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Published: 2016-07-24 02:44:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 23046; Favourites: 521; Downloads: 19
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Overlooking love hotels in Ikebukuro.This image is available as a 4k wallpaper (3840x2160) for purchase on DA
You can also donate on my Patreon and get access to all of my 4k wallpaper (3840x2160) content including this image!
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Thank you! I enjoyed your critique: thorough, honest, and well argued.
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Glad it was decent
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You must have been there pretty early in the morning. I used to live in that area, (yeah, I know...) and it's surprising to see all the streets so clear.
Beautiful shot.
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That's right. It was about 3:00 am.
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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? If you did not tell that it is a photograph i couldn't tell. Awesome!
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Thank you! It is fantasy, but the real life view is even more fantastic!
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It's always amazing how you can make a very real place seem so unreal!
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Thanks! There is something about viewing the city from the rooftops. And of course there is a bit of post-production in this one due to the extreme contrast between the neon sign and the streets below.
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That IS an interesting building center-of-photo. Industrial up top, traditional European down below. Buttresses I've not seen except on medieval cathedrals, done in modern materials. Whole thing oddly shaped to fit the street corner. Neighbors not any more normal in architecture. Next to a pretty hefty rail yard, so, I'm guessing there's industry nearby?
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Yeah that's a Japanese love hotel for you! They are often a random mishmash of various styles, designed to be as gaudy and eye-catching as possible. On the right is not a train yard but simply the various train lines that come out of Ikebukuro station. There are 3 lines here with 2 directions each, for a total of 6+ tracks. There is no industry as this is in the heart of the city.
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I stand corrected. That's a lot of train tracks though, in the states, where I live, normally something like that is by a factory. I forget Japan is passenger train heavy.
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Yes, extremely heavy!
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Thank you very much!!
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Thanks! I'll take that as a compliment.
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It is! Either way it'd be brilliant looking
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So how would it look in 4K Either here's something missing or you will be cropping this.
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4k just means the resolution. This picture is 1280x853. At 4k the resolution would be 3840x2560, so well suited as a wallpaper for very large screens. Maybe I should explain that more clearly.
Basically I'm selling it as a wallpaper for 70 points on DA.
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OK as you wrote so prominent 4K I was thinking of the standard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolβ¦
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Yeah that is what I'm talking about. In fact, it's mentioned in the wiki article you link:
"4K UHD is a resolution of 3840 pixels Γ 2160 lines (8.3 megapixels , aspect ratio 16:9) and is one of the two resolutions of ultra high definition television targeted towards consumer television"
You can download this photo at a resolution of 3840x2160, which would be displayed without any upscaling on a 4k monitor. Hence why it would make a good wallpaper.
I'll make it more clear that it's the resolution I'm referring to.
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That means that my original question remains as this image is 3:2 which is no 16:9. Ad ergo either something missing, or something to much. As you say the original is a 3:2 of 3840x2560 and you are offering it as a 16:9 of 3840x2160 you are cropping and the end result is not visible here.
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Ah sorry! I misunderstood the cropping question. Yeah, you are right. I cropped the high-res version to fit 16:9. I also realized I typed 2560 in my first comment and 2160 in my second one. The version on sale is 3840x2160. Do you think it's preferred to go with 3:2, 3840x2560?
The reason I crop it is because most monitors these days are 16:9 and I want to make sure the crop is at the best possible place and not arbitrarily in the center.
Sorry again for the confusion!
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It doesn't matter really and for starters why not offer both formats in 1 file? Point was that now you can't see what you are buying
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That is a good idea!
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I thought it was 3D art at first. It's very neat.
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Is it good or bad that the image is so tidy and crisp that it looks like a 3D render...?
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It's a matter of taste of course. I take it as a compliment!
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I had the exact same thoughts
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I love this image. I am from a big city and have moved to a small town and hate it. This image makes me "feel" like I'm back in Houston.
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Thank you very much! Glad it can bring back memories!
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For a moment I thought its a digital drawing - well done you 
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Thank you very much! I take that as a huge compliment!!
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