The Golden Gai is a truly magical place that is located in Kabuki-cho, the Shinjuku district a place that never sleeps in Tokyo
It is an area with many small bars that accommodate five to ten customers each and are really very small. The streets that surround the golden gai are all alleys and is famous for being the meeting place for artists, musician and actors
Although it has been a couple of nights at the Golden Gai in search of of a particular photographic point that struck my attention and I found this colorful and characteristic alley that contain the essence of Golden Gai
Despite is a place of small bars inside Golden Gai the atmosphere was really calm in the streets, while if you enter one of these bars you find a completely different atmosphere of cheerful people
WORKFLOW EXPLANATION
These are single shots images, I started working them opening the images in camera raw to get the major adjustments to white balance highlights and shadows
Once opened the images in Photoshop I used TTS PRO to launch dodge and burn with I decreased the lights of the lamps and increased the lights around the darker areas. Final steps was to increase a bit the details and fix contrasts.
TECNHNICAL STUFF
Camera: Nikon D-800
Lens: Nikon 14-24mm f/2,8 (Shot at 15mm)
Single Exposures
ISO: 500 at f/2,8
Software: Photoshop CC2018
Plugin: TTS Pro
