Anyone bored tonight and want to offer me some advice on what to do to make a kinda cool picure even cooler?
Backstory - we've got a nice Chinese restaurant that has been right next door to Rocket Music for 15 or so years. Ever since Danny and I took over Rocket a few years ago, the restaurant owners have been super nice to us. We like to joke that we're members of the "Free Egg Roll" club, mainly because we actually are. They're always throwing in extra food when we eat there. The owners are very generous towards us, and it's always been greatly appreciated.
I've only briefly mentioned our second "new building" disappointment - well, you're looking at it. The owners of the restaurant have been trying to retire for a couple years now, and we had finally convinced them to sell us the building. They agreed reluctantly, they really wanted to sell the business but hang onto the building for rental income from the new restaurant owners. Well, Danny and I puttered too long. We finally made an appointment with a lawyer to draw up a formal offer, but the folks let us know that they had finally found someone to buy the restaurant biz and rent the building before we had a chance to make it happen. We were major league bummed! How great would it have been to have bought the part of the building right next door to our current location?!? Talk about evolution instead of revolution! Oh, well, it's all worked out for the better in the end with our soon-to-be new building.
So tomorrow night is their last night running the restaurant, and they've invited Danny and me (and our families) in for a blowout chinese meal. We're trying to pull together a gift for them, and a nice framed photo of the business that has been such a huge part of their life is an obvious candidate. I took some time lapse photos tonight, so you see the head-lights/tail-lights of cars whizzing past in the photo above.
Long story short - are there any photo buffs out there who have some simple suggestions for taking this shot to another level? We'll be printing it tomorrow AM, so whatever I do needs to get done tonight. How's that for a deadline?
I've also got a high-res version of the photo if anyone wants to try their own hand at something...
Just figured I'd throw that out to the always helpful TB crowd. Thanks in advance for any tips!
Backstory - we've got a nice Chinese restaurant that has been right next door to Rocket Music for 15 or so years. Ever since Danny and I took over Rocket a few years ago, the restaurant owners have been super nice to us. We like to joke that we're members of the "Free Egg Roll" club, mainly because we actually are. They're always throwing in extra food when we eat there. The owners are very generous towards us, and it's always been greatly appreciated.
I've only briefly mentioned our second "new building" disappointment - well, you're looking at it. The owners of the restaurant have been trying to retire for a couple years now, and we had finally convinced them to sell us the building. They agreed reluctantly, they really wanted to sell the business but hang onto the building for rental income from the new restaurant owners. Well, Danny and I puttered too long. We finally made an appointment with a lawyer to draw up a formal offer, but the folks let us know that they had finally found someone to buy the restaurant biz and rent the building before we had a chance to make it happen. We were major league bummed! How great would it have been to have bought the part of the building right next door to our current location?!? Talk about evolution instead of revolution! Oh, well, it's all worked out for the better in the end with our soon-to-be new building.
So tomorrow night is their last night running the restaurant, and they've invited Danny and me (and our families) in for a blowout chinese meal. We're trying to pull together a gift for them, and a nice framed photo of the business that has been such a huge part of their life is an obvious candidate. I took some time lapse photos tonight, so you see the head-lights/tail-lights of cars whizzing past in the photo above.
Long story short - are there any photo buffs out there who have some simple suggestions for taking this shot to another level? We'll be printing it tomorrow AM, so whatever I do needs to get done tonight. How's that for a deadline?
I've also got a high-res version of the photo if anyone wants to try their own hand at something...
Just figured I'd throw that out to the always helpful TB crowd. Thanks in advance for any tips!
My 5Dmkii files are almost 25mb per file!
