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High Dynamic Range Images of Tokyo

by Shane on August 16th, 2008

I recently came across some great images of Tokyo that intrigued me. I did some research and found out that the images were High Dynamic Range Images (HDR) that are created when multiple exposures of an image are combined. This images are fantastic and often resemble a modern painting or a scene from a futuristic movie or cartoon. Here are a few of my favorites:

A Shibuya Side StreetSibuya Street in HDR

The entrance to a shrine in the Gotanda area of TokyoGotanda Shrine HRD

The Imperial Garden in AutumnImperial Garden Tokyo HDR

Tokyo Big Sight in OdaibaTokyo Big Sight HDR

The image that peaked my curiosity and led me to the other images presented here was an amazing HDR image of The Peninsula Hotel Tokyo. If you like these images as much as I do you will want to peruse the Japan HDR Flickr Group or my search of Tokyo HDR images.

Image Credit: Flickr, Shibuya Side Street in HRD, Shrine at night in HDR, Surface of water, Imperial colors of autumn

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5 opinions for High Dynamic Range Images of Tokyo

  • Honor
    Aug 17, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Those pictures are great! So you mean they are created by putting one image on top of each other? To create depth?

    Nice find - wish I could do stuff like that!

  • Shane
    Aug 17, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Honor, I love these images too! I am going to a bit more research and see if it something that I can do with my relatively new SLR (that I haven’t yet taken off of the automatic settings yet)…

    Maybe I will be able to post an image like this on The Tokyo Traveler one day but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting as it looks fairly complicated. ;)

  • Matt
    Aug 17, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    I was wondering about that hotel photo. I assumed it was photoshopped. It’s nice to hear about people taking the time to craft something nice these days. Thanks!

  • Honor
    Aug 17, 2008 at 6:09 pm

    Hahaha - I know what you mean about the automatic setting! Watashi mo ne ; )

    Good luck with that - it would be great if you could create those yourself for the Tokyo Traveler!

  • Nick Ramsay
    Aug 17, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    Those are good pictures. The colors are just, wow!

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