DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:
I’ve had a long day of hard work and as we’re entering the late hours of the night, I finally get home. I got a lot on my mind and know I will need to hit the ground running tomorrow, but I can think about that later, right now I need to sleep and put my brain at ease for just a few deserved hours. Only problem is, some youngins thought it would be a great idea to start a rave a few streets down. You can see the flashing lights, and even with earplugs the floor is vibrating and you can hear them chant. There is not enough complaints I can file to the cops to express my frustration, go to sleep already!!
This was one of the biggest planned shots of the trip. I only saw only one frame a long time prior; I never saw the image since and it took almsot a week of searching to find the location, Ohjo Castle. Even worse was figuring out the angle. I had two plans to execute. I surveyed through street view, and then scouted out in the day (already posted a test shot that turned out to be pretty good), so essentially I found it.
This was taken on a stairway to residential apartments above an escort shop (which as an American is weird to see). The several perches that the switchback stairway offered just kept paying up. After coming during the day scouting, I went to go to other locations. Come nightfall, it was time to return. There were bikes and trash bags now outside most of the doors (that’s gotta be a tedious process) and got the shot as close to roof access as I could.
It’s just so bizarre to see a red castle in the middle of cyberpunk-like Shinjuku, it provides an odd contrast to the shoot that surprisingly looks very sharp. In editing I once again had to deal with my greatest enemy, the sky. Once that was done most of the image fell into place, I had to do trial-by-fire a couple of times with contrast that ended looking pretty uneven, but it it wasn’t as painstaking as the sky. This place is free and not that hard to access but I don’t think it’s meant for multiple photographers at once. Maybe I expect too much, with any luck, maybe this will remain a hidden composition.
