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Challenge: Convenience/Grocery Store (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: Prescott, ON
Date: Oct 28, 2012
Aperture: f.4
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Date Uploaded: Oct 28, 2012

 It took quite awhile to find a good convenience store that didn't have that dreary chainstore feel to it. I like Mom'n'Pop operations, and in the country, convenience stores often serve as general stores where you can buy anything from the usual smokes, candy and snacks to gumboots, fishing and hunting equipment to coffee and a lunch counter. Which this one did happen to have, happily.

Like this shot a lot, cause I shot blind! I had the camera and Siggy around my neck when I followed in Ryan (aka Magnumphotography), who was jonesing for java and smokes. So I just wandered around and discreetly hit the shutter button every so often (lens wide open and wb set to auto in that horrible fluorescent lighting) then was more obvious when I shot Red at the counter. I don't think the customer at the lunch counter knew I got pics of him. Ryan's at the coffee counter to the right.

pp: shot RAW, crop, brightness/contrast, vibrance/saturation, minor cloning, dodge and burn, desaturate, more brightness, resize, sharpen, save for web

Post-challenge notes: Thanks all for the comments! Shooting blind is fun! I think the man at the counter was a pastor as he was wearing a suit and a dog collar. Which added to the incongruity :-)

Statistics
Place: 16 out of 43
Avg (all users): 5.6667
Avg (commenters): 7.2500
Avg (participants): 5.6522
Avg (non-participants): 5.6701
Views since voting: 544
Views during voting: 243
Votes: 120
Comments: 10
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Nikon D200
Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS
 11/05/2012 03:46:33 PM
Good lines, good use of the frame, and good eye movement.
If I had to nit-pick I would say get rid of the guy on the right (as he does not add too much). Unless you were looking for that same kind of head pose that both seem to mimic.
Wonderful contrasts, I would have thought this would have done much better.
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Sony Alpha a1 II
Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS
 11/05/2012 11:11:54 AM
I really liked this one -- not even quite sure why -- it just resonates very nicely!
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Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 11/05/2012 06:57:07 AM
I liked this a great deal, the emptiness, the feeling we all know of being in a convenience store that should be mobbed but its strangely empty. Photographically, the contrast, the floor pattern, it's quite interesting.
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Ricoh GR III
Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC
 11/05/2012 03:07:16 AM
just as good if not better than any.
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Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
11/05/2012 01:59:39 AM
Classy shot. Best of the bunch.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
OM System OM-5
Olympus 17mm f/1.8 M.Zuiko
11/04/2012 01:00:06 PM
well that's convenient:)
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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 11/04/2012 12:21:08 PM
Such a strange sense of isolation around the diner
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Olympus E-5
Olympus 12-60mm f/2.8-4.0 Zuiko
 11/02/2012 09:00:25 PM
Nice so many details to look at, nice exposure and tones and like how the lines in the tiles pull me in
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Canon EOS R6
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 10/31/2012 04:32:44 PM
It's great that that guy is wearing a suit.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L II
 10/31/2012 03:03:05 PM
My choice for the yellow.
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