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Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup, Part Three

by Jeffrey Friedl Sun, December 30th, 2012 3:46am JST (11 years, 4 months ago)

Flash Layer of umbrellas hides the crowds at the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) Kyoto Japan -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 highly cropped k— 0.4 sec, f/11, ISO 4000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Flash
Layer of umbrellas hides the crowds
at the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ)
Kyoto Japan

This is the third (and final) post about the annual lightup event in the bamboo forest of the Aarashiyama area of Kyoto, which I went to on a windy, sleety night a couple of weeks ago. (See earlier part 1 and part 2.)

15-Second Exposure melts the moving crowd away a bit -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 15 sec, f/7.1, ISO 80 — map & image data — nearby photos
15-Second Exposure
melts the moving crowd away a bit

30-Second Exposure The photographer in yellow, like me, didn't move much -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 30 sec, f/13, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
30-Second Exposure
The photographer in yellow, like me, didn't move much

The photo collected the many flashes of others' cameras during the 30-second exposure. Here's a crop from the center of the shot above...

Flashes
center crop from the shot above

I tried a quick shot directly of one of the lanterns, which ended up as one might expect, detail in the bright light completely blown out. Still, somehow the result appeals to me...

desktop background image of a Japanese lantern among the bamboo at the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ), Kyoto Japan -- Undetailed Photo of a highly detailed lantern -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 4 sec, f/10, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Undetailed Photo
of a highly detailed lantern

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It's the same kind of high-contrast lantern scene that I used as an example of HDR (“High Dynamic Range”, a misnomer) four and a half years ago in “HDR and Why I Don't Do It”.

Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/40 sec, f/1.4, ISO 10000 — map & image data — nearby photos

Red Umbrella I love it -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/50 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Red Umbrella
I love it

Posed I took a photo of them with their camera, then this one with mine -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/6 sec, f/5.6, ISO 10000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Posed
I took a photo of them with their camera, then this one with mine

Rush of the Crowd -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 0.3 sec, f/8, ISO 10000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Rush of the Crowd

Brief Respite a minute and a half later -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — ¹/4 sec, f/10, ISO 10000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Brief Respite
a minute and a half later

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 0.8 sec, f/4, ISO 400 — map & image data — nearby photos

Paul Barr holding still for a longish (0.8 sec) exposure -- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (嵐山竹やぶ) -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/ -- This photo is licensed to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (non-commercial use is freely allowed if proper attribution is given, including a link back to this page on http://regex.info/ when used online)

Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 0.8 sec, f/4, ISO 800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Paul Barr
holding still for a longish (0.8 sec) exposure

June	18th,	2008	“HDR”, and Why I Don't Do It
December	11th,	2012	Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup
December	21st,	2012	Kyoto Arashiyama Bamboo Forest Lightup, Part Two

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May I use one of your photos for a post I’m doing on my Nanna trip site? I don’t get a lot of traffic and started this site a year ago for my grandchildren.

Normally when someone asks to use a photo, they mention which photo and provide an email address for the response, but in this case I’ll just give you blanket permission to use anything from my blog for your wonderful site. 🙂 —Jeffrey

— comment by Terri Clark on December 3rd, 2017 at 3:35am JST (6 years, 5 months ago) — comment permalink