Transit Police

lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
edited March 21, 2011 in Street and Documentary
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Liz A.
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  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2011
    Cool shot - and they didn't confiscate your camera! thumb.gif
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  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2011
    nice
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited March 13, 2011
    I had to look really hard to pick out the details, but the overall feel of urban grit comes through well.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2011
    moose135 wrote: »
    Cool shot - and they didn't confiscate your camera! thumb.gif

    Shot with a cellphone---they dont' stand out as much.
    Thank you.
    Liz A.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2011
    damonff wrote: »
    nice

    Thanks Damon.
    Liz A.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 13, 2011
    Richard wrote: »
    I had to look really hard to pick out the details, but the overall feel of urban grit comes through well.

    I used a cellphone app and it makes it much darker than I would normally use. This is after some pp to lessen the contrast and brightening some.
    I liked the grit, I had to give it a go.
    Thanks Richard.
    Liz A.
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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2011
    Really like this one (minus the title) as it still confuses me on repeat showing. I am puzzled by the people in the upper right. For one, it looks like a doll or dummy in his lap. And it looks like they are in a subway car, but there is a snack bar to the left. My head spins on...
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2011
    rainbow wrote: »
    Really like this one (minus the title) as it still confuses me on repeat showing. I am puzzled by the people in the upper right. For one, it looks like a doll or dummy in his lap. And it looks like they are in a subway car, but there is a snack bar to the left. My head spins on...



    I think some of the people in the upper right corner are part of a poster in the train station with a real woman walking by.
    The snack bar is the token booth:)
    Liz A.
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  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited March 15, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    The snack bar is the token booth:)
    Wow, you are a true New Yorker if you still call them token booths. It seems like forever since they stopped using tokens, but yes, it's easier to refer to them as token booths even if they don't sell tokens anymore. :D
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 16, 2011
    Would have no freaking idea who or what they were without your title. Sorry.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2011
    moose135 wrote: »
    Wow, you are a true New Yorker if you still call them token booths. It seems like forever since they stopped using tokens, but yes, it's easier to refer to them as token booths even if they don't sell tokens anymore. :D


    :DI don't know what else to call them.
    These are the options
    1. metro card booths
    2. unmaned booths due to budget cuts.
    3. attitude booths;)
    Liz A.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2011
    bdcolen wrote: »
    Would have no freaking idea who or what they were without your title. Sorry.


    ok--so here is the question.
    What makes a shot a WTF shot?

    This shot is contrived granted, using a cell phone app that makes things look darker and feel more menacing, so I brightened it a bit, but I knew what i was going for. Ok so I failed--but why does ambiguous sometimes work and sometimes not?
    Liz A.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    ok--so here is the question.
    What makes a shot a WTF shot?

    This shot is contrived granted, using a cell phone app that makes things look darker and feel more menacing, so I brightened it a bit, but I knew what i was going for. Ok so I failed--but why does ambiguous sometimes work and sometimes not?

    Fair question. Ambiguous is good; 'I have no idea what this is' is not. The problem here is not ambiguity, it's that it's not clear what it is an ambiguous photograph OF. :ivar
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2011
    bdcolen wrote: »
    Fair question. Ambiguous is good; 'I have no idea what this is' is not. The problem here is not ambiguity, it's that it's not clear what it is an ambiguous photograph OF. :ivar

    I get it. I will keep looking.
    Where is Benjamin when you need him?:)
    Liz A.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited March 18, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    Where is Benjamin when you need him?:)

    Good question. ne_nau.gif
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  • JocoJoco Registered Users Posts: 86 Big grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    And yet I love it. No idea what's going on - intriguing . Perhaps some day you'll come up with a title that make it a winner for everyone. But until then I like it anyway. Great processing to match the ambiance.
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