> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/37c.htm
Thanks for all the comments, and compliments! Been really really busy of late, sorry if I haven't been responding to all the PAW and PESO postings as I ought. I'll roll up some comments on this one, maybe get back to the older ones ... From: Paul Dunderdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Very moody, Godfrey. Like it! > > In the UK, being classed as a train spotter is not necessarily > complimentary - it ranks with wearing anoraks, knowing bus > timetables off-by-heart and wearing National Health specs. Be > careful of your image! LOL! Now I know ... ;-) From: Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Interesting. Looks unreal. > For me it comes off as a picture of a model train. > From: Ric Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > the vignetting seems a peculiar to me, but I think it works. I agree with the way that it looks almost like a model set. It's the ultra-flat perspective. The exposure was made from the bike/foot overpass bridge and the lens is a Nikkor 180/2.8. I positioned tripod and camera such that I was shooting through the black, 2-inch wire mesh protective fencing: it was about 10 inches in front of the lens. At f/11, it produced a very interesting blur and vignetting effect, which combined with the gentle swaying of the bridge and the lowish angle light (coming from behind me about 30 minutes after dawn). I find the result intriguing ... not super-sharp, but with an interesting edge to it. From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think it's the loss of detail that comes with shooting digital at > night, much like the loss of detail in a model. The photo was made at ISO 100 @ f/11 @ 1/100 second. Hardly "at night" ... It was a bright sunny morning. From: Marco Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think it's that we've been conditioned to interpret shallow DOF as > being typical of model photography. A number of photographers are > purposely exploiting this to produce some amusing faux-model pics. > One example here: > > http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c35373277 Interesting stuff, Marco! I'll have to look at that a bit more. :-) From: Charles Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Interesting to see that it's not just me who thought that. > ... > Looks very rich. Love the delicious blacks in there. > > For some odd reason, something about the angle of view makes it > sometimes look to me like a shot of a miniature! From: Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My first thought was that it was a model railroad... There is > something > too "crisp" or "clean" about it. Looks very cool though. From: Michael Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Beebe would be proud!.. I think it was a guy named Beebe who did > those great nightime train shots. Ok, I'll have to look up Beebe ... but perhaps Jim Hemenway already has. ;-) From: Jim Hemenway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I like the light! > Warch out for cops asking questions. Love them northwest accents... ]'-) Several people stopped as I was working on the bridge and later on the street. Two police cars cruised past but did not seem particularly interested in me. I got nastier looks from the train engineers a few weeks back when I was shooting from too close to the edge of the platform... and a scolding from a conductor. Thanks again for all the comments, including those I didn't append here. I save them all... best, Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
