Steve Brown wrote: > > And a few comments on cutting vegetation: > > What for! Your taking a picture of a train in its enviroment, this > includes the vegetation. Work around it! Cut branches look a lot worse > that a little bit of green. I have sat a too many photolines watching > people remove attractive props and/or stuff so small it wouldn't make a > differece anyway. If you want a well detailed photo of your subject, wait > until it is sitting somewhere a take your wedgie. If you out on the line, > its time to use your ability as an artist and take an interesting shot of a > train in its surroundings.
The "correctness" of pruning vegitation...now were really getting onto an interesting topic for discussion. If we never pruned any vegitation, then a standing wedge in a terminal is all that would be left for us in a few years. But then again, the "jerks" with their ladders would have made the terminals off limits as well...so where does that leave us! Seriously, I have always carried (and used) a saw. Here in the east, the warm humid weather makes small "junk" trees grow like weeds and a "favorite" shot can be obscured by growth in a matter of months. Does this mean that from that point forward I must settle for taking the shot with the subject obscured by trees, or give up on the shot altogether - I dont think so !! Robert Palmer -> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs -> Message © SPORRS® 1998 - All Rights Reserved
