. And a gratuitous plug for some of my own retro-Tokyo pics, although there's a bunch of other stuff as well: https://www.photo.net/jpatokal https://www.photo.net/jpatokal
- kyleblarson 8y agoI randomly walked by the Capsule Tower last month and it immediately reminded me of the stacks in Ready Player One. It honestly looks pretty run down.
- twblalock 8y agoIt is run down and some of the capsules are no longer safe to inhabit.
- bitwize 8y agoI remember seeing the Capsule Tower in The Wolverine.
- toufka 8y ago10: The Shizuoka Shinbun SBS building: http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/06/shizuoka-shimbun-building-shimbashi/ http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/06/shizuoka-shimbun-bui... 11: An "Escape Room" business, Azutoubu Scrap: "アジトオブスクラップ東新宿GUNKAN" https://rubese.net/gurucomi/?id=1931856 https://rubese.net/gurucomi/?id=1931856
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- cthalupa 8y agoShot composition is great, but I'm pretty tired of the post processing going on there. There's way too many people taking city shots, desaturating it, and ramping up the blue and purple, and it's all starting to look the same. People go out and buy tons of CineStill 800T attempting to recreate the look from the film used in the original Blade Runner movie, too. If you like this style you can find plenty more on the cyberpunk reddit, though. You can do tons of amazing night city photography without the colors getting so unrealistic. Just look at the lighting on https://2um6b944etm332zlf4pb7a19-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Fine-Art-Tom-Blachford-Zig-Zag_.jpg https://2um6b944etm332zlf4pb7a19-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... - color is so off on all of the interior lights that, IMO, it really detracts from the photo. But, hey, it's art, so this is all just, like, my opinion, man.
- nlawalker 8y agoSome background music as you scroll: https://www.zophar.net/music/nintendo-snes-spc/shadowrun https://www.zophar.net/music/nintendo-snes-spc/shadowrun (#1b in particular)
- tjpnz 8y agoNice photos but can you do something about the text at the bottom? My colour blind eyes are having a really rough time with it.
- gravy 8y agoAre these pictures blue as a result of post processing?
- aikinai 8y agoYes, none of the buildings actually look like that.