Lonely in a Crowd!

[Vicky]

Hi,

I went to visit the International Expo that was going on here. It was a Sunday and also the concluding day of the Expo... and there were people, people & people everywhere... I was taken in awe with the number of people there... i was carrying my old Panasonic FZ5, and climbed up on a wall to capture this unending sea of heads.. There must have been more than 10k people there... and everyone seemed busy and in their own world.. then my eyes fell on this man in the orange shirt... he was just standing there and observing me.. he looked all lost and lonely in the moving sea of heads.. he was the only person standing still and watching me... like he had nothing to do...nowhere to go... I wanted to capture his loneliness..

Lonely in a Crowd
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l96/rx100/P1100268c.jpg

I dropped the ISO to 80, and aperture to f/4... this got me a shutter speed of 1/2 second...this seemed slow enough to blur the moving people and yet keep him sharp...The only PP applied is crop, levels, curves and boarder.

Thanks for looking! C&C Welcome...

Viky

[KrishnenduKes]

Photo Critique Approved

I find "luck" played an important part. If you look at the photograph, you will see a somewhat diagonal line forming from the left bottom corner to the centre to the right top corner of people who are in focus. Creates quite an effect. Rest of the people in the frame are blurred.

What kind of WB did you use?

Thanks for sharing.

[Xavier]

Lovely pic Vicky! Guess you've posted this on xbhp too. :confused:

BTW, Can we achieve the same effect in PP?

[archistar]

Lovely capture Vicky, seen it before on xBhp... :)

[ryder_boney]

when i first looked at picture, a statement of an famous personality struck me mint it goes like this
"EVERYBODY KNOWS ME STILL I AM SO ALONE"
indeed good picture

[Xavier]

I've recently clicked a photograph on similar lines.

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p160/xvrdsouza/IMG_95181-1.jpg

[hitanshu]

Nicely done esp given the circumstances. Just looks a bit soft/blurry to me (pardon my inappropriate usage of jargon if at all)

[Xavier]

Nicely done esp given the circumstances. Just looks a bit soft/blurry to me (pardon my inappropriate usage of jargon if at all)

Hehe, it is soft and blurry! Thanks for the critique, this is the critique section after all!

Well the shutter speed was set at 1.3 seconds and camera was resting on a backpack on the bonnet of a Tavera since I don't own a tripod yet. These might have been the reasons why it is blurry. And for the soft part, I guess it's due the diffraction caused as the aperture was set at f/36. :)