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[2007-06-06 21:45:16 +0000 UTC]
"Tim Wilkinson"
(Japan)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1539; Deviations: 163; Watchers: 394
Watching: 139; Pageviews: 35949; Comments Made: 1814; Friends: 139
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Yoshitoshi, Kozyndan, Gez Fry, Yamaguchi AkiraFavorite bands / musical artists: Nick Drake, Dylan
Favorite games: Final Fantasy VI
Tools of the Trade: Pentax K5, Pentax ME Super
Other Interests: Eating, Skateboarding, Acoustic Guitar, Web Design, Screen-printing
# About me
Hi, my name's Tim. I'm from England but I currently reside in Osaka, Japan.I like photography and skateboarding, and try to combine the two whenever I can :)
Current Residence: Osaka, Japan
Favourite genre of music: Folk-tronica
Favourite photographer: Tim Lock
Favourite style of art: Ukiyo-e, Super-Flat
MP3 player of choice: Zen M:Vision
Favourite cartoon character: Captain Murphy
# Comments
Comments: 505
Hi Tim. Absolutely love your photography. You made me homesick for Japan but that's okay
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Your work has been featured here: victorianprincess.deviantart.cโฆ
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Impressive gallery. Definitely worth watching.
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Happy birthday!!
Best wishes from your watcher ^_^
Have a wonderful day today! 
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I really like youre pictures in Japan! Great work!
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I allready watch you, if you dont mind you can watch me back. ใใใใจใ
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Hey Tim, just wanted to say I've spent all morning gaping at your photographs of Japan. They're amazing and I just had to sub!
I was wondering if you could give me little advice actually. I've just got back from my year abroad in Kobe ad I've got some 30 odd photographs that I want to upload, but I don't really know much about the process of making them look so amazing. Of course I appreciate that a large part of it is down to the original photo, and one's own artistic sense, but I was wondering if you could share any tips regarding the enhancing process, for example if you use photoshop what kind of tools you use, etc.
Thanks so much for your time, I love your work.
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Hi! Sorry it took a while to reply.
I used to live in Kobe as it happens. Where did you stay?
You are right that most of the work comes when taking the photo, not just compositionally, but also quality of light (time of day + weather) and technical things like focus and exposure. If any of those are off, it's harder to improve in post.
Although I've dabbled in HDR, I generally try to go easy with photoshop. I shoot RAW (.DNG), which gives me some leeway to improve / fix exposure later.
Generally my workflow is:
1. Open the RAW file in Adobe Camera Raw.
2. Fix whitebalance - eye-dropper + fine adjustments with the sliders.
3. Increase contrast if the image is too flat - s-curve.
4. Increase the exposure while holding the alt key to protect highlights - I usually underexpose when I take the photo to make sure I don't blow out highlights.
5. Increase fill-light if necessary.
6. Run automatic lens corrections (removing distortion and purple fringing).
Once the file is in photoshop I don't usually do anything except noise reduction when necessary and resizing the image for web. Alex Nail has a really good plugin for that: [link]
That sounds like a lot of work when I read it back, but it's really not.
If you aren't shooting RAW, then learn how to use the curves and levels tools. They are the basic tools for correcting white-balance, exposure and contrast.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask!
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Your photos of Japan are absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing them with those of us who can't travel there. Some of them remind me a little of the calendars that Sanyo use to hand to my Dad & each of their employees in Argentina, they displayed a variety of Japanese scenaries: tea houses, rivers, temples, castles, cherry blossoms... all in different seasons of the year. Unfortunately we don't get the calendars anymore but your photographs allowed me to enjoy Japanese landscapes once again. So thank you!!!
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i love your japanese photos! and the cat is really cute too ^_^
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Love the gallery and fantastic work! Can not wait to someday visit Japan.
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I love your gallery. I wish you could join me in my group [link] to share your creations.
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Amazing photo capture's of Japan cultures!
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Just thought I'd drop by to say you have some wonderful photos and would love to be able to use them as possible future reference photos. Of course you'd be credited. Keep up the awesome work, totally watching your gallery to see what else you come up with
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You're from Japan?! Wow!!!!! I always want to go there!!!
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Love your pictures, especially of Japan
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Hey there! Happy birthday
well I hope you have a great one!
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on Fall in New England. This is one of my own favorites in my own gallery. It was October. It was raining and drizzling. The leaves were turning into vivid browns, reds, and orange colors. Nature was getting ready to rest. I'm very pleased you like it. [link]
on City of Gold. This is the golden city on a clear windy night when the smog has been blown away. [link]
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hi there! thanks a lot
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Hi! I really like your gallery too
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Thank you Tim for the
Karine.
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Thanks for the favorites! You have a lot of great shots of Japanese most beautiful locations!
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