Challenge #64--The Commute

lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
edited November 23, 2010 in The Dgrin Challenges
Hi all,
So this is the first idea that popped into my head the second I read this challenge. I wanted to challenge myself and shoot the subway. It has always been difficult for me because of the weird lighting. Usually it's always blurry. Also I shot it all with my 50mm 2.0 prime, it's new to me and I'm forcing myself to use it for street, and it's the best I have for low light.

Ok so here goes. This is not the final edit. I have another 3 days to shoot and change some shots out. But you will get the basic idea.

Does it work?


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Liz A.
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  • slpollettslpollett Registered Users Posts: 1,219 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2010
    Looks good to me just the way it is.thumb.gif

    Nice job.

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  • kdotaylorkdotaylor Registered Users Posts: 1,280 Major grins
    edited November 20, 2010
    Me too...I love it!
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  • lkbartlkbart Registered Users Posts: 1,912 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    I really like it too - good blend of people on the move and signs/maps showing locations. Put together very well also - nicely balanced.
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  • WhatSheSawWhatSheSaw Registered Users Posts: 2,221 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    I like it! You might consider playing with the order a bit. Maybe switch 7 and 9?
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    slpollett wrote: »
    Looks good to me just the way it is.thumb.gif

    Nice job.

    Sherry

    Thanks Sherry and Kdotaylor!
    Liz A.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    lkbart wrote: »
    I really like it too - good blend of people on the move and signs/maps showing locations. Put together very well also - nicely balanced.


    Thanks Lillian,
    I wasn't sure what area to concentrate on, so I had a blend of a few different things.
    Liz A.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    WhatSheSaw wrote: »
    I like it! You might consider playing with the order a bit. Maybe switch 7 and 9?

    Thanks again for the upload info--made my life easier.

    I'm curious as to what switching 7 and 9 will accomplish headscratch.gif. I can see switching a couple of other images around maybe, but 7 and 9. Can you explain your thoughts behind this suggestion please?
    Liz A.
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  • WhatSheSawWhatSheSaw Registered Users Posts: 2,221 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    The diagonal would have signs.

    Looking at it again, it appears mostly sequential. So maybe that is not such a good idea. Although #1 looks out of place - the train coming into the station should come after buy ticket (#3). And switch #7 and #8. So, downstairs, buy ticket, train comes in, get on train, ride train, get off train, platform, terminal crowd, upstairs.

    You might also consider a street level view for start and finish, as if you were walking to and from the subway.
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    WhatSheSaw wrote: »
    The diagonal would have signs.

    Looking at it again, it appears mostly sequential. So maybe that is not such a good idea. Although #1 looks out of place - the train coming into the station should come after buy ticket (#3). And switch #7 and #8. So, downstairs, buy ticket, train comes in, get on train, ride train, get off train, platform, terminal crowd, upstairs.

    You might also consider a street level view for start and finish, as if you were walking to and from the subway.


    I see. I shot these during my commute in the morning and afternoon and I think one at lunchtime.
    I was steering towards sequential but it wasn't working for me, yet I see that I kind of did that anyway. The last shot was me getting out of the train and going up to the street to get to work.

    #2, the one with the blind gentleman is a street level view right before I entered the subway station stairs from which he is emerging.

    #3 the one of the guy buying the ticket, he is someone I saw during my commute and I'm not following his trip, but rather my commute, so something I saw during the commute.

    I appreciate your thoughts--so maybe I will title it "things I see during my commute" so that maybe they don't have to be sequential and therefore easier for me and a little more creativity allowed.

    Food for thought thanks. In any event, I still have 3 days to shoot so I may be changing a couple of shots out if I get something better. Glad to see the idea works though.

    Thanks again.
    Liz A.
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  • SeascapeSSeascapeS Registered Users Posts: 814 Major grins
    edited November 21, 2010
    Nice! I love #7!
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2010
    LOVE it. The only thing I'm "missing" is a shot of one of the subway "balls" (you know, the metro sign outside the stairs at groundlevel) - you'd have had it on #2 if you'd gone wider. That symbol - on the actual ball, not just on a sign - is something that is inextricably linked with "NY subway" in my mind, and since you have those other nice station shots... Just a thought if you start tinkering with it thumb.gif
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2010
    SeascapeS wrote: »
    Nice! I love #7!


    Thanks SEascapeS--I was so happy with the light in #7.
    Liz A.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2010
    divamum wrote: »
    LOVE it. The only thing I'm "missing" is a shot of one of the subway "balls" (you know, the metro sign outside the stairs at groundlevel) - you'd have had it on #2 if you'd gone wider. That symbol - on the actual ball, not just on a sign - is something that is inextricably linked with "NY subway" in my mind, and since you have those other nice station shots... Just a thought if you start tinkering with it thumb.gif


    man! I know, I almost had it in that one shot of #2, tight lens.

    I have one more day to shoot, let's see if I can get one I'm happy with, it is a quentissential NYC scene.

    Thanks Divamum.
    Liz A.
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  • dniednie Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,351 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2010
    It makes me want to come follow you around. :) I love these
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  • lkbartlkbart Registered Users Posts: 1,912 Major grins
    edited November 23, 2010
    15524779-Ti.gif Me too!
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