Evan is right...until September i was taking pictures with a Fuji Smart Shot Deluxe...then I got a Minolta X370 with a 200mm lens on it set at f4.5 and 125 shutter speed, I use Poloroid 200 film bought at Wal-Mart for 4.97 for 4 rolls, I use Wal-Mart's 1 hour developing, the pictures are scanned using a Mustek Scanner, all of my pictures on my website are taken with that Minolta, I am here to read and learn...I am in no way able to offer advice on how to take good pictures, when I am learning myself...so sorry guys, I am one of the Lurkers also...
David Epling Central California Rails http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/1624/ -----Original Message----- From: Evan Werkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, February 28, 1998 2:46 AM Subject: Re: SPORRS: Silliness! >At 10:17 AM 2/27/98 -0500, Robert Palmer wrote: > >> When someone subscribes to SPORRS, we have no way of knowing who they >>are or why they subscribed. If they had no intention of participating >>in anything from the start, then it is unreasonable for us to expect >>anything from them. If this is the case, then you must question why >>they subscribed, but unless we could screen people (which we can't) this >>will always occur. > > ...some of us who lurk on this list and never post are here to >learn a thing or two. I doubt I have anything to say that any >"serious" photographer would want to hear. My camera is a 13-year-old >Pentax K-1000 that I can't afford to replace on my graduate student >salary. I shoot Kodachrome 64 almost exclusively (got burned by >Elite-100 a few years ago and vowed not to experiment with film >until I can get another camera body). I take train pictures with >a couple of sometimes conflicting motives in mind. One is to produce >pleasing, well composed photographs that happen to include trains >in them, and the other is to document the trains themselves. I have >to envy the "serious" photographers, the "I am NOT a railfan" types who >can divorce themselves from any interest in trains, and who photograph them >merely because they are challenging subject matter. I doubt I'll ever >get to that point. I'll continue shoot roster shots until the day my >shutter freezes (again). I'll continue to feel just a bit edgy about >setting up for a shot in a place where I can't react quickly if something >rare or unusual happens by. But I have a bit of serious photographer in >me. I try to take advantage of the circumstances to create pleasing >images when shooting action, or even when shooting a cluster of idling >locomotives that is posed "just so." I'm not great, but I'm learning, >and as a subscriber to this list I've picked up ideas on how to get better. >And I'll continue to lurk as long as Mr. Cohen will let me. I have a >feeling I'm not alone in this. > > >-- ____ >____IOOI__I___________ /| Evan Werkema I\ > | O O O | | | Berkeley, CA I | >|_|______ATSF______|_|__| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] I |_ >`-'O==O ==== O==O`-' O==O"""""""""""""""""""""""O==O > >-> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' >-> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ >-> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved > -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved
