I haven`t forgot about my own blog, just that my Macbook Pro has been in the shop since Sunday. They`re slow about fixing it this time :(. Heading to Tokyo again, but this time by “high speed bus” 高速バス”. Round trip cost: 8,620 yen, travel time: 12 hours to and back. Shinkansen, Round trip cost: 21,000 yen, Travel time 3 hours 20 minutes. It really depends on how much you value your time I suppose :P. I`m giving the busses a shot because I haven`t done it before though, not really for the money.Well in the mean time, enjoy more night shots that I took on the way to the Apple Shop for repairs.
Nagoya Meitetsu Station (where I switch trains to get home from Nagoya)
One more picture from my serious business series! Karaoke is also series business in Japan. I`ll get into details another time, but where else do you find an 8 story building devoted entirely to karaoke rooms? Sure beats what we get in Canada.Whoa… Giant Karaoke Parlour. Kanayama, Nagoya.
Whoa... Giant Karaoke Parlour. Kanayama, Nagoya.
Well that`s all for now. I hope you like the pictures! I put in a lot more effort into learning about ISO settings and tried out a bunch of settings for these pictures. Still no tripod… I really should get one before hanami.
A Foreigner's Tale in Japan 
Those night photos are much clearer with the increased-ISO and quickened-Shutterspeed settings. You’re still getting some fuzziness around moving things (people), but experimenting with slightly-quicker shutter speeds can erase that (you can compensate for the quicker shutter speeds with less exposed pictures, or you can ramp the ISO up to 800).
Or, for a cool effect, find something that’s moving (car, person, whatever), lower your shutter speed (only a little. Especially if the object’s moving quickly), then try panning with the movement to get a background-motion-blur.
If you go to Akihabara and you see Danny Choo. Take a picture with him and show us. ^_^
Glad to see your Mac Book got fixed finally ^_^. Have fun on the bus. If you’re bored during the ride, I’m almost always free to talk to you, so fire off an e-mail to me. Have a fun time.
Yes a picture with Dannychoo would be sick! =D
@Robostrike: I really want to go back to school now. Just seems like there’s more time to do stuff.
hope your computer’s back in running condition soon!
12 hours is a pretty hefty amount of traveling… too bad you don’t have a jr pass! given your extended stay, perhaps there might’ve been one that was worth it…
i’ve always wanted to try karaoke, still have never been ^^;; unfortunately my repertoire outside of anime op/ed and game music is pretty limited ^^;;;; i imagine that’s why i haven’t been very active trying to find a place here in the states… what american karaoke place is going to have the op from spice & wolf or shakugan no shana, etc … ^^;;;
@chris: Thanks for the advice, I`m slowly easing myself out of the automodes and using the semi auto modes for now. I was using the manual aperature, auto shutter speed setting for some of these photos. I`ll probably try to manually alter the shutter speed next time.
@Robostrike: Dannychoo seems to be so busy outside of Akihabara :P, I doubt I@ll see him there.
@Meronpan: 12 hours absolutely stinks, especially in a terribly cramped bus. But if it wasn`t for that I`d be even more overbudget than I am now. And I STILL have to go to Mikufes next weekend.