Porter Square, Cambridge, MA

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   Great shot – there’s a real focus on the guy turning round, which really makes this photo. – posted by JamesK on March 9, 2005 2:39am
   

   Nice shot. Did you really focus on the guy who turned around. Or is this some technique? Excellent.  — posted by Zishaan on March 11, 2005 8:50am

   love the movement here and the sharp focus on the man turned around … nice tones — posted by daisies on March 11, 2005 11:28am
   

   great capture, the perspective, the focus, and the guy turning around are great! — posted by ViSuaLLyMiNDeD on March 14, 2005 1:50pm

   very cool. can’t reallythink of anything techinical to say other than whats already been said. nice motion and toning — posted by luke winter on March 18, 2005 1:48pm

   i agree with the others. totally:) the guy facing the camera really adds to it. what a great catch! — posted by fredrik on March 18, 2005 3:35pm

   This is brilliant, seriously I love this, the guy turning around makes the shot for sure, the exposure is good and the tones are great but that guy’s face nails this one to the wall. Great job! — posted by miles on March 19, 2005 11:04pm
   

   Hi everyone, many thanks for your comments. This picture was taken on an escalator at the Porter Square “T” station. The camera was an Olympus Stylus Epic point-and-shoot which was resting on the moving rubber hand-rail of the escalator. I turned off the flash, aimed the camera in the general direction of the people on the next escalator over, and pushed the button. Film was Paterson Acupan 200 (available pretty cheap from B&H in the USA, it gives decent results). I added some sharpening selectively to the guy looking back at me, but not much. No other blurring was added — the rest was just motion. I did a bunch of burning-in to try to draw the eye to the right place. All of this would have been just as doable in the darkroom (except the sharpening) but would have been very time-consuming.

   If any of you ever travel to Boston, be sure to take the Red Line to Porter Square and ride the escalators up to street level. These are the longest escalators I’ve ever seen — probably about four or five storeys tall. Track level is about seven or eight stories below street level here. The surrounding neighbourhood is nice too.  — posted by Jordan on March 20, 2005 6:51pm

   The perspective on this one totally rocks. and the tones are awesome — posted by photojunkie on March 22, 2005 12:35pm
   

   ~xlnt, love that look back to the camera by the one subject~ — posted by btezra on March 22, 2005 2:21pm
   

   Excellent photo with beautiful tones. The guy who looks back makes it outstanding. — posted by Christian on March 23, 2005 11:32am

   I know I’ll be repeating what others have already said, but this one is just great! — posted by mario on March 23, 2005 7:43pm
   

   wow…this is fantastic…capturing that one person turning around really does it for the shot…it makes a HUGE difference…amazing shot! — posted by Benny on March 24, 2005 1:31am
   

   This reminds me of the moving sidewalk thingy that used to be at Spadina station. If you didn’t say it was shot in Boston, I would’ve thought it was there for sure. Great shot! — posted by Carrie on March 25, 2005 1:12pm

   I live very close to the Porter Sq. T station, and its escalator is impressive indeed. It just seems to go on and on and on. There are also some nice sculptures along the way: brass gloves left around as if somebody had dropped them along the way. The shot captures the length of the escalator quite well. — posted by Massimo on March 26, 2005 8:58pm

   amazing shot. love the motion and dramatic line direction. nice effect with the one guy in the middle looking back. — posted by zerosun on March 29, 2005 8:01pm

   Comment by Jordan — April 8, 2007 @ 1:48 pm

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