Lisa Cirincione, QPSA, AFIAP
February 2024 - Midnight Diner
About the Image(s)
The Midnight Diner: On a walk home one evening, saw this quaint diner, full of people. It was the still the days of Covid, but there were still a lot of people out on the streets enjoying the Olympic events and late night dinners.
I didn’t have time that night to stop and eat there, and paraphrasing Robert Frost, “knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should every come back.”
LR editing: small crop of some of the street… not much else.
Date: August 7, 2021
Place: Tokyo, Japan
Camera: iPhone XS Max
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6 comments posted
Love this photo as it truly captures the essence of the city.
I have taken similar photos, which I cropped to just the diner at street level, but this interpretation is very nice as well. Very well balanced. Posted: 02/03/2024 15:45:13
I have taken similar photos, which I cropped to just the diner at street level, but this interpretation is very nice as well. Very well balanced. Posted: 02/03/2024 15:45:13
thank you Sylvie... I liked the ad and the photo of the food at the top of the building. and the purple lighted window in the middle, gives a little mystery of who lives there. And how they smell this delicious food all the time. Posted: 02/27/2024 11:40:10
It seems that the restaurant's business is pretty good. You can see so many people sitting around it at midnight outdoors Posted: 02/11/2024 08:20:42
yes, in the middle of covid, it was very busy... Posted: 02/27/2024 11:40:33
A very nice capture of an interesting subject. I think there might be some lens distortion in the building. I made a copy and corrected this using the transform function in Lightroom. Also added a linear gradient along the bottom to try and improve the lighting and contrast. Posted: 02/11/2024 10:27:02
thanks Gary, there probably was some distortion, I had moved the perspective of my original to make the building to be a bit more straight. in your crop, the building is straight, but it cuts off the bit at the top that I like... Posted: 02/27/2024 11:44:48