Heck of a telephoto
Mar 11, 2019 10:59:50 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
Admire your work, will be looking for that book when you publish. Keep on keepin on!! Love the tug-boat theme.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Mar 11, 2019 11:59:47 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
olemikey wrote:
Admire your work, will be looking for that book when you publish. Keep on keepin on!! Love the tug-boat theme.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Thanks, working to do 2 books; Traffic Along the Hudson and TWA: 40 years Later a photographic documentation of the air terminal in 2004-05. I was assignent to shoot its state just before Jetblue was to alter the landscape forever.
Mar 11, 2019 12:16:56 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
petercbrandt wrote:
Thanks, working to do 2 books; Traffic Along the Hudson and TWA: 40 years Later a photographic documentation of the air terminal in 2004-05. I was assignent to shoot its state just before Jetblue was to alter the landscape forever.
Very cool, I'll be watching for them.
mike
Mar 11, 2019 13:49:56 #
Mar 11, 2019 13:57:44 #
tiphareth51
Loc: Somewhere near North Pole, Alaska
Great photos. They remind me of my hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York.
Mar 11, 2019 14:39:26 #
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I also live on the Hudson. Gets narrow up
here. You can see a bit of foreground and
houses on the opposite bank. FL is 105 so
the opposite bank is obviously not far off.
Viewed from the Troy side toward Cohoes.
I also live on the Hudson. Gets narrow up
here. You can see a bit of foreground and
houses on the opposite bank. FL is 105 so
the opposite bank is obviously not far off.
Viewed from the Troy side toward Cohoes.
Mar 11, 2019 14:52:52 #
ScooterA13 wrote:
Is your camera a full frame 42.4 mp mirrorless?
It is a Leica V-LUX (Typ 114), a 1" bridge camera. The max zoom equates to 400mm 35 equiv.
Mar 11, 2019 15:05:56 #
You can get some good shots in the Hudson, NY area and don't forget the Tugboat Roundup!
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-276603-1.html
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-336859-1.html
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-276603-1.html
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-336859-1.html
Mar 11, 2019 15:07:26 #
Pete, trust me, I found out what it was like hauling that foot locker full of 4X5, two shots per film pack. Then all the flash bulbs in another huge box.
It was right out of the 1930's - 1950's era of B&W professional photography! Granted with a 4X5 negative, you could BLOW a photograph up to the size of a building's wall photograph!
Worked great for Court Room Presentations for the Jury & Judge to look at.
For Ballistics, we used a 'special' camera that had a 8X10 inch format, or maybe it was a 10X12 I'm actually not sure any longer, we seldom used it. With that format we could set up the KNOWN SLUG used in a shooting, and a SAMPLE SLUG taken from the Offender's Weapon and put them up in a monster Photograph of SIDE BY SIDE photos .... showing the "matching striations on both SLUGS that MATCHED UP PERFECTLY"!
Case closed! The stuff Prosecutors dream of . . .
It was right out of the 1930's - 1950's era of B&W professional photography! Granted with a 4X5 negative, you could BLOW a photograph up to the size of a building's wall photograph!
Worked great for Court Room Presentations for the Jury & Judge to look at.
For Ballistics, we used a 'special' camera that had a 8X10 inch format, or maybe it was a 10X12 I'm actually not sure any longer, we seldom used it. With that format we could set up the KNOWN SLUG used in a shooting, and a SAMPLE SLUG taken from the Offender's Weapon and put them up in a monster Photograph of SIDE BY SIDE photos .... showing the "matching striations on both SLUGS that MATCHED UP PERFECTLY"!
Case closed! The stuff Prosecutors dream of . . .
Mar 11, 2019 15:39:18 #
petercbrandt wrote:
Very nice shot, like the light.. I'm in Woodstock NY on the weekends and do my shopping in Kingston every weekend. Your shot was just north of Kingston near the beach, am I right ?
Charles Rider Park. It's just south of the Kingston Rhinecliff bridge. I live in Saugerties. The enclosed pic was a chance shot. I was doing long exposure at 11 pm, when a tug came through. I simply left the shutter open until the boat when under the bridge. This 388 sec f/11 ISO 100 17MM.
Mar 11, 2019 16:37:49 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
Terrific shot of the tug boat at night at Charles Rider Park. love it !
Mar 11, 2019 17:35:27 #
I have seen similar small tugs on the ICW, but have no clue what the industry calls them. On the canal I believe they are generally called "escort tugs", and are primarily set up for either pushing. They can probably be used to tow for short distances (like off a sandbar), but mostly to control the back end of a long tow, through a bridge, or in a lock or around a curve in the river or waterway. When we saw the ones in the attached pictures, it had been controlling the tow--a long string (half mile or so of drilling pipe), but was moving up to the front as they were in the lock at Great Bridge, VA. Sorry the quality isn't better, but they were taken with a Canon AE1 50mm and Vivatar 200mm zoom for the longer shots The two close shots are in the Great Bridge Lock; the long shot was several hours further south on the A & C Canal portion of the ICW
I heard on the VHF that they had picked up the tow around New Orleans.
I heard on the VHF that they had picked up the tow around New Orleans.
Mar 11, 2019 17:44:51 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
JCam wrote:
I have seen similar small tugs on the ICW, but hav... (show quote)
Thanks for you feed back; "Escort Tugs" nice !
Tug boats are an interesting field.
Peter
Mar 11, 2019 18:23:13 #
petercbrandt wrote:
Shot this yesterday as part of my series "Traffic Along the Hudson River". This little tug is going into my chapter 'what's it'? I could make another book on the variety of tugs going along the river. All shot from my living room window to show you a nice zoom range. The land at the horizon is Edgewater NJ.
It never ceases to amaze me how much neat stuff I can see and learn spending a bit of time on UHH. Thanks for your post. I will look forward to release of your book(s). Let us know when.
Mar 11, 2019 20:53:18 #
petercbrandt
Loc: New York City, Manhattan
Got the pictures done, finishing the text and trying to work with Blurb's Bookwright program to fit pictures to the page.Their Bookwright may be easy for someone who's done page layouts and text boxes and text-flos, but I'm having a hard time with the program. Anybody out there done this Bookwright right?
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