London Underground - a couple more

[Didache]

Hi all

My London Underground project has now come to an end. The permit has run out and work is getting too busy.

The first one here is sort of ironic - the poster is advertising an exhibition of how the British have been photographed over the past century. So I was sort of photographing the British looking at a poster about how the British have been photographed - or something like that

The other is one of my favourites from the series.

I am meeting with my mentor in early October, with a view to picking the best 15 for a panel. Then I will have them printed and exhibition mounted. This will be assessed by the Royal Photographic Society on March 11th next year.

Fingers crossed!

Cheers
Mike

[MB1]

These are good although I like the second the best.

The colors are nice, I like the way everything is static except for the person walking and I think that not having the viewer centered in the arch works well here.

It should be a good exhibit.

[Frog]

#1 is good but I don't look at it very long.
I agree that #2 is the one and agree with everything MB1 says about it. Great composition.
If I may ask, how many shots did you take in the second and how long before you got a person to be in exactly the right place.
I spent a good amount of time standing at the top of some escalators waiting for a single person to be at the right spot and ran out of patience before it happened, so wonder how much time an expert such as yourself would spend on something you see in your mind before you click.
Thanks!

[MB1]

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The trick of course is to be in a really busy spot or just to ask someone to walk back a forth a couple of times. Photo assistants are perfect for that.

[Didache]

Thanks guys

To answer frog's question - a certain amount of patience is required. For that image in the tunnel, I took three or four pictures for every arriving train, waiting until the rush had subsided so that I could pick up just solo passengers. As a new train arrives every 5 minutes or so, I probably spent half an hour doing that. I was lucky with this one as he turned to face me and also fortunate that he was dressed in blue which contrasts well with the red of the train.

With the other one (the first) I was lucky too .. that was done in a pedestrian tunnel. She (being Chinese I think) actually turned AWAY from me - but this had the effect of making it seem as though she is glancing at the poster.

I have tons of pics taken at other places which are just unusable because I captured nobody in the right place at the right time.

In the end I will wind up with an exhibition panel of 15 - but to do that I took approximately 1,200 pictures!

Cheers
Mike