Stand In Line
Stand In Line - 5.10mm at f/6.3, ISO 100, Shutter speed 1/40 sec
Often when I'm out taking photos in London I find other people with cameras will come toward me to take a photograph of whatever it is I'm photographing. Sometimes I'll be shooting something for it's potential as a black and white image and I'll still get a guy, usually, with a huge SLR, curiously come up to my view point and start looking in vein for the awesome subject he's sure I've found but can't quite seem to find. He'll take a quick snap and hurry back to whoever he's with, still not sure why or what he just took a photograph of.
On this occasion I got the opportunity to reverse the roles and I think it turned out quite well. I was originally standing where the woman in the foreground is, and they came walking up towards me from the path on the right. As soon as I saw they were pulling out their phones to take a picture of the Cherry Blossom tree, I retreated back to the pavement. I really couldn't believe my luck when they just naturally moved into this position, and I quickly composed and took the shot.
Taken with my Leica D-Lux 4 as usual, and processed with Silver Efex Pro applying the Kodak Tri-X 400TX Pro film type and some custom Preset 1 toning. I'm not a massive fan of long hair (anymore, even though I've had mine long several times), but do like the way it looks in black and white sometimes. Awesome!
