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hello everybody welcome to tokyo
creative play i'm your host emma and
today i'm here with jordan and achy we
all know jordan but this is achy this is
your first first video with us yeah
probably yeah yeah but we're here to
give you guys a sweet fresh video of us
going around and checking out
instagramable spots in tokyo now aiki is
going to be our photographer he's a
photographer videographer
cinematographer youtuber extraordinaire
so hopefully you take some good pics
right hopefully um
or else where's the confidence hopefully
yeah
but yeah we're gonna go to different
spots in tokyo and see if we can find
some really good instagramable spots i
dressed up a little bit just a little
bit i wore a jumper yeah it's nice it's
a nice one
and yeah we're gonna see if we can get
some good pics to spice up our
instagrams and uh and get the vibe live
going that's the video we're looking for
the vibe but our first spot is a is a he
shrine here is actually in the middle of
tokyo and it has a nice
mixture of old and new with the temple
grounds and more in a cityscape right
above it you want to come to here sharon
popular time is actually middle of june
there's a popular festival there called
the sanomatsuri it's pretty fun come
give it a go yeah well the reason i like
here shrine is kyoto is very far away i
don't like to travel very far because
i'm a tired lady and if i want the cool
photos of fushimi inari you know i can
fake it because we got them right here
in tokyo baby tokyo's got it all
so uh yeah we're gonna get some photos
with the beautiful red gates with the
stairs coming up and uh not have to go
it's all the way to kyoto for it so no
more kyoto we don't need it
i can get much out of the convenience
oh she figured it out she cracked it but
yeah shall we get started and take some
nice insta pics let's go let's go
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down go down
do your thing
a little bit more down yeah go lower all
right good good now come back up
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yeah just
pretend like you're wandering around
nice nice nice
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he's so pretty
oh my god is he a eyes
walking
wow look at that banger shot right there
oh
um i think i started like five years ago
when um i was in london actually i guess
instagram i was going through instagram
and uh like i didn't have any hobbies
that i really liked and at the time you
know things were popping up like travel
videos and all that and i really got
into it and that's where you know i
picked up camera and you know
my journey started from there i do a lot
more videos in general but
photos are awesome too man especially
here in tokyo
try to face maybe
uh
this way
yeah
cool all right
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so for the shot here in ksri um number
one recommendation would be from the top
down view
typically i would shoot on a 35 mil from
here it gets that you know it gets that
really wide angle view um from of jordan
walking up and uh
normally for the most part i think
people will just shoot right in the
center but i like to shoot from the side
a little bit so that you can get that
dynamic feel of the torii gates growing
up from the ground and um
and the and especially if you look at
the lighting here
the sun is shining from the right side
to the left side it gives a little bit
more like a natural lighting and yeah
that's the shot i went for with jordan
um for emma's shot actually we shot it
somewhere around here the shot here was
perfect because the sunlight was shining
down right around here where it you know
it gave a really nice glow to emma's
hair and you can get that really dreamy
vibe here normally for portraits i would
highly recommend shooting on a 35mm or a
50mm because you don't want to get that
really weird feel
of a wide-angle lens especially when
you're shooting people so yeah this is
the spot you should definitely check it
out and yeah
let's go to tokyo tower now hey we're at
our second location which is of course
tokyo tower right across from shiba koen
and of course tokyo tower looks amazing
we'll take some fantasy photos here yeah
but actually took it out i think it
looks good from like every angle but
apparently the spot we're going to is a
little bit special i don't know if i
fully believe it because i've never seen
it but here's hoping okay you ready all
right let's go man take some shots
shot shot everybody
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a couple photos
that is so dark
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let's have a photo of you walking up the
stairs so can you come down like two
stairs two steps
three two one go
all right emma can you go one more time
two one go
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awesome thank you all right what do you
think i like em
i like them a lot it's cool cause like
it is dark down here and it's super
bright outside but i kind of like the
contrast i like it as like a silhouette
shot so it says i'm sure on a cloudy day
it would like be completely different
lighting too so
i like
it
so for this spot um you'll definitely
have to go with a wide-angle lens as you
can see here um it's pretty you're
pretty like you know crumbled up here
and there's not much space between you
and the subjects i use a 16 mil yeah 16
to like 24 i would say the max
yeah somewhere something why would be
the best right now it's 3 p.m and the
light is pretty harsh you're lying it's
4pm
okay and uh
so you're gonna have a lot of contrast
and that's gonna suck uh for the model
so what i do is normally stack photos
what that is you shoot
um you shoot a photo
where it's
overexposed but the lighting is perfect
for the model
and then you shoot another photo
where you just focus on the subject and
in this case it's going to be the tokyo
tower so yeah um you're going to take
you take two of these photos put them in
photoshop and when you stack them the
dynamic range is gonna look perfect and
you're not gonna have anything
overexposed
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so i've been here a couple times but
every time i'm here there's a lot of
tourists here so i would highly
recommend you guys coming like during at
night or like early morning that's the
best time to shoot um and especially at
night you can set up a tripod here and
get some long exposure photos with um
led lights that's gonna look amazing and
that's what a lot of street
photographers do but yeah if you don't
have anything else just bring a tripod
and that should look perfect
for that next spot we've come to
harajuku do you guys like harajuku
fashion fun crazy excellent times but
we're here at a photo spot and it's the
one it's a tokyo plaza you guys might
have seen it before but it's full of
these crazy mirrors and it's really
really good for photos
that's it this spot is really fun to
take photos at but it does get really
busy so you want to come really early in
the morning if you don't want to be
surrounded by a crowd like we are
currently yeah and i feel like right now
you know nobody's really taking photos
of this right now but i feel like when
tourism starts back up again everybody's
going to be here so uh just be ready for
that
but still it's a good spot so let's get
started let's get going guys let's go go
go
bye-bye bye alex we love you three two
one
nice actually
the lighting is perfect oh damn
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three two one
six six six
nice
super clean
that's so nice
let's check it out
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it's around 5 p.m the lighting looks
perfect here as you can see the sun is
like shining right into
the turkey plaza right now you have you
can see jordan's face lighting up real
nice real smooth
he looks fresh as hell
and now for the photo
so i think for this photo i'm just gonna
go down a little bit trying to get
all the mirrors
on him all right three two one
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i shoot on the sony a7s mark iii
it's amazing for videos and um
yeah if you're shooting photos i would
highly recommend the a7r series like the
r3 r4 is perfect
one photo is like
.25 gigabytes which is super heavy
so yeah it's gonna you're gonna have
trouble um
backing up all that footage but this
camera is better for videos which means
the image quality is not as great as the
r series but it's still decent enough
it's better than an iphone anyway so oh
1635 this is the best lens that you can
ever have especially if you're a
landscape photographer man this
is
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because here's the shot guys what do you
guys think it's good yeah the lighting
is amazing right now i loved it i didn't
expect to like this location as much as
i did it's very very fun honestly yeah
very sick okay
all right now for the next spot uh last
location today we're gonna head to
shinjuku shinjuku nice side
i gotcha i sniped up got you let's go
shinjuku our last spot last night
let's get
it okay we have come to our final spot
which is omoide yokocho memory lane nice
always at the same time
full of memories or lack thereof because
everyone's going to forget what happens
down that alley cause it's full of
drinking tons of them oh my gosh is it a
yoga show also known as piss alley
yes piss alley everybody indeed yeah
because of
obvious reasons yeah
yeah but uh we're not gonna be going
down and having a drink we're gonna be
going down
and taking some photos so
let's do it let's do it man last part of
the day last spot let's go let's go
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this spot is one of my favorite spots
here in tokyo shoot especially because
you have all these lanterns and you got
all these uh stores opening up but it's
pretty crowded but if you get it at the
right timing the framing is gonna look
perfect so right now we're gonna shoot
jordan walking towards me in this
chaotic streets
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for this spot i'm gonna be shooting on a
telephoto lens i want the background to
be like compressed
you can have all this imagery in here in
one thing
nice
i think right around like
4 00 p.m 5 p.m this will be the best
because you have a lot of buildings here
so the sunlight gets blocked out real
fast
so that's why uh oh wait
we're done we went to four different
spots it took so many pictures what a
day what a day what is it it was fun
yeah i'm excited to see how they turn
out oh definitely what was your favorite
sport of the day my favorite spot oh god
i didn't even think about it favorite
spot come on man let's go um uh i like
the the fushimi nutty type gates hey hey
he ate shrine yeah yeah shrine i was
very good what was your favorite spot
same part oh this
i really liked the
the harajuku one oh yeah the mirrors i
don't know why i didn't think i was
gonna like that one i thought i'd like
the tokyo tower better but harajuku was
fantastic i enjoyed that a lot yeah
thank you thank you for the one photos
thanks man where are we having a another
another shoot another session oh we have
to have another session oh gosh dude
can't wait hell yeah well let us know in
the comments down below what spot was
your favorite and thank you so much for
taking all the photos today thank you
guys man oh yeah we'll see you in the
next video peace out bye
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yeah try to face on the right side on
the right side yeah cool cool cool
can't see the stairs
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okay let's do a bunch of claps everybody
for the outro
hey