Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great shot Mark. If I'm ever back in the big apple I'll be sure to visit Nick's. Looks like my kind of place too. How did you get the blue cast, Photoshop? Works here. Jim Laird On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/110120_202619.jpg.html > > I shot this January 20th with my 85 1.8 after dark. Or during dark. A few > blocks from me its the 24 hour Big Nick's Pizza & Burger Joint. A New York > institution. > The door on the left you go in and its Pizza. The left its Burger. ?But > It's > really the same place and one of the more graphically interesting places > I've ever hung out in. its filled on the walls with small signs and Glossys > of actors. And the menu is page after page after page you can get also lost > in the typography and forget to be thinking about what you might order. > There is a key scene in Midnight Cowboy in which it was either Viva or > Ultra > Violet had Dustin Hoffman and John Voight a ticket to an Andy Warhol party > which they later attend and steal all the food they can pocket. They watt > all the way in the back against the back wall. Its interesting to be sat in > that very seat at this point. ?Its 1969 all over again. > > You can see as you slide from left to right if you hit the enlarge button > in > the image you can get either ostridge or buffalo burgers. But no tofu > versions of these. But plenty of veggie options for me. But in general they > have everything. And they have it at 4:30 in the morning. My kind of place. > But if you sit outside its not fresh air. Its cigarette smoke. So you sit > inside. ?When the smokers don't own the sidewalks I will be a happy guy. > > This shot I decided to have been a seamless stitch I guess. > So I'm getting wide with a tele. > Its always what you don't think. And I didn't have to stand in the middle > of > Broadway to do it. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >