Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin wrote: >> http://home.lainet.com/~gbennett/photography/photography_getty2.html >> http://home.lainet.com/~gbennett/photography/photography_metro1.html > >With Getty2, my eye travels along the stone wall, from the pillar, past the >human, and slams straight into whatever it is that is only just jutting into >the frame at the extreme right. A teeny amount of cropping would clean up >the composition. Absolutely right. When I reprint that neg, I'm going to remove that detail. Oddly enough, I didn't really notice it when I first printed the shot. >Metro1 is just superb! I love how the angular symmetry is broken by the >human figure. Just gorgeous! Should work beautifully as a large print. Thanks! That image was taken in the (relatively) new Metro line #14 in Paris. It is a bit of a novelty, for many reasons, the chief one being that the subway trains are completely automated - there are no drivers. The trains arrive in the station, stop for a predetermined amount of time, the doors open and shut automatically, and the trains set off again, as if by magic. Furthermore, each station is encased in a glass-like cylinder that completely shields the trains, and the glass doors only open when the train has come to a complete stop and has its doors open. The idea was to keep people from being able to commit suicide by jumping onto the rails in front of the on-coming trains. Guy