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Dave Busse wrote: > > Which film is the best for crummy weather? Around here, 'crummy' is a caboose. We have something called 'crappy' though... Sam Reeves wrote: > Black & White. Don't bother wasting your slides on crummy days! But then we have something called 'cranky' too. Which usually causes us to make descriptions and statements that are too vague or too general. But seriously, I have seen a lot of people go to B&W on less than sunny days, and sometimes still end up with flat muddy looking images with no contrast. Personally, (when shooting trains), I try not to shoot too much on cloudy days, but if I have to (get dragged out there with someone else that has train on the brain), I try to look for angles and shots where I can cut the sky out (overcast sky just does not work for me in color), or get something different, like the lower ambient light level letting me do things like shoot trains on the lower level of bridges, or coming through bridges, or down off of overpasses or cuts, and this is where a color film with a lot of punch is good, if you can keep the headlights from going ballistic on you in the overcast. Overcast is E-6 weather, it handles colors much truer and more saturated than Kodachrome, which just goes flat then, which explains why those people would want to switch to B&W at that point. Opinion and observation: I dislike overcast RR shots so much because the majority of them I see are of the same variety and compositions that you see on sunny days, but they are just overcast. This does not usually work in my opinion. It's time to look at things differently when the sun is not bright, but this is hard to do if you are out shooting with someone else who has the standard RR wedgie imprinted on the brain. Especially if they gauge their day's RR shooting success on the quantity of trains that they shot that day. I try to be creative at that point, which can be hard to do, because it means that you will probably have to let some trains go by while you more carefully search for a different shot than what you may be used to. This tends to separate the railfans from the photographers real quick too. And those documenting trains from those making notable images. Riding the middle of the road on these issues is kind of like being half dead or a little bit pregnant. It doesn't work. Neither does vague or generalized statements in a discussion forum like this one. Dave Cohen Photographer, Member ASMP Action Photographic Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/home/ ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
