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Underground Scenes
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Three shots from London.
I always wanted to get some shots in the London Underground, so just had to take my chance when we visited London back in July. Despite reading all kinds of scaremongering stories about people being harassed trying to take photos, I never came across any such thing. I think, like most street photography, if you are as unobtrusive as possible and don’t run around using flash, you won’t have any problem.
Another Place
Watched!!
Arrivals
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the second.
beautiful.
can I ask which lens have you used???
did you made some work with PS or that’s the real color?
it’s been a while since I was in the tube ;)Thanks Gizzo.
The lens on this occasion was the Sigma 10-20mm. Everything is quite confined and crowded down there, so thought it was the best. Of course with the relatively low lighting it meant quite a slow shutter speed, so hard to get anything really sharp.
I worked on the shot in Lightroom before finishing it in CS3, so it’s quite a bit warmer than the original.
For this shot I wasn’t going for photo realistic as I think it has an almost abstract feel to it. :-)
Thanks for the comments again :D
Robbie
8)I’m loving all your London stuff Robbie, it’s all good but this my fave so far. I love this type of scene, I like the anon feel.
The second is brilliant… ‘I think I’m being watched’ and the litter, brilliant! I like the first too, I love things that happen in cities, it’s mad, don’t think I could read a book and stand so close to the train!!
Lovely stuff.
Sinead.
Shucks!! Thanks Sinead..I’m all a blushing now ;-)
I agree about the reading so close to the edge of a platform thing….kinda scared me when I saw it..especially as she seemed so lost in the book with the train thundering towards her..
I guess it’s another case of familiarity breeding contempt…if we were doing it everyday we’d probably be the same… :wink:
Ya, these are quite impressive for sure..
I’ve also shot in the London underground and have being doing so for the last 3 years and never once had any problems.. And just as Expresbro said, you have to be unobtrusive and certainly no Flash ;-)
Thanks Roberto, Alan and Shar… :D
Alan..I would have loved to have spent a whole day down there photographing…it is made for it..but alas not practical when you have a whole family looking at you like your some kind of fruitcake for wanting to take photos of tube trains..;-)
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I spotted these in the F place but at the size I thought – yeah, OK but nothing special. Only now have I opened this thread and was quite taken aback. The sense of movement, and the movement that you’d expect from a tube really stands out. The second one seems everyones fave but I really take to #3. It looks like yer man is oblivious to the tonnes of steel passing by him at high speed. And I’d never have guessed the 10-20 for scenes like this but there you go – something learned every day!
Alan.
Cheers Alan :-)
As I said above, it’s very confined in the corridors and the wide angle really helps open it up. Anyways..the damn thing was sitting in my bag..and you know me for landscapes…so had to maker more use of it… ;-)
Of course now I have the Nikon 12-24mm …so it might be getting retired soon.. ;-)
oh the memorys of london underground ;D.
i love the seond one even tough the sides have a bit of blurring,
Great shots. Number 3 really captures the essence of the good old tube where the commuters are locked in their own little worlds. My friends in London constantly bitch about the underground but I wish we had something similar.
Robbie 3 great shots……brings back all those memories of travelling the tube to work!!Nice use of the 10-20!!
Cheers Steve
Cheers Guys.. :D
The Underground seemed like a Photographers dream to me. If ever you were stuck for a bit of inspiration..just buy a cheap return card to anywhere and spend the day down there shooting…a wideangle and a 50mm prime and yer made :wink:
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