If one in this series of photographs stays permeated by the warmth of neon lights and of certain urban elements, surely you would think that you are looking at another work of digital art of great depth that takes hyperrealism to another level.
But when one starts to look for more details in the captures taken and he meets people, as characters that participate in that urban architecture, he begins to realize that he is before a sublime work in the field of photography by Masashi Wakui.
Photographs in which it seems that HDR (high dynamic range) has done its own thing to capture what usually happens on those streets of Tokyo. A series of shots taken by photographer Masashi Wakui that look like more illustrations from an anime movie or one of those manga art books that we can find in one of the specialized stores.
Wakui really brings us the magic of the streets of Tokyo to a series of photographs that each one of them is impregnated with that atmosphere that can be collected when the sun goes down and the famous Japanese streetlights take center stage for flood every nook with its beam of light and corner that transmit that nostalgic feeling to something old and modern at the same time.
As if they were part of one of the shots from the sci-fi movie Blade Runner, Wakui takes neon to its maximum expression in each of them to create even a totally surreal atmosphere. It uses high-performance compact cameras and alters the color to make it more vivid and have that magical feeling in each of the city's nightlife scenes.
You have his Flickr y Twitter to follow the path of this excellent photographer.
If you want to meet a mother with her iPhone and his talent.