It’s not the best image out there, but I kinda like it. I shot it in the New York subway, with a 12mm f/2 manual lens.
I like both the color and and the black and white versions:
Years ago I was told (perhaps by some movie?) not to make eye contact in the New York subway. Although nothing unpleasant has actually happened to me in NY.
My camera was at waist level, while I was sitting. My camera has a tilting screen, so it was quite easy to get unnoticed while framing the shot. I used perspective correction in RT.
Thanks Stefan. Yes, it’s all done in RT. This color comes mostly from the Vision Color OSIRIS M31 HaldCLUT I’ve used. I also picked the white balance from one of the window border, and lowered the vibrance of saturated tones.
@sguyader oh HaldCLUTs, how I love them and hate them wonderful things, but so cryptic as to how they are made. Oh well. Great work once again! and fantastic image!
Enjoying the variant HaldCLUT looks here, but I wanted to acknowledge the very nice metaphorical freight of this great"street" shot.
The repeated Shen Yun show poster across the top appears to signal the different “mesmerized” states (after Franz Mesmer, the ‘inventor’ of hypnosis) into which the subway riders have fallen, a common human response to the paradoxical isolation-within-a-crowd subway experience: “we’re all together but we’re all alone.”