Like Sardines!

[MichaelToye]

This is Soho Square in London. Taken around lunchtime, people pack themselves in for a grassy spot in the Sun to eat and talk.

One of the many reasons I love the Leica system is for the clarity the lens and sensor combination provides.

This is a decisive moment for me because of the number of lives, and moments, in this frame and at great clarity.


Lunchtime in Soho Square. Like sardines! by michael_toye, on Flickr

Thanks for looking
Michael

 

[Rodchenko]

Looks almost like a composite picture, with all those lives interacting or passing each other by.

 

[Keith]

'A digestive moment!' ..... :angel:

 

[peterm1]

Well done you are right it captures the moment well. I have a couple like that that I like for the same reason - the people in the image almost look posed in the way they are arranged with each other. Like what used to be called a "tableaux". I dont know why some images have this quality but other quite similar ones do not I guess its just how the various people's positions relate to each other.


Life in the Street by yoyomaoz, on Flickr


Shopping by yoyomaoz, on Flickr


The street by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

 

[MichaelToye]

Nice set Peter - I like the choice in color too. Are they at 50mm?

 

[daveleo]

Michael,

Very nice scene you captured.
I was impressed with the DOF, so I checked - there is no aperture setting
recorded in the EXIF data. This had to be f5.6 or f8 at least for that DOF
(??)

Love the look of it. Interesting how the look compares to Peter's pictures
(love all his stuff) - very very different and both work great in their circumstances.

 

[MichaelToye]

I was impressed with the DOF, so I checked - there is no aperture setting
recorded in the EXIF data. This had to be f5.6 or f8 at least for that DOF
(??)

Thanks, it's more than likely f/8, maybe f/11. No idea why, but my monochrom does not record aperture information. It does, however, know what the lens is when i press the 'INFO' button.

Michael

 

[Lss]

No idea why, but my monochrom does not record aperture information. It does, however, know what the lens is when i press the 'INFO' button.

The aperture is not communicated to the camera. The best it can do is estimate the used aperture by comparing two light readings. It can read the lens by the 6-bit coding.

 

[MichaelToye]

The aperture is not communicated to the camera. The best it can do is estimate the used aperture by comparing two light readings. It can read the lens by the 6-bit coding.

Thanks. I did not know that.
Michael