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Complimentary Iced Coffee
Complimentary Iced Coffee
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Challenge: Coffee Shop (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Pentax *ist DS
Location: Utsunomiya, Japan
Date: Oct 1, 2005
Aperture: f4
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Still Life, Food and Drink
Date Uploaded: Oct 2, 2005

 The Yamato Coffee Shop was closed during the week for renovations, and we went in on the first day of reopening. Apart from coffee from all around the world, they sell traditional craftwork like pottery, bamboo craft and textiles, as well as coffee paraphenalia (grinders from Germany, for example). I asked if I could take photos but the manager said no - but it seemed to be all right if I took a photo or two of my complimentary coffee.

Converted from RAW, cropped, adjusted contrast, hue and saturation. Resized and USM. Then saved and wrung through NeatImage to get rid of the noise caused by the low light conditions.

Statistics
Place: 34 out of 154
Avg (all users): 5.6572
Avg (commenters): 7.1538
Avg (participants): 5.1765
Avg (non-participants): 5.7880
Views since voting: 999
Views during voting: 420
Votes: 318
Comments: 16
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/11/2005 02:39:08 PM
is that coffee?
 10/11/2005 12:34:08 AM
love the oriental-meets-west kind of thing :) nicely done!
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 10/10/2005 12:29:43 PM
it looks like tea
 10/08/2005 11:36:26 PM
Something about this scene makes everything (particularly the plant) look fake. Too much sharpening &/or NeatImage, perhaps? Aside from looking artificial, I really like the composition of this shot; the only thing I think I'd change would be to make the distance between the edges of the frame and the subjects (particularly reed and the bottom corner of the trey) more even.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/08/2005 10:25:41 AM
Dont love the ligthing, seems a bit unnatural and flat
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/07/2005 09:48:50 PM
nice colors
 10/07/2005 10:23:38 AM
Nice use of composition & texture
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/06/2005 06:34:41 PM
Hmmm. Would have been more convincing with tea. But - nice photo and great composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/06/2005 11:26:10 AM
Nice composition.
 10/05/2005 11:37:34 PM
soup in a bowl, interesting.
 10/05/2005 09:23:53 PM
nice 10
 10/05/2005 09:02:52 PM
the colors need more punch. More contrast between the table and the tray.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2005 06:58:11 PM
Myself, I think a far tighter crop would have been stronger here. take off even the corners of the wood platter, so you see most the it's edge and a bit of table still, but the focus is up close on the coffee.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 10/05/2005 03:19:55 PM
very artistic shot, I have never seen coffee served this way in TN!-7
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 10/05/2005 07:33:26 AM
Nice oriental feel. 10.
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 10/04/2005 08:43:47 PM
where can i go for a coffee service like that??? : ) lovely.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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