DirtyGlassEye
Spires of power
Oh how I waited to do this one. This is one of my best Japan photos.
I've seen shots of the Tokyo Metropolitan Building in Shinjuku reaching through the clouds at night and something about those shots made it look it had an evil nature to it. Nobody can reasonably predict the weather so I wasn't predicting to get that shot here.
The clouds weren't low at any time on this day. The only reason I stuck around until after dark was I read a sign saying there would be some kind of projection mapping show later, so I was curious.
As the black of night continued to crawl in, the lights at the top of the tower turned on and I realized I still had the chance to get a dark tower shot, just not in a way others have.
I'm trying to figure out why I shot this angled, and off to the side however. I have perfectly aligned shots of the tower during the day, was I trying to give a disorienting feeling on purpose? Was it an accident or was it intentional? What did past me know that he wanted me to understand?
But even better than the building itself is the sky behind it, I had clouds and a low lit sky. The sun was setting directly behind it, so I had every shade of blue on the table as soon as it went all the way down. It almost looks like a thunderstorm, and that illumination is a massive lightning bolt behind the building. I'm not enough of a cheater to insert an actual lightning bolt into the shot, but I did make the sky a bit darker to accommodate the desired atmosphere. The lights on the building are also a bit more red than the original shot (the original shot's lighting was maroon colored).
I wouldn't dare enter this building if I were you, there's an unspeakable power lurking within these twin citadels. One embodied by the anguish of the people below the likes of itself. The vile intentions of the corrupt and the power hungry are most notable at the last hint of twilight. When the moon and the sun cannot be seen. (This is just an articulate summary of what I wanted the shot to be, this is not what I actually think of the Japanese government).
Spires of power
Oh how I waited to do this one. This is one of my best Japan photos.
I've seen shots of the Tokyo Metropolitan Building in Shinjuku reaching through the clouds at night and something about those shots made it look it had an evil nature to it. Nobody can reasonably predict the weather so I wasn't predicting to get that shot here.
The clouds weren't low at any time on this day. The only reason I stuck around until after dark was I read a sign saying there would be some kind of projection mapping show later, so I was curious.
As the black of night continued to crawl in, the lights at the top of the tower turned on and I realized I still had the chance to get a dark tower shot, just not in a way others have.
I'm trying to figure out why I shot this angled, and off to the side however. I have perfectly aligned shots of the tower during the day, was I trying to give a disorienting feeling on purpose? Was it an accident or was it intentional? What did past me know that he wanted me to understand?
But even better than the building itself is the sky behind it, I had clouds and a low lit sky. The sun was setting directly behind it, so I had every shade of blue on the table as soon as it went all the way down. It almost looks like a thunderstorm, and that illumination is a massive lightning bolt behind the building. I'm not enough of a cheater to insert an actual lightning bolt into the shot, but I did make the sky a bit darker to accommodate the desired atmosphere. The lights on the building are also a bit more red than the original shot (the original shot's lighting was maroon colored).
I wouldn't dare enter this building if I were you, there's an unspeakable power lurking within these twin citadels. One embodied by the anguish of the people below the likes of itself. The vile intentions of the corrupt and the power hungry are most notable at the last hint of twilight. When the moon and the sun cannot be seen. (This is just an articulate summary of what I wanted the shot to be, this is not what I actually think of the Japanese government).