Special taste

"Special taste" is a translation on the lantern. Perhaps another one of those tuckout bars which are very common in this part of Tokyo. You can see another bar further down the street on the left.

I was looking for more compositions like Saitama without having to rely on the same lantern. So I eventually found this composition. Lantern was in a great place, excluding the guys at the bar there was no one in the shot somehow, but the shot contained something I worked to avoid here at Omoide, the large white signs that say in full uppercase in english "NO SMOKING" & "RESTROOMS ->" It may be different for locals but seeing that just makes it seem like this was not on location. I settled on keeping the signs (because of complications with the sakura) but eliminating the words.

In editing I carried over a mission I failed to achieve in my last Omoide post, and that was making it look like it was taken later at night. I gave the tokyo sign in the back a lot more light and took all the illumination out of the clouds. The lantern didn't have much clarity so I brought in another one of my shots to fill in the blanks and make it a better subject. Saitama's still my better Omoide lantern shot though (maybe I'll remaster it).

I don't know if this is the best shot to start a new month with but it's been a while since I posted on this place. Hell, some sites I visited in Japan still have yet to show up at all on the site. There's no pattern in my processes I can tell you that.

Done