Nanzen-ji Sanmon

This entrance gate to the Nanzen-ji temple in Kyoto looks to me a lot like the gate in the Kurosawa movie Rashomon, under which the characters are hiding from the rain.

Geisha shrine on Shinbashi-dori

More HDR from Yasaka

I really love the results from our late night tripod photo shoot on the temple grounds of the Yasaka temple in Kyoto.



I will move on to other subjects. Any week now, I promise!

Yasaka Shrine HDR — surreal

Using the “surreal” settings from the HDR engine in Photoshop CS5, and tweaking the settings, you can arrive at a completely different entity altogether. I rather like this result; and it's starkly different from yesterday's version!

Yasaka shrine HDR

A photorealistic HDR take on the entrance to the Yasaka shrine in the middle of the night. Stay tuned for other results from the same source files!

Yakata Shrine entrance by night

Starting out with a triple of images, taken to produce an HDR image of the Yakata Shrine entrance (coming up soon!), we noticed that the +2ev picture had great potential.

Played around a little in Photoshop, and — voila!

The Ikuta Shrine

The main gates at the Shrine at Ikuta, the shrine that gave name to the city Kobe. I went there today with a few jetlagged mathematicians; and we were lucky enough to witness parts of a Shinto wedding ceremony while walking the grounds.