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Coffee at Caffè Nero
On the technical side, this photo was a test of the X-T5 capability to handle scenes with both strong highlights and shadows without increasing the standard dynamic range. As per the quality, despite the similarity of the name, definitely no, it has nothing ado with the ‘Nero’ one can taste in Trieste which —unbeknownst to many — is the Italian capital of coffee.
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Beer or Spritz?
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Fast Food Loneliness in Nagoya…
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StreetPizza@Ueno
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Pizza Maker@Ueno’s Park
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Menu Meditation
There’s a particular silence in cafés just before ordering. That moment when the cold air from outside still clings to your coat, and all attention narrows to laminated options and the quiet negotiations of hunger. This was taken on a grey afternoon in Brussels. A couple sits across from each other, each reading their own menu as if studying for an exam. No phones. No talking. Just decisions to be made: sweet or savoury, warm or cold, this or that. It’s a familiar ritual, yet rarely observed this closely. What drew me in wasn’t the scene’s drama—there was none—but its quietness. The soft concentration on their faces, the gentle lean…
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Damned Pidgeons…
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The Aperitif
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Seats
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Restaurant or Killing House?
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Every Single Day
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Late Night Conversation at Cardinal’s Wharf
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A coffee at Saint Eustachio’s
This photo is taken with an X-E2 coupled with a Zeiss Planar 50/1,5, manually focused. Although the visible purple shift in the face of the barman is still visible, it doesn’t change the quality of the colours rendition.
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A Nikon’s Portrait Made With a Fuji
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Reflexes
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Busy
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One Coffee
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A (Out-of-Focus) Break Between Lunch and Supper
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Cold Stuff
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A Lamp
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A cigarette
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Table Dressing
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Nice Drink
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Aren’t Tapas Spanish?