'Waiting for the Early Morning Flight'

Student travelers, saving on a hotel room, sleep akimbo as they await an

early morning flight in a major Eastern European country's main

international airport. Your ratings, critiques, and observations are invited

and most welcome. If you rate harshly, very critically, or wish to make an

observation,please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please

share your photographic knowledge to help improve my photography.

Thanks! Enjoy! john

I like this snapshot so as it is,and bw with good grey tones is perfect for it.

BR

wowww really good capture and bw

I had some time with these subjects and this was the best I could get.

Also with post processing I took my time.

I'm glad you like the results.

Thanks.

john

John (Crosley)

When I see a scene like this, it's a matter of getting close enough and making sure no one moves and breaks the scene while I arrange all the elements in my viewfinder.

Luckily no one rustled while I positioned myself, took my photos under the watchful eye of a policeman who did not intervene (thankfully) and got outta there.

I'm working hard on my B&W conversions with newest software/plug-ins.

Thanks.

john

John (Crosley)

The composition is nice and black and white really works with this level of contrast.

Thank you for the compliment.

It's not just the 'level of contrast,' though that was important.

I've also been paying much more attention to my tonalities, and viewers are noting that in recently processed work. (not all work recently posted was recently processed if you note some other posted work not to this standard.)

Thanks again.

john

John (Crosley)

Also, although at night I have long been used to setting and forgetting my ISO at a high number, now for a select number of circumstances, such as here, where there are static subjects, and at the risk of getting more spoils from camera/subject movement, I've been lowering my ISO number to the lowest possible number and highest possible quality that I can maintain.

That is a major part of how I can achieve the values I have achieved here.

I just twirled my ISO dial to the lowest possible number consistent with hand holding (trial and error of course), then began shooting, keeping an eye on blowup detail to make sure there was no camera shake.

Not very shot 'works' that way, but then the subjects aren't moving so what the heck?

That's my newer technique, and it's paying off in comments like yours, which are in part the result of higher quality initial images for night/indoor scenes like this.

;~))

john

John (Crosley)

This is very good.  It used to be me.

It still is me sometimes.

Thank you for the wonderful compliment.

I knew it would be good when I saw them.

Only problem, an official believed to be a cop was standing just over and behind them.

I wondered if I'd get stopped or if the cop would go away.

The cop didn't go away, but did not interfere.

I couldn't pass this one up despite a threat of being stopped (in Ukraine that's no picnic though there's always the chance that the cop will have a sense of humor).

I got lucky and was let alone so we can all share this.

Interestingly, in Frankfurt, I met a prominent Norwegian journalist who swore up and down at me for taking a photo of a sprawling sleeper in the SENATOR lounge of Lufthansa claiming I had 'invaded the sleeper's rights' and should be strung up and furthermore it was 'unethical' to take a photo of a sleeping person.

Apparently you're supposed to wake them up to ask them if they'll go asleep again so you can take a photo of them as you saw them sleeping  after they give you permission and went back to sleep adopting the same positions!

Fat chance!

I take 'em as I see 'em in public places.

I told the prominent Norwegian print journalist (he as returning from covering Obama and Romney during hiatus) he was all wet and didn't know a thing about privacy law . . . . . where I come from (USA) or where I often take photos (Ukraine).

And absolutely nothing about journalistic ethics  . . . . regarding photography.   I told him Cartier-Bresson took some of his best photos of sleepers.  Look through Cartier-Bresson's best work; he took photos of many sleeping individuals, obviously without their consent!

That's the advantage of my once having worked my way next to the top of the Associated Press, then the world's largest news gathering organization, where I helped run the photography department worldwide during my early '20s (far younger than any other person ever.)  

I KNEW absolutely the answers to this guy's thinking, which may have meant something in Norway but has no relationship to real documentary/street photography in the rest of the world.

;~))

It's nice to have certainty every once in a while.

Thanks again for the fine compliment Alex.

john

John (Crosley)

Interesting scene from the life of travelers!

You could have taken this photo had you been at this place, as it's nearby your home (well not too close, but you get the idea.....).

Thanks for the compliment.

john 

John (Crosley)