Life in Japan - Pictures galore !! Arcades, Temples, Rainy days, etc

It's all right Paul, I developed some horny phantasies as well after seeing all those lolitas with their short skirts in the other pictures.


@dcharlie
Those pictures have a really nice atmosphere. Obviously you've got a great combination of good gear and an eye for great motives. Do you rework your pictures, apart from possible corrections in cropping etc? The colors look so crisp and clear in some of the shots, not that a brilliant lense couldn't do that but I'd rather ask than just guess

 

nope, i tend not to touch up the photos. All the ones posted are completely untouched. That's how they came out. I'm basically too lazy to sit with Photoshop, only time i'll really boot it up is if i have a stack of sensor dust on an other wise good photo.

One thing i do do is i have the Canon body set to push the brightness levels/exposure down so i don't lose any detail from over exposure. It tends to give things a much more "contrast-y" look - sometimes it looks a bit too OTT, but at least that can be corrected.

 

fantastic pictures, DCharlie. It's like two different worlds. My pictures are open and green while yours show the real image of modern Japan. I just wish I had the cash to buy a nice SLR camera like yours.

Yakumo

 

lol, that was one rare empty hey arcade!

 

I can't believe how those scenes are typical in Japan and they are dissapearing around Spain. Computers are taking over everything, it's incredible how 10 or so years ago stations needed three or four people to work properly and now there are completely empty.

 

Ironically enough, Japan is built around worker bees supporting the infrastructure. They've been late to computerize just about everything (interweb, anyone?) except toilets. It'll be interesting to be a fly on teh wall in 10, 20, 30 years if depopulation continues.

 

Went to some old haunts yesterday, seeing as i'm living close to them.

Random photos again :

 

nice charlie you sure like kind of same sujets as I do. side streets, old rotten buildings, rusty things mixed up with nature environment = le win!

 

Nice ones DCharlie like the arcade one :thumbsup:

Random stuff

 

Nice pics, is that Miedaemae i see?

 

The white building looks like it was taken from the Death Star during the Tie Fighter attack :thumbsup:

 

Lol.. the window cleaner crane, in fact a laser canon to fight the rebels.

 

You can see it too? Great! I'm not crazy then :dance:

 

That was the first thing I though upon seeing it too

I was like damn,all that anime is true

 

It is uncanny, isn't it.

 

Incoming pic spam!!! Behold, the amazing floating boy !

 

Le Great :thumbsup:

How does he float? Songoku?

 

Plastic food !

 

Lol the plastic beer actually looks real :drool:

 

Some more pictures snapped with the iPhone while at a newly discovered park.

The Road To Nowhere


This guy (forgot his name) challenged the Japanese goverment for a better Japan then died of illness before he could complete his goal.












Yakumo