2nd Los Angeles No Pants Metro Ride.
Tee Why
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Not sure if others know of this event but it's an event planed by urban pranksters. They gathered at Union Station this Sunday in down town LA minus pants and went for a Metro ride, ending up at the Hollywood station. At each successive station on the way, more folks would come aboard.
As usual, the fluorescent lighting inside the metro makes color correction tough, so it took a while to get the processing done. Outside at Hollywood and Highland, it was easier with the sunlight.
I used the 15-30mm lens so I can get close and wide in an attempt to get the view point to be more like you are in the crowd and not outside looking in with a telephoto lens, which blurs out the background. I went pretty much wide open most of the time at f3.5-4.5 mainly to get the fastest shutter speed at the lowest ISO to get better IQ and to blur out the background a touch so that if the subject is in focus, it'll isolate the subject a bit more than a massive dof with everything in focus.
As for processing wise, went for a saturated and high contrast, edgy street look.
1. Waiting around at Union Station.
2. Man on the move.
3. Get your package out of my face.
4. Cheeky.
5. Out at the Hollywood station now.
6. Coming out in droves.
7. Out at Mann's Chinese Theater.
8. Group pic time.
As usual, the fluorescent lighting inside the metro makes color correction tough, so it took a while to get the processing done. Outside at Hollywood and Highland, it was easier with the sunlight.
I used the 15-30mm lens so I can get close and wide in an attempt to get the view point to be more like you are in the crowd and not outside looking in with a telephoto lens, which blurs out the background. I went pretty much wide open most of the time at f3.5-4.5 mainly to get the fastest shutter speed at the lowest ISO to get better IQ and to blur out the background a touch so that if the subject is in focus, it'll isolate the subject a bit more than a massive dof with everything in focus.
As for processing wise, went for a saturated and high contrast, edgy street look.
1. Waiting around at Union Station.
2. Man on the move.
3. Get your package out of my face.
4. Cheeky.
5. Out at the Hollywood station now.
6. Coming out in droves.
7. Out at Mann's Chinese Theater.
8. Group pic time.
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may check it out next time
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Also, it's interesting to learn from the thought process behind lens and other choices. tx for sharing
Disappointed with AF of Tamron 28-75 2.8, me less happy.
I'm cracking up....
omh #3..... I dying here
This is a really nice group of images that appears to capture the event quite well. Terrific!
...but...There is one element that is missing here. Would anyone like to suggest what it is?
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
As to BD's query....perhaps the missing element is something that identifies what is going on and where it is. I realize Tee Why told us all of this but no picture communicated that info. But, knowing BD, it's probably more esoteric that that.
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Are you kidding? It went on all over the world!
Lovely set!!
Nir Alon
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Where is the reaction?!?! We have a bunch of semi-nekid folks commuting to work yet we don't have images that show people's reaction to this bizarre show. The real story is how people confronted by these folks react - the prankster's themselves are just exhibitionists.
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
For some reason #3 was the first image to populate when I first opened the set and my first reaction to viewing the suitcoats with no pants was : WTH? Then I read the reaction of the passager to the right and I busted up....,then I read the title for yet another guffaw to follow.:D