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Post by nikkortorokkor on Jul 18, 2012 9:36:09 GMT -5
My good friend Roy Sinclair, travel writer and photographer, has written of the frustration involved with capturing trains in action. You're in the right place, the lighting is spectacular, your camera is on the tripod and the railfan's special, pulled by the first steam loco to travel on this line for 40 years is still 30 minutes away. Today I got a sense of that frustration when I headed out to photograph a Bombardier-Sifang CRH1 high-speed EMU: Train: check, camera: check, lighting: Blah! Foreground interest: check, afternoon front-lighting: check, train: missing. But trains run frequently on the Guangzhou-Zhuhai line, and my patience was, I think, well rewarded: All the above were made with a plain-vanilla digital-Zuiko 12-50-3.5-6.3 kit zoom on an OM-D E-M1. The below photo of CRH-095A was taken from roughly the same position as the previous, using a Tele-Rokkor 135/f2.8 adapted to the E-M5. Compositionally, I think I'd have been better with the zoom, with the front-lighting finally good, but it was pleasant to get a sharp image of the cab via the Tele-Rokkor set at f8 (iso320, 1/200 sec.): Finally, proof that I suffer for my art. I'll leave it to your imagination how this came about, but needless to say, both I and my bike needed a good hose down after that trip (and yes, that barked shin still hurts).
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 18, 2012 10:59:27 GMT -5
Michael.
It looks like the camera moved horizontally.
Horizontal lines are sharp. Vertical lines are blurred in foreground and background.
Could it have been a shift of a tectonic plate?
However, as a blurrmaster, I offer my sympathy.
Mickey
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Post by daveh on Jul 18, 2012 15:25:13 GMT -5
Michael, excellent stuff. #1 can be improved (as I'm sure you are aware) in Photoshop, but there is nothing like it being right from the start. I like the shot with the dried up river bed and the other with the fisherman. I trust the leg is healed now.
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Jul 19, 2012 3:50:33 GMT -5
Mickey, you got it right. I had the Oly's ISIS switched for panning (IS2, it is called on the E-M5 menu). I'm working up to becoming a blurmaster, I must say that so far, my studies have been excellent! Soon I'll achieve full blurrdom.
Dave, thanks for the kind words once again. I noodled around trying to fix the grey porridge shots, but even the sharp ones (I did get a few) never had the impact of the well-lit ones. As an ex-E6 (colour reversal) shooter back in the olden days, I sometimes get annoyed with myself when I get too distracted by the digital darkroom and start trying to rescue rubbish photos for no real purpose.
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Post by daveh on Jul 19, 2012 7:08:27 GMT -5
This why "they" sent us HDR and several other effects. Take a pretty grotty photo, put it through the mangle et voilĂ you have a world beater. Well some think so.
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