Tokyography

Alive-At-Night: Film Your Adventure

Shooting at night is one of the hardest challenges in photography. Even professionals struggle when there is not enough light, with photos often turning out blurry, full of noise, or just unclear. The city’s thousand neon signs and lampposts cannot recreate the intensity and concentration of daylight.

Many turn to flash as a solution. Yet, as most professionals will tell you, this has many drawbacks. Even assuming that you didn’t leave the bulky flash and accoutrements at home, its beam overpowers natural tones and shades, making the atmosphere appear artificial. The best use of flash remains for planned photographic shoots.

So, how do we capture that evening mood, the perfect setting for intimacy, mystery, and perhaps introspection? The dusk requires a special, delicate treatment.

If you’d like to know how best to replicate the complexity and excitement of urban nights, both through portrait and landscape photography, join us for our special Alive-At-Night course.
Course content:

* Introduction to Night-time Photography
* Equipment and Lenses
* Enjoying the City Lights
* Night Landscapes
* Light Painting and Long Exposure
* Noise
* Slow Sync
* Variety of Night Shoots
* Night-time portraits

> There will be 6 group lessons every Friday, from 7 am to 9 pm.

> Beginning February 14th.

> Price: ¥40,000.

Info: [email protected]

Learn photography while having fun in Tokyo!

Tokyo is, in essence, a traditional city hidden under a veil of hyper technology, chaos and energy. It is a city of layers, where streets often are without names and addresses written backwards. For all of these reasons it is arguably the most interesting city to learn how to navigate… and photograph. Join us on one of our excursions to explore the maze of Tokyo backstreets and a peek into its mysterious charm and persona. Please visit our website and see our excursions: tokyography.com/excursions

The countryside of Tokyo

In popular imagination, Tokyo is a vibrant metropolis. The city of lights, neons, skyscrapers, bullet trains ripping through the skies, robots, and everyday technology. In fact Tokyo is like that, especially downtown. But there is a side of Tokyo that few people know, where the huge buildings give way to rivers and technology gives way to simple country life. This is the far suburb of Tokyo, the city's last urban frontier, near mountains, valleys and rivers. In these places the urban spot blends with the farms creating amazing scenarios for photography. The citizen is also different, since without the urban bustle, they have more time to greet and exchange a smile. Worth knowing!

Enjoy to know these beautiful places and study photography! Please email us at [email protected] and schedule a photo excursion with us.

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"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."

- Richard Avedon