It was a great time of year to visit Toshogu Shrine, despite the renovations taken place. I have lots more photos of Sakura in the main Ueno park and will have those ready to post soon.
Toshogu Shrine, Ueno
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It was a great time of year to visit Toshogu Shrine, despite the renovations taken place. I have lots more photos of Sakura in the main Ueno park and will have those ready to post soon.
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Awesome
Beautiful! Just simply gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. ^_^
Beautiful photos! ^^
Hope to see it such a great scenery one day myself and snap some pictures of it too.
Try using Liveview;raise the camera above your head and take the shot to avoid distracting blurry ppl in the foreground 🙂
have tried that a few times, but live view never seems to get a good focus, particularly with the faster lenses. any ideas?
I suspect it’s still on your default mode for liveview. Liveview defaults to “Tripod mode” which uses a very slow way of focusing (which is ideal for .. tripods) there is a custom menu setting in : shooting menu -> live view -> live view mode -> “hand held” Whilst in live view mode you can use the “info” button to toggle displays including a virtual horizon. Live view meters only once every time you press the shutter half-way; display will black out and pop-in with corrected exposure values. Then press the button all the way in one go for a shot; halfway again will only re-meter; which you`ll have to do everything you look at something else. I do recommend F/5.6 for a wide angle shot in the distance to have everything in focus from left to right. Tough technically liveview should work for faster apertures too; check out the below shot I made using liveview and a 28/2 AIS lens (manual lens) set to 2.8 which is still pretty fast an aperture.
Also whilst i’m at it; do upgrade to the latest D700 firmware if you haven’t. It drastically improves auto white-balance feature !
The first 100 shots I took on my new D700 were with the 1.00 firmware; so I knew how the auto white balance worked; then I noticed the firmware upgrade and it mentions improved auto WB performance; tested it out. And yes ! Quite true ! Especially indoors. The latest version is 1.02. If you don’t already have it I recommend installing it.
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thank you. i will definitely take a look at the firmware now. Had forgotten about that. Also here is a site I follow about latest Nikon news http://nikonrumors.com/
loving these reflections !
All-round great colours and composition
Some great pictures here 🙂 Looking forward to seeing the rest of the Ueno sakura walk-about !
Tough truthfully these pictures also make me heartbroken; according to my original plan I would’ve been in Tokyo starting yesterday for two weeks; however .. big company project with career advancement options for me meant having to (regretfully) cancel it.
Ueno is always my home base for my Tokyo trips as it’s more quieter and down to earth as opposed to staying smack in the middle of Shibuya or Shinjuku. I just love being able to walk to Asakusa (and hop on a ferry to Odaiba) or walk trough the Amayako market street up to Akihabara; or a the simple lovely morning bento munch in Ueno Koen.
Tough on the positive side; not going in April means going in my second favorite Japan season; November for a whole month instead of 2×2 weeks that I usually end up doing 🙂
Keep up the good work with those pictures and will be looking forward to seeing more Ueno action when you’ve sorted trough them; I just can’t get enough of these 🙂
Sounds great. I will try and post the rest tonight. I am sure your November trip will be fantastic 🙂
Wow, the color just pops off the screen. Do you use a polarizer filter on your camera to get those nice blue skies?
By the way, check your blog email. Sent you a reply about ties =)
Ok, Ill check the mail. I should be able to visit the store this week. I don’t use any filters, but the D700 is a full sensor camera so the colors are nice and rich. Thanks for your nice comments 🙂
Out of this whole picture, she is the first thing I looked at. My eyes were drawn to her. I think it’s cause she’s the only one looking at you ^_^
Yes, thats right. Even though it is in the corner of the photo, my eyes also go to that direction 🙂
With this amount of people. How long did it take you to walk from one end to the other?
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From my view point they look like oranges.
by whipcracker
Toshogu Shrine, Ueno, Japan Photo-Post http://bit.ly/b1n3eW Another fine piece of photography. Always amazes me the type of photos taken.
Crowded place but I wouldn’t mind.