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January 15th, 2008 12:26am JST (7 months ago)

An outdoor light installation of blue, near the Tokyo Midtown mall, in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 20mm — ¹/30 sec, f/4, ISO 500 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Extremely Blue

Those who have been in Roppongi (an area of Tokyo) recently will likely have seen this outdoor light installation, and will realize that all the white lights mixed in with the blue above are really blue lights that were so bright that they “blew out” all the color channels on my camera's digital sensor, leaving only white.

For those not having seen it in person, let's just say that it was a really, really blue area.

Followups and related posts:

January	27th,	2008	Roppongi Hills Dog Boutique, Etc.
June	18th,	2008	“HDR”, and Why I Don't Do It
August	6th,	2008	Why Does “Brightness” Wash Colors to White?

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it’s so blue it hurts! yoko and i were at midtown one night and went to see the display. but afdter a few minutes the intensity of the blue lights became uncomfortable. it took
away from the rest of the illumination. after the blue lights we appreciated the natural
colors and low light on the walk back to the station entrance….

— comment by kevin on January 18th, 2008 at 5:48pm JST (7 months ago) — comment permalink