Would love to see the same images pre-HDR filters.
Japan: Streets at Night (Photography)
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#12Reminds me of https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrangeBlueContra...
Pixel Artist Mark Ferrari also talks about the contrast aesthetics between warm and cool colors:
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#13There are so many layers of post production on these photos I'd barely call them photographs any more. Especially the flares around the lights: no distortion even on the edges, all of them look uniform, even if they come from different light sources... EDIT That said, kudos for the patience, it takes a long while to acquire the source material. EDIT2 As art, it's good work. But this is not what I'd label photography.…
Is there a name for this "orange and blue" style that I see pretty often? Is it replicating a type of film or just a style that's in vogue?
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#14There are so many layers of post production on these photos I'd barely call them photographs any more. Especially the flares around the lights: no distortion even on the edges, all of them look uniform, even if they come from different light sources... EDIT That said, kudos for the patience, it takes a long while to acquire the source material. EDIT2 As art, it's good work. But this is not what I'd label photography.…
> As art, it's good work.
As art and photography I find this series of images weak and without direction. Lost me completely when the photographer or his friends (?) started showing up in the pictures ( https://main-designyoutrust.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upload... ). Typical Instagram buildering [1] shots.
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#15There are so many layers of post production on these photos I'd barely call them photographs any more. Especially the flares around the lights: no distortion even on the edges, all of them look uniform, even if they come from different light sources... EDIT That said, kudos for the patience, it takes a long while to acquire the source material. EDIT2 As art, it's good work. But this is not what I'd label photography.…
Is there a name for this "orange and blue" style that I see pretty often? Is it replicating a type of film or just a style that's in vogue?
It comes from cinema where they use complementary color grading, but really it's just people discovering the split toning tool in Lightroom.
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#16There are so many layers of post production on these photos I'd barely call them photographs any more. Especially the flares around the lights: no distortion even on the edges, all of them look uniform, even if they come from different light sources... EDIT That said, kudos for the patience, it takes a long while to acquire the source material. EDIT2 As art, it's good work. But this is not what I'd label photography.…
Is there a name for this "orange and blue" style that I see pretty often? Is it replicating a type of film or just a style that's in vogue?
It's called "orange and teal". Search for "orange and teal" to find explanations on why the style is popular and tutorials on how to create the style in image and video editing applications.
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#17There are so many layers of post production on these photos I'd barely call them photographs any more. Especially the flares around the lights: no distortion even on the edges, all of them look uniform, even if they come from different light sources... EDIT That said, kudos for the patience, it takes a long while to acquire the source material. EDIT2 As art, it's good work. But this is not what I'd label photography.…
Is there a name for this "orange and blue" style that I see pretty often? Is it replicating a type of film or just a style that's in vogue?
It's called "orange and teal". Yes, it's everywhere in Hollywood big budget action movies.
https://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-h...
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#18There are so many layers of post production on these photos I'd barely call them photographs any more. Especially the flares around the lights: no distortion even on the edges, all of them look uniform, even if they come from different light sources... EDIT That said, kudos for the patience, it takes a long while to acquire the source material. EDIT2 As art, it's good work. But this is not what I'd label photography.…
This happens with some lenses at long exposures. There's not much done to these outside of the odd comp, but mainly a 'HDR' style grading. Good stuff, and relatively simple. Just looks intense!
I don't think the color grading is uniform. The left/right or top/down split of blue/red in some images seems implausible at the source.
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#19Well, "Japan"—it's all Tokyo, from what I can tell; and a fairly typical depiction of it as well. The photographs are nice, and some of the shots are really stunning, but there's so much more magic in the nights of Japan than just in Tokyo.
In cities like Fukuoka, and Sapporo, as the sky darkens, a warmish glow rises from the central and side streets. The polished office towers and department stores that grab your eyes during the day fade alongside the sun, and, soon enough, it's the tiny izakaya and restaurants, nestled in side-streets or sandwiched between larger buildings, that become the centre of attention. All around, people in suits and shirts alike stumble across and through the streets with little order or care. For many of them, it seems as though this is the only time in the day when they're not going somewhere.
In contrast, smaller places like Hakodate, or Fukushima, and even much of Tokyo, lose their bustle entirely. There might be the occasional young man or woman, standing outside a izakaya, trying to entice the last few wandering gaggles of businessmen in, but otherwise, it's as though the entire city has shut down. There are few stray lights in any of the surrounding buildings, and while the periodic street-lamps keep the path ahead visible, they do little to relieve the sleepy calmness that seems to permeate everything. The parks are empty; spots in parking lots are only filled sporadically; and even the bicycles, that are usually littered across Japanese sidewalks, largely disappear.
And there are many, many more varieties still, in different cities and different regions. I find it unfortunate that there are so few photographs of these scenes of Japan—so much focus is put on certain unique things: sakura, Fuji, the Tokyo Metropolis and the like, that the smaller deviations on more familiar things are ignored. If one only looks at these photographs, they may get the sense that Japan is much more different than it may actually be, especially if one's from North America or Europe.
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#20Don't get why everyone's so down on these photos. I enjoyed them. I've spent time over there and they made me nostalgic for travelling there.