SM PHOTOGRAPHY THREAD
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I love your photographs. Although very different they remind me of a BA pilot who was one of my father's patients when I used to work for him, he had a website of pictures he took from the cockpit during flights. Wish I still had the URL.
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There is a magic in b&w composition. The tracks lead you to infinity with a gentle curve and you have the sense of perspective nicely captured. The focus on the foreground curved track is pin sharp. This shot in colour would not have the same appeal. You have a photographers eye. Well done!
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Thanks gents - one of my mate's at work is an avid railway photograpaher, he'll travel miles and miles to get a perfect shot of a particular loco or train but if the sun goes behind the clouds he doesn't bother taking the pic, packs up his gear and goes all the way home again. He looks at my stuff with a critical eye (which is fine by me) but is only interested in the perfect three quarter train shot, nothing else, whereas I like to record more of the railway itself. He likes his photos to be perfect when he takes them, with no mucking about afterwards, whereas I like to do the digital equivalent of the 'burning in' technique in the darkroom with a few clicks of the mouse to get closer to what my mind's eye sees (I used to do it the old school way when I was using film and had unlimited access to a darkroom). He never takes photos in bad weather, only when the sun is out, but most of my stuff is taken in the autumn and winter months.
This one was taken at Loughborough on the Great Central Railway on a freezing cold October morning ten years ago, the colour version was a bit washed out (the camera I was using then was really cheap) but I prefer it in b&w anyway....
This one was taken at Loughborough on the Great Central Railway on a freezing cold October morning ten years ago, the colour version was a bit washed out (the camera I was using then was really cheap) but I prefer it in b&w anyway....
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That is less impressive to my eyes than others you have posted. The others had perspecticevand a natural ability to lead the viewer's eye. This one does nothing for me.
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What MK local is that?
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Taken about 6 months ago with my sh!t works Android phone, Hoylake boat lake at dusk.
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Great thread, good talent on show.
Most of my glass is aimed at wildlife since we (usually lol) holiday in East Africa in the summer and west Africa in the winter. Found it difficult sticking to the one pic rule and would have been very easy to throw on a big cat or elephant shot but took this shot of two glossy starlings about 6 years ago and the mirroring of the subjects always draws me back to include in my fav list. Taken with Sony a77 with Minolta 300/2.8 pro high speed and 1.4 extender, 100 metre distance roughly.
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Most of my glass is aimed at wildlife since we (usually lol) holiday in East Africa in the summer and west Africa in the winter. Found it difficult sticking to the one pic rule and would have been very easy to throw on a big cat or elephant shot but took this shot of two glossy starlings about 6 years ago and the mirroring of the subjects always draws me back to include in my fav list. Taken with Sony a77 with Minolta 300/2.8 pro high speed and 1.4 extender, 100 metre distance roughly.
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Again, I got down the Ks of record wildlife shots I have and I decided to go for an "almost" natural symmetry to match the mirror glossy starling shot earlier. This was taken 3 years ago in the Mara, there were actually 5 cheetah brothers as hunting group, quite rare, but thankfully, one stayed out of shot! Lol.
Taken with Sony a77 and sigma 17/70 2.8 from about 30 metres.
Taken with Sony a77 and sigma 17/70 2.8 from about 30 metres.
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Was it when the Canadian Lanc was over? That was history in the making, a bit like the Vulcans last flight
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It just looked very shiny.
midlifecrisis
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2016. I was under it.Was it when the Canadian Lanc was over? That was history in the making, a bit like the Vulcans last flight
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I think it was before that , one is spectacular ,it must’ve been a **** of a sight seeing 100s of them in the air , my dad was 11 in 1945, after school he used to ride up to grafton underwood with his mates to watch the B17s returning from Germany , they’d hide under a hedge , he said they came back with wings with big holes in them , firing flares which he later found out meant they had wounded aboard , there was one that made it home but no undercarriage , crashed and burned on the runway.Was it when the Canadian Lanc was over? That was history in the making, a bit like the Vulcans last flight
They got caught by the MPs who educated them in the error of their ways , how dangerous what they were doing was , a few weeks later one overshot the runway and ended up on the road.