A few years ago I spent some time living in New York City. I love the variety of people who live there, and one day while I was on the subway I saw a person who really caught my attention. Usually I'm a fairly shy person in public, but this day I had my camera with me and was feeling brave, so I introduced myself and asked if I could take a picture. They agreed, so I got off with them at their stop, waited for the tunnel to clear, and took this portrait. I only had a 135mm lens with me at the time (actually the only lens I owned at the time because I sold all of my others to get it) but I think it served well to create an interesting atmosphere. For lighting I used the available fluorescent lighting in the tunnel. I used an original Canon 5D with a Canon 135mm f/2 lens attached set to f/2, 1/50th of a second, ISO 500. In hindsight I used to be a little stubborn about using higher ISO settings at the time and should have boosted the ISO to get a faster shutter speed, but with some effort I was able to be still enough for this shot.
I wish I had a higher resolution version to share. I lost a lot of the high resolution versions of my New York photos due to a hard drive failure not long after I moved away from the city unfortunately.
You could run it through the PS Enhance capability in ACR to at least double the resolution. Some PP would take care of the JPEG haloing around the head and shoulders. There are other "AI" tools you could try as well.
You could run it through the PS Enhance capability in ACR to at least double the resolution. Some PP would take care of the JPEG haloing around the head and shoulders. There are other "AI" tools you could try as well.
Thank you. I had considered using PS to increase the resolution, but as far as I understand wouldn't I need the RAW file to use it?
KE_Photo wrote:
Cool story - weirdish kind of person makes it quite interesting!
Thanks. He was much friendlier and seemed pretty normal to me, compared to how he appeared at least. I'm usually too shy to stop strangers for portraits, but I always end up being surprised at how friendly many strangers can be when they are approached for something like a street portrait.
