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One of the many cafes we have in Melbourne. C&C welcomed.
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Being a solitaire kind of person I just love these symbolic pics of ”the end of day” - my only critique would be a crop on the left hand side to remove all of the menu blackboard. It does not add to the image.

I'd crop that blackboard and clone that red thing on the right hand side... and maybe lighten that area where the bottles are a little just to give your eye something to travel to... but apart from all my nitpicking I do like it... its a scene that most - including myself - would have just walked past and not bothered to think of shooting...

I think one of the reasons I like this image is the fact that I managed to get such rich depth in terms of light. On the full version of it, you can see all the way into the dark areas while the light from the coke machine isn't blown out. In fact there is as much detail in side the coke machine as there is in the dark places. There are issues with it, no doubt, and I agree with the cropping. But this is cafe life as I see it and indeed engage in. Its about as far away from Starbucks as Rome is from Australia.

Nigell wrote:I think one of the reasons I like this image is the fact that I managed to get such rich depth in terms of light. On the full version of it, you can see all the way into the dark areas while the light from the coke machine isn't blown out. In fact there is as much detail in side the coke machine as there is in the dark places. There are issues with it, no doubt, and I agree with the cropping. But this is cafe life as I see it and indeed engage in. Its about as far away from Starbucks as Rome is from Australia.

I agree, the full size image does have so much more to give than the smaller one posted in this thread

I think it works really well. At first viewing I felt like it was panning in towards the fridge, as if it was the start of a creepy sequence of a horror film, there being a goulie in the fridge. So i suppose that makes the image moody and emotive, at least for me anyway. Nice

love this
great mood
well done =)