Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => Street Showcase => Topic started by: Chris Kern on May 31, 2018, 10:02:11 pm
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I snapped the photo below tonight while my wife and I were waiting for our dinner to be served in the suburban New Jersey hotel where we're staying overnight enroute to see a couple of Broadway shows in New York City. (I decided some years ago that I would never again attempt to drive into Manhattan during evening rush hour.)
Alas, my experience is that there's isn't much you can do technically with a low-light cellphone capture, even if you are working with the raw sensor data. You either have to put up with noise or scrap the picture. I liked the postures and expressions of the bartender and the two girls in the left lower corner of the frame well enough that I decided I could tolerate the noise.
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The noise doesn't distract from a fine image. The line up of figures make the image.
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What noise?
I often add noise and grain; I don't like digital bland or anodyne.
Hugging girls are more interesting than screens. Unless they, too, are filled with yet more hugging girls, for example.
What a depressingly garish place. Brave the traffic next trip!
;-)
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What noise?
I often add noise and grain; I don't like digital bland or anodyne.
Hugging girls are more interesting than screens. Unless they, too, are filled with yet more hugging girls, for example.
What a depressingly garish place. Brave the traffic next trip!
;-)
I don't think it's garish at all. It's very American.
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I don't think it's garish at all. It's very American.
Is that necessarily a contradiction? ;)
Jeremy
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I don't think it's garish at all. It's very American.
Oh well. Nothing's perfect.
Just wait until the new steel and aluminium import taxes retaliation strikes back; it'll all get much worse better.
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Is that necessarily a contradiction? ;)
Jeremy
Now, now, Jeremy.
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A British bartender wouldn't' have those pearly whites :D
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A British bartender wouldn't' have those pearly whites :D
Nor, sadly, does at least one British barrister (which is how I first read your comment).
Jeremy
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It was an unexpected disaster when disco lights were able to reveal capped teeth as such.
That's what killed disco, not the Travolta movie.
I suppose staff get tested for these thing today.
Strange thing: beautiful teeth make a face, more or less, yet whenever I see a woderful set (of teeth) I can't help thinking of the entire skull sans the meat. I really have no explanation for it.
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I like the noise level: it suits the subject. :)
Last time I drove to NYC I parked my car in Hoboken, then took the ferry over to Manhattan. Stayed in my usual downtown hotel and got around as usual via the trains. Me and the 9 go back a long ways!
-Dave-