Waiting.

[John 2]

My local railway station is usually good for an image or two. This is not a new image but someone recently started a discussion on super wide lenses. This is taken with a Tokina 11-16mm on a Nikon D90. It's a lens that I am quite fond of.

1/125th @ f8 ISO320

[MissRed]

She was pose for you or you just get lucky and it was a random person?
I always need to ask someone to pose for me :P

[mknittle]

She was pose for you or you just get lucky and it was a random person?
I always need to ask someone to pose for me :P

That can lead to the images looking like they are Well...Posed. It takes a bit of work to develop an eye for good candid shots.

Posed shots can help to get used to the camera though. Keep up and things will come together

[mknittle]

Very nice shot John. works great in monochrome!

[dje]

Great shot John, love the light, the sense of depth and the human touch.

Dave

[John 2]

Thanks all for your comments. No pose Mariola. I'm not good with models - too shy. I just snuck (is that a word?) up behind her and got the shot.
Dave, nothing like filthy skylights in the roof to provide that nice soft diffused light.

[zen]

Nice composition, John. The diagonal line from lower left to upper right shows good depth and perspective.

Thanks for sharing.

Zen

[pnodrog]

Very nice and good use of the semi-converging diagonal lines giving the perspective. The lady in waiting is just in the just the right position and I believe your claim you did not just wheel her around on her bag to be there. The idea of a photographer just marching up and wheeling some poor unsuspecting person so they are in the right spot rather appeals to me - if I ever try it I will be sure to post the resulting photo from my cell (padded or otherwise).

The contrast is almost to punchy on this screen so I will look at it again latter on my calibrated monitor. The scene certainly suits being in B&W.

[John 2]

Thanks Zen, thanks LP. LP, no you're right, I didn't position her at the time but honesty has me confessing that she was a little further down the platform and I have increased her scale in PS to put her in the right position in the comp. I tend to be careful taking photographs at the station. The first time I went I was challenged on the basis of the Prevention of Terrorism Act. It was of course a nonsense and so I approached the Station Manager to get his OK. He explained that the problem wasn't prevention of terrorism but the fact that students reading Media Studies at the local Uni' had recognised that the station presented easy opportunities to practice interviewing technique. He had been inundated with complaints from passengers but he agreed that provided that I only photographed real estate and rolling stock, I could carry on. So approaching a passenger to strike a useful pose wasn't really on.

[Marie Hass]

Dear John,

In some public places it is difficult to take photographs now-a-days. I would hesitate to point my camera at passengers as well. You have done a nice job with this image. I like the static/dynamic balance of the waiting passenger against the moving? train and leading lines. I also like your conversion.

Marie

[pnodrog]

John repositioning, exterminating or reproducing is far safer in PS than in real life. If you want to stay out of deep trouble then using PS is by far the way to go - at the worst you will only end up with a civil case not criminal charges.

[Wavelength]

Very Nice

[John 2]

Thanks Marie.
LP
Thanks Nandakumar.