Grand Central

[low_delta]

Grand Central Terminal is another legendary, iconic, beautiful and... grand place.


It's big! Look at those tiny people along the railings in the distance.


Not extremely busy. Around 2:30 on a Friday afternoon?


One thing I love about it is all the people who are enjoying seeing it and being it. There was a constant stream of people lined up at these railings to take pictures or get their pictures taken. The guy in the white shirt was actually beginning a drawing.




I was waiting for a train, leaning on a wall and wondering what to do or where to go or what to shoot. This woman came by (one of us!) and took a photo of the traveler reading her book. She checked the shot on her camera, and then took another, of the people just out of the frame. I was like, oh yeah, that's a good subject. So I got my own shot of her, which wasn't too exciting, and then waited for someone interesting to walk through. And then I blew the shot...


This woman walked into the frame, and I didn't pull the trigger, for some reason. I did, though, as she was leaving the frame, but it was obviously an afterthought, since the whole scene is a bit blurry. And my settings weren't right, since the woman walking is way too blurry. I mean, it might have worked, not sure. The main thing is the position of the woman. She should have been walking into the frame, not out of it - that's a pretty important rule, that people are facing inward. The other thing is the colors, the blue and the green. The blue of her dress would have perfectly balanced the green of the cover, both tonally and by area. If I'd been on the ball, it would have been a perfect shot! But such is the nature of street photography.

Comments

[jbanana]

The statues in the first photo are filthy. When I was a child I remember everything in London being like that. I was told it was from coal fires. Then there was a time when buildings got cleaned, and you rarely see that amount of dirt now.

I always have my camera on burst mode, hoping that taking several shots will get me one decent version. But that doesn't prevent me pressing the button after the right moment has passed.

[low_delta]

Good point about the statues. They do look filthy, but I imagine they would have been even dirtier a long time ago. I wonder if they've been cleaned, and if so, how long ago was it?