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

Thanks guys.

Nope, I am a programmer and technology jackass by trade. Only a photo enthusiast, and have taken it up a notch recently w/ better gear and studying post processing more.

 

These are mostly from the Lunar New Year in Chinatown.


Name Painting by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Nappy Time by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Incense (8) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Chinatown Flyer Girl by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Flipping Off Phone by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Prayer (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Walking Dragons (7) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Incense (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Monkey Man (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Lamps in Chinatown (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr

 

Beautiful pictures! :clap:

 

GP, once you've done editing, do you save the edits as a JPEG or as a PSD/TIFF?

 

Like a dumb ass, I save them as PSD (unflattened) in case I want to tweak later. I should probably just save the original as a PSD, and the final product as a PNG. That would save me a LOT of space per image.

 

Bahaha

Yep, I save mine as either JPEG, PNG or TIFF, depending on use, and have one layered PSD of which I edit the .psb

I am on a laptop-only life and though I could have lots of hard drives full of PSDs, I really can't be arsed. Full-sized JPEGs are mostly good enough for internetty things

 

Well, I've got a 3TB hard drive and unlimited cloud space. So... really testing it out.

 

Really enjoying the shots Gaijinpunch . Not to mention the fact that Chinese New Year in your average Chinatown is in fact a lot more exciting than Chinese New Year in China..

 

Thanks. If you follow one of the pics to my Flickr page, I made a Chinese New Year Set, w/ all my photos from the event there. Probably about 150 if you include the ones I processed a few times.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20478368@N03/6821510477/

this one is great. looks like an alien invasion!

 

I like that one -- was sad I had no fisheye lens!

 

Starting the Day (2) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Waiting for the Chiyoda Line by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Nonbei Yokocho (smoke on the phone) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr



Bikes in Snow (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Shadow (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Waiting to Cross (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Shibuya Center-gai by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Smoking in Cafe (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr

 

Got my mini-me in there.

 

How far away are you from those girls when you take their picture? I never have the balls to quickly whip out the camera to take a snap of someone.

 

They were very close -- in fact, the one looking into the camera gave a wacky pose after that. They were very open. But, note that I had my camera up pointing at the "scene" for an extended period, so nobody really knew what the subject was (even me). That one just happened to come out pretty good.

 

great photo though :nod:

 

Are all of those your full shots or do you crop them?

Amazing stuff by the way.

 

The 3rd to the last is slightly cropped (maybe 20%) but that's it.

 

Meiji Shrine Prayer Cards (3) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Chelsea Hotel by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Tokyo Metro by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Cuddle at the Crossing by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Palace Reflection by gaijin_punch, on Flickr


Ryuu Kites (1) by gaijin_punch, on Flickr

 

GP, I really love that "Palace Reflection" photo.
The lighting reminds me of a warm sunny July evening.