At Last... a few moments for something creative!

[mbarrick]

Some Manhattan subway shots:

The A-Train

Uptown

14th Street

Comments

[sandmandream.livejournal.com]

those subway shots are terrific!
j

[sleeplessknight.livejournal.com]

I concur. They rock. ^_^

[edbook.livejournal.com]

I especially like what you did with the last one dry brush?

Peace

[empedocles.livejournal.com]

That first picture is very nice...kind of dreamy.

Yeah

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

The first one is simply cropped. The second had a radial blur applied to enhance the blur of the train and the foreground figure that was already there. And, yeah, the third is the dry brush filter and the saturation has been increaced somewhat to make the colours sweeter.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I like it for the rhythym in the figures. I always get a kick out of how regular subway riders get the hang of knowing where the doors will be when the train stops.

Here in Vancouver, it made me chuckle the other day at Burrard station when everyone was queued up at where the doors have always been for the last 15 years and one of the new Millenium Line cars came up so the doors were in the "wrong" places and everyone scrambled to get on the train.

Re: Yeah

[edbook.livejournal.com]

If you like the dry brush filter, you should try the buzz filter from Segmentis. You can download a trial version from their site. Most of the filters in the buzzpack are hokey but the simplify and find edges filters are great. make sure that you use seperate layers to do the effects on. The simplify filter reduces the number of shades in a hue and gets rid of a lot of detail like the dry brush does but with more control. The find edges filter paints the edges of color areas with black and everything goes white so it looks like a line drawing. If you blend this layer with the ones below it using the multiply mode, it will give distinct edges so the image is sharper. I use it a lot.

Peace

[th0rnymead0w.livejournal.com]

I love these....each has their own effect. The middle one makes you feel like you are getting sucked in behind the train, it is a cool effect! I really like the last one!

[artistic-soul.livejournal.com]

oh i love those motion subways and "crazy" NYERS!!!! :) I can really picture myself there, waitin' for the subway to arrive!!! - BIG APPLE, MY LIFE! -

Yeah

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I felt pretty damn "at home" there, too.

NEAT!

[cognizance.livejournal.com]

I really like the first one the best!