"Through the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea"
Feb 11, 2015 06:08:10 #
No, it's not the "City of New Orleans" but, that's where I was headed and that's close enough....
Feb 11, 2015 06:13:02 #
Feb 11, 2015 06:51:11 #
Feb 11, 2015 07:56:40 #
It's in my car speeding along the tracks with the camera stuck through the sun roof. It was difficult to time the shots to avoid brush and signs, drive and hold my beer, too.
Feb 12, 2015 08:21:20 #
fuminous wrote:
No, it's not the "City of New Orleans" but, that's where I was headed and that's close enough....
Great image! Love the colors and movement. And I'm a sucker for the American flag.
Feb 12, 2015 10:14:12 #
Feb 12, 2015 10:19:40 #
fuminous wrote:
It's in my car speeding along the tracks with the camera stuck through the sun roof. It was difficult to time the shots to avoid brush and signs, drive and hold my beer, too.
you had your hand full :lol: Great work ;)
Feb 12, 2015 10:44:20 #
Feb 12, 2015 11:04:17 #
Ediesaul & Jaymatt- thank you for the kind words. Ediesaul, I too, am a sucker for the American flag...
Feb 12, 2015 11:08:52 #
Feb 12, 2015 11:13:42 #
El-train
Loc: New Jersey
fuminous wrote:
No, it's not the "City of New Orleans" but, that's where I was headed and that's close enough....
I gather you kept the beer as steady as the camera. Great capture Fuminous.
Feb 12, 2015 11:43:53 #
selig1656 wrote:
Really nicely done, talk about your shooting technique please.
Thank you selig1656- I appreciate your comments.
In regard to technique the long story is, driving south, I slowly overtook the train and noted that although the rising sun had not yet cleared the horizon, there was nonetheless soft, directional light that reflected off the trains cars and had a very nice visual quality.
Ideally a telephoto shot would compress the trains length, affording a big dose of the reflected light quality while still giving context to the broad deltas flat terrain and budding sunrise. Thats impossible to capture, with not much light, from a static position and the train is moving along at 60 mph. So the next best thing was to be at equal speed of the train and thus a velocity differential of zero. Ill have to check the exif data but believe the shutter speed to be about 1/60th with the ISO cranked up as high as I dared. Lens was probably a 50mm at bout 2.8. Manual focus- cause on auto, I could feel the motor hunting between sky, brush, trees and train. I wasnt looking through the viewfinder- impossible while camera is held above my head and through the sun roof hatch. Camera strap was wrapped around my arm- just in case.
In the end, I didnt get the shot Id envisioned but instead have something a bit different and very fun to do. No, I didnt really have a beer but, Id already been driving five hours and Bob Segers Roll Me Away was blasting pretty heavy that squirrely time of day
Feb 12, 2015 19:35:05 #
Feb 12, 2015 19:42:08 #
fuminous wrote:
No, it's not the "City of New Orleans" but, that's where I was headed and that's close enough....
Absolutely LOVE this shot! Flag just seals the deal. Hang it on a wall today!
Feb 12, 2015 19:44:56 #
I'm WAY wrong on specifics... Metadata says 1/10 at f4, ISO 4500 and 28mm focal length... maybe I DID have a beer...
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