bread and music

Andy

coupla folks i met in nyc's grand central terminal tonight. canon 20d, 35mm f/1.4L on board. shot at f/1.4 both of them. iso 800.

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andy wrote:

coupla folks i met in nyc's grand central terminal tonight. canon 20d, 35mm f/1.4L on board. shot at f/1.4 both of them. iso 800.

Very nice, Andy. Grand Central sure yields some good subjects for you. Nice warm light on both of them.

happysnapper

really nice shots Andy, I really like the colour in the first one...

Yvette

wxwax

Very nice. All natural blur on the bread guy?

I really like how you manage your color palette, whether by design or not. The second image has a really well defined brown palette, and looks great, in part, because of it.

Andy

wxwax wrote:

Very nice. All natural blur on the bread guy?

I really like how you manage your color palette, whether by design or not. The second image has a really well defined brown palette, and looks great, in part, because of it.

thanks sid - i really appreciate the comments. i worry about color - but i don't do much - mostly i'm srgb unless i'm doing something special - and i use a gamma checker on my monitor.

gct is a tough venue - funny lighting (and not much of it!). .. the 20d white balance on auto is really spot on. in post, i desaturated the image by about 15% then returned the sat to his face -- the ambient color of gct on the walls, floor etc gets really saturated ...

re the breadman - no blur added! that's the 35mm f/1.4 @ f/1.4

Nir

Beautiful shots Andy! I was beginning to miss Grand Central

wxwax

andy wrote:

thanks sid - i really appreciate the comments. i worry about color - but i don't do much - mostly i'm srgb unless i'm doing something special - and i use a gamma checker on my monitor.

gct is a tough venue - funny lighting (and not much of it!). .. the 20d white balance on auto is really spot on. in post, i desaturated the image by about 15% then returned the sat to his face -- the ambient color of gct on the walls, floor etc gets really saturated ...

re the breadman - no blur added! that's the 35mm f/1.4 @ f/1.4

You b*****d, you've forced my hand! I just bought a used 35 1.4. Humph!

Great info on how you handled the image, a real education, as usual, professor.

Andy

wxwax wrote:

You b*****d, you've forced my hand! I just bought a used 35 1.4. Humph!

Great info on how you handled the image, a real education, as usual, professor.

way cooL! you are gonna love it, sid.

John Mueller

Hey Andy,
#3 is tops
Always enjoy your musican shots.

ian408

I love how the violinist in three looks. It feels as if you've captured him
in the moment. Are you able to adjust the subject for better light or are
these "as shot"?

Ian

Michiel de Brieder

inspirational!
Hiya Andy,

Some cool photos you've got there What appeals most to me, and is most inspiring at the moment, is the angle of photo 1 and 3... Gives me something to ponder on, I still shoot almost everything straight, time for a change, right?

thanks for the lesson here
Cheers

Andy

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

Hiya Andy,

Some cool photos you've got there What appeals most to me, and is most inspiring at the moment, is the angle of photo 1 and 3... Gives me something to ponder on, I still shoot almost everything straight, time for a change, right?

thanks for the lesson here
Cheers

thanks michiel -- so cool to see you here!

-- andy

lynnma

andy wrote:

coupla folks i met in nyc's grand central terminal tonight. canon 20d, 35mm f/1.4L on board. shot at f/1.4 both of them. iso 800.

Fabulous shots all Andy now then... am I gonna be able to do that with my 1.4?????? am I Andy? am I?

Andy

lynnma wrote:

Fabulous shots all Andy now then... am I gonna be able to do that with my 1.4?????? am I Andy? am I?

yep. but you'll just have to step back with your sneaker zoom a bit, 'sall.

photocat

ian408 wrote:

I love how the violinist in three looks. It feels as if you've captured him
in the moment. Are you able to adjust the subject for better light or are
these "as shot"?

Ian

What strikes me is the lack of noise... I find that my minolta at 800 asa were really really noisy.
Nice portraits, captivating the moment, I can hear the music in my head looking at the violinplayer. The color one speaks more to me cause the violin has such an intense brown color.
Great shots...