THE END IS NIGH: it's snowing in Tokyo!

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Granted it's not much but for Tokyo it's RARE. I've lived here 4 1/2 years now and I've only seen snow like this maybe two or three times. Hardly ever snows here, and the fun thing is, the city pretty much screeches to a halt, as nobody is used to dealing with snow. Streets are empty save for cabs and buses, there's snow all over the place because nobody plows anything, trains get delayed and often stopped... good times!
 
it snowed while i was there... (end of december).. kind of sludgy though, didn't settle.. and i went out without a hat on , had my head frozen, and spent the 10 hour trip home with a head cold feeling like crap :p
 
This must be related to Japan's moonbase somehow.

Olimario: there are numbers between 0 and 100, you know.
 
My house looks like a nice winter wonderland
 
olimario said:
I know you didn't ask for it, but I edited it a bit.
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I don't mind, but it's really not necessary. IMO, photos are often better left as is; yours looks sharper and has more contrast, but it also looks fake. The scene did not look like that when I was out there; you know what I mean?
 
john tv said:
I don't mind, but it's really not necessary. IMO, photos are often better left as is; yours looks sharper and has more contrast, but it also looks fake. The scene did not look like that when I was out there; you know what I mean?
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I know what you mean. I guess it's my view that the camera usually decreases natural contrast and desaturates usually vibrant colors. I use photoshop to correct the damage.
 
olimario said:
I know what you mean. I guess it's my view that the camera usually decreases natural contrast and desaturated usually vibrant colors. I uses photoshop to correct the damage.
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You uses photoshop well.
 
I will be scared when it starts snowing like that in Osaka. Although it was coming down at a pretty good clip when I went to Kobe last weekend.
 
Do you have any other high resolution (aka wallpaperable) pics of tokyo street? I need a new wallpaper pronto. I just love the look of japanese streets
 
Surprisingly today as the Kanto region gets its snow covering, up here in Aomori we have the first day of no-snow+blue skies+sun in who knows how many weeks. I think you guys are stealing our daily weather from us for today, though I hear we'll be getting it back by tonight/tomorrow morning :\
 
I thought snow was common in Japan. Considering how relatively good they are at winter sports, ski jumping especially.
 
Snow is common in the northern regions as I recall. The lower regions (like Kanto) get snow infrequently because of the geography of the region. I mean, Winter in Tokyo and Nagoya is apparently like Seattle (from what I've heard) most of the year so it's very comfortable weather in actuality.

I REALLY want to visit Sapporo in Winter time the next time I go to Japan. I want to see their matsuri =O.
 
John TV you should post pics of Tokyo more often for us poor Japan-Loving Whores

That said... Uhmm so I take it Japan does not believe in underground wires? Is that because of Earthquakes?
 
It snowed like crazy up here. I think in all we probably got about four inches, but it's quickly melting off the flat surfaces. Still makes the trees look pretty, though.
 
john tv said:
Hell yeah! Those guys rule, though they're also responsible for all the damn potholes... :D
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That's fine! You can't feel those potholes when you're riding in the subway! But it sure is nice not having to worry about icy subway steps!!

You should check out Jerusalem some day. Snows there like once or twice a decade.
 
olimario said:
I guess it's my view that the camera usually decreases natural contrast and desaturates usually vibrant colors. I use photoshop to correct the damage.
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The human eye can see about 12 to 14 stops of contrast, while a digital camera only 8 or 9. What that means is that in a scene with a full range of brightness, you'll be able to see details with your eye that the camera sees as pure black or pure white, because it doesn't have as much range. So in actuality, it's creating more contrast than actually exists, and increasing contrast over the whole picture can destroy even more detail. Concerning color, people generally like more vibrant colors in their photos, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the original's colors are washed out. Your photos are closer to the oversaturated pictures you'd see in magazines than ones tweaked for color accuracy.
 
Hah, the snow fucking up public life sound very familiar, the same is happening here, public transport stopping/failing, damn, the country almost seems like a '80's Eastern European country, deserted, empty, snowy.
 
It seems like it's snowing everywhere, I remember when snow used to be rare-ish in the UK but it seems to happen every week this year o_O
 
Suerte said:
It seems like it's snowing everywhere, I remember when snow used to be rare-ish in the UK but it seems to happen every week this year o_O
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Yep, now I have to de-snow my car every morning :S
 
Shouta said:
I REALLY want to visit Sapporo in Winter time the next time I go to Japan. I want to see their matsuri =O.
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Both times I've been to the yuki matsuri it's been too warm and all the sculptures were melting. The first time they even put out signs apologizing for the weather. I hope one day I can go and see the festival in all its glory :)
 
olimario said:
I know what you mean. I guess it's my view that the camera usually decreases natural contrast and desaturates usually vibrant colors. I use photoshop to correct the damage.
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I guess you only play around with digital cameras? I think you'd still need to spend over 1000 to get a digital camera that matches the light intensity of a traditional one.
 
BugCatcher said:
What kind of traditional camera? Everything I've read has said that film only has a latitude of 5-7 stops, even less than digital.

http://www.photoreview.com.au/Articlexasp/13f37675-e17f-4011-8d82-9943db73c239/Default.htm
http://photoinf.com/Image_Balance/Bob_Radcliff/Five_Stops_From_The_Edge.htm
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I'm not well versed in this stuff, I had read an article about a year ago saying that the light range and resolution of digital cameras were only equal to or eclipsed 35mm on the professional equipment level. I certainly don't keep up with this info, and I could have been misinformed in the first place.
 
Aah. I remember reading that the resolution of 35mm film is equivalent to something like 17 megapixels. There are digital cameras with that kind of resolution, but I think it's like those huge LCD TVs at trade shows; proof that it can be done, but not something that's on the market.
 
well, resolution is hard to compare, when someone quotes the resolution of a 35mm camera it's more of an estimation I'd say. So I've read anywhere from 12 megapixels and up.
 
For some reason, I thought the first photo was from a game... :lol :lol
But really, it looks..."articifical"...maybe it's the lack of lighting? :P
 
I didn't know the snow in Tokyo was that scarce. Perhaps Dokimeki Memorial was taking place in Hokkaido. ;) (just kidding.)

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Deathcraze said:
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:lol

I think it's really funny that the whole city shuts down when it snows. I can just see the scared little Japanese people scurrying inside, fleeing from the horrors of the frozen ice crystals!
 
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