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The Morning Rat Race
The Morning Rat Race
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Challenge: Street Photography (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Nikon
Location: Flinders Street, Melbourne Australia
Date: Feb 19, 2007
Aperture: F6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/160
Galleries: Candid, Black and White
Date Uploaded: Feb 18, 2007

Took this candid at the Flinders Street Station in the mornig as people went to work. I just kept crossing the road and weaving in the direction of the oncoming rush of people. I ended up with some interesting shots. This one had the look of a race and who was going to get to the other side first. Used an ultra wide 10mm lens to get the wide distortion which I like.

Basic editing including duotone, dodge and burn and sharpen, nothing major here.

I reckon it will either do well around 6.2 or really drastically around 5.5...hoping for around 6

POST: Well this was beyond my expectation, so thanks everyone for the great comments and votes. I loved this challenge...

Statistics
Place: 6 out of 288
Avg (all users): 6.9256
Avg (commenters): 7.8519
Avg (participants): 6.7652
Avg (non-participants): 7.0709
Views since voting: 3105
Views during voting: 539
Votes: 242
Comments: 48
Favorites: 4 (view)


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08/13/2022 05:06:33 PM
I'm perusing and critiquing archive DPC street photography challenges to learn more about composition. Please email me responses to my comment if you like.

Classic street image but you captured the energy of the humans as well as the energy of the architecture.

Wondering why the sky is so dark at the top of the photo.
03/02/2013 06:10:18 PM
I know this place :-) Great b/w
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07/23/2007 12:56:09 PM
This is such a great piece of journalism. What a story!
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03/04/2007 09:27:29 PM
Nice perspective. I missed it the first time around :( Nice work Enzo.
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03/01/2007 05:27:08 PM
very,very cool photo. congrats.
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02/27/2007 05:10:54 PM
Great photograph, congrats on the top ten!
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02/27/2007 11:13:32 AM
Excellent work Enzo. Nicely done on your top 10!
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02/27/2007 02:10:02 AM
this is great, nice placement too.
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02/26/2007 06:58:42 PM
Thought I recognised, well done...I love it!
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02/26/2007 12:02:43 PM
Awesome job! Congratulations on the top 10! Well done.
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02/26/2007 07:10:01 AM
Congrats on Top 10 -- amazing shot!!
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02/26/2007 02:21:24 AM
What an awesome phot Enzo. It looks like they are all rushing towards you. It is processed incredibly too! Congratulations.

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02/25/2007 10:06:27 PM
Congrats on your top10 finish, excellent shot (that might have done better without the border, though)
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02/25/2007 09:47:33 PM
Yay Enzo!! This was indeed one of my favorites in this challenge. Congrats on the excellent score and placement! Well deserved.
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02/25/2007 09:02:23 PM
Top Photo and atop finish Enzo, congratulations.
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02/25/2007 07:53:56 PM
Enzo!! Way to go. One of my favs.
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02/25/2007 07:37:58 PM
Slightly off in my prediction, Enzo (but only slightly ;-)
Big congrats on top 10 with this excellent image.
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02/25/2007 07:09:47 PM
i knew this would finish well. nice perspective. congrats on a top 10 placing. God bless pastor.
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02/25/2007 07:07:19 PM
Congrats on sixth place. Love the wide angle.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/25/2007 05:41:06 PM
Nice dynamic shot. Too many in this challenge have 'extras' cluttering the background. All these people make the shot in this case.
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02/25/2007 12:05:06 PM
This is cool! Love the tones - Excellent shot!
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02/25/2007 05:45:49 AM
Great shot. This is a ribbon winner (IMO).
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02/24/2007 07:05:07 AM
Great perspective very interesting.
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02/23/2007 05:01:41 PM
The angles are nice in this. Gives a good sense of depth.
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02/23/2007 07:00:32 AM
One of my top two - love the jaunty angle
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02/22/2007 01:54:17 PM
nice capture and post processing.
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02/22/2007 07:47:01 AM
Yes. This definitely works.
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02/22/2007 12:58:56 AM
good shot here, nice rushing feeling to it. looks like your about to be mobbed by the masses going to work.
bumping up a point
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02/21/2007 05:43:23 PM
cool shot. wish you had waited for them to get a bit closer to you, so we could become more attached to them individually.
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02/20/2007 09:21:36 AM
Definite flavours of JJ to this photo. Wonderful scene, very nicely done!
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02/20/2007 06:25:25 AM
GREAT CAPTURE! Love the blank expressions on all their faces.
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02/20/2007 05:30:38 AM
Wonderful almost distorted sense of it. Love the movement. Makes me think of an older time with the sepia duotone. GOOD stuff.
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02/20/2007 04:47:28 AM
I love the perspective. And the movement is great.
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02/20/2007 04:32:15 AM
Enjoy this frontal pov.
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02/20/2007 02:00:11 AM
Good POV and great execution, like the tines here. Though you could have improved this dramatically by cloning out the overhead wire mesh as that is a major distraction from the otherwise excellent image
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02/19/2007 04:48:04 PM
nice timing - the distortion is great too.
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02/19/2007 03:10:21 PM
Brilliant wide angle. Love that the most prominent all have their right foot leading. What a fantastic moment in time this is :)
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02/19/2007 01:33:28 PM
I like the angle and the framing.
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02/19/2007 11:41:03 AM
Nice, Every Person going the same way and fanning outwards providing a nicely enthralling perspective.
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02/19/2007 10:15:11 AM
This is fantastic, great job.
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02/19/2007 10:12:33 AM
Powerful energy in the movement in the people...great shot. I just hope you got out of the way before they mowed you down!
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02/19/2007 06:59:28 AM
Excellent wide-angle shot!
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02/19/2007 06:24:12 AM
i like the title, pretty cool composition with all these people radiating out from one source.
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02/19/2007 06:18:19 AM
personally, I don't care for the fact that the folks on the left are more distorted than the folks on the right ... gives the image a lopsided feel to it ...
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02/19/2007 01:55:30 AM
lol they are all crossing in the same direction, I don't know if I've ever seen this happen. Very nice image.
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02/19/2007 12:35:16 AM
I like this angle and distortion! nice tones, too
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02/18/2007 11:52:11 PM
great shot. don't like the grey border, though
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02/18/2007 08:17:14 PM
enzo?
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