Pot

A pot on a shelf outside a shop in Brick Lane, London. Found In: Hipsters in the Wild

Creative Splurges Daily Photo
A Night At The Grocery.

I didn't do any panoramas for a while and I really felt happy doing this. I didn't expect much because the location is "mundane", but shooting at night changed everything. This is why I always say: Night photography is more interesting than daytime photography.
The clouds you see here are REAL even though they weren't visible to the naked eyes. Only when I reviewed the shots at home, I saw the clouds.
I was expecting the shoot to take a long time, but surprisingly it didn't.

To those who like the technical details, here we go: I shot this with 15mm (fisheye) which I always use for panoramas. On location, I've pointed the camera in the direction of the playground gate (on the right) and took a shot with a "white balance disk" to calibrate the WB; In such night scenes, I prefer to use a calibrated WB instead of picking my own unless there is a good reason to pick a specific WB (at night, I often use Tungsten or Fluorescent WB). The aperture was set to F/9. The exposure was somewhat a delicate issue here. I could've used the "Av" and let the exposure time vary, but I know this can be troublesome later when I make the HDR slides. So, I metered the light coming from the strongest light source in the scene and the darkest spot in the scene (the ground); the difference was 6 stops. Next, I've set the exposure to the middle value and set the camera to shoot in brackets of 3 stops (-3, 0, 3) to include that range of stops. Something I seldom do actually because most of the time I would shoot at (-2, 0, 2). With this done, I was still worried about the pitch black sky and how to stitch it later, and to my surprise, there were indeed some clouds hovering over me without seeing them! This said, I didn't pay attention to my shadow which caused some troubles later on as I processed the images.

#panorama #panoramic #grocery #shop #shops #night #dark #midnight #HDR #urban #urbanexploration #goodmorning

Artisan bakers. Damned fine sourdough. #shops #Photography

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/01/17/180737

Today's photo: Dam (1891 - 1892).

[EN] Olie's sons in front of Rudolf Hofhuis's "English Gentleman's Fashion Store". The store opened here on the corner of Nieuwendijk in 1891. The building was designed by G.W. Vixseboxse.

[NL] Jongens Olie voor het "Engelsch Heerenmodemagazijn" van Rudolf Hofhuis, dat sinds 1891 gevestigd was hier op de hoek Dam-Nieuwendijk. Architect was G.W. Vixseboxse.

Via https://020apps.nl/olie/random/ #Amsterdam #JacobOlie #Dam #GWVixseboxse #shops

If "someone" says New York City can not do publicly owned and run groceries, please tell them that the United States federal government has been doing just this for many decades.

Thousands of them right now.

Heck, even tax free.

Read up on the US military's Post Exchange (PX) and Commissary systems.

Of course, Whiskey Pete is trying to privatize these as we speak.

#food #public #grocery #socialism #shops