Thursday Night in a Suburban Hotel Bar

[Chris Kern]

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.

[stamper]

The noise doesn't distract from a fine image. The line up of figures make the image.

[Rob C]

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!

;-)

[brianrybolt]

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.

[Jeremy Roussak]

I don't think it's garish at all.  It's very American.

Is that necessarily a contradiction? 

Jeremy

[Rob C]

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.

;-)

[RSL]

Is that necessarily a contradiction? 

Jeremy

Now, now, Jeremy.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

 A British bartender wouldn't' have those pearly whites 

[Jeremy Roussak]

A British bartender wouldn't' have those pearly whites 

Nor, sadly, does at least one British barrister (which is how I first read your comment).

Jeremy

[Rob C]

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.

:-)

[Telecaster]

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-