Japan - Night Shots, Tokyo Skytree

Taken but a short distance from where yesterday's post was captured, this one was a bit trickier because there was no supporting post or wall to steady the camera at the necessary angle...it was shot handheld while sitting on a sidewalk bench.

Volume was the key here.  After settling on a 1/8-second shutter speed via trial and error it was just a matter of snapping away until achieving results that weren't too blurry.  Even so the image had to be sharpened twice during post-capture.


Didn't know it at the time but at its completion this was the second tallest building in the world!  Would like to check out the observation decks should we ever venture that way again.