London City People

All these images were taken during a wee road test of the new Nikon D90.  They were shot at 1600 ISO using aperture priority.  From what I’d heard, the high ISO performance on the new Nikon cameras was supposed to be excellent, but I’m really very dissapointed with these images in that respect.  There doesn’t seem to me to be much of an improvement over what I’d expect to see at 1600, namely lots of grain.  Perhaps it’s only the D3 that has the improved high ISO.

These images were taken on my way to work, which takes me from Liverpool Street, across the heart of London’s financial district, through London Bridge and down Southwark.  There’s something I really love about people’s grumpy commuter faces.  Cheer up!

You can view them all by clicking on the thumbnails, then using the left and right arrows to skip through the images, or you can visit their home in the galleries by clicking here.

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Alexey Titarenko

Some of the most interesting images I’ve seen recently are Alexey Titarekno’s long exposures of commuters flowing in and out of train stations in St Petersburg.

To me, they express the way that the herding behaviour we exhibit when thrust together like this is at once uncomfortable and instinctive.  We can relate to the loss of individuality that submitting to the flock brings out in us.

I’ve visualised similar things in my head a hundred times on my daily commute, and often wondered how best to capture it on camera, but I never quite pictured it liked this.  There’s something very dark about the faceless throng, hands popping eerily out of the gloom.

Visit the rest of Alexey Titarenko’s portfolio here

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